EXCLUSIVE: AN INTERVIEW WITH TIK- NEW YORK STATE TO BEGIN TOK’S INTERNATIONAL SPIDER-MAN SENDING $300 IN UNEMPLOYMENT SPIDEY: PAGE 1 NEW YORK: PAGE 4 SPECIAL ALTERNATIVE DAILY PLANET COVER SEPTEMBER 12, 2020 dailyplanetdc.com dailyplanetdc.comIN-DEPTH INTERVIEW WITH FAMED WEB-SLINGER!@DailyPlanetDC | 1 Reporting on the Planet Daily Volume 7 | Issue 2 dailyplanetdc.com September 12, 2020 SPIDER-MANAN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW WITH TIKTOK’S INTERNATIONAL SPIDER-MAN By Zack Benz “Everything in my life Daily Planet was going bad and one night an argument trig- Known for his popular gered everything inside of TikTok's and strong Insta- me,” Spider-Man said. “I g r a m p r e s e n c e , I n- stormed out the door and ternational Spider-Man walked. I just kept walking. talks about revealing his Then I found myself walk- secret identity and explains ing up an overpass, climb- his noble mission after his ing over and sitting on the unmasking — becoming freeway sign as cars sped Mental Health Spider-Man. passed under my feet.” Spider-Man has inspired He sat and cried on that c o u n t l e s s i n d i v i d u a l s overpass, his face soaking across the planet since his his hands. emergence within the “The next thing I knew, pages of Marvel Comics. first responders were stop- As many know, Spider- ping traffic, there were Man is a fictional super- cops all over, an ambu- hero created by legendary lance and a fire truck,” Spi- writer-editor Stan Lee and der-Man said. “Someone phenomenal writer-artist had been walking on the Steve Ditko. His first ap- overpass and called the pearance can be found in police.” Marvel’s anthology comic After spending the night book “Amazing Fantasy no. in a hospital he was trans- 15,” which was published in ferred to what he believes August 1962. to be a children’s psychi- Traveling Spider-Man, atric hospital. also known as International “I was ‘51-50’d,’’ he said. Spider-Man, has been “The very first night I was bringing joy to Instagram, there, when it was time to Twitter and TikTok users go to bed, they locked the alike. He also runs a suc- doors and I stood there in cessful branding campaign the cold dark room with a t i n t e r n a t i o n a l- the lights off and my spideystore.com. roommate who creeped “My plan in the begin- me out laying in their bed. ning was to grow as a trav- [That’s when] I realized I eling Spider-Man, hence don’t belong here.” ‘International Spider-Man,’” According to Spider- Spider-Man said. “Then Man, that very moment is maybe, within a year of w h e n h e rea l i z e d h e starting my page, I’d do a Photo courtesy International Spider-Man lacked perspective. face reveal and become a “I took advantage of all hero nobody is really doing “I have over half a million ones, but it’s hard because nerable with my audience,” years old I started to stress the good things going on on social media.” [followers] on TikTok and there are so many things I Spider-Man stated. “[I want about being bullied,” Spi- in my life,” Spidey said. “It When asked about his people think I’m someone want to do that would re- to] tell them my story of der-Man stated. “Then was simple. I’ve been tak- inspiration for donning the and some people are sure quire me to use my face or hardship, and then be- when I was 11, that’s when ing [the good things] for famed webbed red and that I’m someone and the my real voice. It’s so hard come a Mental Health Spi- the unknown sadness granted. I could simply blue super suit, Spider-Man rest think I’m someone sometimes.” der-Man.” started.” come home whenever I stated that since he travels else,” Spider-Man said. Spider-Man said he’s Mental Health Spider- International Spider- wanted after school, I could a lot it’d be fun to be rec- One popular fan theory nervous about his unmask- Man will discuss mental Man mentioned that his leave and go out to get ognized as the wall crawler is that the person under- ing. health and happiness depression hit hard at 14, something as simple as across the planet. However, neath the famed Spidey “Most cosplayers just en- while helping people thrive when he first started high fresh air.” Spider-Man’s plans for true mask is the Marvel Cine- tertain, some even visit in life. He’s looking to rep- school. According to