Whether you're young or old, man or woman, city kid or country folk, there is a part of your life that everyone shares: Stress. In the world of comic books nobody knows stress better than Peter Parker, The Amazing Spider-Man.
You ask your run-of-the-mill teenager what they're worried about, they might tell you school or work or relationships. Mr. Parker on the other hand not only must worry about an education, a steady job and his personal life, but he has to be concerned with taking care of his elderly Aunt May, paying for camera equipment, finding a woman who's okay with his superhero life and, well, his superhero life! Aside from the spandex, it's for all these realistic responsibilities that people naturally cling to Spider-Man and the character has been able to endure the years since his creation. When writer Stan Lee was coming up with Spider-Man, he wanted to create someone the reader could relate to, unlike most god-like superheroes. If the reader can't relate to scientifically designed web fluid or the occasional mind swapping, Peter has a lot of daily tasks and duties that people have. We may not all have been bitten by a radioactive spider, but we've all been teenagers with stressful lives. I know reading and watching Peter go through work related stress and peer interactions helped me get past my own, so I hope you can lift yourself out of stress and keep swinging just like Spidey can. Have a great day!
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