When Marvel Comic's Stan Lee and Jack Kirby named the Silver Surfer, I think their original intention was to dub him "The Glaucus Surfer", as an off-shoot from the entity 'Galactus' with whom the surfer first bargained with on the planet Zenn-la. But that didn't have quite the right punch. "Blue Surfer" made him sound like some Hawaiian shirt wearing beach bum with gorgeous wind-swept hair. And "Shiny Surfer" was just stupid. So they settled on Silver Surfer, which I suppose is a good name considering he is entire body is colored silver. And indeed, he's a very well developed character; cool headed, hard and handsome, un-needing of water, able to survive in environments like hyper space and black holes, and able to detect and manipulate energy and matter at a sub-atomic particle scale. But it turns out Stan and Jack could have saved themselves a whole lotta trouble creating such a character, because one already exists. It is cool colored, hard abd handsome, needs very little water, able to survive in desolate environments in the suburbs AND the city, and is... able to detect and manipulate... sub-atomic... hmm.
Well its everything else on the list, and I think that's pretty good. Prepare a spot for the new Silver Surfer; Festuca glauca, the Blue Fescue.
