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Silk by Goo & Kim
Silk, Vol. 2: Age of the Witch
Silk is back! Cindy Moon returns as the web-spinning spider-hero in an all-new, all-star series! As Silk gains popularity in the public eye, Cindy begins questioning her place in the world. But existentialism will have to wait — because a powerful new villain has been turned loose! Now, in a race against the clock, Silk will discover the dangers of ancient Korean magic…and social media. Don’t miss the comics debut of stunning storyteller Emily Kim, and the return of legendary comic artist Takeshi Miyazawa!
COLLECTING: Silk (2022) 1-5
COLLECTING: Silk (2022) 1-5
112 pages, Paperback
First published August 30, 2022
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November 11, 2022
I was a little sad to see Maureen Goo had stepped away from Silk since her book was the one that got me interested in the character, but Emily Kim has taken up the torch and carries it quite well.
The main story is about Silk fighting a witch who drains life energy from social media influencers (good on her!), but I'm mostly here to see Cindy Moon trying to build a real life after all the craziness she's gone through. And who knew J. Jonah Jameson could be fun and interesting after so many years of ranting and raging.
The main story is about Silk fighting a witch who drains life energy from social media influencers (good on her!), but I'm mostly here to see Cindy Moon trying to build a real life after all the craziness she's gone through. And who knew J. Jonah Jameson could be fun and interesting after so many years of ranting and raging.
October 15, 2022
Firmly cemented in the age of social media, it's a very modern adventure that manages to capture the time with surprising accuracy. The main focus is Moon's self discovery journey as both Silk and Cindy which is rewarding to follow as Kim manages to mould a main character that the reader wants to root for. There's also a parallel between Cindy and the villain, but other than the similarities, the villain ans overall plot is rather generic in nature. Fun, yet not quite adventurous to try something new, it's a story that is perfectly okay with sitting in the realm of simply being safe.
September 29, 2022
Another good outing for Silk. What made this book good for me is the relatable way Cindy see the social media influencers the same as I ideally do. I like that the point out what it seems yo have become.
Cindy Moon is in a rut she is trying everything to live. However is she trying too hard as nothing sticks accept bring Silk. Has Silk herself become an bigger than what she does? Well she better get things together as something ancient has been unleashed.
A good gun book. I think there is even s not so hidden message in this book. Not the most action packed book but I really like the story. Thr book finishes with a thumbnail varient cover gallery.
Cindy Moon is in a rut she is trying everything to live. However is she trying too hard as nothing sticks accept bring Silk. Has Silk herself become an bigger than what she does? Well she better get things together as something ancient has been unleashed.
A good gun book. I think there is even s not so hidden message in this book. Not the most action packed book but I really like the story. Thr book finishes with a thumbnail varient cover gallery.
January 19, 2023
Cute, Spidey-style fun.
August 21, 2022
Silk gets another shot at a mini-series, and this time she's facing off against a social media mogul and an ancient witch who likes stealing people's life forces and making them old. What's a webswinger to do?
Emily Kim continues Cindy's journey of self-discovery, as well as the evolving relationship she has with her therapist, and all of this follows nicely from Silk's previous appearances elsewhere. It's this introspective stuff that I enjoyed the most, if we're being honest.
The main superhero plot is a bit bloated though - I get the idea of having a tech villain and a magic villain for the dichotomy of it all, but with only five issues to shove both of them in as well as Cindy's supporting cast, both villains feel a little underdeveloped. Also, how many illegitimate kids can New York's mob bosses have? They're as bad as the Penguin.
Takeshi Miyazawa's artwork is of course great, he's been the unofficial Silk artist almost from the start, and he gets to have fun with that. His Old Lady Silk is especially funny, Miyazawa sells the physical comedy really well.
Silk has apparently been reduced to mini-series since she can't support an ongoing, but I can live with that if it means we get more Silk content like this. It's fun, and even though the writers keep changing, everyone Marvel brings in seems to have a good grasp on who Cindy is as a character and where she is on her journey.
