On Sunday at New York Comic Con, Marvel announced that its newest superhero, an Asian American woman bitten by the same radioactive spider that gave Peter Parker his spider-powers, will star in her own book.
NYCC: Marvel Announces Silk Ongoing Series By Robbie Thompson and Stacey Lee
Introduced earlier this year in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man to much speculation and fanfare, the mysterious Silk, aka Queens resident Cindy Moon, was apparently a classmate of Peter Parker's -- and the second person bitten by comics' most famous radioactive spider. But instead of donning tights and battling the likes of the Green Goblin and Electro, she's been locked away in a bunker for ten years.
The first issue of Silk, written by Robbie Thompson and drawn by Stacey Lee, swings into comic book stores in February 2015. Here's the full standard cover by artist Dave Johnson:
And here's the variant cover by Stacey Lee:
Here's some more info about the character, from an interview with Robbie Thompson:
The character you're tackling is one of the newest spider character, Silk AKA Cindy Moon, who readers first met in the "Original Sin" tie-in issues of "Amazing Spider-Man." Considering there's been so much mystery surrounding her, what about the character makes her so interesting to write?
The real blessing for me as a writer on this book is the work that's already been done with her character by Dan Slott and the rest of the Spider-Man crew. Usually in this situation you've got a loose foundation and a general direction, but I really think that her debut in "Amazing Spider-Man" was such a great and dynamic introduction to a character. I really feel that Dan and the rest of the crew established her as a fully realized, three dimensional character in her debut.
So for me as a writer it's a real blessing to have a character that is so defined, yet has so much mystery behind her; both where she's been and where she's going. To have an opportunity to tell her story has been a lot of fun as a writer.
With regards to the aspects of her personality that I'm most intrigued by, I think it was [editor] Nick Lowe, when I met him at Comic-Con, that used this phrase that I saw as sort of my marching orders, "From bite to bunker." Her story of what happened from when she was bitten by the radioactive spider to when she entered the bunker that she was in when we first saw her in "Amazing," is something that we're actually going to explore in the first arc.
As you get to know Cindy both in "Amazing Spider-Man" and the "Spider-Verse" event you're really going to see a great, dynamic character. We're really going to explore her life leading up to those moments, and when I think about myself in that situation, given the consequences, would I lock myself away for 10 years? Would I have the inner strength to do that? When I think of myself as 18 years-old I think the answer would be a resounding no. [Laughs]
So I find a lot of inspiration in Cindy. She made this really complicated adult decision as a teenager. Getting a chance to explore that and its ramifications in terms of where she is now is a big part of the first arc that we have mapped out. We've basically mapped out 12 issues.
More here: NYCC: Thompson Spins New Webs for Spider-Man's "Silk"