Silk: The Life and Times of Cindy Moon, originally published as simply Silk, is a 2015 comic book series from Marvel Comics. It's the first of several series starring Cindy Moon, the titular superhero Silk. It's written by Robbie Thompson, with art by Stacey Lee.
Set in the shared Marvel Universe, the series is part of the wider Spider-Man franchise. Teenager Cindy Moon, like Peter Parker, was bitten by a radioactive spider and gained spider-related superpowers. But whereas Peter concealed his secret identity and became a superhero, Cindy's powers were revealed to her parents - and Ezekiel Sims, an older superhuman with his own spider-totem powers, convinced them that Cindy's powers would attract mystic threats unless she isolated herself within a shielded bunker.
Cindy finally emerged from the bunker a decade later - to discover that Ezekiel was dead, her family had vanished, and that some of the mystic threats Ezekiel feared had already arrived and been defeated by Spider-Man. Now, as Silk, she's trying to build herself a new life and find her family - and also protecting New York City as it's newest superhero.
The first issue was released February 18, 2015.
The series ended with issue #7 (September 2, 2015), due to the events of Secret Wars, Marvel's world-destroying Crisis Crossover. It was relaunched with the same creative team as a second Silk series after Secret Wars ended.
As two different Silk series launched in 2015, Marvel have sometimes referred to this one as "(2015A)" for disambiguation purposes.
Silk: The Life and Times of Cindy Moon contains examples of the following tropes:
- I Have This Friend: In Issue #1, Cindy says Dragonclaw sounds like a Pokémon, prompting her to ask "Is Pokémon still a thing... asking for a friend."
- The Man in Front of the Man: The Black Cat's tech expert, the Repairman, seems to be a loyal minion - right up until he reveals he's working with someone else, blows up her squad and captures Cindy himself. He claims he's actually working for the people who have Cindy's family.
- Photographic Memory: Silk #1 reveals that Cindy has a perfect photgraphic memory, and is dismayed that the most vivid memories include telling the time she told her mother than she hated her.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Cindy's spent a decade in a bunker, so many of her pop culture references are a little out of date, and she doesn't always pick up on other people's.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Of all people, J. Jonah Jameson takes up this role; on learning Cindy is looking for her family, he immediately offers to use his connections with the NYPD to help her.
- Retronym: The series was initially published as simply Silk, but a subtitle (The Life and Times of Cindy Moon) was added for the collected edition, helping to disambiguate it from the Sequel Series.
- Shout-Out: Cindy tends to reference pop culture from her teens, before her decade in the bunker.
- Winged villain Dragonclaw gets referred to as "Pokémon dude", as Cindy feels that really ought to be a Pokémon name. Later, after his armor's upgraded to a more draconic form, she also throws in a reference to The Hobbit, calling him "diet Smaug".
- When her ex-boyfriend Hector sees her climbing out of a manhole from the sewers, Cindy jokes that she's a ninja turtle.
- Variant Cover: The first issue had eight variant covers as well as the standard version.
- Why Am I Ticking?: When the Repairman betrays Black Cat, the newly-upgraded armored suits he provided for her gang start audibly ticking. And then they explode.
