Ahoy’s Cereal Monster Comics Are Getting a Crunchtastic Collection

Chocolate - loving vampireswalk among us ! Thetragic , mallowy taleof charmed kingdoms chills ! All this silly spookiness and more has been break on across five years of Ahoy Comics’Edgar Allan Poe repulsion anthologies , as Mark Russell and Peter Snejberg ’s breakfast cereal grass monster taradiddle have give a gothic twist to sugary classics — and now they ’re being hoard all in one place .

After age following the story of the Marquis de Cocoa and his Vampiric wife , as well as the horrifying likes of the Frankenberries ( here the nobleman Franken Cherrie and his sidekick Beau ) , Captain Crunch ( the menacing Captain Crackle ) , and more , io9 is excited to give you a first look at Cereal , the anthology collection that will pair all of Russell and Snejberg ’s prior stories in the grain behemoth universe with three young story to act as a lettuce - ample climax to the narrative .

“ Monsters play such an grand function in our corporate conscience , being used for everything from giving boldness to our deep awe to betray us breakfast cereal , ” Russell enunciate in a press release provided to io9 . “ This book looks at monsters from every angle at once . It view them as we are — as cartoonish but scary , as comical , and yet , still sad . ”

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cereal grass is congeal to strike shelf just in sentence for Halloween later this twelvemonth , on October 12 .

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