February 11, 2007

"The Last Good Morning" There's something about cereal mascots and the way they get burned into your head, especially the ones from when you were a kid. Between the constant barrage of commercials on Saturday mornings to begging your parents for a box of sugary crap just for a cheap, plastic toy, no wonder they worm their way into your subconscious. So, if you happen to have any cherished memories left you'd like to keep of them, please don't read this comic.
posted by analoghuman 17 years ago
  • Deliciously demented. I wonder if he'll get in trademark trouble, though.
  • This is my favorite crap in the world. When I visit a site that claims to feature "best of the web" type stuff (as Monkeyfilter does), I am hoping to find stuff like this. My favorite things are when people take stuff that I am mildly interested in and pursue their interest to the point that it almost kills them. I suspect that the creator of this comic has looked death in the eye during the creative process.
  • MonkeyFilter: pursuing their interest to the point that it almost kills them
  • Is Cap'n Crunch's first name really Horatio? Looks to me like January 25 was the day the buzzing stopped.
  • My favorite cereal as a kid was Life. I think it was the only cereal that did not have a mascot. The other kids used to taunt me because my cereal did not have a mascot. I have a lawsuit against General Mills pending in federal court.
  • I also liked Life. A lot. The only cereal that actually got better when it got soggy. Accepted sugar well, mixed well with milk. Perhaps the perfect cereal.
  • Thanks for the link, analoghuman. I posted it to MetaFilter.
  • take stuff that I am mildly interested in and pursue their interest to the point that it almost kills them Mmmmm... porn.
  • bernockle: I always thought Mikey was the mascot for life cereal. Well, until he died from an explosive combination of Pop Rocks and Coke.
  • I looked almost exactly like Mikey as a kid (probably why I liked the cereal). I stopped being cute around the age of 8. Life was good for those few years.
  • I thought the Cereal Killers was slightly demented, but this is much worse. I love it.
  • Anybody remember Quisp and Quake? The first sugared cereal that I can remember liking were Jets and AlphaBits.
  • I think this comic peaked for me right about the frame when the frog pulled the gun. That single frame made the rest totally worth it. I'll never look at sugar smacks the same way...
  • You can still buy Quisp in limited markets. They have it at my local Tops. Or dowload this letter to send to your grocer.
  • You can even download it, if you like!