Silk is struggling to come to terms with what a normal life looks like for her alter-ego, and it’s beginning to look like she doesn’t even know who Cindy Moon really is anymore.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Silk #2, available now from Marvel.
Of all the spider-themed heroes in the Marvel Universe, Cindy Moon, aka Silk, may very well be the most tragic. When Cindy’s powers first emerged, she was protected from the threats that awaited her by being cut completely off from the rest of the world. While she has successfully overcome the anxieties her partially self-imposed exile left her with, Cindy is still far more comfortable swinging from skyscrapers than she is almost anything else, so much so that Cindy herself is becoming all but lost in her own alter-ego.
Silk has had her hands more than full dealing with the threat of an ancient evil that has recently resurfaced, and her daily life as Cindy Moon hasn’t been much easier. As seen in the pages of Silk #2 (by Emily Kim, Takeshi Miyazawa, Ian Herring, and VC’s Ariana Maher), Cindy has made nearly every attempt imaginable to find some form of normal life. While she has her work at J. Jonah Jameson’s Threats & Menaces, that alone hasn’t provided her with any real sense of normalcy. Unfortunately, neither has trying her hand at a plethora of various hobbies. No matter how many classes or lessons she signs up for, Cindy can’t seem to find herself, and it’s beginning to look like she might be going about that in the wrong way to begin with.
Cindy spent a decade locked away in a bunker after manifesting her powers. Ezekiel Sims, the same Spider-Totem who helped Peter Parker battle Morlun, found Cindy early on and warned her of the danger to come. While she became well versed in the use of her powers, Cindy lost invaluable experience with other people. Thankfully, that hasn’t made her any sort of social pariah, though it has left her feeling incomplete in her life outside of being a superhero. The few people close to her are largely relationships she has built as Silk. There is Seol Hee, her superpowered confidant who has made a name for herself as the popstar Luna Snow, but even their friendship was established during their time together as Agents of Atlas.
It seems as if the more she tries to be normal, the more Cindy is distanced from whatever it is she thinks that looks like. Even a night out at one of Luna’s concerts ends in Cindy abandoning her date to leap into action as Silk, tacking a somewhat depressing end onto an otherwise lovely evening. On the other hand, embracing who she is as a hero could be what Cindy needs to find whatever it is that she is missing. When so much of her life has been defined by her powers and the repercussions of them, it is already nearly impossible to compartmentalize. Instead of trying to do just that, Cindy could be reconciling the idea that what she is missing might exist beyond some idyllic semblance of normalcy.
Cindy Moon doesn’t have to forego her life entirely in exchange for living it solely as Silk, but she does need to come to terms with the fact that they are different aspects of that life rather than two entirely separate ones. Especially when Silk is poised to become a prominent part of Cindy’s dayjob, it may not even be possible for her to keep them apart much longer. Of course, she wouldn’t be the first Spider to struggle with the delicate balancing act of being two different people. Then again, she has never been short of help when she needs it most, either, and there’s no reason to think she will be when it comes to finding out who she really is.
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