I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.The more knowledge the better seems like a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity’s unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.-Sarah Vowell

Friday, October 11, 2019

Silk Vol 2: The Negative by Robbie Thompson (Writer), Stacey Lee (Artist), Tana Ford (Artist), Ian Herring (Colorist), VC's Travis Lanham (Letterer)


As a teenager, Cindy Moon was bitten by the same spider that bit Peter Parker giving her similar powers such as spidey sense, powers of adhesion, and the ability to weave webs from her fingertips.  To protect Earth from a deadly family of spider-hunters and murderers called the inheritors, Cindy Moon was locked up in a bunker that prevented them from sensing her presence.  Spider-Man opened the bunker, unaware of the danger that revealing Cindy's existence could cause, and set the events of the Spider-Verse in motion.  After fighting side-by-side with countless other spiders against the inheritors and saving the world, Cindy is now back in New York, fighting crime and trying to find her family in a world she hasn't lived in for years.

In the previous comic,  Cindy is attacked by a Pokemon-like dressed villain named Dragonclaw.  She takes her video from their encounter and uses them for her job as an intern at Fact Channel where she works for J. Jonah Jameson who likes Silk and gives Cindy the nickname Analog for using a notebook and pen which he likes.  Dragonclaw has gone to Black Cat who has sent him to a mysterious man who helps him become more of a dragon with the weaponry and he comes back after Silk.  But things don't go as planned and Silk convinces him to turn his life around which does not make Black Cat happy.  But someone else is watching Cindy and someone else wants her for their own reasons. Sometimes it's not good to be wanted.  With help from Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, Cindy must fight off Black Cat and the other bad guys.  On top of which something catastrophic is happening to Earth.  A bad Cindy from another earth is pretending to be her and robbing places.  That Cindy is taken care of but now people think Silk is bad.

Mockingbird of S.H.I.E.L.D. is hoping to help Cindy with this problem by having her go undercover as bad Cindy and make nice with Black Cat.  So she does.  Meanwhile, her friends and her boss at work Lola and Rafferty who are dating are following up on a lead Cindy asked them to which is to find a building.  Silk is asked to hold onto something from inside a safe. Something that would wipe a crime scene of all evidence that someone was there.

Lola and Rafferty figure out that Cindy is Silk and has mixed feelings about it considering that right now Silk is seen in the press as evil.  Black Cat sets a trap to figure out whether or not Silk can be trusted and will Silk pass or fail?  Lola, Rafferty, and Cindy go into the Negative Zone where they meet up with Cindy's mom in a medieval setting fighting to get her dad back assuming he's still alive.  Will Cindy finally get her family back together? Mockingbird offers her a job with S.H.I.E.L.D. but she loves her job with the network.  Which will she choose?  The part that takes place in the Negative Zone is a bit cheesy and immature.  But the not wanting to turn in Black Cat because she can relate to her is good.  The art is great.  I give it four out of five stars.

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