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If you’ve read Silver Surfer: Black, then you know it’s one of the trippiest comics Marvel ever published. The comic follows the Surfer’s adventures after he’s pulled into a black hole. Knull, the Symbiote god, shows up, and things get a bit psychedelic and existential. The art is so trippy that Tradd Moore, the penciler of the series, was approached about doing numerous weed related projects after the comic was published.

However, it wasn’t drugs that inspired Moore’s wild and vivid imagery; it was video games and Frank Miller.

“I was thinking of something like, I don’t know if you’re all into video games, the Final Fantasy artist, Yoshitaka Amano. I was trying to think like, what would Amano’s work be like if it was merged with Frank Miller. And basically, Silver Surfer came out,” Tradd Moore says during a spotlight panel at San Diego Comic Con 2026.

I didn’t see it before, but now I get it. And honestly, marrying the visuals of Yoshitaka Amano and Frank Miller is a genius idea that could’ve only come from Tradd Moore. After all, who wouldn’t love a Final Fantasy inspired adventure in the Marvel Universe? Besides, Frank Miller and Yoshitaka Amano can create visuals more powerful than any hallucinogenic drug ever could.

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