tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post2132468032694804264..comments2024-03-25T05:26:47.764-04:00Comments on The Peerless Power of Comics!: Though Lovers Be Lost...!Comicsfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-27995054401785858612016-06-30T14:38:27.561-04:002016-06-30T14:38:27.561-04:00Colin, I think you may be mistaking the Surfer for...Colin, I think you may be mistaking the Surfer for his former master--it's probably <i>Galactus</i> everyone was speaking about in whispers, the one who's been around for eons. The Surfer probably has enough of a guilty conscience, considering the number of worlds he led Galactus to while he was his herald--think how he might have felt if he'd been dooming planets for a billion years or so!<br /><br />That said, I really like your alternate interpretation for how he'd regard Shalla Bal--though that might open up a whole new can of worms, since the Surfer would have long since mourned her loss and wouldn't be moaning about her constantly while trapped on Earth. (Which I think I could live with.)<br />Comicsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-88734107417384838262016-06-30T09:57:46.905-04:002016-06-30T09:57:46.905-04:00Excellent point, Colin. Lee's take on the Surf...Excellent point, Colin. Lee's take on the Surfer was not the same as Jack's, causing a rift between the two that precipitated Jack's going to DC. Jack had a completely different notion of who and what the Surfer should be. Lee used him as a mouthpiece for his pseudo-Shakespearian babbling, which I believe lead to the books demise. As a teenaged reader, though, I certainly appreciated Shalla Bal's midriff-baring outfit. Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03776319124404270030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-23556374004199152342016-06-30T09:33:59.776-04:002016-06-30T09:33:59.776-04:00When we first met the Surfer in Fantastic Four he ...When we first met the Surfer in Fantastic Four he had supposedly been the herald of Galactus for eons, his name spoken in dread whispers across the cosmos blah, blah - but given the fact that Shalla-Bal hadn't aged at all since the Surfer's departure from Zenn-La it seems that he'd actually been Galactus' herald for maybe a couple of years at most ! How much more poignant it would have been if Shalla-Bal had just been a distant memory for the Surfer, somebody who had died thousands of years before. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com