Emily Kim continues Cindy's journey of self-discovery, as well as the evolving relationship she has with her therapist, and all of this follows nicely from Silk's previous appearances elsewhere. It's this introspective stuff that I enjoyed the most, if we're being honest.
The main superhero plot is a bit bloated though - I get the idea of having a tech villain and a magic villain for the dichotomy of it all, but with only five issues to shove both of them in as well as Cindy's supporting cast, both villains feel a little underdeveloped. Also, how many illegitimate kids can New York's mob bosses have? They're as bad as the Penguin.
Takeshi Miyazawa's artwork is of course great, he's been the unofficial Silk artist almost from the start, and he gets to have fun with that. His Old Lady Silk is especially funny, Miyazawa sells the physical comedy really well.
Silk has apparently been reduced to mini-series since she can't support an ongoing, but I can live with that if it means we get more Silk content like this. It's fun, and even though the writers keep changing, everyone Marvel brings in seems to have a good grasp on who Cindy is as a character and where she is on her journey.
October 8, 2022
This second volume of Silk was much more enjoyable than the first. Emily Kim has Cindy going over a few interesting aspects of leading the double life but also countering that with Cindy leading a double life as someone from the west with ties to the east. It makes for interesting scenarios and I was pleased to see Silk wanting to learn more about who she is outside of a super hero.
The art was decidedly better this volume too.
Overall I still really like the character of Silk, I just wish she’d be given more grounded adventures.
3/5.
The art was decidedly better this volume too.
Overall I still really like the character of Silk, I just wish she’d be given more grounded adventures.
3/5.
January 16, 2023
I quite enjoyed this one, even though I know nothing about Cindy Moon or her backstory. I enjoyed her personality and would love to read more Silk comics in future.
November 30, 2022
Cindy Moon is back with a self-contained story that should put her back on the radar of the Marvel Universe. This time, a powerful witch is released from a Korean "haunted temple" exhibit at the museum. Syphoning away the energy of worship (which in today's world comes from followers of social media influencers) she gains more and more power. On the other hand, Silk is struggling with work-life balance, and I'm sure working for J Jonah Jameson doesn't help! LOL
By the end, she's rededicated herself to being Silk, but also strives to be a better Cindy.
Overall, a pretty fast self-contained read. Quite enjoyable. Check this one out if you are a fan of the character.
By the end, she's rededicated herself to being Silk, but also strives to be a better Cindy.
Overall, a pretty fast self-contained read. Quite enjoyable. Check this one out if you are a fan of the character.
October 21, 2022
I just really wish that Cindy could find a permanent spot somewhere in the Marvel universe. I love her so much. She's grown as a character, and I like the place she ends up at the end of this miniseries. This particular miniseries makes Cindy's Korean heritage a key element of the storyline, but it didn't feel heavy or pandering to me. The ancient Korean witch was a fun antagonist, and she looks cool. The art is really fantastic, especially with the aged characters. I just want more Cindy, anywhere.
January 8, 2023
I liked this collection a lot: evil Korean witch for history, museums, weird social media stuff, plus Cindy and J. Jonah Jameson bonding (why is he so great with her and such an ass to Peter Parker/Spiderman? No, don't tell me. I'm sure there's a lot of lore I'm missing and I'm fine with that) I like how Cindy is still struggling, but also just keeps trying to figure herself out. Hope there's more Silk installments someday.
January 7, 2023
A new story continuing Cindy's struggle to find out who she is and what she wants in life. The measured criticism of influencer folks without drifting into Boomer vibes is a plus.
September 4, 2022
How many miniseries to you give a character that the people seem to connect with, but you can't get sales to BOOM?
The answer? One more!
This is probably the best of the Silk miniseries they've released. The character has gotten past her Spider-Verse connections. She's teamed up with the Agents of Atlas and saved the world a few times. She even has a steady job. (and who doesn't love a good 'J Jonah Jameson as your boss' cameo?) It's nice to see her mature in this series and have the character look at where she fits in the Marvel Universe. Ghost Spider did it...Miles Morales did it...it's a thing.
