It was Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Destin Daniel Cretton who eventually landed the Spider-Man: Brand New Day director spot. Time will tell if his crack at practical web-swinging will ...

“The spider manipulates the flashing signals of male fireflies ensnared in its web to mimic the typical flashes of a female firefly, thereby luring other males searching for mates,” said study ...

He’s not, because he’s Spider-Man and Spider-Man is not real. But Spider-Man may as well be real. Most of us have never known a world without a web crawler patrolling Queens.