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Kid knows what she wants in life. Gotta respect that.
If only we could all be so enlightened. And have cereal whenever, even super late at night because cereal is awesome and you should be able to have it when you want, damn it.
I have been having cereal for dinner recently. Can’t scoff at fiber.
I eat cereal whenever the hell I feel like it for any meal, and always have a box or two (groceries are cheaper than on-campus food) on hand.
COLLEGE, FOLKS.
I haven’t had cereal for dinner since I started college, actually. I actually miss it. It was always my go-to dinner at home when my mom wouldn’t cook. Eating in public in the dining hall makes me more self-conscious about what I eat, though. And I never have breakfast, so the only times I wind up getting cereal is weekend lunches, which are basically breakfast anyways.
Damn, now I want cereal.
Good way to get around being self-conscious about what you eat: wear something that you feel extra super comfortable (or absolutely ridiculous, depends on how you handle such things) in so your daily dose of give-a-fuck is already taken care of.
Then go forth, young one, and enjoy that cereal in public. Make them jealous of your rockin’ duds and your sugary bowl of happiness.
Man, I wish I liked cold cereal. It’s just never been my thing. I do like oatmeal, though. Having some right now for lunch, as a matter of fact.
One of the joys of having an on-campus apartment and a meal plan, plus an early morning on-campus job, is that I now have freedom at last to experiment with cereal. By experiment, I mean switch back and forth between both varieties Krave and Honey Nut Cheerios, but whatever.
Also, I wound up receiving two boxes of peanut butter-flavored cereal a few days ago. My friends know me so well.
I live on my own and I just bought a huge econobag of coco puffs. I already live the “enlightened life”.
When you’re the grownup, it’s your turn to decide what that means.
And right now it’s a ton of cocoa puffs.
The crazy thing is I’m at a point in my life where cereal is dessert now.
I even mean Honey Bunches of Oats kind of cereal. [I end up buying whatever’s cheapest that isn’t like Raisin Bran]
[[bleh raisins]]
Eh. Dried fruit is okay if you reconstitute it in the microwave for awhile, otherwise yeah, bleagh.
Except banana chips. I have no idea who ever thought that would be a good idea.
Different strokes I guess, can’t stand raisins but I adore banana chips
Cereal does make a good ice cream topping.
Also, this is the second webcomic I’ve read in a week that has had a mouse-over comment about Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
My son has boxes of cereal 24/7 in his dorm room. Between that and LoL, I’m not sure he ever leaves.
Better than me and my friends perhaps. At least he’s covering a variety of food groups. In my circle, we have one fellow who only eats dates, one fellow who only eats canned raspberries, and another who eats nothing but dried pork. On the plus side, we only ever need to go shopping once, and then we’re good for all semester.
Lord of Lorecraft?
No, it’s clearly Lore of Lovecraft!
Leaugue of Lunchables?
Legend of Legend?
That is me right now.
That is me every year of my life from birth to death.
OH MY GOD IT’S HAPPENING!!!!!!!!
The adorkable-splse Has Begun!!!!!
I warned you all this would happen!
IT HAS BEGUN!!!
Dina has found her true friend. Let the fanfics BEGIN!
Like they ever stopped.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I meant the new ones. They are like tiny babies slowly learning to swear. Both beautiful and creepy in wonderful ways.
YES, SHE HAS WINGS! (I HAVE WIIINGS!)
AND I CAN FLY (I CAN FLYYYYY)
AROUND THE MOON, AND FAR BEYOND THE SKY!
You called my name, and you set me free…
One small, voice in the universe.
One true, friend in the universe.
~Who believes in me.~
I didn’t even get one full line in before I dropped all pretense of filking.
*Shrugs* Ah, well. Ten points to anyone who gets the reference.
Seussical
Haha! Yes!
Reference to filking itself, or reference to the song you were filking?
If it’s the song, Horton sang it.
Yep! Horton and Jojo.
I’ve got it!
They’re magically transported to the Land of Cereal, where together they must defeat the Soggies or else they will rule.
Throw in Captain Crunch and Tony the Tiger piloting a giant robot running on Lucky Charms and you got it.
I thought that was implied.
Where do we work in that Cheerios bee?
Right after Snap, Crackle, and Pop finish baking the Apple Jacks guys into a pie.
