Silver Surfer #14 - "A Power Greater Than Cosmic" [Final Issue]

[laughing_tree]

If I don't type "The End" on the last page of this Silver Surfer #14 plot, maybe we could just keep surfing through space? -- Dan Slott

I can't remember being more satisfied with an ending to a story. -- Mike Allred







The Surfer goes to Inkandessa, the planet where a holographic AI copy of Dawn was accidentally created earlier in the series:

Comments

[malitia]

To my knowledge the Power Cosmic doesn't exist in our world so I don't mind it acting however the writer wants it. :3

But I'm not a native English speaker, so when an anglophone writer assumes the universalness of their language they also instantly destroy my suspension of disbelief and sink any effect they were aiming for with their work.

[draganoche]

There is no assumption of the universality of the english language. The plot specifically creates a scenario where a single word is made universally relevant.

[bestiasono]

Except in Spanish, the word isn't "Dawn". Nor in any other non English language. So... that doesn't work at all. And even in that comic world, "Dawn" isn't found in any other non English earth language.

[q99]

Still, her name is named after a concept, and the concept is universally translateable.

Sure, the aliens are saying dawn because we need to read it, but that doesn't mean they aren't saying (their word for the concept of dawn).

[malitia]

My language in its standard version* literally doesn't have the sound for the "aw" part of "dawn".


* There are some dialects that have. Not the majority though.