How Spider-Man Helped Me Through Loss and Grief in 2018

Growing up, I never fully connected to Spider-Man. As a kid, his fantastical adventures felt connected to extravagant, adult problems that I couldn’t quite relate to. But when he finally swung his way onto the PS4 last September and then again into theaters with Into The SpiderVerse, he clicked. It was like a blossoming explosion in my mind - I had finally understood the appeal of the character who I had known my whole life. It took the culmination of years of adult experience and even wor