Bonus: Analog! Possibly the best nickname given to a character not in touch with new technology
Bonus Bonus: The Korean witch as the 'big bad' wasn't bad....but it's not a crutch i'd want to rely on.
The answer? One more!
This is probably the best of the Silk miniseries they've released. The character has gotten past her Spider-Verse connections. She's teamed up with the Agents of Atlas and saved the world a few times. She even has a steady job. (and who doesn't love a good 'J Jonah Jameson as your boss' cameo?) It's nice to see her mature in this series and have the character look at where she fits in the Marvel Universe. Ghost Spider did it...Miles Morales did it...it's a thing.
Bonus: Analog! Possibly the best nickname given to a character not in touch with new technology
Bonus Bonus: The Korean witch as the 'big bad' wasn't bad....but it's not a crutch i'd want to rely on.
June 25, 2023
Zombie witch? Time-traveling witch? An agreeable, willing-to-talk-this-all-out witch? The current scourge of the streets is a dangerous, mysterious, historical weirdo, and it's all on Silk to solve. "Probably not the last one" of those three options, she reasons to herself.
SILK v2 is a fun but ordinary adventure. A nameless, conquest-minded manyeo, a witch/shaman from 1600s Korea, resurrects herself (?) and is quick on getting a handle on her old-timey life-sucking powers. Fairly straightforward. The witch lady's ultimate gameplan is a bit foggy, and the comic staggers as a result. Fortunately, readers are gifted a variety of dynamic action scenes to tide them over. Miyazawa's art is excellent. And while readers may not pull much from the witch's 2.5-page origin story, the shifting points-of-view and kinetic web-slinging panels in the immediate aftermath more than make-up for the narrative's awkward pacing.
Thematically, the book takes a clever and pitch-perfect, if incomplete, view of the consequences of America's current zealousness for the attention economy. Cindy Moon again becomes more than a convenient luddite; she's an avatar of sanity in a culture whose curiosity has outpaced its intelligence. The new American Dream is a heap of cluttered, freestanding fanaticism: idiot pranksters with too much time on their hands, pretentious young people with vast amounts of unearned wealth, and all other manner of self-taught food critics, dancers, fashionistas, and podcasters whose enthusiasm only stretches so far as their quest for self-validation. What room is there for shoe-leather reporting and sincere attempts to define oneself when all of the things the outside world cares about are careless things?
On the whole, SILK v2 is a bit scrappy. Cindy is unfocused and scrambling to solve the problem of the Korean diaspora on two fronts: one concerns a centuries-old witch, the other concerns a twenty-something superhero with zero hobbies. As a result, this book has serious whiplash tendencies. Miyazawa deserves immense credit for drawing numerous complex, structurally different scenes in immediate succession, despite the title's unsteady narrative cohesion. Cindy runs from a pottery class to a museum for an article interview to a class on coding to a concert venue over the course of a dozen pages. The frenetic pace is meant to mimic the woman's inability to find what drives her, but the sequence reads more tedious than explorative. At least the art is sharp.
Will future volumes of the adventures of Cindy aim for a smoother ride? Part of the charm and part of the challenge of lower-tier heroes is that their villains are equally unknown. Silk spends two whole issues learning about the villain and her history, before ever meeting the witch face to face. That's a lot of time spent running around doing other stuff. And while SILK v2 is structured like a detective story (e.g., investigative journalism), it probably isn't the best approach for a five-issue miniseries.
SILK v2 is a fun but ordinary adventure. A nameless, conquest-minded manyeo, a witch/shaman from 1600s Korea, resurrects herself (?) and is quick on getting a handle on her old-timey life-sucking powers. Fairly straightforward. The witch lady's ultimate gameplan is a bit foggy, and the comic staggers as a result. Fortunately, readers are gifted a variety of dynamic action scenes to tide them over. Miyazawa's art is excellent. And while readers may not pull much from the witch's 2.5-page origin story, the shifting points-of-view and kinetic web-slinging panels in the immediate aftermath more than make-up for the narrative's awkward pacing.
