MarvelBlog REVIEW: Silver Surfer Black #5
The tremendous limited series centered around the Marvel Universes cosmic rider is coming to an end, but concludes with an issue that presents the greatest parts of its five-issue run; this is our review of Silver Surfer Black #5.
There is one reality that must set the precursor for everything that follows from this issue; the immense disappointment that it will, in fact, come to an end after what has been some of the most unique visuals and interesting narrative contemplations that this medium has ever found.
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What Silver Surfer Black #5 does, perhaps better than any of the issues we’ve seen this far, is crescendo every single quality that has made this work so transcendentally great; and fully manifesting into the rare conclusive episode that feels so perfect and at home.
It feels like it is so normal to approach bookend issues with a sort of skepticism, almost accepting at the outset that this will be unsatisfying in one degree or another; simply because of the absolute rarity that is ending a phenomenal series with something that feels worth its excellence
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This is the rare, and immensely welcome, exception to that rule, as Tradd Moore and Donny Cates craft an ending that is befitting what is easily the best-limited series of this year, and what is perhaps one of Silver Surfer’s greatest runs in comic book history.
Cates crafts a narrative that sees Norrin Radd come to terms with his role in the universe- something that is so compelling and interesting it may take a few reads to truly grasp- while for as exceptional as Moore has been over these issues, is truly doing his best work on this final installment.
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The very opening page of the issue is a jaw-dropping display of Silver Surfer in the signature expressionist style that Moore is known for, but in a way that feels so perfectly at home in the psychedelic and intellectual ride that these five issues have been.
The final showdown with Knull was gripping, visceral, and incredibly imaginative, and what has birthed in the final pages is the acceptance of the universe’s way of life, and the understanding of the delicate balance between the light, the darkness, and humanity in between,
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