A review by nicxmac
Silk (2015) #1 by Ian Herring, Robbie Thompson, Stacey Lee, Dave Johnson

5.0

Easily a 5-star rating from a (fairly newbie/spider-man biased) comic book nerd. It's rare for me to find POC characters in comic books (especially Asians) and Silk doesn't disappoint. I love her sense of humor right away . I haven't read The Amazing Spider-man issue where she was first introduced so I didn't really know what to expect but I was surprised myself that I'm already loving this character from the very start. I also actually didn't know that she was a 'brand new' character that was only introduced around in (maybe) late 2014. I've only known about her through the Spider-man Unlimited mobile game app that I've been playing on my iPad wherein you can collect a bunch of spideys and level them up while defeating famous spidey villains such as Green Goblin, Vulture, Electro, Sandman and etc. I wasn't able to get Silk because she was, of course, a special edition spidey character but it's nice to see more women in the spidey verse besides Spider-Gwen and (Jessica Drew) Spider-woman.

All in all for a first issue of a new character, of course there will still be a lot of major flaws when it comes to storytelling and character building. But I think long time spidey fans will enjoy this issue as well as Cindy Moon's version of spidey.