Thompson has nailed her voice and she reads as believably female – which, as a female reader, is nice to see – and believably young (i.e. The inner monologues throughout Silk #2 is also the first time when Cindy feels like a real person. There same joke about “It’s right behind me, isn’t it?” pops up twice and it is charming and disarming that reader get the opportunity to learn about and assimilate this new character as she goes through the same growing pains with her role as a superheroine. It turns out that even having a pre-cognitive innate ability doesn’t mean that she’s good at it. Thompson frames the beginning and the end of Silk #2 with Cindy’s internal monologue and how that is going to work in conjunction with her Silk sense. She’s insecure, although in a very charming way, and that manifests itself in various aspects of her life throughout this narrative. With most of the character-based exposition out of the way in the previous issue Silk #2 really gives readers a sense of who our heroine is. Silk #2 is a great issue because Robbie Thompson has finally nailed Cindy Moon’s voice.
Previously in Silk #1: Silk got herself situated after the events of Spider-Verse. Silk #2 gives readers a real sense of what kind of hero Cindy Moon is shaping up to be and how pervasive the mysterious threats that are following her around are.
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