Cindy Moon is under attack… but is it only in her dreams? Your Major Spoilers review of Silk #2 from Marvel Comics awaits!

SILK #2

Writer: Emily Kim
Artist: Ig Guara
Colorist: Ian Herring
Letterer: VC’s Ariana Maher
Editor: Lindsey Cohick
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: June 28, 2023

Previously in Silk: Silk’s old nemesis Saya Ishii has her trapped in a dream world that keeps resetting. In the latest dream, Silk is a web-slinging, train-robbing outlaw in the Wild West. Why is Silk trapped? And what’s the deal with the monstrous creature that keeps showing up to terrorize her?

I’D TOTALLY GET EATEN IN A ZOMBIE MOVIE

As Silk #2 begins, Silk’s brother Albert exits a movie theatre with his friends, all of whom are shocked when a superhero swings down from the sky and wants to talk to him. Albie tells her that they’ll talk later, but when he makes it home, she’s out cold on the sofa. When he awakes a few hours later, though, his sister is gone, and when he starts looking for her, he finds… a trap! For her part, Silk is imagining herself as the cowboy Cin Cassidy as her old enemy Saya monitors her brain activity for reasons still unknown. But when Saya inserts the same monster from previous dreams, Silk realizes that her reality is false, trying to fight her way free and resisting a reset of her dreaming world. This allows Albert to get away and seek help from Wong, the faithful right-hand man of the Sorcerer Supreme.

SOMETHING INDISTINCT ABOUT THE INKING

Ig Guara’s art is attractive, but there’s something about the finished product that is hard to enjoy. It almost looks like they’re working from pencils, like Leinil Yu did on New Avengers some years ago, but there’s also a hard ink-line around the figures, so I don’t think that’s the case. Either way, it’s distracting to me, as is the use of Ultimate Marvel-style lowercase fonts throughout the comic. Even with those complaints, though, this issue drew me in as a reader and I’m genuinely enjoying the alternate takes on cowboy and pirate Silks. The scripting is also nice, with Cindy and Albie having a believable sibling conflict that immediately takes a backseat to Saya’s evil plan. Cindy’s cowboy dialect wasn’t quite as good as an issue of Two-Gun Kid or Kid Colt, but that seems to be part of the point, as she wasn’t quite fully immersed in the false narrative.

BOTTOM LINE: NOT BAD

All in all, Silk #2 overcomes a couple of production decisions that I really disagree with and delivers on the promise of superhero-as-cowboy and giving Cindy a cliffhanger ending with a big guest-star cameo and wrapping things up to 3 out of 5 stars overall. I’m not sure why Silk is in a loop of multiple limited series arcs rather than an ongoing title, but I expect that I’ll be back to see how this one shakes out.

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SILK #2

57%

57%

Even though I dislike the inking/finishes and REALLY dislike the lower-case lettering, the overall effect in this issue makes for a better than average read.

• Writing

  6
• Art

  6
• Coloring

  5
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