Silk Vol. 1: Sinister

by Robbie Thompson

Stacey Lee (Artist)

"Silk is back and badder than ever! Cindy Moon - the other victim of the radioactive spider that bit Peter Parker - has been working to find the missing members of her family since she escaped the bunker that was her home for so many years. But Silk's quest has taken her down a darker path than expected, and now she's in cahoots with the most ferocious feline in the Marvel Universe: the Black Cat! But not everyone in the Cat's criminal crew is happy about the arrangement. Nor is a certain friendly neighborhood CEO of Parker Industries, and that will take Cindy into battle with Spider-Man and the Goblin King! What could have led her to this? And will she go so far that there is no redeeming the Sinister Silk?"--

• ISBN10: 0785199578
• ISBN13: 9780785199571
• Publish Date: 31 May 2016
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Marvel Comics
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 144
• Language: English

Reviews

3.5

This is volume picks up the same story lines in the previous Silk. Cindy is trying to find clues on what happened to her family.

She is working undercover with Shield to get into Black Cat's trust and Shield is helping her try to find her family. We see the day to day of Cindy trying to find the balance between work, being Silk, having friends, and keeping her sanity while trying to juggle that and everything else that comes her way.

She was locked up for 10 years, so she is behind on everything. I love her quirkiness when she interacts with people. She's a bad-ass yet still naive in the world.

I love Cindy and can't wait to see where her journey takes her. I did not like the art in this book, some where great and some was just not my style. Looking at each issue we have different artists, so for the whole Graphic Novel, there was 3 different artists. Each artist has there different way to draw, which makes sense, but it also came off weird to have people, like Cindy, drawn a different way then before. When just a few pages ago, she and others were drawn one way.

The story was good, we see in this volume that they are building towards a bigger story line. Will Cindy find her parents or more clues to what happened to them? What's Black Cat planning? What will happen with her working for shield? She is green in the field as a shield operative, but I love that about Cindy. I want to see more interaction between Mockingbird and hopefully Spider-woman in future volumes.

Besides the art choices, I love Cindy and the story was good. I will read Volume 2

[Quirky Cat]

I’ve been hearing about Silk for a while now, and with my most recent read through of some of the spider comics (Spider-Gwen, Spider-Woman, and Miles Morales Spider-Man) and how they sometimes cross paths with her, I decided it was time to give her series a try. Granted, I rushed in a read volume one without doing any research, so I totally missed the fact that there’s a volume zero, which likely does a better job explaining her origin story. So if you haven’t read any of her stuff yet, don’t be a dummy like me; read volume zero first! Then move on to the rest of the series. Now I get to read it a little bit backwards…which is totally fine, right?
Cindy Moon is Silk, and from what I understand her origin is similar to Peter Parker’s in that she also got bitten by a radioactive spider. Presumably in the same lab as him and everything (because seriously, what are the odds that it happened anywhere else?). While she may cross over with Spider-Gwen later, she’s not of that universe, instead living in the one most people would consider the ‘main’ universe.



When I first read volume one I thought this was the first volume dedicated to Silk (I knew it wouldn’t be an origin story, since her origin is covered elsewhere), so I was a little bit confused by how we were thrown into the thick of things. Maybe it’s still confusing, but without having read the prior volume I can’t actually say that for certain.
Cindy’s character is clearly suffering from something many young superheroes afflict upon themselves; she’s utterly overloaded. She’s trying to juggle a real life job, with a real social life (okay, that one has kind of been put on the back burner), take care of her kid brother, be a superhero, AND be a double agent. So she actually has more going on that a lot of heroes out there. I’m impressed she’s managed to stay on her feet for as long as she has. I don’t know about you, but I can barely function if I’ve missed even a single night’s sleep…let alone two.
Like a lot of newer series in Marvel, it isn’t afraid to include cameos and pull characters from established series to lend some credibility. Black Cat appears to be a somewhat main character for this series (for now, that is, this will likely change with circumstances), but there are plenty of other characters that make an appearance. Peter Parker, Mockingbird, and Spider-Woman all make their appearances as well. I wonder how frequently we’ll be seeing them pop up? I’m betting less so for Peter (he is the CEO of a massively successful business now), and once this plot is finished probably less of Mockingbird as well. I suspect we’ll continue to see Jessica Drew however. Though maybe that’s me being silly, but it feels like the Spider-Women should stick together (the pun at the end there was not intentional, but was a happy accident).
I’ll admit that while I didn’t love this volume, the series itself has a lot of potential. I’m curious about Cindy and what she’s gone through, as well as being interested in where she’s going to end up next. I don’t love the Goblin plot, though it is cool seeing her ‘work’ with Black Cat, so I’m okay with seeing it go on for now.


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