Love, Joolz: Gravity Waves
They'll never let me write the Silver Surfer, but if they did, here's how it would look
I feel like if anyone is qualified to make Silver Surfer comics it’s me. Every time I look at a Silver Surfer drawing, I immediately check his feet and his hips. Real ones know. And almost nobody gets those right.
This is not to say that people who don’t surf can’t draw the Silver Surfer. But, like bro. we need a Silver Surfer book where the Surfer is really a damn surfer. Really a beach bum. Really some dude barely doing enough work to keep his gravity wave rides going. Really a dude into his log. That’s what we need.
So this is my rough stab at that. The surfer as a messy beach bro instead of a big, scary herald. Look, surfers can be intimidating. They’re athletes capable of amazing feats. But they are also total goobers. They are the Florida Men of the sea. And I feel like a Silver Surfer story would benefit from that kind of personality.
Welcome to the new Apocalypse Garden where I’m filling all my emotional wounds with surfing.