This weekend, those of us lucky enough to have our mothers in our lives will celebrate Mother's Day ... but there are a whole mess of beloved genre characters who'll never get to do so (provided they live in a story universe where Mother's Day is a thing). So here are some heroes who could probably use a cuddle this coming Sunday.

There are plenty of people on the Internet who conjure all kinds of never-gonna-happen scenarios featuring their favorite comics characters, but few of them are as talented as James Stokoe, who writes and draws the bloody, awesome Orc Stain for Image. And his Spider-Nam is a perfectly rendered slice of terrific.

Even the most invincible sci-fi heroes need a little luck to get them through now and then, and there's no better time to remember that than St. Patrick's Day. So, with the weekend of green beer and four-leaf clovers upon us, we reflect on the lucky breaks of our favorite characters, from nuked fridges to broken wands.

We've all probably had the thought at some point in our lives, whether watching the movies or reading an old comic: I want to climb a building, Spider-Man style. Just grab ahold of the brick and shoot right up a 90-degree angle.