THE FEELS! This comic about a little homeless girl named “Leah” from Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Annual #1 will absolutely break your heart. In addition to the 33-page main feature, we are also treated to this six page short:

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Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Annual #1
Writer: Peter David
Artist: Colleen Doran

Here is the Spider-Man comic description via SpiderFan.org: “A young homeless girl huddles against the cold in snow-filled alley. She is wrapped up in a copy of the Daily Bugle, depicting Spider-Man fighting Electro. High above her Spider-Man is battling the Vulture. This makes the girl smile. Her choice of newspaper was not a coincidence. The box where she sleeps is filled with pictures of the wall crawler. She kisses a picture of Spidey good night, and settles down to sleep beneath scores of old photographs and newspaper clippings.

In her dreams, Spider-Man comes to her takes her swinging through the skyways of New York. They are joined by Iron Man and Thor. They are berated by J. Jonah Jameson. She is having a whale of a time. But it was not just a dream.

Spider-Man did come to the cold, inert girl and take her still body to the nearest hospital. The doctor says that she is dying: liver and kidney failure. There is nothing they can do, except keep her comfortable. Spider-Man blames himself. He must have swung over the girl a hundred times. If only he had stopped sooner. All those newspaper clippings that he saw there. He was her life, but he never knew that she existed. The doctor tells Spidey that he can’t be everywhere, but our hero isn’t listening. He rolls up his mask and kisses little Leah (her name was on her necklace) on the cheek.

“Sweet dreams,” says Spider-Man. And in those dreams Leah is born off to the light, surrounded by Marvel’s best and brightest.”