Advanced heroism lies within his plan matic Universe’s (MCU) children in hospitals and resent those without a “During my first week of Psychiatry Associates, en- post face reveal. Spider-Man actor Tom Hol- whatnot, but me… well, for voice. high school I felt so horri- joying minimal daily tasks “TikTok definitely helped land himself. However, I’m starters, I don’t want to be According to Spider- ble, I cried every day and can be very beneficial me grow,” Spider-Man said. not entirely sold on that called a ‘cosplayer,’ I’m just Man, he has the power to even left early most days when battling depression. “I decided to try going story, but we’ll just have to Spider-Man.” do the right thing and sees because I couldn’t com- “In that [hospital] I anonymous as Spider-Man wait for the influencers’ After his upcoming re- it as his responsibility to do pose myself,” Spider-Man couldn’t even go down- on social media and see reveal. veal, Spider-Man looks to so. The masked social me- said. “Then I realized I had stairs to eat in the middle how it would go.” “It’s hard to keep my take on an entirely new dia star struggled with de- depression.” of the night whenever I Since his emergence on identity to an extent,” Spi- genre of heroics — mental pression early on in life. Spiderman lived his life wanted,” Spider-Man said social media, many sub- der-Man said. “It’s not so health awareness. He’s looking to help those with crippling depression “It doesn’t take much to scribers have speculated much like the comics “After taking off the who are also struggling for three years, his sadness become a little happier. It’s the web slingers’ true iden- where I have villains that mask I wanted to let down with mental health. just worsening. Then came all about perspective. tity. will come after my loved my walls and become vul- “When I was maybe 10 rock bottom. Continued on page 3 dailyplanetdc.com @DailyPlanetDC | 1 Funnies September 12, 2020 Continued in next weeks online edition. ‘The 100’ 101: 7×13—Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone By Brianna Taggart would die. I refused to be- Daily Planet lieve those theories be- cause how in the world The unbelievable hap- would Bellamy Blake be pened. I’m shocked. I’m killed off? It just didn’t hurt. I’m confused. I’m in make sense to me. mourning. However, the optimism I This review is going to held onto glitched as I dive into spoilers, so I high- watched the season seven ly recommend watching premiere. Bellamy only “The 100” season seven, lasted three minutes and episode 13 “Blood Giant” then he was gone. I origi- before continuing the re- nally assumed his disap- view (or not — you’d prob- pearance would last four ably be better off if you episodes but then another don’t). week went by and then I normally write pretty another and then months hefty intros for my reviews, dragged along until we but I just don’t have the finally got him back; only heart (*cries*) in me to do it we didn’t though. for this episode because The Bellamy Blake we the disappointment is too saw this season was never Bob Morley as Bellamy Blake in ‘The 100,’ 7x13. Image: CW/WB strong. I’ve never been so the Bellamy Blake we had actually known. He was the upset with an episode, and lamy and Clarke faced off en seasons. that doesn’t believe he’s makes his show. husk of the person he used not just of “The 100,” but of in front of the Anomaly The heart of the show, dead (thanks to my friends I will watch the final to be, wearing the same any show. stone in the last episode the male lead of the show, for pushing me into my three episodes because face but with a different The sad part is that I and clutched my heart was killed by his best denial phase of mourning). (whether I like it or not) I mind. genuinely liked “Blood Gi- while Bellamy was shot in friend over a sketchbook Maybe this is all a giant will always care deeply I remember crying after ant” leading up to the last his and the show lost she didn’t care enough simulation, and Clarke’s a b o u t t h i s s h ow. I ’ ve the season seven premiere. five minutes, but that final their’s. I sobbed on the about to pick up and take actually taking the “final poured my heart and soul We were only one episode scene broke me and it ru- floor over the loss of this with her.