Stan Lee, Superheroes, and Spider-Girl

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I was going to write this week about going to see Hollie McNish*preview -AMAZING* but I decided to write today about superheroes, following the passing away of Stan Lee.

I have always been drawn to Superhero films.  Spiderman has always been one of my favourites.  I think because as a kid growing up I was often ill.  I was smaller than other children my age. I couldn't reach the same levels in sport my classmates could.  I stood out.

But superheroes taught me that standing out didn't have to be a bad thing.  You could be geeky and wear glasses, and in a swish of a cape and removal of glasses unleash superpowers.

I have also always been obsessed with Superman, still got a pretty major crush on Dean Cain TBH-he's still got it!  I will have to post my Superman poem at some point.  I think the other side to my superhero obsession was the idea that you didn't have to fit in one box.  You could be a writer at The Daily Planet in the daytime, and save the world at a moment's notice.

Stan Lee was a revolutionary, I was reading today online that comic book obsession was the children of the 70s and 80s version of Beatlemania.  And I love that my friend's children now fight over who will be Batman or Robin.

Plus the fact that- although not as many as the male ones -he featured some female superheroes.  because why shouldn't women be able to do everything a man can?  Apart from piss standing up-still a little jealous of that.

I'm just so grateful to Stan Lee, because his characters made me feel I could be my own superhero.  I could create my own, and I have. My Superpower?  Word wizard, literary superhero.

And I truly believe whoever you are,whatever your situation, you can be a superhero too.  Just by reading this, your Superpowers are strengthening, I can feel them.  And on this week wherev World Kindness Day took place, the biggest and most important Superpower of all?  Kindess.

Thanks for everything Stan. RIP

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