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  Alan Moore Portal: Silk Spectre II
1949) is the second Silk Spectre and the daughter of the Comedian (Edward Blake) and Sally Jupiter, the first Silk Spectre.
She was brought up to be a crimefighter by her mother, and she eventually became Dr. Manhattan's girlfriend.
Silk Spectre II is liberal-thinking and a "modern" woman.
www.angelfire.com /comics/mooreportal/silkspectre2.html   (273 words)

  
  Silk Spectre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Silk Spectre is the name shared by a mother and daughter, fictional characters in the comic book series Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, and published by DC Comics.
However, Alan Moore has stated that he found Nightshade "boring," and that Silk Spectre was modeled on sexier characters such as the Phantom Lady and Black Canary.
The first Silk Spectre was former waitress and burlesque dancer Sally Jupiter (her real last name was Juspeczyk; she wished to hide her Polish heritage), who entered action sometime around 1938.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silk_Spectre   (925 words)

  
 Casting Sunday: Akerman is Silk Spectre, Haley is Rorschach, Chow is Kato « FirstShowing.net
Casting Sunday: Akerman is Silk Spectre, Haley is Rorschach, Chow is Kato « FirstShowing.net
Casting Sunday: Akerman is Silk Spectre, Haley is Rorschach, Chow is Kato
For Watchmen, scoopers have revealed that Malin Akerman is Silk Spectre / Laurie Jupiter and Jackie Earle Haley is Rorschach.
www.firstshowing.net /2007/07/22/casting-sunday-akerman-is-silk-spectre-haley-is-rorschach-chow-is-kato   (850 words)

  
 s h o t g u n r e v i e w s   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Silk Spectre, with her cynical edge, excellent fighting skills, and skepticism, places her in the modern category.
Silk Spectre realizes the confines presented to female super-heroes, and she wants to divest herself of the feminine stereotype and be taken as seriously by society as her male counterparts.
We see that the second Silk Spectre hates The Comedian for assaulting her mother, and this, in turn, provides more conflict when she realizes that he is indeed her father.
www.shotgunreviews.com /comics/watchmen_graduate.html   (5510 words)

  
 watchmeta
THE COMEDIENNE (formerly SILK SPECTRE II; Laurie Juspeczyk (Jupiter): The daughter of Silk Spectre I and the Comedian, Laurie Jupiter was the product of her mother's brief affair with a man who, years earlier, had tried to rape her.
SILK SPECTRE I (Sally Jupiter): A former waitress and chorus girl who became a costumed crimefighter in 1939 at the behest of her manager, Laurence Shexnader, who saw it as a publicity stunt.
But their only child, Laurie (Silk Spectre II), was born as a result of a brief affair she had in 1950 with the Comedian himself, which she concealed from Laurie until 1985.
dark_mark.tripod.com /watchmeta.htm   (3526 words)

  
 Ralf Hildebrandt: /~hildeb/watchmen/annotations/watchmen.appendix.shtml
SILK SPECTRE I (1921-): Sally Jupiter, nee Juspeczyk.
Her mother was Sally Jupiter, the original Silk Spectre; her father was the Comedian (although her mother was married to Laurence Shexnayder until 1956).
SILK SPECTRE I: Sally Jupiter was a teen-aged runaway.
www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de /~hildeb/watchmen/annotations/watchmen.appendix.shtml   (3938 words)

  
 Watchmen Did You Mean watchmen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Silk Spectre II A reluctant superhero, she was pushed toward the vocation by her mother, Silk Spectre I, a successful crime fighter prior to her birth.
Something of a hedonist, she challenges her role as the Silk Spectre, and chooses to engage in a relationship with Doctor Manhattan.
The Silk Spectre's indulgent, carefree attitude is exactly the opposite of Doctor Manhattan's pensive wonderings about the future of the human race, and causes Doctor Manhattan to leave Earth after the dissolution of the relationship.
www.did-you-mean.com /Watchmen.html   (3346 words)

  
 Monsters S
Oddly, silk beasts are male: there is a rarer female version, whom the beasts feed and take care of, called the Silk Spectre.
Silk beasts are generally made of many different colors of silk, all soaked in blood, but those made predominantly of red or fl silk are more powerful.
Silk beasts, because of their nature, are very resistant to normal weapons and to cold, though vulnerable to fire.
www.webenet.net /~thoffman/GLibrary/Library/MonS.htm   (5213 words)

  
 Captain Comics Round Table -> Who's Your Daddy?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Silk Spectre II --Silk Spectre I and the Comedian
Comedian visited Silk Spectre's I some time afer the attempted rape, and they slept together willingly, a source of shame and confusion for SS 1 later on.
I imagined a scenario where Silk Spectre I was having willing sex while pregnant with the man who raped her to knock her up.
www.captaincomics.us /forums/index.php?showtopic=521   (1639 words)

