Silver Surfer: Citizen of Earth Review

Finished reading Silver Surfer: Citizen of Earth, restarting the series after the events of Secret Wars as Norrin Radd and Dawn return to Earth to catch up with Dawn's family and deal with an oncoming threat to the planet. The book opens up with the Silver Surfer and Dawn Greenwood stopping a potential alien invasion of Earth who have taken over all the televisions in the world as Dawn uses this as an opportunity to tell her father and sister that the two of them are on their back to Earth. Once Dawn and Norrin arrive on Earth they spend the day with Dawn's family when the aliens the two where fighting earlier arrive on Earth to collect all of the planet's art and culture in hope to preserve it from an oncoming threat that has already changed multiple planets in their image which current Guardian of the Galaxy Ben Grimm finds out first have and is manipulated into bring the aliens to Earth, who are revealed to be Norrin's own people the Zenn-Lavians. After defeating the Zenn-Lavians and being disregarded by his own people Norrin try's to find a way to move on which leads him to go to the moon in hope to see the Watcher only to be met by Uatu's successor the Unsee. While back on Earth Peter Parker is helping out at Horizon University in San Francisco where they discover a new marine creature that has appeared due to how Norrin defeated the Zenn-Lavians. Overall this was a great book as writer Dan Slott continues the adventures of Norrin and Dawn as the different alien threats they deal with in outer space has followed them to Earth which leads to some great interactions with some of the heroes of Earth and old supporting cast. The use of the Zenn-Lavians as the main villains of the book works greatly with how Norrin's past has found its way back and the way that Norrin's ex Shalla-Bal is leading the Zenn-Lavians helps to give more insight into Norrin's past before he became the Silver Surfer and makes the conflict more personal for him. The art by Michael Allred and colourist Laura Allred throughout the book is amazing as it captures the alien feel of the book from the look and design of the Zenn-Lavians and their home planet, while the designs and the Zenn-Lavian redesigns of the Marvel heroes fit into the aesthetic of the book extremely well. 8/10.