Marvel Age #1000: Deaf Heaven Review

 

Marvel Age #1000: “Deaf Heaven”

Writer, Artist & Colorist: Steve McNiven

Letterer: Joe Caramagna

Publisher: Marvel

Price: $9.99

Release Date: August 30, 2023

Story

Steve McNiven transports Silver Surfer to a former battlefield. Norrin Radd leaves his surfboard to walk past corpses in the snow and a broken church to behold a mass grave. We don't learn where the battle took place. Is Norrin in the Ukraine? Does he survey the destruction wrought in Jason Aaron's recent Avengers series? Or might this be a slaughter far from the eyes of Western media? In any case, helplessness overwhelms him.

 

Art

While the narrow longitudinal panels limit our perception, McNiven's hand-drawn art shows Silver Surfer in exacting detail. Mephisto--his uninvited companion--grows more menacing amid Norrin's despair. Amid so many vibrant stories in Marvel Age #1000, Deaf Heaven speaks to the importance of grasping hope, even in the most hopeless situations. 

 

To preview interior art for Deaf Heaven and other stories in Marvel Age #1000 see my review at Comic Book Dispatch.