Anybody writing fanfics has already forgotten that Riley is strictly cerealsexual and thus has no interest in Dina outside of their mutual hatred of Soggies.
You are probably thinking of slashfics.
I was going to joke about not being aware that there was a different kind, but realized that would be insulting to all those people writing interesting, creative fiction that just happens to be set in an existing property’s universe.
But still.
Riley is also what, 11? 12? I can’t remember. PRETTY SURE Dina isn’t into that. All fanfiction will be 100% SFW.
Dina has met her soul-mate.
They need to go to the natural history museum together.
“Where to they tell the history of Lucky Charms? Or Cheerios? What kind of dumb place is this?”
Heterosexual life partners!
I admit, like most First Worlders, I take my cereal for granted.
Roz would totally agree with Riley if she replaced Cocoa Puffs with different names for genitals.
Fucky Charms.
Count Cockula.
BoobBerry.
Felati’Os.
Apple Jackoffs.
Count Cockula
+1
Product 69
Special Lay
Honey Bunches of O’s
Grope Nuts
…and of course, the wince-worthy, no changed needed…
Banana Nut Crunch
I lost it at honey bunches of O’s. You win.
How did you miss Frosted Fucks
Same way I missed Porn Flakes.
I’m pretty sure FRUIT LOOPS are where it’s at.
You can’t be cereal.
Cinnamon Life, dammit!
oh my god now I want cinnamon toast crunch so bad
so bad
so bad
maybe I’ll…
NO
I’m this close to jumping up and grabbing the box from my kitchen and just eating it straight out of the box.
Welcome to Being an Adult.
hooray!!
though I’m totally not going to go buy CTC. sorry kiddoz.
You seemed to misspell that. Its spelled Froot Loops.
3 words: Count. Chocula. bongo!
Nutri-Grain® is where it is at when you want a sugar overload and best of all, it is marketed as a healthy ‘Iron-Man’ food.
Fruit Loops are unclean and condemned by the Bible.
Mary would like to have a word with you.
They’re always after my Lucky Charms!
Though if “they” were as adorable as Dina and Riley, I might be inclined to share. Who could say no if they threatened to cry?
I prefer cinnamon toast crunch. Or similar generic brand. I respect your differing taste.
…
However.
This is the Internet.
And the Internet hates respect for anything.
Nothing is Sacred. Everything is permitted until the admins show up.
Therfore.
HOW DARE YOU LIKE THAT PROCESSEED FROT JUNK! IT TASTS LIKE TEH UNDERPITS OF SEVERAL DISEASED FAT MEN@ I CANT BELIBE THT U CULD LIKE SOMETHING AS HORRIbLE AS THE SPIT WHICH ISSUES FROM THE BOTTON OF A SNAKES STINK! AS DEBASED AS A WOOLY MAMOTH WIth AN EAGLE”S TOLIET! AS FILTHY AS MY LANGUAGE!
I do not like it.
(actually i do, but that’s beside the point.)
your dedication to trolly rage in your spelling is admirable! I think I would just throw up in my mouth (where else?) if I tried to type that.
http://xkcd.com/1238/
I’m not ready.
My word. That sentence was so bad that it winded me; I’m literally coughing as if I’ve just been hit full force in the chest.
I tried typing it incorrectly spelling most of them, and typed them correctly on accident. I winced when I tried to read it.
Fools, it’s all about Frosties.
Nope, Wheaties are where “it’s” at.
OH YEAH! REAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS!!!!
-correction!-
Nope, Wheaties are where “it’s” at.
OH YEAH! BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS!!!!
The Breakfast of Champions is Mountain Dew and cold pizza from the night before.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Meanwhile, the “breakfast of champignons” is fried mushrooms.
This strip fills me with “yaaaayyyyyy”.
Louder! 😀
Dina and Riley are the SAME size? CRIKEY!
She has been mistaken for being too young to be in college before.
Actually, do we know that she didn’t skip some grades or something?
Hope you’re not suggesting that Dina is also underaged, that would make the Dina shippers a tad uncomfortable to say the least.
True, and Willis would probably nip that in the bud if it was the case like he did with the mini-DeSanto.
Not if they’re shipping her with Riley…
Somehow I dont think Willis will approve of lolishipping.
Too late! It’s done.
To infinity, and beyond!
There’s no stopping this train!
This is the internet. Not sure what rule applies, but someone will have a fetish for it, and there will be porn of it.
