Why I Hate The Silver Surfer!

The Silver Surfer is trying to save a young woman's life...but circumstances have made everyone think that he's trying to kill her. So...

OK, bad form by a human, I admit.

And Norrin Radd? Pissed.

OK, getting angry, melting the guns? All justified.

But because one cop frakked up, Surfer is going to punish the entire human race:

Now, perhaps we should try to tally the hundreds killed when all power and communications went out.

(And I suppose if you want to, you can try to rationalize that, despite what we saw, Radd actually allowed every plane in the air to land, and everyone on life support to still have power somehow, and...)

But the bottom line is: the Silver Surfer is a dick.

John Buscema and Joe Sinnott sure draw him purty, though.

From Silver Surfer #3 (1968)

Friday Night Fights--KA-ZARRQ Style!!

Man, I hate Norrin Radd.

So, in this Friday Night Fights, let's watch the whiny little bastard beg Galactus to take away his comic powers, because broody boy just wants to be a normal mortal again, and promises never, ever to complain again:

The boss says, "No."

Well, I guess it's time for a fight!!

Ah, poor Silver Surfer!!

Spacebooger thinks the last page should be accompanied by the "sad David Banner walking away from town music":

Surfer gets slapped down in Silver Surfer #102 (1995), by Ron Marz & Mike Friedman (plot), Mike Lackey (script), Tom Grindberg (art) and Bill Anderson (inker)

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Look, do you want Galactus mad at you?!? Than go vote!!

Manic Monday Triple Overtime--Monday Morning Mind-Trip!!

So, got the Monday blahs? This will help!

The Silver Surfer has just help end the second Kree-Skrull War!

But he's still being pretty broody, because Norrin Radd.

 So cosmic super-entity The Living Tribunal has stepped in to offer the Surfer a little pick-me-up:

There. Makes all of you Monday problems seem better, right?

From Silver Surfer #31 (1989), art by Ron Lim (pencils) and Tom Christopher & Keith Williams (inks)

Norrin Radd-Turnstyle Jumper!!

The Silver Surfer is hanging around New York City, and he decides that he wants to attend an emergency session of the United Nations, to off his "expertise." Because he's so special, and all.

And yet, rather than fly there in 1.9 seconds, he chooses to go incognito--via the subway!

But of course...

Norrin Radd is always the biggest ass.

Geez, no wonder the NYC subway system is in trouble, if cosmic powered jerks won't pay the fare!!

From Silver Surfer #13 (1970)

The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Marvel Fanfare #51 (1990)

Cover by John Buscema.

Back in the mid 80's, Marvel had planned to do a 12-issue Silver Surfer mini-series, with each being a double-sized issue. But as Buscema was completing #1, Marvel decided to make a regular-sized ongoing Surfer series. Buscema dropped out, Marshall Rogers came on board, and the rest is history. They decided to take a slightly different direction with the character and storyline, so this story was tabled. After a few years, they decided to take it out of the drawer and publish it in Marvel Fanfare, because it was too purty not to.


Steve Englehart scripted it, so of course Mantis is in it. Of course.

But it still features Buscema drawing the hell out of the Silver Surfer versus Mangog, which is worth price of admission.

Friday Night Fights--Super-Skrull Style!!

It's SS vs. SS in tonight's Friday Night Fights!!

The Silver Surfer is on his way to Earth for an errand...

God, I hate that pretentious dork.

Anyway, the Van Allen belts flair up, and there, revived from allegedly being dead, is--

Well, they chill awhile, chatting about how the Super-Skrull managed to survive this time, when...

YEAH!!

WOK! BAM!!

Sadly, the Eternals, on a mission for the High Evolutionary, intervened before the Skrull could finish the Surfer for good...

Spacebooger misses those events that took place across all of a company's annuals.

The Silver Surfer gets only 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000 of what he deserves in Silver Surfer Annual #1 (1988), by Steve Englehart, Joe Staton and Joe Rubinstein

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Because, sadly, the Super-Skrull is as close as we're going to get to seeing the Fantastic Four these days. So go vote!!

Thanos--Cosmic Schlemiel!!

You know, at one point, Thanos had possession of a Cosmic Cube, used it to make himself a god...and still lost.

Now, he has the flipping Infinity Gems and accompanying Gauntlet, and he's showing off to Drax and the Silver Surfer how powerful he is now...

Yup, all powerful, all right. No way anyone that awesomecould ever lose.

And he lost again. 

Jim Starlin (and others) have continued to bring back Thanos again and again and again, seeking out more powerful weapons...more powerful than the gems which give you absolute control over time, space, soul, mind, power and reality? Sure, why not!! And he keeps losing.

Someday they'll realize that the continually raising the stakes from infinity to infinity plus infinity to infinity to the infinity power is just the same story over and over again, and it's always going to come out the same.

Because Thanos is a putz, and even with infinite power, he always loses.

Maybe he just needs to set his sights lower. Rule Pluto for awhile, see how that goes...

From Silver Surfer #44 (1990)

Friday Night Fights--Herald-On-Herald Style!!

No one ever said it was going to be easy to win at Friday Night Fights.

For the Prize Fight round, MC Spacebooger has commanded that "every fight should have another fighter, other than the one from the first panel, get “called” in and deliver the KO!"

Tough...especially with only two days notice.

Well, Spacebooger, I see your "new fighter called in to deliver the knockout" and raise you--three times!!!

Galactus has de-powered Terrax The Tamer and left him on Earth. Victor Von Doom has found him, and (temporarily...shh) re-powered him, and sent him after the Fantastic Four.

And he's currently beating the crap out of Ben and Johnny!

Well, this isn't working out too well...

Hey! It's Sue!! Is she the one called in to deliver the K.O?

Uh...no.

She summons Reed...Will he the one called in to deliver the knockout?

Nope, he's been kidnapped by aliens.

Now Doom, he's cheezed, because what's the point in destroying the FF if you can't destroy Mr. Fantastic!

So is Doom the one to step into the fight and deliver the final blow?

Obviously not!!

Well, we're running out of candidates here! Who can be called in to finish off Terrax?!?

Oh, yeah. Now it's on!!

KNOCKOUT!!!!!

Spacebooger wants to know why the hell Marvel isn't publishing a Fantastic Four book right now. Seriously, what the hell, Marvel?!?!?!?!?!

Amazing awesomeness from Fantastic Four #260 (1983), by John Byrne, John Byrne and John Byrne

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why?? Go back. Read it again. Ponder how friggin' great that fight was. Then ponder whether any other fight this week has not one, not two, but three tag-ins to get to the fantastic finish. Then go vote.