Oh, Abhi posted in the Surfer respect thread. I wonder what magnificent feat he wanted to share with Surfer fans?
Oh, this was unexpected.
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Anyway.
His board being "destroyed" was a common tactic for Surfer to enter into an area during that arc as seen here:
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_005_12a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_005_13a.jpg
Now whether that happened there or not is another topic entirely, but it should be noted that his physical form was completely unscathed while he jumped into the singularity and head on into the current quasar forming out of it.
His board being gone in either case would contradict both however. An explanation is that the universe creator Singularity sent him on his way with his board. Otherwise Surfer simply went to sleep outside a black hole, and the whole scene with him entering was completely unnecessary and an illusion. Why did he even need to go there in the first place if he was going to have a nap outside?
Anyway again
We see something a little bit weirder which could be construed as Surfer having his soul sucked from his body, since this is clearly not physical. As well as taking it so cut and dry, this is when the actual Singularity talks (sound), and him flying into the light was before the sound. And this sound sends him on a booze cruise.
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_006_03b.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_006_04a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_006_04b.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_006_05a.jpg
As well as we saw the same thing happen later in the series when Ellie entered which was again purely physical as it basically obliterated the Marduk.
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_014_05a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_014_06a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_014_07a.jpg
As well as here's Surfer saying he flew outside time and space, and considering the outside of the Singularity was inside time and space, and he FLEW outside time and space, that kind of says what was shown actually happened. Since he flew there. You know. He flew outside time and space, and into the Singularity.
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_010_13a.jpg
What happened before he entered the Singularity was physical. After that it just became more Silver Surfer Volume 4. As to why the Singularity was firing off a quasar is a good guess though. Maybe it was to keep dooders away. srug
On to some more stuff.
Surfer takes a backlash that does shred his board for sure to leave him unharmed:
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_011_04b.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_011_06a.jpg
And a little lesser feat and then a ridiculous one. Surfer gets put on his knees from a bunch of nukes while trying to protect the island and Ellie, and then takes point blank blast from Ellie (who was said to be limitless in power and was revealed later to be basically a cosmic level God... though the human speaking thinks she's city level):
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_011_18a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_011_18b.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_011_19a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_011_19b.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_011_20a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_012_03a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_012_03b.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_012_04a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_012_05a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_012_06a.jpg
So it doesn't get twisted. It was strongly implied to be nukes, if not outright stated to be nukes
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_011_10a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bigbran1/Surfer/SS_v4_011_12a.jpg