  
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SILK SPECTRE and the COMEDIAN, in gas masks, march up the stairs to scope things out: COMEDIAN Well.
SILK SPECTRE touches down behind him just as he manages to pry a set of elevator doors open, and the two of them dive through.
DREIBERG (drily) No offense, Laurie, but it was Silk Spectre I had the crush on.
www.scifiscripts.com /scripts/wtchmn.txt   (20337 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Watchmen at Epinions.com
They were Hooded Justice, The Silhouette, Silk Spectre, Comedian, Captain Metropolis, Nite Owl, Mothman, and Dollar Bill.
These heroes were Dr. Manhattan, Captain Metropolis (of the original Minutemen), Ozymandias, Comedian (of the Minutemen), Rorschach, Nite Owl 2, and Silk Spectre 2 (daughter of the original Silk Spectre).
It might be an article on ornithology by Dan Dreiberg, it might be an interview with Sally Jupiter, the original Silk Spectre, it might be an article on Dr. Manhattan and what his existence might mean to the world.
www.epinions.com /content_92695072388   (1005 words)

  
 Cosmic Teams!
In 1940 the Comedian attempted to sexually assault the Silk Spectre but was stopped by Hooded Justice; as a result, the Comedian was expelled.
In 1947 the Silk Spectre left the group to marry Schexnayder.
While she was still a teenager, Laurel Jane "Laurie" Juspeczyk became the second Silk Spectre on the urging of her mother, Sally Jupiter.
www.mykey3000.com /cosmicteams/cosmic/wxyz.html   (3273 words)

  
 Watchmen - Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Silk Spectre I: An member of the Minutemen, Silk Spectre fought crime in order to make money.
She was eventually succeeded by her daughter, Silk Spectre II (see).
Silk Spectre II: Daughter of the original Silk Spectre, Silk Spectre II debuted in 1966.
surbrook.devermore.net /adaptionscomic/watchmen/watchmenintro.html   (1750 words)

  
 Happy Furry Puppy Story Time with Norbizness: Fan-topia Revisited!
He had a long affair with Captain Metropolis, although he disguised this fact by using Silk Spectre as cover.
Silk Spectre (II) : Silk Spectre II debuted in 1966.
Silk Spectre (II) : Nope, uh-huh, too old, need someone with a young, tough but with a naivety, not only does she look the part but I would like to see her in the outfit, Silk Specter can only be played by Lindsay Lohan.
norbizness.com /archives/001039.html   (1304 words)

  
 Watchmen - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Veidt, Juspeczyk and Dreiberg are long retired from crime-fighting, the last two because of the 1977 passage of the Keene Act, banning costumed vigilantes (which Kovacs, deeply immersed in his Rorschach identity, ignores).
Silk Spectre I and II (Sally Juspeczyk, and later Laurie Juspeczyk), adapted from Nightshade with elements of DC Comics' Black Canary and Phantom Lady
Unfortunately, this never happened; Alan Moore fell out with DC Comics over censorship issues, and promptly stopped any potential new work he was planning to submit to DC Comics.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Watchmen   (1940 words)

  
 Classic Science Fiction Reviews
Just about the only thing that allows him to care for humanity's fate at all is his love for the embittered, unhappy Laurie Juspeczyk, once the slinky crime fighter known as Silk Spectre.
Laurie, who took on that role only because her mother used that identity in the 1940s, is now deeply disgusted with her past and deeply unsatisfied with her current life as Manhattan's kept woman.
For instance, during the jailbreak involving Rorschach, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre fly in to free their unlovable colleague, who is at that very moment pursuing an old enemy through the corridors of the prison.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue402/classic.html   (1237 words)

  
 A New Frame For Comics
Nightshade was the token female heroine of the Golden Age comics, much like Silk Spectre I. She also shares the characteristic of working alongside an immensely powerful partner like Silk Spectre II.
The name Silk Spectre appears to be fairly arbitrary outside of its loose connection to an ephemeral shade or spirit.
Silk Spectre I was raped by The Comedian.
www.holycow.com /dreaming/academia/sandman_paper.html   (20052 words)

  
 The Annotated Watchmen
Silk Spectre, Nite Owl, Captain Metropolis, the Comedian, Silhouette, Dollar Bill, and Mothman all debut.
Rorschach visits Ozymandias, Silk Spectre, and Dr. Manhattan.
The annotations are maintained at this location by R.J. White.
www.capnwacky.com /rj/watchmen/timeline.html   (391 words)

  
 Silk Spectre I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Sally never told her daughter that the Comedian was her father and always tried to keep him away from her, even though she had forgiven him years before.
Sally made Laurie follow her steps and trained her hard until she became Silk Spectre II.
Her mother was so dominant that Laurie never realized that she wanted to be a hero until years after she abandoned.
pc59te.dte.uma.es /cdb/series/dc/sspectre.htm   (345 words)