Thematically, the book takes a clever and pitch-perfect, if incomplete, view of the consequences of America's current zealousness for the attention economy. Cindy Moon again becomes more than a convenient luddite; she's an avatar of sanity in a culture whose curiosity has outpaced its intelligence. The new American Dream is a heap of cluttered, freestanding fanaticism: idiot pranksters with too much time on their hands, pretentious young people with vast amounts of unearned wealth, and all other manner of self-taught food critics, dancers, fashionistas, and podcasters whose enthusiasm only stretches so far as their quest for self-validation. What room is there for shoe-leather reporting and sincere attempts to define oneself when all of the things the outside world cares about are careless things?
On the whole, SILK v2 is a bit scrappy. Cindy is unfocused and scrambling to solve the problem of the Korean diaspora on two fronts: one concerns a centuries-old witch, the other concerns a twenty-something superhero with zero hobbies. As a result, this book has serious whiplash tendencies. Miyazawa deserves immense credit for drawing numerous complex, structurally different scenes in immediate succession, despite the title's unsteady narrative cohesion. Cindy runs from a pottery class to a museum for an article interview to a class on coding to a concert venue over the course of a dozen pages. The frenetic pace is meant to mimic the woman's inability to find what drives her, but the sequence reads more tedious than explorative. At least the art is sharp.
Will future volumes of the adventures of Cindy aim for a smoother ride? Part of the charm and part of the challenge of lower-tier heroes is that their villains are equally unknown. Silk spends two whole issues learning about the villain and her history, before ever meeting the witch face to face. That's a lot of time spent running around doing other stuff. And while SILK v2 is structured like a detective story (e.g., investigative journalism), it probably isn't the best approach for a five-issue miniseries.
March 2, 2024
Neat concept with decent execution
An improvement over the last volume with an interesting concept that could have been better executed. I liked the incorporation of Korean myth and limited historical elements. I also liked the idea of religious leaders and temples being supplanted by influencers and our phones. The actual execution of the story should have been a little tighter with a few unnecessary parts cut or pared down. Some parts were a bit clunky too. Additionally, the conclusion of the final fight felt lacking a bit.
The artwork and coloring works and the dynamic sections are done well.
With some tweaking this could have been a 4/5. I like Silk as a character based on her initial introduction and earliest volumes. Would like to see them do better but hope she has more -and better- stories ahead of her.
An improvement over the last volume with an interesting concept that could have been better executed. I liked the incorporation of Korean myth and limited historical elements. I also liked the idea of religious leaders and temples being supplanted by influencers and our phones. The actual execution of the story should have been a little tighter with a few unnecessary parts cut or pared down. Some parts were a bit clunky too. Additionally, the conclusion of the final fight felt lacking a bit.
The artwork and coloring works and the dynamic sections are done well.
With some tweaking this could have been a 4/5. I like Silk as a character based on her initial introduction and earliest volumes. Would like to see them do better but hope she has more -and better- stories ahead of her.
May 13, 2024
Silk ortaya çıktığı Spider-Verse hikayesinden bu yana benim de dahil olduğum okurların daha çok görmek istediği ama aynı hikayeden çıkan Spider-Gwen'in yakaladığı popülerlik yüzünden harcanmış bir karakter.
Bu mini serideki hikaye fazlasıyla sıradan bir Spider-Man hikayesi olabilirmiş. Cindy hayattaki amacını arıyor, Jameson'la çalışıyor, kahramanlık işi için randevusunu ekiyor, kötü adamı yeniyor. Bu zaten denenmiş ve başarılı olmuş formül Spider-Man için eskimiş olsa da Silk gibi az gelişmiş bir karakter için keyifli olmuş. Yine de karakterin Spider-Man evreninden çıkıp başka bir yola girmesi gerektiği gerçeği değişmiyor. Aksi takdirde sonu Ben Reilly'den hallice olur.
