We've reached Day 5 of Guest Blogger week. Today, Kayte discusses the finer points of comicbookdom with (you guessed it!) a comic book nerd. Way to pander to my nerd demographic, Kayte!

The other day at work I was discussing the finer points of Spiderman 3 with Student Co-Worker. This led to a mini discussion of Marvel comic book characters vs. DC comic book characters.

See, Student Worker thinks I'm neat because I like to read books when I have the time and because I have boobs and am able to name comic book characters and can gloss over origin plot points without having to look anything up on Wikipedia. (I don't read comic books regularly but I do have a near-photographic memory when it comes to movie blurbs—thanks, Entertainment Weekly!)

Me: What else comic-bookish besides Spiderman 3 is coming out this summer? There are sooo many.
Student Worker: Hm, there's Transformers, which I think is gonna blow 'em all out of the water, personally.
Me: I agree. Who doesn't want to watch a kid running around with a name like Shia, right?
SW: What?
Me: Nevermind. Yeah, I think Transformers should be cool. Ah, then there's that Fantastic Four sequel with the Silver Surfer. Dorks love the Silver Surfer, or that's what I've heard anyway.
SW: Yeah, he's definitely a great character.
Me: He works for an alien named Galactus, right?
SW: Wow, you're good. Yup, he's like a herald representative for Galactus who-
Me: -takes over planets and sucks out all their resources and energy!
SW: Exactly.
Me: Hm, so the Silver Surfer is kinda like George Bush and Galactus is America then, huh?
SW: Woah. That's deep. Did you just make that up right now?
Me: Yeah, actually I did.
SW: You should submit that to a political blog or something.
Me: Hm, submit to a blog...