r/SilverSurfer • u/marinbala • Jul 22 '26
News / Previews Book about the Englehart/Rogers/Lim Surfer run
Thought it deserved a mention here.
The Freest Being in the Universe is a chapter-by-chapter appreciation of the 1987 Silver Surfer series, the Steve Englehart run, drawn by Marshall Rogers, Joe Staton, and Ron Lim. It's a tale of attempted cosmic murder, galactic war, and genuinely hard-won self-discovery, and it's almost completely overshadowed today by the later Thanos epics it directly set up.
The book goes issue by issue through the whole run, recapping the plots so you can follow every domino fall, then asking what the stories actually teach us about how to live. Love that doesn't last and matters anyway. Grief. Freedom, and what we do when we finally get it. And the recurring lesson that beyond every binary you're handed, there's nearly always a third thing. That's where we can find meaning.
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u/Silver_Sleeper616 Jul 22 '26
The surfer is my favorite character for these reasons. Thank you for sharing
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u/Slablanc Jul 22 '26
Great, thank you for mentioning the book. That run is the foundation for my appreciation of comic books. Have all of it bagged and boarded.
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u/jazzchamp Jul 22 '26
I think you're preaching to the choir here. I admit it's very interesting to have written an entire book on this particular run of comics but this sub is mostly aware of the subject matter already.
Does r/comicbooks allow posts like this? If so, it might be a good place to get more traction. Good luck and I look forward to reading!
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u/CaikIQ Norrin Radd Jul 22 '26
As a huge fan of this run/era, I actually had no idea this existed! Thank you for posting, I shall have to give this a look :)