Silver Surfer, Vol. 1: Communion

Silver Surfer (2003)

by Dan Chariton, Stacy Weiss

Attempting to solve the mystery of her daughter's abduction by the Silver Surfer, single mother Denise Walters discovers the knowledge of mankind's possible Armageddon.

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Comic Book, Superheroes, Fiction

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

This wasn't a terrible story but it wasn't really a Silver Surfer story. He felt shoe-horned into a story that didn't really need him at all. He acted out of character and his appearances in this story were inconsistent with all his other appearances in the Marvel universe to date. One glaring example of this: since when does the Surfer make electrical devices explode, metal and plastic melt and give people radiation burns just by standing near them? Maybe this will be explained in the next volume, as I see it's written by the same writers.

If you like your science fiction blended with mysticism and spiritualism and your metaphors heavy-handed you might like this book. The artwork was decent throughout, though, I'll give it that.

[Devero · Rating 2 out of 5]

La quarta serie del Surfista d'argento creato da Kirby e Lee voleva essere qualcosa di nuovo, e onestamente lo è. Nonostante questo è un fallimento. Il punto è che Silver Surfer non è il protagonista della serie, ma solo una comparsa casuale in questo primo volume che vuole introdurre le tematiche fantascientifiche di Zacharia Setchin in quello che è un universo Marvel alternativo. Si salvano i disegni di Lan Medina, decisamente buoni, ma la trama è parecchio debole. Casi di rapimenti alieni di bambini, dove Surfer è il rapitore per conto di questi alieni "grigi" che assomigliano un poco troppo a "ET-telefono casa" affinché vengano salvati e preservati da una distruzione globale imminentee facciano ripartire la civiltà?
Che noia.

[Matthew Ledrew · Rating 1 out of 5]

This doesn't seem like Silver Surfer. It reads like it good have been any generic alien story, and they just slapped Silver Surfer on top of it with no consideration for his characterization or continuity. Not a fan.

[Frans Kempe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Silver Surfer kidnaps children and the story center around 2 parents trying to find out what happened.

[Eddie Arafat · Rating 1 out of 5]

A really weird book that doesn't feel like a Silver Surfer comic at all. Instead it plays with a lot of UFO/abduction tropes. Silver Surfer abducts a little girl in this one and seems to cure her autism and send her back to her mom.

[Pedro Espada · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un tomo con tintes religiosos y algo sensiblero, con un buen dibujo.

[Jdetrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

I applaud Marvel for trying to do something different with this book, and I generally like the way it looks, but I question the wisdom of starting out a new Silver Surfer comic in which the Silver Surfer isn't the main focus of the book.

[Rockito · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good Silver Surfer book, pretty different from the usual also, it's a little slow at first but it keeps gaining momentum, it does not help that Surfer hasn't much screen time. It's not THE BEST Surfer story, but it's definitively worth your money.

[Tommy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love Silver Surfer but this series is taking forever to get going. Very abstract and lacks focus. I love the cosmic story lines but you still need to set them up. The Infinity series with Thanos and Adam Warlock did this well. This title was much less so.

[Variaciones Enrojo]

Edición española. Tomo único publicado dentro de la colección 100% Marvel.

[Birdie · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first several comics in this series are not very good but if you can get past them the last two or three are decent.

[David Horton · Rating 2 out of 5]

Top art but wacko story that I really didn't warm up to.

[RAY BERG]

Interesting story that never received it’s follow up volume….