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Review: Silk #6

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silk006It is interesting to look across the wide swath of Secret Wars and to discover what has fit into the concept and what not.  While the creative minds behind the massive Crossover have given readers numerous versions of The Hulk, Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man and the X-Men, they have mostly left some other properties untouched.  Two of these are Miss Marvel and Silk, but when examined there is a common enough theme there to show that there might be some incompatibility.  Although DC gets the credit for the recent wave of girl-friendly books with the relaunch of Batgirl, the move really got underway a year before at Marvel with the new Ms. Marvel.  The wave of new female character unleashed by both DC and Marvel was impressive though and included Silk among their numbers, a new kind of Spider-Girl.

While Ms. Marvel has been dragged into the Secret Wars world a little bit, she has also been mostly left alone, just dealing with the evacuation of her city while dealing with her continuing ongoing problems.  The presentation of Silk has been different again, first of all that her monthly has come out sporadically since the release of the big crossover and secondly as it allows the series to mostly continue its story without any interference.  The story focuses on the continuing search for her family, while others are seeking her out for her connection to Spider-Man and spider related powers.  Although this has focused somewhat on Spider-Man and Black Cat, the emphasis has been on Silk, and her story continues here in the same manner, with some intervention from those other two, but allowing her own story to be told through her own actions.

It could be that the story telling which has revitalized and reshaped the presentation of female characters simply does not mesh with the kind of grand storytelling that is Secret Wars.  As this new wave has helped reshape the medium of comics, especially at the Big Two publishers, it is maybe evident that the massive crossovers are not the way forward for the future but rather a focus on characters over concepts.  Whatever the case, that approach has worked in this series and continues to work here, as one of the standout series from Marvel in the past year, and one which will hopefully be back at full strength following the end of Secret Wars.

Story: Robbie Thompson Art: Adam Stacey Lee 
Story: 8.9 Art: 8.9  Overall: 8.9  Recommendation: Buy

Review: Silk #2

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silk002There is an undeniable trend in comics to get younger, more streetwise and female.  While it started elsewhere it has definitely hit the Spider-world with new series for all of Silk, Spider-Woman and that other Spider-Woman (known as Spider-Gwen.)  While the three are successful enough in their ability to fit all of the necessities of the new trend, it is Silk that manages to stay the truest to the character that inspired them all.  She is not Peter Parker, but she is going through the same degree of personal struggles as he did all the while trying to balance her life as both a hero and as a young person struggling with a job.

This is evident in this second issue of Silk.  The first issue did a good job of introducing her to the readers, even for those that had skipped Spider-Verse, and showed the complexities of herself as a character and of the complexities of her life.  This second issue builds on that.  On e of the other underlying aspects of the character is her search for her family, but even that doesn’t go right, as it leads her into two tricky situations, one heroic and one personal.

This entire issue was fun from start to finish.  While it might seem like the writer is trying to mix too much in and to keep too many balls juggled at once, it really doesn’t come off as too complicated.  Rather the events surrounding Silk’s life, while super in some respects, also kind of represent the chaos that most people have to get through, trying to hold down a job to pursue the passions that they really care about, and trying to deal with all of the other problems that life throws at them.  Silk is so far a series with a quick pace and a tight plot which is probably the best of the Spider-ladies.

 Story: Robbie Thompson  Art: Stacey Lee
Story:  9.0 Art: 9.0  Overall: 9.0  Recommendation: Buy