"Darn! [Late night] shopping usually makes me feel better," Mary Jane Watson, the world's most…read morefamous supermodel and the wife of Peter Parker, speaks to herself as she reaches into her stylish, knee-length, cerulean blue coat for her keys to open the doors to their Chelsea Street home. "
"But I'm still angry at Peter," MJ rationalizes. "He's out late, probably off being Spider-Man, and he didn't even [text]."
MJ flips the switch on a machine-blue book lamp and is startled to find herself staring at a familiar midnight-black costume with a white arachnid on the chest and curved, vertical slashes for eyes.
"Oh! Peter! What were you doing sitting in the dark? Never mind, I've got a few nits to pick with," Mary Jane hesitates, "Peter? Your breathing sounds funny. Are you alright?"
Before she can make out the last word, she becomes acutely aware of the stranger's hulking size and a gaping mouth materializes out of the costume.
"Hi Honey," an unfamiliar voice greets her. "I'm home!"
That iconic ending to David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane's issue 299 of Amazing Spider-Man, featuring the first full appearance of Venom in costume, perfectly captures a terrifying ending to a normal day, but what should constitute normalcy at a day's inception in terms of breakfast?
For my sometimes-disgruntled stomach, I've found that on workdays I can do no better than Panera's steel-cut oatmeal crested with cinnamon-crunch topping, strawberries, and pecans. My own spectacularly-radiant wife voluntarily packs additional fresh blueberries, strawberries, and a banana to add flavors and heft; and I've got a breakfast that can last me until 1:30 or 2:00 on the days in which meetings pile up like grackles who have just discovered leftover drive-through.
At the Columbia, Maryland, location at 6435 Dobbin Rd, you will be treated to excellent, friendly service in addition to all of Panera's mainstay offerings of cookies, baguettes, breads, sandwiches, and--if you go closer to lunchtime--soups and chili. Although nothing there would assuage Eddie Brock's symbiotic hunger for revenge on Spider-Man, you are almost certain to find something that will fit your bill.