Maybe he'll take a crack at some of those beautiful ELSEWHEN pencils next!  

I believe this piece is a commission. Very cool piece to own!

Hello! I am a Spanish fan and since I saw the original pencils of John Byrne for that cover, I wanted to produce, as a personal exercise, an edition of the cover trying to be more faithful to the pencils of what Tom Palmer was.

Since I'm just an amateur, I opted for an inking in pure B & W without adding textures, to reinforce the classic look while also coloring avoiding Photoshop effects.

Obviously I do not have the skills of professional inkers, so I beg you to be lenient with the result  ;)

I can see you have put a lot of work into the backgrounds, but at first glance I don't think this is apparent. I think the cosmic background would have benefitted from following suit from the Palmer and Rubinstein versions with bold white stars. Your white dots are subtle to the point that, in places, they look like imperfections in what is intended to be a uniform black space.

I do like how faithful you kept the Surfer's face to the pencils.

Reflection lines on the board are missing, which I though was a simple yet effective detail in the pencils. 

I wish the original face had not been destroyed. 

And the Silver Surfer does not need all those muscles that Palmer added.  He has the POWER COSMIC!

John Byrne did it right.

I loved this single shot issue, but I have always felt that the inks overpowered the beauty of what the pencils must have been like because I only seen Byrne greatness shine through about half the time.  The rest of the time it looks like Palmer embellished.