Had a hard time getting into the story ( )

I had only a passing familiarity with Silk until I read a reprint of the first chapter of this book in Marvel's Voices: Identity. Since it was one of the better parts of that anthology, I thought I'd give her whole book a try, and I was not disappointed.

YA author Maurene Goo makes a strong comics debut with a light and energetic superhero story featuring a young Korean American woman with the same power set as Spider-Man as she was bitten by the same spider that enabled Peter Parker to do whatever a spider can.

Cindy Moon is a reporter who works under J. Jonah Jameson at an online news hub called "Threats and Menaces." Her first story gets her pulled into a street gang war that is being won by a cat demon with ties to a Japanese tech company. Moon is likable and the story introduces everyone well enough that I did not feel lost for not having read her previous solo books, but I will probably give them a try now even though Goo does not write them.

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Originally published in magazine form as Silk (2021) #1-5. ( )