Her image is littered through newspapers and pinups, and engraved on lighters and painted on fighter planes. Down the line, Jupiter would admit that was her main desire for joining the Minutemen, unlike the Nite Owl, who was led by strong moral obligations to clean up the streets. As her career progressed, she and her manager and later on husband, Laurence Schexnayder, would continue to cash in on her sex symbol status for modeling and acting gigs. While her male counterparts used brute force to take down criminals, Silk Spectre relied on her feminine charms to literally disarm criminals. Clad in a frothy yellow slip dress and dark satin under-things and fishnets, she became the Silk Spectre, a name plucked from the ether because it reminded her of silk stockings and slipping through someone’s fingers (according to the Under the Hood documentary ).
After working as a waitress and burlesque dancer, she found her main meal ticket with the Minutemen.
From the beginning, she was on the lookout for the American Dream. The Silk Spectre of the Minutemen era fits so many archetypes of her time-the 1940s-and yet, there’s something much more tantalizingly complex under the glamour and diamond-hard exterior.īorn Sally Juspeczyk, she shortened her name to Jupiter to distance herself from her Polish roots. Until then, remember: it rains on the just and unjust alike, cupcake. Sally’s choices played a deep emotional undercurrent in the original source material, and I’ll be interested to see if they are referenced in the new series. At the end of the graphic novel, Sally is settled into a retirement home and finally makes peace with her daughter, Laurie. Silk Spectre might be a fine hero, but her fixation on image wound up defining her legacy in Watchmen.With the arrival of HBO’s continuation of Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons’ groundbreaking comic Watchmen, it felt like the perfect time for a look back at one of my favorite characters: Sally Jupiter, aka the first Silk Spectre. She micromanaged Laurie for years and pushed her daughter into becoming the second Silk Spectre, more obsessed with how it looked rather than how Laurie actually felt. Sally is someone who's all about image and showmanship, believing that's all anyone needs to be a hero. But Silk Spectre's staged heroism represents one of her biggest flaws. Most of Watchmen’s heroes don’t exactly fit the standard notion of superheroes, and to her own credit, she did grow into the role of a costumed adventurer. With that in mind, the question must be asked: What does this information do to Silk Spectre's legacy?Īdmittedly, Sally is the first to admit that she saw heroism as a springboard for better things. This additional material confirmed what Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1 presents and proves that Sally's entry into the life of crime-fighting was all a set-up. However, Moore did contribute to several RPG books that expanded Watchmen's canon, such as Watchmen: Taking Out the Trash and Watchmen Sourcebook. Now, there are fans who don’t take Watchmen’s sequels and other follow-up stories as canon, which is fair as none of them involved the original series’ writer Alan Moore.
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