Geoffrey's Comics had Silver Surfer #1 in the window last week, which brought to mind my lifelong wish someday to collect the magnificent original 18-issue run. (Somewhere I have the Fantasy Masterpieces re-print from the Eighties.) I just no longer foresee succumbing to a geek episode that'd sustain such an undertaking. This tech demo, however, does look like anything if not a simulator for the cosmic wave rider; with maybe some slick terraforming programming, it could even provide the engine for an old idea—from a dream, IIRC—about Wipeout-like racing over planets, UFO's which whisk by unsuspecting primitive civilizations and unbeknownst to them, influence their personal decisions, stock markets and cultural trends!