I enjoyed spotting random Pokémon in the background of panels. There are also a lot of Pokémon references, which is one way to get me on side. I didn't realise before I started reading, but I think Cindy might be the first female Asian-American superhero from Marvel? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I haven't read/seen any others.
As Silk, she spends her time fighting minor (for now) bad guys, with occasional help from her sidekick, Spider-Man (the Peter Parker one). In the meantime, she's working as a reporter (a strangely common occupation for superheroes), getting her start writing stories about the new superhero Silk. As far as she can tell, they seem to have disappeared. Not that there's anything wrong with brightly coloured superheroes, but this book tells a serious and relatively down-to-earth story, so it works really well.Ĭindy's focus is in finding out what happened to her family after she went into the bunker. The art is nice and respectful (funny how you don't get gratuitous objectification with a female artist.) and the choice of colours is sort of subdued, making the comic look more serious and less "larger than life" than a lot of superhero comics tend to do.
Questionable origin story aside (and, I should say, this isn't an origin comic), The Life and Times of Cindy Moon is a really, really excellent comic. With his unique blend of antics and feels. Robbie Thompson (writer from TV's SUPERNATURAL) fills this new story Now,Īs SILK, Cindy is on her own in New York City, searching for her past,ĭefining her own future, and webbing up wrong-doers along the way!
Than once!) and traverse the Spider-Verse alongside Spider-Woman. She then went on to save Peter Parker's life (more She had been bitten by the same radioactive spider from the first arc ofĪMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Of her bunker and into the Marvel Universe when we first learned that Also like Spider-Gwen, she was bitten by the same radioactive spider as Peter Parker, but unlike Spider-Gwen, she's from the main Marvel universe and the reason we haven't seen much of her up to now (well, and earlier in some Amazing Spider-Man comics) is because she was locked in a bunker for ten years. Like Spider-Gwen, Silk became a popular character during the Spider-Verse event and now has her own book, whoo. Silk Vol 0: The Life and Times of Cindy Moon by Robbie Thompson and Stacey Lee is the first ever collection of Silk comics.
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