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The Silver Surfer appeared in Nova 14 this week.  Richard Rider (Nova) fights the Surfer in a vain attempt to have Galactus postpone his lunch plans for the planet Orbucen.  Orbucen's population needs a little more time to get on their spaceships before their homeworld gets nuked in ol' purple pants portable microwave.  Nova is pretty outclassed against the Silver Surfer, but he manages to talk Norrin Radd into delaying the schedule for a little while.

The Silver Surfer is hanging tight with Galactus (which occurred in the Annihilation Silver Surfer mini-series), an plot twist that only makes sense to me if Marvel plans on resetting the Surfer like they did with Spider-Man.  For over ten years after the Silver Surfer appeared in the pages of the Fantastic Four, Norrin Radd was bound to Earth, kept there by an invisible barrier Galactus placed around the globe.  He had some terrific stories set on Earth and teaming up with the other Marvel heroes, but you had to wonder what the Silver dude would do if he were set free.

We found out when Silver Surfer volume 2, number 1 appeared.  The Surfer zipped across the universe and hung out with a bunch of odd aliens.  He had sexy-time with Nova and Mantis.  Other than Englehart's run and Jim Starlin's brief run (which set up the Infinity Gauntlet stories), nothing too exciting happened.  And the reason why is that the Surfer works better as a supporting character against the other Marvel heroes.  I think one day Galactus will come back to Earth and the Surfer will be trapped on the planet once again.

Back to Nova 14.  I love this splash page of the Surfer chasing Nova against the giant backdrop of Galactus' head.  Far-out and spacey!  Nuff said.

Michael Golden is one of my favorite comic book artists of all time.  I've bought and devoured two recent books on his artwork.  Since he's mostly done covers and pinups for the past ten years or so, finding Golden's work is a bit like finding a needle in a haystack.  I recently came upon this piece from a Silver Surfer mini-series in 1995, called Cosmic Powers.  Golden did this piece for the book.

Here it is in glorious black and white.  I love how Golden has positioned all-conquering Galactus, with Norrin Radd breaking down the barriers, trying to hold back his former herald from escaping.  I believe I saw this on Albert Moy's gallery on ComicArtFans.

Here is the color version.  The Marvel editors didn't use this as the cover for some reason.  But they did print it without any captions or logos.

Awesome.  This should have been a poster.  Nuff said.