WELCOME TO THE WILD, WILD WEST!
Silk's old nemesis Saya Ishii has her trapped in a dream world that keeps resetting. In the latest dream, Silk is a web-slinging, train-robbing outlaw in the Wild West. Why is Silk trapped? And what's the deal with the monstrous creature that keeps showing up to terrorize her?
Rated T
The genre-of-the-month format remains fresh in the second issue. It would be interesting to see Kim and Guara try something new...some sort of less traditional and cliched genre in an upcoming issue or two. As it is, its been fun watching Kim and Guara lay the groundwork for the series in a couple of well-established genres, but there is so much more that could be explored in the format that Kim has delivered in the first couple of issues of the series. Next up: Cindy engages in a little bit of swashbuckling as a pirate on the high seas. Read Full Review
The best part of Silk #1 was how it played with the dream narrative at its core, and though writer Emily KIm continues to explore it Silk #2 finds more time outside of the dream with mixed results. Read Full Review
Even though I dislike the inking/finishes and REALLY dislike the lower-case lettering, the overall effect in this issue makes for a better than average read. Read Full Review
Silk #2 follows up an excellent opening issue of spending way too much time with the hero's brother, Max. From the opening scene reminding us of who he is to the unnecessarily cut-short Silk Western scene, there just isn't a lot here to get your blood pumping. Instead, the story slams the brakes to bring us back to the real world rather than bask in the rather inventive setup of Silk in different eras. Read Full Review
The "variant Silk adventures" premise is the weakest part of the whole package here, but the creators are fully aware of that and do a great job shifting attention to the real-world story.
This has simple but impressive art, and it's shockingly engaging considering how little the titular protagonist is doing. Her brother was apparently due for a little spotlight time.
For whatever reason, this worked a bit better for me than Issue 1. It was odd that Silk kind of took a backseat for this issue, but I did enjoy whenever she was on the page. As for the rest of the issue, I thought it was good and I'm still interested to see where everything's going. We got a little more information here, but I'm hoping we get more in the next issue. While the writing is solid, I particularly like the art here and I'd really like to see more from Guara.
The brother popping up and playing such a big part is making me nervous. This feels like the book is switching to his book, not hers. This was a poor drop off from the first issue.
The ISSUE with this ISSUE is that there's some trouble balancing the plot that matters with the movie-plot inside the plot that doesn't matter.
Maybe if the issue would have OPENED inside the fake film going on in Silk's head first and then go outside to the plot that directly affects her, but even so, without being able to thematically or satisfyingly tie the two threads together what we are left with is a story where SILK is actually just ASLEEP inside her own book and everyone else around has the action.
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