The "fight" is mostly Thor hitting Surfer while Surfer wants to talk, and then Surfer concking Thor from behind with his board. (Seriously, he does this three time in three consecutive issues.) We never actually see much of a throw down or extended contest. Even in the hammer catch, Surfer is trying to talk Thor down at the time. I really wouldn't draw any conclusions from it.
Well shrug city then. If all that is true and Surfer is surfing moons into Galactus, maybe he IS stronger than Thor.Surfer always looks better than Thor against Hulk, so that's a weird comparison. Also Midgard Serpent thing is just a big myth, Midgard Serpent never actually physically encircled Earth in Thor 327. If you remove mjolnir, Thor has hardly any strength feats that would show him stronger than Surfer in all honesty.
Ehhh. That's less pain and more shock at their bond being severed.
Last edited by Pendaran; 07-11-2020 at 01:14 PM.
Just for the record on the whole Surfer and his board thing, that particular run also contains a sequence where the Surfer loses his board because he lost a gambling game where if you lose, you lose, in exact words "physical parts of yourself."
Last edited by Pendaran; 07-11-2020 at 01:27 PM.
Surfer also wasn't attempting to kill Thor for the majority of that arc (or at all, really). With Thor going all out to murder the Surfer. Hell, this is backed up by the Surfer, after getting his ass slapped around the surface of Mars while trying to talk it out with Thor, discharging a blast and says something like "bruh stop we homies and like... you're dying from some kinda weird energy stab wound."
At which point Thor bodies him with a hammer toss and says, "do you wanna die on Mars? Cuz I'll kill you on Mars."
The order of events might be a bit backwards (can't remember if Surfer notices the wound before or after Thor throws Mjolnir at him) but the overall point is that Surfer wasn't exactly trying his damndest, whereas Thor was.
In the event my memory has failed me, I'm still not as bad as Arbitus at luring in prey so HAH!
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
Arx Inosaan
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
Arx Inosaan
I have no idea. It made no sense with the Surfer's series that was going on at the time which had the Surfer be outside the universe for the entirety of Secret Wars, but it seems like the writer wanted it to be the Silver Surfer.
But that makes dead zero sense.
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
Arx Inosaan
Well this is a very very niche argument and i still think anything done by the board is not really physical force imo
But its unlikely to ever be a thing what with Surfers 99 other powers and planet busting and whatnot so meh
On an unrelated note, I really hate where they went Surfer and Shalla Bal's story after he left earth. Personally always thought it was one of the most beautiful things in comics and they just...yeah, absolutely ruined it. She hooked up with Norrins brother at one point before they retconned that. I hate it.
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Like they should have just ended with this, like this is the last time we see Shalla bal. My favorite Surfer story
Yeah, Surfer was trying to deescalate a lot of the time and This wasn't having it. Which is pretty true to form for both of them really. But even that got repeated over and over again.
Thats the problem with having one fight stretched over 4 issues and it only being one of several plot lines running. Each issue is basically just a rehash of the last and nothing of substance happens.