Silk (Photo : Marvel)
Marvel has launched its second female comic series Cindy Moon as "Silk" derived from the Spider-Man series. This was after Kamala Kahn was launched as the first Asian-American super-heroine character to headline one of Marvel's comic books.
The first installment of the series "Silk" hit stores on Feb. 18. Derived from the Spider-Man series, "Silk" tells the story of Cindy Moon and her crime-fighting alter-ego named Silk, a character created by Robbie Thompson, who is also a writer for the CW's television series "Supernatural."
"Cindy fascinates me. She gave up 10 years of her life and the world moved on without her. What does that do to a person?" Thompson said in an interview with Marvel.
Moon's character has been plotted in the same manner as a female counter-derivative of the Spider-Man series, which possesses certain powers that she gained after being bitten by the contaminated radioactive spider that turned Peter Parker into Spider-Man.
With its gumption, Marvel has spanned the trend from time to time by introducing female characters from different ethnics groups such as Kamala Kahn, a superhero from New Jersey known as Ms. Marvel and a Latina teenager, Anya Corazon from Brooklyn who made her debut in 2004, and this time, by introducing the female character Cindy Moon as the new comic super-heroine Silk, NBC News reported.
Males has been dominating the sphere of American comic book superheroes although comic book publishers began in the 1970s featuring more female and ethnic characters in supporting roles as well as solo heroes. Over the course of years, Marvel has been experimenting with more diverse characters has always being applauded by their fans.
