According to The New York Times, actress Natalie Mendoza, who played a spider-god named Arachne, has left the injury-plagued Broadway musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

Mendoza was one of the actors injured during preview performances. The New York Times reported back on December 3rd that the actress had sustained a concussion backstage when she was hit in the head by a falling rope that failed to hold up a piece of equipment.

Mendoza’s last performance was the preview performance on December 20th. Our very own Spider-Girl recently saw and reviewed a preview performance, calling Natalie Mendoza “an inspired choice” for the challenging role.

After so many injuries and technical problems, and now the departure of one of its leads, one wonders if the most expensive Broadway show of all time will ever make it to opening curtain.

Stan “The Man” Lee, co-creator of our boy Spidey as well as a host of other hereos and villains, turns 88 years old today. Stan is a living legend and a good man. He’s even been so kind as to appear on our podcast and later congratulate Brad on the birth of baby Ava Marie. A big ol’ Happy Birthday and Thanks for the Memories from the entire Crawl Space!

Today is also the 23rd birthday of our very own Zach “Spideydude” Joiner! Zach has been a good friend of the Crawl Space for even longer than I’ve been around the place. He’s an administrator on the board, a founding member of the podcast, the writer of Crawl Space Avengers, sometimes reviewer, sometimes editorializer, and he’s the founder of Spideydude.com and the Clone Saga Chronicles Podcast. More important than all that, he is my friend and a damn good one. Happy Birthday, good sir!

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