34, I think you’ll find, has this covered.
Not yet it doesn’t
Don’t temt it!
It was only a matter of time before they were in a strip together. Soon, all the strips will be Dina and Riley. Then, the world.
I, for one, welcome our cereal-loving overlords.
Heh, it’s still funny to see “Hoosier” just printed on a shirt like that. I guess I need to keep in mind that it’s not an insult in most of the country.
Where is it an insult? Because I’ve never heard it refer to any group other than people from Indiana, and it’s not an insult here.
For some reason, it is used as a synonym for “redneck” in St. Louis. I still have no idea why.
…Huh. Apparently accidental-lowercase-me has a Joyce avatar. Good to know.
My email with a capital first letter is Joyce too…
Ssssh! You’re giving away the trick.
Gravatar test! (Had to try it right away!)
…and nothing changed. I’d read it was email related. Perhaps Luzahn also was accidentally lower case w/ email as well as name.
Yeah, the emails appear to have differed as well.
Although I see your two posts as being Ethan and Mike, did I miss the intent?
A girl after my own heart… and stomach.
Cocoa Puffs Uber Alles!!
All aboard the Rilina!
if you mean in a strictly friendly, cereal-consuming way…
THEN YES!! HOORAY!!!
Is the last name of the Rilina, Peacecraft?
*Buys a ticket and checks luggage.
I really can’t think of anyone I would want to see Dina with honestly, so far in the comic, except maybe Joyce’s sister (brother ? I can’t remember if s/he was ftm or mtf) and even that’s iffy. She’s too good for any of the cast right now, and I don’t want to resee what happened with Walky or Mike, as much as they’re possibly my favorite male characters. Maybe Dina and Joe, that could actually be kind of amazing if she could conquer him.
She’s male to female. I personally think that Dina would love Walky.
I’m just gonna go over here and squee at the adorableness. Adorability. Whatevs.
Cocoa Puffs are relatively easy to talk your parents into getting, but Count Chocula? Ugh, forget about it.
Buy them at Halloween and store them.
Take a look at the expiration date-trust me, they’ll keep.
I was going to yell at you for presuming that your privileged, Cocoa Puff laden childhood was one we all shared, but you’re right, Count Chocula was basically the stuff of legend in my house. Sometimes, I wasn’t even sure if it had ever existed to begin with.
I’ve literally never had Count Chocula once in my life. First Halloween after I move out…
Why have Cocoa Puffs when you have the unlimited bliss of Golden Grahams??
Kids these days…
-_-
you shall be punished.
I like to punish you now. I send you the Blagole.
HOORAY! THEY HAVE FINALLY MET!!!! 😀
but unfortuntly soggies will rule
Blasphemy
Not Captain Star has anything to say about it.
May rule. May. It’s not written in stone. Or cereal. Whatever.
Does anyone else actively cheer for soggies? The more they conquer, the more cereal I can consume without concern for my ridiculously delicate mouth. Otherwise, the delicious processed sugary goodness will happily slice open the roof of my mouth in vengeance.
That last panel just made my night.
WILLIS, YOU FOOL! YOU HAVE CROSSED THE STREAMS OF ADORABLENESS!
I am imagining a giant Coco-Pops based destroyer of worlds being created now.
Twenty story Rabbit battles behemoth Cukoo, laying waste to Tokyo.
Is it a Stay Puft Marbit Man?
lol aww, Riley is adorable.
Also…. is Dina having a bowl of Fruity Pebbles? ‘cuz it kinda looks like that.
Could be Trix
Or Lucky Captain King Nuggets.
“Ridiculous Lucky Captain Rabbit King! Lucky Captain Rabbit King Nuggets are for the youth!”
+1
Was that a powerpuff girls reference? And there’s a final fantasy 7 reference further up.
The commenters here make me happy. Just thought you should know :).
Trixs are for kids, not grownups. :p
Silly Plas, Trix are for rabbits.
Nah-ah!
Yeah, it turns out Trix are for rabbits but the kids being total assholes and the universe just love screwing around with the Trix rabbit that he never got to taste it.
And Kix are for trids. Silly Rabbi…
So in our Shadowrun game one evening, the street sam and the physad were having an argument about which was more suitable for trideo broadcasts of combat sports, magic or cyberware. The sammy finally came out with an indisputable argument in favor of cyberclaws: “Silly adept, *snikt*s are for trid.”