Bu mini serideki hikaye fazlasıyla sıradan bir Spider-Man hikayesi olabilirmiş. Cindy hayattaki amacını arıyor, Jameson'la çalışıyor, kahramanlık işi için randevusunu ekiyor, kötü adamı yeniyor. Bu zaten denenmiş ve başarılı olmuş formül Spider-Man için eskimiş olsa da Silk gibi az gelişmiş bir karakter için keyifli olmuş. Yine de karakterin Spider-Man evreninden çıkıp başka bir yola girmesi gerektiği gerçeği değişmiyor. Aksi takdirde sonu Ben Reilly'den hallice olur.
January 21, 2024
I appreciate the effort they've invested in Silk as a character over the years to try to give her a particular unique niche within the Spider-Man adjacent comics. And things have fleshed out a bit as we have her somewhat parallel to Peter Parker (she's still working for J. Jonah Jameson!) but also trying to branch out into unique stories.
This book plays on her Korean heritage in a generally interesting manner, although the specifics of this antagonist felt a little weird in terms of how they tried to translate it to modern times. The inner turmoil of sorts that Silk goes through for most of the story arc felt a little half-baked and using the conflict to force an ending didn't help either.
Still an interesting part of the Spider-Verse but not the strongest.
This book plays on her Korean heritage in a generally interesting manner, although the specifics of this antagonist felt a little weird in terms of how they tried to translate it to modern times. The inner turmoil of sorts that Silk goes through for most of the story arc felt a little half-baked and using the conflict to force an ending didn't help either.
Still an interesting part of the Spider-Verse but not the strongest.
February 24, 2023
Fingers crossed that Silk gets more stories in the future, because even from another author, this is just as good as Threats and Menaces. Cindy Moon deserves a long-running series of her own and I hope Marvel sees that she does have the fans for it.
November 15, 2023
Emily Kim tells straight forward but fun story with Cindy trying to figure her life out. The story and the villain aren't life-changing but it was a simple story and Cindy is still progressing as a character. The focus on social media's hold on society was interesting without being preachy. Takeshi Miyazawa's art was super solid here. Overall, a some fun Silk quips and a decent story with good art.
November 22, 2025
That was fun. As always, I wish it had more time to actually dig into the new villain of the week and the threads it was trying to set up of the witch and Cindy understanding/potentially liking each other. Also it's kinda funny to only getting around to reading this in 2025 because it's giving (surface level) Kpop Denon Hunter parallels in a way that I would recommend this comic to and young diehard fans of the movie
January 8, 2023
Silk’s return in this run feels a bit watered down compared to the previous 2021 adventure readers were treated to. I loved the incredibly relevant social commentary and the inclusion of Cindy acknowledging her Korean culture/heritage, but some narrative and pacing choices made this lack the buildup that could’ve made this really stand out. Still a lot of fun!
January 12, 2024
I thought this was fine. It was very much rooted in current cultural going on, which is a double edge sword. I never found the villain that interesting. They had a cool character design, but that’s about it.
May 19, 2022
begging marvel just to give cindy a full ongoing
May 21, 2022
Absolutely loved this volume. Great story, dialogue and art style.
July 11, 2022
Silk is one of my favorite Spider people and this book is such a perfect example of why. Exciting story, heart and wonderful art
July 11, 2022
The more I read of this run, the more and more I enjoy Cindy Moon. Bring on the recommendations! Love meeting the other members of the spider gang.
July 24, 2022
i need an ongoing silk runnn
September 21, 2022
2.5 stars, rounded up.
November 1, 2022
3.5 Stars
December 5, 2022
i hope one day j jonah jameson finds out.............
December 29, 2022
Another solid volume of Silk, as always. Great writing, great action, great story. What more could you want?
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