I'm awesome!

So today was my last day as an intern at Marvel. It's been a fun time; I hope my blogging about the comics has been at least somewhat entertaining. On the plus side, I'll probably have a lot less cultureblogging to do, which means I won't be able to slack off and replace regular posts with those.

It's also friday, which at Marvel is bundle day. That means that around 3:30 in the afternoon, the interns (and many junior editors) head downstairs to the mailroom to pick up bundles of free comics for the editors. Each editor gets a copy of every comic Marvel puts out; the senior editors also get every DC comic along with all of the Marvel trade paperbacks (which are compilations, usually of about six issues). If you're an intern, you get whatever the editors don't want or have finished reading. Surprisingly, I've managed to snag a lot of cool stuff.

Anyway, the point of this whole bundle day explanation (besides taking advantage of my last chance to talk about my internship) is that this week's bundle contained Issue 40 of Sensational Spider-man. It's the last real issue of Sensational Spider-man before it's cancelled, and features Spidey in a rather angry and contemplative mood. Naturally, he runs into God (in hobo form) and they decide to have a chat while eating a burger. And where would they go for a burger if not the "Master Shack", a slightly-altered version of the Shake Shack?

As you might expect, I got a big kick out of Peter Parker hanging at my former place of employment, so I wanted to post a scan of the page in here. Spider-man and the Shake Shack are probably two of the most popular topics in the blogosphere (if you cut out politics and music :-\) so I figured it'd be a piece of cake to find one online. No such luck. I did discover, though, that if you Google Shake Shack Spider-man, I'm the fifth entry. That's pretty cool. So now I know that somebody's reading my blog besides Max and my dad, even if you're not commenting. Ha! And you thought you could trick me...

So yep, I'll be adding the Shack to the places I share with Spider-man, a list that already includes Columbia, where we both go to school, as well as 10 East 40th Street, former home of Marvel Comics, current home of Echo Design (where my parents work) and headquarters for some villainous businessmen that showed up an issue of Spectacular Spider-man. Yeah, I'm pretty awesome.

Okay, that's all for now. Expect a scan of that page soon, and thanks for putting up with a REALLY geeky (but maybe in a cool way?) entry.