
But up until this run in the 90s, he hadn’t written much with the Surfer, meaning that this was his big shot at making his mark on the character.

Jim Starlin is perhaps only rivalled by Kirby in his importance to Marvel’s cosmic corner. Today we’re discussing Silver Surfer issues 40 through 43 by Jim Starlin and Ron Lim. But today, we’re going to look at a Surfer story that casts him out from the stars and grounds him in an interesting way. There’s a real core of exploration and wonder that permeates the Surfers comics, and it’s what makes him such an enjoyable character. So the ol’ Surfer has had a bunch of breathtaking stories and runs with some of the best talents in the industry. There were aliens and sci-fi concepts before his introduction, but the debut of the Surfer represented the start of Marvel’s cosmic landscape.

One of the key pillars of Marvel cosmology is the Silver Surfer. Welcome back, dear readers, to the Road to Knowhere this is a series where I examine and discuss a different comics storyline relating to Marvel’s cosmic universe.
