Cindy Moon is already following in Peter Parker’s footsteps as a superhero and a journalist, and now she is poised to find out just how well those two careers go together.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Silk #1, available now from Marvel.
Nearly ten years ago, Cindy Moon, aka Silk, burst on the scene. She immediately staked out her territory as one of the Marvel Universe’s most intriguing spider-themed heroes. Much of her appeal came from how close to Peter Parker’s origins her own were and, yet, what a different path they put her down.
For example, she shares many of the same powers acquired by the same spider as the one that bit Parker. His powers led to him becoming the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Her’s led to living in a bunker for years. Similarly, Silk has found herself working alongside the most irritable of Peter’s old colleagues. Fortunately, Cindy’s relationship with J. Jonah Jameson is far more amicable than anything he ever shared with Parker.
Silk #1 (by Emily Kim, Takeshi Miyazawa, Ian Herring, and VC’s Ariana Maher) finds the titular hero right in her element, stopping a broad daylight armed bank robbery. Her web-spinning antics are quick to quell the threat, though not before a local vlogger catches the action as up close and personal as possible. While none of this is particularly explosive, J. Jonah Jameson’s reaction the following day certainly is. It turns out that Silk has become social media’s latest trending topic, and everyone but Jameson’s Threats & Menaces has the scoop. Helping Triple J with that problem would be all too easy for Cindy Moon to solve independently, a variation on her fellow Spider’s move.
It was early on in Peter Parker’s superhero career when he discovered just how to put his photographic prowess to its best possible use. After facing off against the Vulture back in 1963’s Amazing Spider-Man #2 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the down on his luck Peter turned things around by selling photos of his exploits to J. Jonah Jameson. Despite Jonah’s ongoing smear campaign against the wall-crawler, he couldn’t have asked for a better photographer to join his staff.
Assuming Silk does follow adjacent to Parker’s footsteps, she’s likely to have an even easier time of it. For one, as a writer, she doesn’t need to go to nearly the lengths Peter did to catch some pics. For another, she’s already in the door. Parker had to come in cold to sell his photos with zero previous relationships to Jamesone or the Bugle. Cindy has been working alongside the Owner-Editor for weeks.
On top of that, as noted earlier, she has a far better working relationship with Flattop. While Jonah was always at least somewhat antagonistic towards Peter Parker, his attitude towards Cindy has been much more forgiving, if not outright friendly at times. There is more mutual respect between Jameson and Cindy. Improbably, that stands true for his relationship with her alter-ego as well. Jonah even went as far as making Silk part of his personal security.
It could prove a mutually beneficial relationship as well. Cindy Moon delivering scoops on her alter ego could very well make Threats & Menaces the premier location for Silk-watching. That kind of elevated attention in one section would typically lift all of JJJ’s news outlet.
That’s not to say it is devoid of risk. It would likely also put increased pressure on Moon. This, in turn, might make leading a double life even more complicated. For a woman who spent years hiding away from the world, the temptation to regress would be tremendous. Here’s hoping whatever she decides to do next won’t end up being more of a hindrance than a help for the Spider-Verse hero.
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