So Jim Shooter is like the final boss in a video game?

I think we can all agree that completing the Marvel Try-Out book, sending it in the Marvel offices, and — dream of dreams — landing a job at the House of Ideas would be a comic lovers Horatio Alger story. But meeting with the eight-foot tall Jim Shooter — a man who’s burned a bridge or two in his day — would be a bit intimidating. No matter how many gumball machines and stuffed animals were strategically placed on his desk.