The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Spiderman

The Webbed Crusader as a study in loss and grief.

Photo by Cristian Bortes

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Spiderman: No Way Home.

There are two main reasons people love the comic book superhero Spiderman. The first is his age. He’s one of the few major heroes that’s still a kid. Peter Parker is a boy in his late teens and that’s both a good…