Starman's Swansong

The Sentinel of Space soars for the last time in Death Of The Silver Surfer

- WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL

HAVING FIRST FOUND the Sentinel of Space by reading his formative story in Origins Of Marvel Comics, writer Greg Pak is now charting Norrin Radd's final voyage in Death Of The Silver Surfer. And while Norrin's lover Shalla-Bal wields the Power Cosmic in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, a new Herald of Galactus will arrive by the five-parter's end.

“He was so strange, dramatic and tragic,” recalls Pak. “Just a phenomenal, striking character with a tone I hadn’t seen anywhere before. The Incredible Hulk television series introduced me to the literary concept of tragedy, but the Silver Surfer introduced me to notions of existential angst - big, heady stuff in a surreal, mind-bending and sometimes goofy package. I loved it then and I love it now.”