Collects BEFORE WATCHMEN: MINUTEMEN #1-6 and BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE #1-4. With gorgeous art by co-writer and illustrator Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL, The Pro), SILK SPECTRE takes a very different perspective at the world of BEFORE WATCHMEN. Can these heroes from completely different backgrounds and with completely different attitudes on crime come together? Or will they fall apart before they begin? SILK SPECTRE takes an introspective look at the WATCHMEN feature-player's struggles with her overbearing superhero mother and her scattered path toward taking the mantle of the Silk Spectre. As the predecessor to the Watchmen, the Minutemen were assembled to fight against a world that had more and more rapidly begun to spin out of control. The critically acclaimed and Eisner Award-winning creator of DC: THE NEW FRONTIER Darwyn Cooke lends his talents MINUTEMEN. Now, DC Comics has assembled the greatest creators in the industry to further paint the world of WATCHMEN, starting with this first volume starring MINUTEMEN and SILK SPECTRE. Sally was nicknamed Jackknife Sally and Savage Sally by the press.The controversial, long-awaited prequels to the best-selling graphic novel of all time are finally here: BEFORE WATCHMEN!įor over twenty years, the backstories of the now-iconic characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s landmark graphic novel had been the subject of much debate and theorizing.Sally wears a long black glove on her arm to hide acid burn scars.She may also have wore blue contacts during her heroic years. Sally dyed her hair red during her crime-fighting career and blond during her retirement years.Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced): Over the years, Sally became skilled in hand to hand combat using trickery, deception and her overall agility and gymnastic ability to overcome opponents, becoming skilled in grappling, and utilizing such methods as wrestling, jujitsu, judo and kickboxing as well as street fighting techniques taught to her by the rest of the minutemen into her style. Throwing: Originally used a lasso which she threw at opponents with skill.Weaponry: Skilled with brass knuckles, knives etc.Juspeczyk was sexually assaulted by the Comedian in the Minutemen's headquarters, and was only saved by Hooded Justice's intervention. This volume collects BEFORE WATCHMEN: MINUTEMEN 1-6 and BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE 1-4. When she decided to scale back her crime-fighting career, her manager suggested a film career a career that ultimately tanked.ĭespite her early sensational successes as a member of the Minutemen, her life was wrought with personal strife. Or will they fall apart before they begin Then, Cooke and Amanda Conner take an look at the Silk Spectre's early years with her overbearing, Super Hero mother, chronicling her journey down the winding path toward becoming her own kind of hero. She pretended to be romantically connected to Hooded Justice, in order to hide the latter's homosexuality from the public. A media darling, she gained massive amounts of publicity, much to the thrill of her manager. Her single glove covered the acid-burn scars on her arm. Originally a burlesque dancer, Sally Juspeczyk decided to take up the mantle of crimefighting to follow in the footsteps of Hooded Justice and Nite Owl.Īs Silk Spectre, Juspeczyk adopted the Americanized name "Jupiter", donning a costume derived from her burlesque days.
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