Before Watchmen: The Silk Spectre
This week Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1 hits stores. It is co-written by Darwyn Cooke, who just did an amazing job with Before Watchmen: Minutemen. If the reviews for Minutemen is any indication Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre by Amanda Conner and Darwyn Cooke is sure to be an amazing story. You can get your First look over at the LA Times website. Jim Lee even did a 1 in 200 variant cover!
You can read Burke’s review of issue number one here:
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1 Review
“Issue #1 isn’t about the Sally Jupiter, but instead about her daughter Laurie. A girl from a broken home, pushed by a once vivacious and powerful mother, and now trying to outrun her inherently endless shadow…..”
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[…] Silk Spectre #1 isn’t about the Sally Jupiter “Silk Spectre”, but instead about her daughter Laurie. A girl from a broken home, pushed by a once vivacious and powerful mother, and now trying to outrun her inherently endless shadow. Sally has what seems to be the best intentions for her daughter, teaching her to be strong, smart, independent, and resourceful. But unfortunately, like many other parents who push their offspring to the limit, the opposite happens, they run. Laurie doesn’t want what her mother is giving, or forcing upon her, she feels like an outsider at school, and is bullied by classmates who know about her mother’s past infidelities. The only difference is, what Laurie thinks she’s running away from, she’s actually on a one way track to becoming what she never wanted, the Silk Spectre. […]