New Writer talks About Dan Slott’s Silk

SPOILER WARNING: This article contains significant spoilers for Marvel’s “Silk” #1, released this past Wednesday. Marvel’s new spider-powered superhero Silk (civilian name, Cindy Moon) has only been active a few months, but she’s kept busy: playing guest star roles in books like “Amazing Spider-Man” (where she was introduced by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos) and “Spider-Woman,” along with a central role in the recently completed “Spider-Verse” event. Cindy’s packed schedule fits the character — she feels the need to make up for lost time after having spent a decade locked…

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Who Is Marvel’s Silk?

When Peter Parker was bitten by the radioactive spider that gave him his powers, it managed to bite another before dying. This woman, hidden for years by Ezekiel from Morlun, has been found by Spider-Man… and is the new spider woman known as Silk! Origin Thirteen years ago, during a demonstration on the use of radioactive rays at a science exhibit, a spider was accidentally exposed to the radiation and absorbed large amounts of it. In its dying moments, the arachnid bit the nearest living thing to it, Peter Parker.…

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The Amazing Spider-Man #6 Review

The Good The roller coaster ride that is Peter Parker’s life continues. Dan Slott hasn’t slowed down since bringing Peter Parker back to the role of Spider-Man. He’s discovered Black Cat is completely ticked off at him (and has teamed up with Electro to build her own criminal empire), a new Spider-person has surfaced who was bitten by the same spider he was (before it died), and last issue we left off with J. Jonah Jameson announcing on live television that Spider-Man has been unmasked. Just another day for Spider-Man.…

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Spider-Man joined by Silk, New Female Superhero

Lightning can strike twice — and so, apparently, can radioactive spiders. Marvel Comics is introducing a brand new character, a mysterious female super powered figure named Silk, in this Wednesday’s Amazing Spider-Man #1. And though she’s brand new, her origin is familiar to comic book fans. That’s because her spider-based powers come from the same irradiated arachnid as the one that changed the course of Peter Parker’s life. “The spider lived long enough to bite one more person,” explains writer Dan Slott. “When I pitched that idea at one of…

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Before Watchmen Comic Series

Before Watchmen is a series of comic books now being published by DC Comics in 2012. Acting as a preque to the 1986 12-issue Watchmen limited series by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, the project will consist of seven limited series and an epilogue one-shot. Moore stated in 1985 that if the Watchmen limited series was well-received, he and Gibbons would possibly create a 12-issue prequel series called Minutemen featuring the 1940s superhero group from the story. DC offered Moore and Gibbons chances to publish prequels to the…

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