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Capt. Scurvy (scurvy) says:
I've been a huge fan of this since the beginning, and I just wanted to take the time to tell you this is great stuff you are doing here, and I anxiously await each installment. I can't wait to see how this plays out. The floral arrangement alone was worth the wait for this piece. Truly amazing! I love the roses in the milk bottle.
Shade Master (shade) says:
What Tony isn't ging to honor the Captian's request to be buried at sea?
Billy D (billy_dole) says:
What's the big yellow thing? Gold?
Ed Gedeon (eddurd) says:
Billy D: The Cap'n's body is resting on a small platform, all covered with a golden sheet. In the picture above, the top of his head is pointing toward us. Shade Master: Who knows? Maybe they're giving him a Viking funeral ...
Wry Ting (holocan) says:
Its the Captain's body, hes lying down with a yellow shroud over him. Awsome work Brendon Douglas Jones.
Scot T (orf) says:
Amazing work.
Sean Martin (martino13) says:
Something tells me the Captain isn't quite gone for good yet. I think he still has a major part to play in this story...maybe the help of a certain wizard could bring him back.
Scot T (orf) says:
Like Aslan, he will return even stronger.
Brendan Jones (poyorick) says:
Hey Sean and Scot (and everyone else who misses the Cap'n already - I do myself), I appreciate the feelings here, but I assure you that, for this story, Horatio M. Crunch is done. His role is that of the mentor and sage, the example that all who loved him must now try to emulate on their own. But his death will not be in vain, I promise.
Guy Tanzer (tanzerguy) says:
You have to let sleeping captains lie. Bringing dead characters back to life is, for authors, a tricky business at best; one step up from "and I woke up and it was all a dream". If you must kill off a good character, make it worth it; in this instance the shock value of that page paid the price. Keep up the super work, sir. I was wondering why it took three weeks to get this page up and with all the intricate artwork I now see why. I find my trips down the cereal aisle in the store to be oddly different these days. And by the way, I found you when Andrew Sullivan posted a link to you in Atlantic Monthly's blog The Daily Dish, and he said that if a person reads any webcomic at all this year, it should be this one.... http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/04/the_lords_of_br.html
John Edwards (ceribrate) says:
I saw this page a few days ago. Since then, I have been to a grocery store, and saw the Captain, smiling over his souless master's newest marketing scheme. I cried. Right there in the store, all 160lb of me, crying silently. Fortunetly for me, I was alone. I gave a quick look around, and gave the captain a brief salute. Then I turned, gave Tony a quick pat, and left the isle, the sound of a knife carving one last bit of wasabi out of the packet urging me onward, to more sea-worthy fair.
Liam Arnold-Wallinger (chokingdolphins) says:
Nice, Cap'n Crunch is gonna be like Captain America. Do you think the Trix Rabbit will take his hat and go fight the Hate Monger, who is also wearing a modified Crunch costume?
Sean Martin (martino13) says:
Guy: I realize the importance in literary circles of not bringing a dead character back from the other side, but am trying to find meaning in this whole story of my childhood coming to life...I can't be alone in thinking/hoping that the Cap'n might have a second bowl left in him (especially when we are all hungry for more). We're waiting on a great wizard in hiding, who I (incorrectly) hoped would be able to bring Horatio back to us. We are also waiting on (I am assuming) the great King Vitamin to come back to glory as well. Like everyone else, I'm just trying to make sense of it all while waiting anxiously for the next installment. Regardless, keep up the fabulous work BDJ. Everyone loves the work you are doing!
Brendan Jones (poyorick) says:
Appreciate it, Sean. If all goes well, (most of) your burning questions will be answered (as satisfactorily as I can) in Book Three. If, that is, folks are still hanging in there with me by this time next year!
Guy Tanzer (tanzerguy) says:
Perhaps (Warning, English teacher sounding thoughts coming up) the loss of childhood itself, or the cereals we ate as kids (I'm 48, there's quite a few lost flavors buried back there in their cardboard sarcophagi) or even the loss of childhood taste buds (I used to love Starburst candies and McDonald's burgers) that fuels the want of a suddenly, traumatically deceased and likable literary character brought back to life. (Look at Boromir or Balin in Lord of the Rings.... and Tolkien pulled off reviving Gandalf, but only barely in my opinion.) Most of us kind of like the world we know and change is never easy, even when it's wanted. I will speculate we may see the Cap'n again but it will likely be in observe-only mode for him from The Big Cereal Box In The Sky. Hopefully he won't be like the chilling Observers Of The Living in H. G. Wells's THE PLATTNER STORY.
http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/2874/
(Come to think of it, this would make a hell of a webcomic.... and it's public domain, too!)
BDJ has brought a fascinating new angle and depth to characters we know so well, albeit only in scads of 30-second blipverts. Go ahead - try walking down the cereal aisle and NOT have images of this in your head! I wanted to rearrange the cereal aisle at Wal-Mart to get the warring cereal mascots away from each other. It takes darned good literature to do that to folks.
Meaning? Folks are always looking for meaning in things. ENJOY THE STORY! The King and Wizard and Lord alone knows who else will be seen here (I had completely forgotten Quisp, Quake, and Captain Lafeete (LaFoote?)). The suspense of waiting for a new page, to see who appears and what they'll do.... Rest assured, Brendan, I'll be here this time next year. And I'll be in lots of company.
Out of curiosity, did you know about the Andrew Sullivan link?
Billy D (billy_dole) says:
"All that is but one"...Does this mean that Sugar Bear is ready to grow a pair and unleash his inner frosting? Or does the Trix Rabbit feel the need to redeem his life? Or could OJ-Joe be on the warpath?
John Higley (jedraft) says:
Brendan, There's plenty of ways you could pull off a Second Coming of the Cap'n without it being either a cop-out or hopelessly hackneyed. That is - if it serves your overall arc. Since I've seen virtually no evidence of any cop-outs or hackneyed writing, I feel confident that whatever you've got planned will be satisfying and probably hysterically funny as well. In any event, I will continue to keep a link to this superb pastiche on my own site, and so you can rest assured that I will still be here for as long as you'll be gracing the `net with the new adventures of these re-imagined denizens of the cereal box.
Brendan Jones (poyorick) says:
Hey, Guy, yes, I did stumble across that blurb (I must admit that I do Google BOTG from time to time just to see what folks are saying) and found it very flattering. I'm sure I would keep on going regardless of what people said (or even if they said nothing at all) because, well, I'm determined to get this story out of my system, but it makes it all the more worthwhile when I get the occasional thumb's up from the world outside my "studio." I really appreciate all the kind words, folks!
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