The first is the tagline: “Anywhere and Everywhere - Hang On!” and the second is the idea that everything is possible and both are also the two story arcs in this book. Without getting into spoilers, there are two main ideas driving this series. In this inaugural volume, Norrin and Dawn are asked to save a giant planet-sized pleasure resort called the Impericon, and must face their worst fears at the hands of Nightmare. She keeps him grounded in a metaphorical sense (they fly around everywhere on a magic board after all!) so he doesn’t get too much inside his own head and starts bewailing the lives he’s taken in the service of giant purple hat. Tonally it’s a bit like Doctor Who and who joins the Doctor on his adventures? A sassy lady friend - enter: Dawn Greenwood.ĭawn’s a new creation who’s basically there to make Surfer a bit less distant to readers. In this first volume, Spider-Man writer Dan Slott and FF artist Michael Allred join forces to make the most entertaining, delightful version of Silver Surfer there’s ever been. That’s right, in the same vein as the other All-New Marvel NOW! range, Silver Surfer joins Magneto, Black Widow and Loki as a former villain turned good - though actually he’s better as he was forced into doing what he did! Norrin is no longer Galactus’ herald and spends his time saving planets instead of marking them for death, in order to make up for past transgressions. Oh the pain! The misery! The angst!!Įhhhhh… nope - not anymore! Enter: the new, fun-loving All-New Silver Surfer! As Galactus the world-eater’s herald, the Surfer travels the cosmos for new worlds for his master to devour.

Norrin Radd aka Silver Surfer, the loneliest, most tragic figure in the Marvel Universe.

Silver Surfer, Vol. 1 by Dan Slott