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Given my Silver Surfer fandom, though, I have a confession to make. My comics-loving friends may have been fixated on Todd McFarlane’s Spider-Man and the recently renovated “X” books (e.g., Chris Claremont and Jim Lee’s X‑Men, Rob Liefeld’s X‑Force), but as enjoyable as those titles were, they never could compare to the Sentinel of the Spaceways for me. That tortured nobility, combined with Ron Lim’s sleek-yet-muscular character design, sealed the deal for me as an angst-ridden teenager. Of course, it didn’t hurt that the Surfer went through a particularly angst‑y phase in the early-to-mid ’90s courtesy of writers like Steve Englehart, Ron Marz, and Jim Starlin - a phase that saw him guilt-ridden and continually berating himself for being party to unimaginable devastation as Galactus’ mindless herald. In any case, that was the moment the Silver Surfer became my favorite superhero. While reading his X‑Factor and Spider-Man issues, I came across a comic featuring a silvery being who flew through space on a… surfboard? I’m still not sure what it was about that particular comic - issue #21, if I remember correctly - but maybe the concept was just so different compared to other comics I’d seen up to that point. I was in high school and perusing my friend Kevin’s comic collection. I still remember my first encounter with the Silver Surfer.