Apparently Opus and I know the same joke.
RILEY AND DINA: THE ULTIMATE DREAM TEAM.
And also the death of the universe. You know what happens when you cross the streams of adorableness?
Total protonic reversal?
Complete hyper-cute meltdown. All who see them melt into puddles of baby talk.
It’s fatal.
It’s so fatal you die.
It’s so fatal your ghost dies.
Just for funsies I checked out the DoA playlist that Willis posted on his Tumblr and…
…And Halestorm has done a cover of a Daft Punk song. WHAT?! How did this glorious thing escape my notice?! How was this moment not written of in prophesy and holy texts? Humanity has peaked, it’s all downhill from here.
Everything is Dina and Riley now.
And already the Dina/Riley shippers are busy…
“Ew”, said Riley.
Dina blushed, not wanting to show her hidden affections for the raven haired girl.
I’ve never had Cocoa Puffs. But Cinnamon Toast Crunch is great until your tongue burns.
Man, Riley and Dina together, the greatest of buddies.
You’ve never had Cocoa Puffs? You poor, poor thing. You best get some now and bask in the glory.
I’ve never even seen them in a grocery store in Canada…
Like, this is the first time I’ve heard of them.
Perhaps one of the Amurricans here could send a care package your way consisting of several dozen boxes of the stuff.
When I lived in Hong Kong I got Koko Krunch. If it tastes anything like that I’m down!
Imagine Kix, only chocolate flavored.
Side benefit — the milk you add to the cereal turns chocolate.
Never heard of Kix either.
tongue… burns?
it’s been too long I guess
Try eating several bowls without milk and then you’ll know what I’m talking about.
Silly, you should only do that with Frosted Mini Wheats!
But… Cereal needs milk. It is incomplete without it.
Tell that to Linkara! 🙂
Don’t care. If I let the milk in, the soggies always ruin my cereal before I can finish it. No milk in my cereal, thank you very much.
Note that I don’t care if you guys eat milk with your cereal. I just resent the implication that cereal needs milk to be complete. /notreallyresentful
That burning is the Lord’s way of letting you know He disapproves of eating cereal without milk.
KOKO KRUCH RULES!
I haven’t had any since I moved from Hong Kong almost a decade ago… It was so good.
The cafeteria at my job offers six different kinds of cereal…and none of them are Cocoa Puffs. Thanks for reminding me, Willis. I may need to cry now.
At least there’s Froot Loops.
She’s like a female version of walky
Oh hey Dina
She just need’s to looks a little more like sal and BAM! female Walky clone
I never realized just how small Dina is until I saw her standing next to Roz.
The problem with having infinite cocoa puffs in any one place is that they would form a planet-devouring singularity.
Unicron?
Most delicious Galactus-ripoff ever!
You guys think she’s kidding. Freshman year I had unlimited meal trades, didn’t get any cereal because I didn’t like any of it. Start of this year with limited meal trades and BAM! Mother Honey Golden Grahams.
Now let me set this straight. Golden Grahams are the creme de la creme of cereal (For me at least) and I had a limited amount of meal trades this year, and I was on a diet. I cried. I dedicated protein day to eating burgers and Golden grahams this semester. And while I may be out of meal trades… I regret nay a second.
Golden Grahams are delicious.
They’re pretty good…but Cinnamon Toast Crunch is king in my book.
Lucky Charms.
hehehe Look how happy Dina is!
poor Dina, she finally meets someone who she understands and that someone is leaving to go home soon!
We can safely say that Riley is Coo coo for Cocoa Puffs.
What’s the ‘backpack around Europe’ bit about and why does she not want to go anymore.
Riley wanted to backpack around Europe?
I know, it seems like an odd thing to say without any apparent context.
If she backpacks around Europe, then she we won’t be able to feast gloriously on cereal in IU.
because of UNLIMITED CEREAL OMG
also it is a thing that The Kids say, that they are going to backpack around Europe, as if that’s a reasonably affordable option for nearly anyone, with tickets being upwards of $1200 to get to anywhere in europe, before food, lodging, doing anything
So she wanted to backpack around Europe jsut to enjoy Cocoa Puffs everyday??
Nah, she told her teacher she wanted to backpack around Europe when she grew up because it sounds like a cool thing to do, but now she’s hoping she’s got a legal loophole to get out of that so she can just go to college and eat Cocoa Puffs all day instead.