  
 Watchmen (TBA) : Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
For those unfamiliar with the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic book, Sally Juspeczyk (she later changed her surname to Jupiter) was the mother of Laurie Jupiter.
Both women fought crime under the guise of The Silk Spectre.
Sally's relationship with the slain Comedian (Edward Blake) is a key subplot in both the comic and the screenplay adaptation by David Hayter.
www.countingdown.com /movies/307856/board?viewpost=3664963   (131 words)

  
 village voice > books > Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Absolute Watchmen by R.C. Baker
Rorschach, victim of a horrendous childhood, wears a fl-and-white mask and rains vengeance on evildoers—incinerating a murderous kidnapper for openers.
Later, his bleak philosophy is contradicted when two of his crime-busting compatriots, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre, make love after a massive holocaust ("Being alive is so damn sweet"), their shadows echoing the scorched silhouettes of Hiroshima.
In Watchmen's ersatz 1985, Nixon reigns in a fifth term and God exists in the form of Dr. Manhattan, a diffident watchmaker transmuted into a supremely powerful being (and handy counterweight to the Reds' nuclear arsenal) by a botched physics experiment.
www.villagevoice.com /books/0547,baker,70196,10.html   (318 words)

  
 Captain Comics Round Table -> Watchmen Casting Call   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Silk Spectre I- Jessica Lange or Meryl Streep
I don't know -- he was great in SOTD, but I haven't seen him in anything else, and he's probably way too young (around 32) to play a disgustingly wasted guy in his mid-forties.
Laura Linney as Silk Spectre is a great idea.
www.captaincomics.us /forums/index.php?showtopic=146   (1558 words)

  
 Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, John Higgins, Watchmen
The superhero formerly known as the Nite Owl and former superheroine Silk Spectre are the humanizing element, and the youngest of the retired masked heroes.
They took over their superhero identities from the first generation of vigilantes, and like the X-Generation, they find themselves suspended in limbo between youth and age, inheriting the sins of the previous generation but none of the benefits.
In this climate of chaos and compromise, Nite Owl's and Silk Spectre's motives are pure.
www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_moore_watchman.html   (1160 words)

  
 Lateral Readings
the Silk Spectre), against a meeting of the Minutemen in the 1960s, a few years before Laurie was born.
Scanning across these panels, we move from Sally as an old woman to her daughter, who has inherited the Spectre role, across a crowd of costumed losers (Mothman, Dollar Bill, Captain Metropolis) to Sally in her prime.
The item of "memorabilia" Sally is offering is a "Tijuana Bible," a crude pornographic comic based on her silk Spectre character.
iat.ubalt.edu /moulthrop/hypertexts/wm/readings/lateral   (1657 words)

  
 Watchmen - The Comedian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He joined the Minutemen after the team was formed in '39, but was expelled for trying to rape Sally Jupiter (Silk Spectre I) in 1940.
In 1949 he met with Sally Jupiter and ended up fathering Laurel Jane Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II).
He was present at the Crimebusters meeting in 1966 (where Ozymandias first conceived his idea for saving the world from itself).
surbrook.devermore.net /adaptionscomic/watchmen/comedian.html   (574 words)

  
 Who Watches the Watchmen?
In fact, in many ways he seems to be rather evil, for instance, in his attempted rape of the original Silk Spectre or his ruthless shooting of a Vietnamese woman pregnant with his child.
His killing of the millions presents a dilemma to the heroes present however, as Ozymandias says, "Will you expose me, undoing the peace millions died for?"14 and the new Silk Spectre says, "Jesus.
All we did was fail to stop him from saving earth."15 So these heroes, living in a "rudderless world", see themselves as having to use whatever means necessary to save the world from itself.
www.links.net /vita/fwp/dox/watchmen.html   (2277 words)

  
 Angry Zen Master » Blog Archive » Carla Gugino is the Silk Spectre
Angry Zen Master » Blog Archive » Carla Gugino is the Silk Spectre
Carla Gugino joins the cast of Watchmen as Sally Jupiter, the Silk Spectre.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 at 11:56 pm and is filed under Movies, Comic Book Flicks, Happy Fun Bags.
www.angryzenmaster.com /2007/08/08/carla-gugino-is-the-silk-spectre   (203 words)

  
 4ColorHeroes The Alan Moore Store:Watchmen
The last four pages are text excerpts from the book “Under The Hood: chapters 3 and 4” by the character Hollis Mason, with spot illustrations by Dave Gibbons.
"The Judge of All The Earth" Abandoned by Silk Spectre and accused of endangering his associates, Dr. Manhattan leaves the earth: Dave Gibbons (c/a).
The last four pages are text excerpts from the book “Under The Hood: chapter 5” by the character Hollis Mason, with spot illustrations by Dave Gibbons.
s95378737.onlinehome.us /watchmen1.html   (314 words)

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