Marvel's Newest Witch is Straight Out of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Warning: spoilers for Silk #2 are ahead.
Marvel's new witch would fit perfectly with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Magic and sorcery have long been part of Marvel's universe, but in truth the comic book publisher has never really bothered about establishing consistent rules for them. Instead, writers have either been free to exercise their own imaginations — or they've gone to other franchises for inspiration.
Recent years have seen Marvel draw particularly upon the Harry Potter franchise. Marvel opened their own version of Hogwarts, Strange Academy, and turned some of their most powerful sorcerers into teachers there — including the likes of Brother Voodoo, Magik, and Scarlet Witch. But the latest supernatural Marvel plot actually resembles the kind of magic seen in a very different TV series - Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Emily Kim and Takeshi Miyazawa's Silk series is a loose Spider-Man spinoff, and its first arc sees Cindy Moon confront a dangerous witch, known as a manyeo, from Korea's Joseon period. The manyeo historically targeted the leaders of competing cults, absorbing the precious life-energy she gained from their worshipers when she killed them, and at one time she planned to take over Korea. She was defeated when her enemies joined forces against her, and sealed her body within a tomb. She awoke at a museum exhibit in the twenty-first century, and has begun preying on social media influencers, whose life energy can strengthen her in the same way as the priests she killed all those centuries ago. The idea sounds remarkably similar to Buffy the Vampire Slayer's season 2 episode, «Inca Mummy Girl,» albeit updated to fit into the age of social media
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