This comic has evoked emotions that I never dreamed were possible. On the verge of tears, I was rescued by an unstoppable laugh rising like a phoenix from my cold and shivering consciousness. The image of a quaker who's face has been bittersweetly engraved into my memory by endless morning breakfasts of plain oatmeal, and the nostalgia that it accompanies, is an absurd and triumphant personal victory for the soldier even as he realizes that the battle is lost and he will shortly perish. It is that eternal mystery that has plagued the minds of mathematicians and priests and artists, which all assumed to be an affair of mystical or emotional or intellectual attributes, not a kind of cosmic joke that can only be told once to a single observer, for it takes a lifetime to deliver the punchline. Indeed, one's initial reaction to the image, in the context of the fictional and powerful world of Cerealia, is truly a glimpse of God's mind itself.

Bless you sir, and the pilgrim's ship you rode in on.

Emil Hyde (mystechs) says:

Were C.S. Lewis alive to read this, he'd certainly applaud.  As YHWH is to the Judeo-Christian cosmology and Aslan is to Narnia, so is the Quaker Oats Guy to Cerealia.  If Captain Crunch be Hercules, then the QOG would have to be Zeus.  How utterly appropriate.

Actually, between this and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, I'd have to say that BOTG has surpassed LOEG as the gold standard for re-contextualizing beloved fictional icons.

Bravo, Sir.  Every time I figure BOTG has exhausted the possibilities of its premise, you continue to surprise and amaze me.

 

 

David Battley (david255) says:

All right. You've just tapped into the hot cereal group of mascots. It does bring to mind Aunt Jemima and Mrs Butterworth having a lesbian relationship in a Log Cabin with the Cream of Wheat chef on the side.

Is this cereal only or does Chef Boy-ar-de and the Kraft Mac & Chees dinosaur also get included?

 One thing that has bugged me... where is the Honeycomb hideout? And is that lycanthropic "Me want Honeycomb" monster/thing actively searching for it?

Melissa H. (sladejt) says:

Just pointing out, David, but since this is "Breakfast of the Gods", I imagine that the Chef and the Kraft Dino are unlikely additions.

As for the crazy Honeycomb monster, one guess would be that it is, like Sunny, under the thrall of Count Chocula.  This is suspected because of its chaotic nature and the fact that there's Chocolate Honeycombs. Another would be that the heroes (or villains) encounter it later in the story, perhaps in search for something to tip the battle in their favor?  Honey can improve or ruin the taste of anything, so I picture the Monster lurking around the fabled Honeycomb Hideout (but the shack has fallen into ruin thanks to the many long years of disuse), protecting its honeycombs from anyone that would seek it.

larry harpring (hyrral7734) says:

When The Captain and Tony went to hire the Rabbit in Ralston,  one of the buildings had a "Honeycomb" marquee on the side of it.

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/poyorick/botg/series.php?view=archive&chapter=17857

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