Silver Surfer Epic Collection, Volume 3: Freedom (2024)
The Silver Surfer has long been my favorite superhero, but there are large swaths of his titles that I’ve never read. Fortunately, Marvel’s “Epic Collections” offer a perfect opportunity to explore the Surfer’s epic (npi) run since the ’60s. Freedom actually collects some of the very first Surfer comics that I ever got, which are set shortly after he escapes his Galactus-imposed exile on Earth and chronicle his return to his home planet of Zenn-La. Along the way, the former Norrin Radd gets caught up in a new war between the Kree and Skrull empires, meets Mantis (who is a far cry from the Mantis in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies), battles Mephisto (i.e., Marvel’s Satan), and uncovers a plot against Galactus by the Elders of the Universe. Most of these stories were written and drawn by Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers, and alternate between suitably epic and cosmic, and kinda goofy (e.g., when the Surfer infiltrates a gang of space pirates).
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