Wait! What the heck? Silver Surfer's DEAD?!

[qtwerk]

Don't quote me on this, but I do believe that Silver Surfer: Requiem is a kind of one-off, what-if, totally self-contained story. I don't think it has any bearing on the main Marvel continuity.

of course, if I'm wrong, I'll happily accept a public stoning.

Yeah you're right, Requiem was published under the Marvel Knights imprint which was (sorry had to use wiki search here!) a "self-contained limited series that think outside the box, that challenge readers to re-think their favorite Marvel characters and re-evaluate the legends that surround them. In other words, Marvel Knights will be a place for top talent to work without constraints, and deliver the kind of product fans deserve!""

If I'd wiki'd in the  first place, I wouldn't have even bothered creating the thread, so I suppose it was sort of worth me not doing that, if only because it's sparked a bit of Silver Surfer love, and some light-hearted sniping about Strontium Dog.

I think it may have sparked a few purchases if nothing else.

And I'm glad he's not dead. He's a super character

[qtwerk]

Although given that no fucker ever seems to really die properly in Marvel and DC, they're all guilty of that.
At least in 2000AD, if you die, you stay dead.





haha

It's not like 2000AD would put everyone through the tortured, tortuous death of a character and then bring them back, is it? Good ol' 2000Ad.

Marvel's 'What If...' series is actually kind of fun sometimes -- it gives writers the chance to actually kill off characters and having their decisions stick, whereas usually the Editors will say 'yep, kill them, we'll bring them back'. The only characters I can remember staying dead were Tomahawk from the X-Men (and he was invented to be stunt-killed, I think?) and a whole bunch of people from Peter Milligan's run on X-Force (nearly all of the X-Force team get killed off in the first issue, and after that there's a very high mortality rate in the new team).

That's it? One character I've never heard of? Out of how many hundreds?

Bit rubbish that innit

[The Adventurer]

Thunderbird. Not Tomahawk. And while technically dead, eventually his brother would take up his mantel with the same powers. Or something. So it's basically a resurrection.

But yes, Silver Surfer Requiem was basically a non-cannon what-if story about the last days of the Silver Surfer. Personally I don't think that automatically makes the story less poignant. There are a LOT of non-canon stories of franchise characters out there that are more poignant then the ageless/deathless versions found in monthly books.

[sheldipez]

Thunderbird. Not Tomahawk. And while technically dead, eventually his brother would take up his mantel with the same powers. Or something. So it's basically a resurrection.

But yes, Silver Surfer Requiem was basically a non-cannon what-if story about the last days of the Silver Surfer. Personally I don't think that automatically makes the story less poignant. There are a LOT of non-canon stories of franchise characters out there that are more poignant then the ageless/deathless versions found in monthly books.

Hulk: The End is great too, oh and Marvel just announced that "What If" is coming back..

[DoomBot]

Read the silver surfer masterworks vol 1 and 2...then stop...

[O Lucky Stevie!]

Read the silver surfer masterworks vol 1 and 2 & Si Spurrier's rather excellent In Thy Name mini-series....then stop...

FTFY

[The Adventurer]

Thy Name was pretty good. Though the art wasn't great.