The Silver Surfer commands one of the most formidable power sets in Marvel: • manipulation of matter and energy• faster-than-light travel• near-invulnerability• cosmic awareness• healing and resurrection• transmutation and survival in any environment Yet his greatest power is the one most beings reject: Restraint.

Let me be real with you: it was stressful, uncertain, and at times, downright exhausting. There were moments I didn’t know how the bills would get paid. Nights I sat with questions bigger than my answers. Weeks where discouragement screamed—but God’s whisper still cut through.

Stan Lee has repeatedly cited classic monster duality as core inspiration—especially Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—for the concept of a man wrestling with an uncontrollable other self. Jack Kirby also leaned into the “Frankenstein in all of us” idea when describing why the Hulk worked as a character people could relate to. That’s the genius of the Hulk: He’s not just a superhero. He’s a myth. A warning. A mirror.

Smoke drifts where chaos once roared. Broken Sentinels lie scattered like fallen monuments. The X-Men stand behind him — bruised, exhausted, alive. At the front stands a man in a blue-and-gold suit, visor glowing faintly red. Scott Summers doesn’t celebrate. He doesn’t boast. He doesn’t smile. He simply lowers his head for a moment — counting the living, remembering the fallen — then lifts his chin and moves forward. Because leaders don’t stop when the fight ends. They prepar