4/5 for the entire series
Yeah, I didn't expect to like it this much either. The Silk series is about Silk aka Cindy Moon is another Spider-woman who has her own difficulties like being a unique hero, dealing with her job, and finding her family. Her unique spider powers are a less accurate spider sense, being able to spin clothes and webs from her fingertips, claws, being able to swing from webs, enhanced strength, and durability. Not exactly an exciting arsenal but she makes the most of it. As far as personality goes, I like how she plays both good and bad guy in vo1 1 and how she balances her normal life and her external goals. She really puts in the work to do what she wants and doesn't just win because she's the main character. Her two lesbian interracial friends are sort of just there to fill the SJW Marvel quota and Silk saying sexist at least once. Both friends don't really have any other personality other than "nice lesbian" and don't do anything plot-relevant other than cheerleader friends. They could've just been one boy and one girl or even gay guys and nothing would've changed. Cindy's family and ex/not so ex-boyfriend are pretty much the same except the ex-boyfriend at least gets ghost powers later like Gwenpool's friend. I do wish they gave Silk's dragon friend (whatever his name was) from vol 0 more showtime since he was like Silk in vol 1 where he had to do bad sometimes to support his daughter and because he was a single father. It is cool that they give J Jonah Jameson a nice personality when it comes to dealing with Silk instead of making him act the way he does with Peter Parker. They even show him dealing with his own struggle in the clone mini-arc when he gets his wife and daughter back.
The arcs that happen in this series don't really stand out except for vol 1, but they work in introducing Silk to the Marvel universe and showing off her skills and personality against decent challenges that are interesting enough. Below are the art styles in Silk.
*art styles in vol 0*
*art style changes to Tana Ford in the last issue in vol 0 and stays this way until vol 3*
*art style changes to Irene Strychalski in vol 3 who goes for a Gwenpool style*
*art style goes back to Tana Ford who goes back and forth in being mediocre to good in the last two issues*
In my opinion, the second switch in art style presented in a single issue in vol 0 is the best art style while Tana Ford's style is mediocre or decent enough, but at least she gets better in the end.
All in all, this is a good series that you should check out if you like fun comic stories and are looking for actually good comics in Marvel besides Gwenpool, Ghost Rider, Venom, or a few others that I previously mentioned in earlier posts.
Extra - Hawkeye Kate Bishop vol 1 - 2.5/5
Now we get to the less interesting book. This book has the same lesbian couple from Silk LITERALLY the same white girl and black girl and girl power. There might've been mentions of sexism, but I could've forgotten it or missed it when I was reading through the book faster because I got bored after the first couple issues. Oh yeah, and what's this with Kate Bishop being the best Hawkeye? It says it on the back of the book and Gwenpool says it in her vol 3. Kate Bishop was apparently in Hawkeye's comics, but I don't get how she could be cooler when his first comic vol is called My Life as a Weapon and her first comic is called Anchor Points. The OG Hawkeye was a villain first then became a hero which is more interesting than Kate who became a hero because she wanted to be a hero (at least to my knowledge). Don't pick this up unless you want to try SJW comics, but I recommend Silk instead or the other comics I've mentioned.
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