“When I think about the Silver Surfer, I think it’s gotta be one of the most profoundly stupid ideas that works somehow. Like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s like, “What if we had this shiny chrome dude who traveled through space, nay, SURFED through space. Or, wait. Through the cosmos. I think we call it a cosmos when it’s like this. Cosmos is space too, but like more trippy.”
But it totally works! I don’t know why, I don’t know how…
Saying that reminds me of Eric Kimmel. He’s a guy who did a bunch of books for kids. He wrote this one called I Know Not What, I Know Not Where, so that’s where the memory comes from.
So when I was in elementary school, he came to visit. And he read to classes and was a super nice dude. He sat in this chair in the library. It was some kind of memorial chair for our school’s founder, and in the middle of reading to a class, the chair broke and he went tumbling out.
Bad as it was, it was also caught on video. So, when my class watched it (we saw the video rather than the guy, sort of like how they showed us pictures of musical instruments in music class rather than the real thing. Public school) the teacher tried to fast-forward through the chair break, but that just meant we saw it in fast motion, which made it even funnier.
I’m sorry, Eric Kimmel. You seemed like a really good dude. And in fairness, you didn’t seem like a big dude. Kinda seemed like a crappy chair.
Anyway, Silver Surfer.
A great series with a fitting, romantic ending. Everything ties together, everyone kinda gets what they want and kinda doesn’t.
I’m not usually a fan of the romantic subplot in things, and it’s because a lot of times I think the plot of something like Silver Surfer is 100000000X more interesting than a romance between two people. But in this book, the romance grounded the story in something relate-able, and it gave the story a lot more than “Here’s an alien to beat up, oooo, here’s a crazy-looking creature! Neat!”
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