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Communion, Dan Chariton, Lan Medina, Revelation, Silver Surfer, Silver Surfer volume three, Stacy Weiss
We’ve been fans of the Silver Surfer for a long time. Not since the days of Stan Lee and John Buscema has a Silver Surfer series captured us with such a marvelous union of art and story as Silver Surfer Vol. 3. In its fourteen issues, we get two related stories: Communion and Revelation. The surfer collects a handful of children from Earth, including the central character, Ellie. Ellie is autistic. Her relationship with her mother forms the central emotional context of the tales. But why is the Surfer abducting kids?
If you’ve ever read a Marvel comic before, you can guess it has to do with either A) the destruction of Earth, B) the destruction of all life as we know it, or C) the destruction of the entire universe. We’ll let you guess which one it is!
In the meantime, check out these stunning splash and double-splash pages from Communion! Written by Stacy Weiss & Dan Chariton; Pencils by Lan Medina.
Collector’s Guide: From Silver Surfer Vol. 3; Marvel, 2003. Reprinted in Silver Surfer: Communion TPB.
Mars Will Send No More 
That was a cool series. I only wish it had been more connected to the regular Marvel U. I just figure, if it is canon, then it was when the Silver Surfer got too self-involved with himself and his awareness of cosmos, and started acting weird (his new alien friends, warning him of Earth’s destruction, were not helping). As a semi-explanation for kidnapping kids, etc.
I wish we could get an explanation, though, about what happened to the artist from issue #1. I heard some vague answer that he had disappeared – like maybe he had a nervous breakdown. Or something.
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Thanks for pointing this out, Erik. We credited Lan Medina but not Mahathir “Milx” Buang, the Malaysian artist who provided the beginning of Communion. Comic Book Resources ran an article in 2003 about the ‘disappearance’ including a note from Milx, here: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=2627
We know Milx worked on IDW’s 30 Days of Night: Dead Space in 2006, but can’t really say anything else about him. Milx remains something of a mystery to us.
We did like that this Silver Surfer series was not really connected to the Marvel U but was a pure Surfer story. We could enjoy the story driven by the character of Surfer and the humans instead of, say, an appearance from the Defenders to muck it all up. Then again, we don’t really care about continuity. Just tell us a good story and we’re happy! Readers should be aware that, no, this doesn’t really tie-in or cross-over with any other aspects of the Marvel U. That could be a plus or minus, depending on your taste.
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