My Cultural Diet

As its title suggests, Silver Surfer: Requiem is a somber story for one of Marvel’s noblest characters. After the Surfer discovers that he’s dying, he subsequently embarks on one last trip through the cosmos, first to his adopted home of Earth, and then to Zenn-la. But it’s also a beautiful, even moving story. J. Michael Straczynski knows that Silver Surfer comics work best when they’re pontificating, and his lofty prose leans into that in all the right ways as the Surfer ponders the joys and sorrows of existence. Requiem could’ve easily been angsty or heavy-handed were it not written so well, and with so much obvious affection for the character. Meanwhile, Esad Ribić’s lush artwork is gorgeous, imbuing Requiem’s four issues with an ethereal-ness that’s suitably elegiac and melancholy. Given that Requiem was published on the “Marvel Knights” imprint, I’m unsure of its canonicity, but it’d be a very fitting end for the Sentinel of the Spaceways.

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