ESSENTIAL SILVER SURFER v2 - Out This Week

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Did anyone else pick this up?

It's got a few scattered one-shots (Lee/Byrne, Lee/Buscema for EPIC ILLUSTRATED, Englehart/Buscema for MARVEL FANFARE), but the meat of the book is the first first eighteen issues (and an annual) of the late '80s/early '90s Surfer series. Englehart and Rogers giving way to Englehart and Lim.

There's a bunch of good stuff in here. A new Kree/Skrull War, the epic showdown of Galactus and the In-Betweener (the balance of Life and Death versus the balance of Order and Chaos - it's all very Engelharty), and so on. Some of the continuity issues are kind of irritating, with several bits of interplay between this series and Engelhart's WEST COAST AVENGERS (as well as the superfluous first part of the "Evolutionary War" annuals crossover). But, hey, Lim and Rogers translate well to black and white, the cosmology is top notch,and it's always fun to see Silver Surfer get his groove on.

If you're a not a color snob and you don't have the back issues, I recommend it.

[BeastieRunner]

Did anyone else pick this up?

I'll be getting it tomorrow as I don't want to read my back issues (yes, I know I double buy lots of comics such as Annihilation) and I'm not a color snob as you put it :p. I'll let you know how it looks after I get it and read it.

[StoneGold]

DAMN YOU MANTIS!!!!!!!




I swear, I think Mantis showed up in that Batman mini Englehart did a year or two back.

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At DC, it's "Willow."

Oh, Englehart, you scamp.

[IMJ]

I have been forcing myself for a while now to not spend the $$ on compiling a Silver Age Surfer run...
These Essential trades thanksfully give me a reason to not buy the originals...
-whew-

[Sean Walsh]

Wow, they're ESSENTIALizing 80's stuff? Nice.

I know they've done that with WOLVERINE's Essential books, but with the Surfer?

Then again, they do probably want Surfer material out there before the movie hits...