The Ultimate Silver Surfer

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Summary: Easily the worst Marvel book yet....
Review: And that's saying something ...! It took all I could muster to finish this book (I only read half of the last story before putting it down in disgust). How all but ONE of these authors could make a awe-inducing character (when you really think about it)like the Silver Surfer, and make him a boring TOOL, is actually comendable. It actually makes you think if a character that can go anywhere in the universe is really interesting? And the answer must be no. This guy obviously can go anywhere and see anything, but obviously finds nothing of interest. . .... Only get this if you're a die-hard Silver Surfer fan, or a Marvel novel completist like myself.

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Summary: wonderful look at the Surfer!
Review: It's funny, I liked the Surfer better after Steve Englehart freed him from being imprisoned on Earth, but the stories in this great anthology that take place while he was still trapped are a lot better. The stories by Ann Tonsor Zeddies, Len Wein, Keith R.A. DeCandido, James Dawson, and Dave Smeds are some of the best Silver Surfer stories _ever_. The outer space stories aren't as good, and neither is the Tom DeFalco & Stan Lee origin, although Dan Persons's "A Game of the Apocalypse" is a phenomenal ending piece with the best use of Galactus since John Byrne's FF comics. It's a lot better than the stupid Galactus stuff that Ron Marz and Mike Lackey were doing in the comic book.

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Summary: The surfer dances on cosmic rays of gamma,light,pure energy!
Review: Like in a dream,it all becomes real.Visual art manifests in the deep realms of the mind.A journey into the nether reachs of the universe. Out there ,light years from earth is our sister planet.The ultimate silver surfer lives in the hearts and minds of the true believers!@ Gilbert Kea,Rainbow Bridge!

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Summary: The Silver Surfer works better in comics, not in prouse
Review: The Silver Surfer works better as a visual character that you can see in a comic book story board, it's very hard to capture the Surfer's sense of cosmic wonder in prouse form, and so with many of these stories you have to really use your imagination to get a taste of what the Surfer is all about. Most Marvel heroes translate very well from comics to novel writing, but the Surfer does not quite make the mark.