“Silk” Returns With Maurene Goo and Takeshi Miyazawa

Marvel Comics have announced the return of Silk’s solo series in July, written by novelist Maurene Goo (I Believe in A Thing Called Love) with art by Takeshi Miyazawa (“Mech Cadet Yu”). The new volume will see Cindy Moon, now working for J. Jonah Jameson at his blog Threats & Menaces, investigating a series of gangland murders. The Agent of Atlas soon discovers these are being committed by the Japanese demon Kasha on behalf of Saya, an international businesswoman with ties to a major Marvel villain.

“The opportunity to write a Korean American Super Hero — a woman, no less — is one that I never thought would come my way,” Goo says, “I’m so excited to flex this writing muscle and to explore new stories for Silk—a character I love. Her fierceness and loyalty are qualities I understand and relate to, and I hope readers feel the same as she fights new foes and protects old friends.” This marks the comics debut of Goo, whose writing background has been primarily young adult novels. Like Cindy Moon, she is of Korean descent. Takeshi Miyazawa, meanwhile, is a Marvel veteran who drew the “Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane” series, and created Silk’s fellow Agent of Atlas Amadeus Cho/Brawn with writer Greg Pak in 2005.

Introduced during Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos’s “Amazing Spider-Man” run in 2014, Silk is a young woman who was bitten by the same radioactive spider as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Her own series, penned by Robbie Thompson, launched the following year, and ran for 26 issues (including a renumbering) until 2017. The character has continued to be a regular presence in Spider-Man and wider Marvel Universe crossovers, including Pak and Gang Hyuk Lim’s reimagined Agents of Atlas (introduced last year). Kasha, on the other hand, only previously appeared in an “X-Factor” arc by Peter David and Paul Davidson in 2011.

The new “Silk” #1 releases in July.