Yes you can! Look at that first panel here! And the third! Venom is punching down on Spider-Man and that's why he's great lmao

Heck, sometimes even Vulture is good! Every time somebody punches down on Spider-Man it is a fun comic.

I've been dogsitting for the past couple months, and we've gone from "I am sitting down, it's expected that I will be scratching Max if he's awake" to "ok, I am disappointing Max by *only* scratching his chest or scritching his head and I should do both" lol. I've been trained by a small beast