“It’s fun, it’s full of adventure, and it wears its love of the Marvel Universe on its sleeve,” says Spider-Man writer Dan Slott of his new ongoing Silver Surfer series with Michael Allred.
One might say that Earth girls are easy, but Norrin Radd's new foil Dawn Greenwood is apparently going to challenge him in new ways, to do new things, when he finds her on a distant planet, having been abducted by aliens years ago.
“One of the limitations of the Surfer character is that, by his nature, he’s alone most of the time,” says Executive Editor Tom Brevoort. “So right off the bat, we’re giving him somebody new to bounce off of: the new character Dawn Greenwood. The two of them wind up traveling together, and this gives the Surfer somebody to bond with and relate to along the journey.”
Slott has long been a Silver Surfer fan, but he assures us this won't affect his beloved Spider-Man run. "I wake up every morning thinking of Spider-Man and going to sleep every night dreaming of Spider-Man, [so] it's nice to have a new flavor on the plate. I never want to stop writing Spider-Man, but it's nice to have that other flavor, and for it to be so different. Everyone who knows me knows I'm a big sci-fi geek. I love sci-fi, and this is my chance at an ongoing sci-fi book."
Also a huge fan of who Slott describes as "the most Kirby-ish character of all time" is Allred, who Brevoort thinks is the first actual surfer to illustrate the character. He also notes that Allred "had one specific quality that we knew was going to be invaluable in putting the series over: since so much of the premise revolves around Dawn, the new character, we needed an artist that was going to make you love her and care about her from the very first frame she showed up in."
Check out this first look at Silver Surfer #1, featuring variant covers from Francesco Francavilla, Chris Samnee and Skottie Young.
