Cap'n Crunch cereal box Does this man look dangerous?: Breakfast Of The Gods suggests that you exercise caution. Quaker Oats
 

by Glen Weldon

In no particular order, you will be taken in by:

1. The premise — a dark satire in which the breakfast-cereal mascots of your innocent, tow-headed youth wage a pitched and at times violent battle for their homeland.

2. "Crunchum Eternum."

3. The panel in which Cookie Crook gets referred to as a "skel."

4. The issue titles, which keep getting better and better:
Issue One: "The Last Good Morning."
Issue Two: "O Cap'n, My Cap'n."
Issue Three: "Apocalypse Yum."

5. The author's "Please, Please Don't Sue Me" page at the end of each issue. (On his blog, Jones accurately describes Breakfast of the Gods thusly: "...the series stands as both a pop culture-drenched labor of love and a minefield of serious copyright infringement." Which: yeah, pretty much.)

6. The "Lucky strikes" joke.

7. The identity of the central villain of the piece, which you've probably already guessed, but is still flatly awesome.

8. The Trix Rabbit as Mickey Spillane.

9. I say again: "Apocalypse Yum."

10. "One can do one's damnedest." Sniff. Seriously: Sniff.

11. The way you hear James Mason's voice in your head whenever you read Toucan Sam's word balloons.

Go, now.

But before you do, know this:

The navigation isn't as fluid as it could be -- once you finish the first issue, you'll have to scroll down past the comments to find a way to access Issue Two, etc.

Also, Issue Three (which -- have I mentioned? -- is titled, "Apocalpyse Yum") is still not quite finished.

And finally, fair warning: Dig'Em's dialogue ... gets a little blue.

categories: Comics

11:35 - December 17, 2008

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