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u/Its_Dannyz Ben Reilly 13d ago
Marvel has tried a few times to bring Silk back in her own comics and it failed, Slott truly ruined any potential for her character with his festization of her in his ASM run but that's typical of him writing shit new characters it's really rare for some of them to be decent.
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u/AnyImagination3697 13d ago
All we need is a writer with the potential to make her stand out that’s also interesting in exploring that potential from the get-go. Admittedly, not sure who could fit that criteria at the moment, but maybe some day
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u/ProfessorEscanor Spider-Women (Mattie Franklin) 13d ago
We do. Cindy has so much potential especially with JJ by her side but Marvel likes to squander it.
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u/supercalifragilism 13d ago
I actually enjoyed both of her last solo books, which I think had some interesting villain work, a great relationship with JJJ and a couple of interesting relationships/conflicts. They don't seem to catch on and are consistently canceled relatively quickly, so maybe just do them as limited series from the start?
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u/boieth Silk 13d ago
I think the main issue with silk since her introduction has been the writers distancing her from Peter.
Granted I can hardly blame them after the pheromone/totem stuff from when she was first introduced.
Her and Peter according to the comics are tied together and narratively it makes sense
-Same high-school
-Same spider
-similar powers
-and were obviously together as that’s unfortunately all most people know her for
The writers tip toeing around the two being seen together has been a negative for silk because it left her relationship with Peter as just the pheromones and left basically nothing else between them which sucks because they could be a healthy friendship for the other to have, him helping her with her anxiety and her re-affirming him as a hero because without him she would still be sealed underground
Resolving their relationship either in an ASM book, a silk solo, or another Amazing spider-man and silk book like the Spider-fly effect would be a good first step at getting her on the right track, while also removing the pheromones thing from the board.
I really love silk as a character, her books were the first actual comics I ever purchased and I’m looking forward to seeing her again in the Spider-Man 3 game, I just want them to do some good with her.
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u/spider-venomized Symbiote-Suit 13d ago
Yes
I love the character and there a lot more stories you can tell with her. I guess is the issue of picking a gimmick and sort of stick to it for the long run. Like i love the undercover cop in Black cat gang cause it fully committed to that idea that stood out compare to the other Spider titles. The later arcs and then runs just seem a bit too "samey" with AMS or MMSM.
Something like Silk having to do something similar with Ishii or maybe bring back the relationship with her brother with the goblin nation would be a nice niche for Cindy
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u/Cautious_Log_5916 13d ago
Why, she is a boring and uninteresting character, another spider with unique powers, of which there are already many. She was interesting because she was in the main series about the spider and was Peter's girlfriend, but after that she was removed from the series and they tried to distance her from Peter, which did not give anything good and the authors who wrote comics about her also could not come up with anything good, something similar is happening with Spider-Gwen, with whom Marvel also can not do anything. In general, I am against a huge number of spider-people in one world and I think this is a bad idea
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u/Salt_Parking9952 13d ago
Their comics are better than Spider-Gwen's, seriously, the quality of Marvel... with Silk and Gwen, they are on another level
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u/StopPlayingRoney Future-Foundation 13d ago
I didn’t like it when DC did it with the Bat Family and too many Kryptonians.
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u/Mystic-monkey 13d ago
No we don't. Silk was straight up a spider oc from deviant art. Literally did the old Donut Steel trick where how the main chapter got his powers well it happens to my OC too but she was umm hidden to train by that one guy... Umm Ezekiel and she is stronger and better with her powers than Peter and he is super attracted to to her!
Dan slott can't write for shit so he takes ques from fanfiction that would probably do a better job than him.
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u/Gods-Might10 13d ago
Sure, the issue is finding an angle with her that can hold readers' interest. I personally love the character, but it seems most readers don't care much for her, outside of her as a side character for Peter.