Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Sumit Kumar and Dike Ruan
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Price:$4.99
Reviewed by: Anonymous
Release Date: June 11th, 2025
SILVER SURFER’S FINAL VOYAGE?! The SILVER SURFER returns to defend a war-ravaged Earth, but Norrin has a galaxy-sized target on his back. A new enemy will stop at nothing to steal away everything the Surfer is or ever will be. A single human life may be all that decides the Surfer’s salvation…or damnation. If the Surfer falls, who then wields the awesome Power Cosmic? And what of the Surfer’s old master, Galactus, Devourer of Worlds?! Guest-starring: The Fantastic Four! GREG PAK (PLANET HULK, DARTH VADER) pens the Sentinel of the Spaceway’s next tragic epic with superstar illustrator SUMIT KUMAR (WEB OF SPIDER-VERSE, SPIDER-MAN: BLACK SUIT & BLOOD)!
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THE DISPATCH
Greg Pak returns to cosmic storytelling in Death of the Silver Surfer #1, and the result is nothing short of operatic—a melancholic, majestic, and momentous beginning to what promises to be one of the most definitive Silver Surfer stories in years.
Known for his emotionally layered cosmic sagas like Planet Hulk, World War Hulk, and Darth Vader, Pak brings that same gravitas to Norrin Radd’s final voyage. This isn’t your typical superhero book. It’s part philosophical odyssey, part existential lament, and all heart.
The story opens with a war-torn Earth—not dystopian in the Mad Max sense, but broken in spirit, its people battered by unseen cosmic conflicts. Into this wreckage descends the Surfer, glowing like a fallen angel. But he’s not here to save the world—not exactly. He’s here to atone, to defend, and maybe to say goodbye.
Pak writes Norrin Radd as a man haunted by his past, not just as Galactus’s former herald, but as someone who has spent eons trying to do the right thing and watching it never quite be enough. That guilt is personified beautifully in a new antagonist, who remains unnamed in this issue but who clearly knows the Surfer intimately—and intends to unmake him piece by piece. Pak cleverly avoids overexplaining, letting mystery and menace build in equal measure.
Artist Sumit Kumar is a revelation here. His style fuses the elegant grandeur of Esad Ribić with the cosmic trippiness of Mike Allred, landing in a uniquely expressive middle ground. Every panel drips with cosmic energy, yet never loses the human emotion at the core. A single moment—Norrin holding a dying child under a burning sky—speaks louder than entire pages of narration.
The guest-starring Fantastic Four are used sparingly but effectively, especially Reed Richards, whose cold logic serves as a philosophical counterweight to the Surfer’s wounded soul. Galactus looms in the background—Pak wisely keeps him off-panel for most of the issue, building anticipation and dread.
If past Surfer runs by the likes of Dan Slott or Donny Cates flirted with existentialism, Pak dives into it headfirst. There’s a thread here—about the worth of one life, about sacrifice, about the burden of power—that recalls Silver Surfer: Requiem in tone, if not in pace.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Death of the Silver Surfer #1 is a soulful, stunning debut that treats its protagonist not just as a hero, but as a tragic figure in the grandest cosmic tradition. Greg Pak is crafting a swan song that could become one of Marvel’s great space operas, and Sumit Kumar ensures it looks breathtaking every step of the way. Don’t miss it—this may very well be the All-Star Superman of the Power Cosmic.