User blog:Bzero/RL: Electron Boy sighted in Seattle!

Aw! This made me think of the Bryce storyline:

Viaflickfilosopher.com --


 * From The Seattle Times:


 * Thursday was shaping up to be just another school day for 13-year-old Erik Martin, but then something extraordinary happened: Spider-Man called.

Spider-Man happens to be one of the few people who knows that Erik, too, has a secret identity — he's Electron Boy, a superhero who fights the powers of evil with light.


 * And Spider-Man needed Erik's help.


 * Erik, who is living with liver cancer, has always wanted to be a superhero. On Thursday, the regional chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him that wish with an elaborate event that involved hundreds of volunteers in Bellevue and Seattle.

( More... )