"Gravity Garden" (Silver Surfer story)

"GRAVITY GARDEN"

Official Name: Unrevealed

Continent: None

Population: Unrevealed

Capital City: None

Government: None

Major Languages: None

Monetary Unit: None

Major Resources: None

National Defense: None

International/Extraterrestrial Relations: None

Places of Interest: None

Non-Human (Extraterrestrial) Population: Baletine amoeboids, crystalkhrits, etherays, fingerworms, leviathisms, mandelbites, polyp-sickles

Prominent Citizens: None

Superhuman Residents: None

Crime: Inapplicable

Location: Far distant extraterrestrial star system of an unidentified galaxy

First Appearance: Silver Surfer: In Thy Name#4 (April, 2008)

History:
(Silver Surfer: In Thy Name#4) - In a far remote system ignored by stellar cartographers, a gravity garden formed from a dustball of galactic mold. Frenzied life evolved amongst its crevices and protein-strand canyons that fell a mile deep, from baletine amoeboids, crystalkhrits, etherays, fingerworms, mandelbites and polyp-sickles. Ultimately, all the creatures were terrified of the apex predator called the leviathism and quickly hid from its slow search for food.

(Silver Surfer: In Thy Name#4 (fb) - BTS) - The Silver Surfer observed the gravity garden as part of his many far-ranging journeys across the universe.

(Silver Surfer: In Thy Name#4) - The Silver Surfer later recalled the gravity garden during the bloodthirsty war between the Brekk and the Ama, and the two races' mutual fear of the world-devouring Galactus.

Comments: Created by Simon Spurrier & Tan Eng Huat.

"Gravity Garden" is just the term that the Silver Surfer gave it; even then, it is just a gravity garden (so there are likely more). Are the beautiful names of the various creatures given to them by the Silver Surfer, or do they resemble other such life forms in a type of convergent or parallel evolution?

There is no way to approximate sizes of the various life forms as there is nothing to compare them to. But presumably, given their appearance, crystalkhrits are about the size of seahorses, so the other life forms are like small sea creatures found on an Earth seabed or in coral while the leviathism may be the size of a large shark. This is a beautiful introduction to issue 4 of the miniseries, but their appearance is all too brief (perhaps like their lifespan?), covering just over a page in an intriguing miniseries that also showcases Tan Eng Huat's art.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS:
"Gravity Garden" has no known connections to:

GARDEN of Earth-93060 - psychic plane created by Lost Angel, filled with others under his control--Freex#3
GARDEN of ETERNAL REMEMBRANCE - enshrined Nova Centurions who gave their life to expand the Xandarian Empire--Uncanny Origins I#4
GARDEN of the HESPERIDES (Atlas, Hesperides, Ladon) - home to the golden apples that serve as source of immortality to the gods of Olympus--Hercules III#1
GRAVITON (Franklin Hall) - mutated by explosion that intermingled his molecules with sub-molecular graviton particles--Avengers I#158
GRAVITY (Greg Willis) - can direct gravity for variety of effects--Gravity I#1
GRAVITY LOCALIZER - designed by Reed Richards, placed in Spider-Mobile, created gravity/attraction on any surface--Spider-Man/Human Torch#3
GRAVITY NULLIFIER - Rigellian technology, used to nullify gravity and transport objects too heavy to carry--Thor I#131
GRAVITY POLICE of Earth-Dystopia - law enforcement, Earth-2080--Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect#1
or any other "Gravit-" or "Garden" locations/characters/items

Crystalkhrits

Crystalkhrits abounded in the deep-reaching protein-strand canyons and swarmed at the mouths of a billion burrows in the gravity garden lost in far deep space.