Fantastic Four: First Steps is helping Marvel to "get its mojo back", according to most early reviews of the new superhero reboot. The 37th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is "Marvel's best film in a decade", the Telegraph said, while the Guardian declared the studio had "regained its buoyancy".

Shalla-Bal symbolizes everything the Silver Surfer sacrificed. Throughout his travels, she remains his moral compass and emotional anchor. The Surfer’s longing to return to her and reclaim his lost humanity is a recurring theme in his stories in the comics and most other adaptations.

Garner also noted that she’s portraying Shalla-Bal, a female iteration of the Silver Surfer, and not Norrin Radd, the male version of the character who was played Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne in 2007’s “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.”

Shalla-Bal, first seen in “The Silver Surfer” #1 in 1968, is the female counterpart to Norrin Radd, who was featured in 2007’s “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.” In that film, the humanoid alien was played by Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne.

There was a moment in the ‘80s and early ‘90s when the Silver Surfer almost rode a wave of psychedelic rock straight onto the big screen. This nearly-made movie would’ve mashed up the philosophical space opera energy of 2001: A Space Odyssey with a soundtrack driven by a rock ‘n’ roll legend.

Without any further ado, here's artist Dike Ruan's cover of Death of the Silver Surfer #5, revealing the new Silver Surfer: You'll immediately notice that she bears some resemblance to the Shalla-Bal version of the character who appears in The Fantastic Four: First Steps,

The Silver Surfer is back. But long before "The Fantastic Four: First Steps," the most intriguing hero in comics history was predicting the doomscroll.

Long before the Fantastic Four joined the MCU, there were many attempts to give the Silver Surfer a solo movie.