Silver Surfer Hardcover – December 4, 2018

This is beautifully illustrated with a timeless look one can only credit to the Allreds, Mike and Laura, who quite simply create unadorned, clean-line pop art that takes to color like nothing else. They are the Charles and Ray Eames of comics with some Roy Lichtenstein woven in. Then we have Mr. Slott, who can write - really write - doing what so many have tried: humanizing The Silver Surfer, this utterly cosmic character, THE cosmic character, by putting him with Dawn Greenwood of the Bed and Breakfast in Massachusetts. I have enjoyed Slott since his widly under-rated She-Hulk series ... I still consider his She-Hulk the BEST She-Hulk, bar none -- where is that omnibus? -- while not enjoying the savage directions they take that character into all too often. What a mistake! Savagery. Wow, I haven't seen that enough in comics ... how dull; Slott gave us a warm, funny She-Hulk with a mind-boggling supporting cast, and then Marvel pretty much flushed that down the toilet in favor of something tedious in search of a voice. At least, we have this -- Slott's best work since She-Hulk, a title up there with Matt Fraction's totally sui generis, reinvent-the-wheel-by-being-true-to-the-wheel Hawkeye; then we have Squirrel Girl, but not much else from the House of Ideas that simply pops off the page. Nice work! Great binding, too, with an interior cover under the dust-jacket ... I'm not a fan of the drab all-black cardboard the binders sometimes indulge in, especially at these price-points. Reward book-lovers. Peace like a river.

Slott & Allred's run on Silver Surfer is one of the all time greats in my opinion. This is a far out wacky space adventure that feels very human and intimate. The story is about the Silver Surfer meeting an earth girl and they go on an incredible and surprisingly emotional intergalactic adventure. The art is incredible and fun! Very highly recommend!

Great story and beautiful retro style art done gloriously by Michael and Laura Allred. I was fortunate enough to buy it when it was released for less than the cover price. Definitely a must have for your omnibus collection.

Super fun story, but, beware, if you’re into the brooding, philosophical Silver Surfer he ain’t here (and that’s a really good thing).

Silver Surfer by Slott & AllredI have to say is my favorite comic seriesFor a while now.Why?Wonderfully drawn by Mike Allred and colored by his wife Laura Allred throughout the entire bookSo there’s no guest artists which makes the series even more tightly knitted and complete in my opinion.Dan Slott writes with comedy, and romance, and action. And it’s just fun.It’s a fast read and it’s really just amazing to look at. Big fan of Allred’s pop art style. Every page just pops with bright colors and fun characters.There are a handful of many mini stories but everything connects to each other (a great story with beginning + middle + end) and there’s a tear jerking ending that you’ll just have to buy to read and find out!Just get it if you love a stand alone story with great art and great heart.

If you enjoyed Madman! Comics or the early, trippy, psychedelic stories from the 70's Surfer era, BUY THIS BOOK NOW.The stories in this volume are EXTREMELY well written but may be a bit trippy for those who like their comics serious. I enjoy both. There are moral threads running through the stories but it doesn't come off as preachy. One of the best Omnibus editions I have read in a long time.

One of my absolute favorite books.

Dan Slott copiou na cara dura as tramas do Doctor Who mas quem se importa? O gibi é muito bom. E com o Michael Allred desenhando então, nem se fala. Compra essencial para quem é amante dos quadrinhos.

Una muy nueva y buena versión de un personaje clásico. Con un tono ligero y a la vez emotivo, Dan Slott logra crear uno de los mejores cómics de la década para Marvel. Si eres nuevo lector, es ideal para que conozcas un universo entero de personajes muy particulares. Y si ya eres fan de años, encontrarás varios guiños a toda la mitología clásica del personaje combinados de manera brillante con elementos actuales.Reconocimiento especial al arte de Michael Allred y a la paleta de colores que usa su esposa Laura. Juntos le dan un toque de viveza espectacular a cada viñeta.

An awesome and fun story with excellent Allred art! The characters are all likeable, especially the reoccurring background characters. It’s quite silly for a modern comic, playing very much in the X-static wheelhouse and fantastic four series the Allred’s did before. Slotts “voice” isn’t nearly as strong as the Allred’s so I would hazard to guess if you like previous allred stuff you’ll like this, but if you are buying it for Slott it might be more of a gamble as it is distinctively another Allred book (which is exactly what I was hoping for!). Lots of cool stylistic devices are used and really excellent big concepts. Clearly trying to do the early Sliver surfer adventures justice.

My primary reason for buying this book was the artwork of Mike Allred, of which I've been an admirer for many years. Allred's style doesn't appeal to everyone. It harks back to a time before the hyperrealism of the 00s, the hyperinflated muscles of the Image Comics 90s, the dour darkness of the 80s, and the bland mediocrity of the 1970s to the heyday of the 1960s Marvel Age, specifically to the Kirby style of 1960 to 66. Allred doesn't copy that style, but is clearly influenced by it. For me, having grown up on that stuff, this is a good thing. Others may see it differently. Art is always subjective. In my eyes, Mike Allred is one of the top 5 artists working in comic books today.As a book, it's pretty well produced. Better than many other Marvel hardback collections. There is the perennial problem that bits of the art and occasionally the script tend to disappear into the tight binding at the centre of pages, but other than that, it's a good-looking book and the paper quality suits the art quite well (not always the case with Marvel reprint volumes).The main reason I put off buying this book for a long time is that so many of the Marvel comics I've read in recent years have been poorly written re-hashes of stories I'd read in the 60s, and then again in the 70s, 80s, etc.. In this case, I needn't have worried. Employing the old-school 'Marvel method,' the stories here are co-authored by Allred and Dan Slott, with Slott providing the finished scripts. Between them, ably assisted by Laura Allred's vibrant colouring, they clearly set out to recapture the sense of joy and cosmic wonder that flowed from the pages of the Fantastic Four in its 60s prime, when Kirby and Lee introduced the Inhumans, Galactus and, yes, the Silver Surfer himself. The Surfer, a fan favourite from the beginning, is one of the few characters whose creation even that old glory hog, Stan Lee, credited entirely to Kirby. Given that fact, it might have been nice to see the credit line read 'Created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee' rather than the other way round. Ah well, small steps...In the hands of these talented writers, the decision to humanise the otherwise aloof and otherworldy Surfer by giving him a human companion was a good one. Well, it's worked for Doctor Who since 1963, so why not? It also worked for Kirby in the 60s, when he often brought the Surfer into contact with the blind sculptress, Alicia Masters. The human in question here is Dawn Greenwood, a young woman who helps her father run a bed and breakfast on the coast. Her down-to-earth normality in the face of the utterly bizarre and cosmically cataclysmic gives us as readers something to cling onto as she clings onto the Surfer while his board spins them across the universe from adventure to adventure. She is an extremely well-rounded, well-drawn character in her own right, with a supporting cast and a back-story that are very well woven into the stories. These feature a host of Marvel's great and good putting in guest appearances, including a personal favourite of mine, Eternity, as originally envisioned by the late, great Steve Ditko. There are many others, but I'm not going to spoil the surprises in store!Silver Surfer is a wonderful, gloriously colourful, hugely enjoyable trip. If all Marvel comics were like this, they might not have to rely on movies quite so much to make a buck! A delightful return to cosmic fun and highly recommended.

brilliant reinterpretation of silver surfer with clever though deliberately naïve script from Slott and coulorful mindblowing drawings from Allred(s). Puuure magic.