Silver Surfer

Though Satriani was unfamiliar with the character at the time, the album's production manager suggested the character's usage.

Following this, Satriani became inspired by the Silver Surfer's mythos to create "Back to Shalla-Bal" for the Flying in a Blue Dream album and "The Power Cosmic 2000", a two-part song on the Engines of Creation album. * The British metal band Bal-Sagoth named their fourth album The Power Cosmic and dedicated one song to the Silver Surfer, "The Scourge of the Fourth Celestial Host".

The Silver Surfer was ranked as the 47th-greatest comic book character of all time by Wizard magazine.

Jack Kirby commented on the character's creation during an interview, stating "My conception of the Silver Surfer was a human being from space in that particular form.

I couldn't do an ordinary teenager surfing so I drew a surfboard with a man from outer space on it." Kirby further elaborated on the narrative role the character was created as "My inspirations were the fact that I had to make sales and come up with characters that were no longer stereotypes.

And I remember in my first story, I had to back away from him to resolve that story.