Well, she does have a congresswoman for a sister, so I’m sure she has more money than the typical kid.
Robin’s constituents: “EUROPE?! Home of socialism?! How DARE our congresswoman allow her own family to get indoctrinated!”
I personally quite like it. It makes Europe sound less boring.
Cost of IU – approximately $20,000 a year for instate student
(from their website)
Spending $50 a day backpacking around Europe for a year? About the same cost. (18,500 + airfare/train ticket).
There are a lot of hidden costs on both sides: How much do language lessons cost to make travel easier? What about a laptop for school? Clothing for both of them? Phone/Entertainment budget for both of them?
The biggest difference is you can’t get loans or grants to go to Europe.
You can get <$800 if you book way in advance.
Riley is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters. This was me all of freshman year.
Almost fifteen minutes since the strip went up and no one made the obvious reference about “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs”??
Too easy.
Look up my comment there, Bill. But I’ll try this again. It looks like Riley is -puts on sunglasses- Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Look at the time hacks — we posted almost simultaneously. Your post wasn’t visible until after I clicked to submit mine.
Ok….
Riley deploys nutritionally vehement yet tactically brilliant preemptive strikes in the defense of cocoa puffs.
Riley killed and stuffed her mother but keeps hearing her talking about green vegetables whenever she thinks about cocoa puffs.
Riley would like to talk to you a few minutes about accepting the light and glory of cocoa puffs in your life, that you may be saved.
Riley is going to marry Kendall J Powell, CEO of General Mills, producers of cocoa puffs. And then she’s going to eat him.
Sorry guys, I just woke up.
Riley??? Riley!? You’re freaking out! And when you freak out, I FREAK OUT?!
(Replying to Alt-Text)
Eh, I’m more of a Crave person myself. Whatever happened to s’mores, though?
Yeah, this is ship launching material, even if it’s just a comedic one.
And by ship, i mean large white bowl sailing through a sea of milk. Captained by CAPTAIN CRUNCH OH MY GOD IT’S A SIGN FROM THE HEAVENS
On a side note, Dina and Riley are officially two of the most adorable characters ever conceived.
I cannot BELIEVE this is the first mention of captain crunch in the comments.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE, PB CAPTAIN CRUNCH IS GOD TIER.
Well, at least Riley has her priorities in order. Cocoa Puffs > Sexual Liberation. Every day of the week.
Dina has a potential friend who gets her in the last panel. God must be in his heaven, because all is right with the world.
There is no god there is only Willis.
So does that mean we have to attack him with pilotable bioengineered horrors, or would he just enjoy that too much?
And Willis loves to make us suffer.
He eats our pain with milk and a light sprinkling of brown sugar.
He is one of the old gods….he demands sacrifice!
Wait, I thought we were talking about Willis, not Calvin…
…
…now I am picturing Willis as a grown-up Calvin.
CANNOT UNSEE.
You do realize she’s about to leave before the end of today?
Just saying. Cocoa Puff and the Marshmallows from Lucky charms own every cereal. All of them.
David, your outrage face on Riley in panel one is entirely too adorable
THE TASTE YOU CAN SEEEE
Appropriate avatar is appropriate.
I love this child XD
Is it too soon to ship it? I don’t care, I ship it.
SHE’S 12!!!
There is such a thing as non-sexual shipping…
FRIENDSHIPPING!!!
HERE HERE!!! She’s the best character of them all! So cute! I Friend-Ship it!
Seriously, Dina hopefully isn’t a pedo.
It’s too soon because Riley is massively underage. Beyond inappropriate.
Do either of them even know what sex is? [Well, I guess Riley has had it shoved down her throat, as it were, BUT THEY CAN STILL BFF DAMMIT]
I’m sure Dina intellectually understands and could give a clinically detailed explanation of the mechanisms and evolutionary implications of sexual reproduction, but while that puts her ahead of Joyce “Give my tummy all of your thing!” Brown, it still kind of misses the point…
I’d like to see Dina describe sexual acts.
Granted! And your next wish is…?
The only ship Riley wants to be on is the Good Ship Cocoa Puff.
Honey Nut Cheerios dude. Everything else is insufficient.
Roz is not amused! 🙂
Riley: “Dammit Roz, why do I have to wear this thing for again?”
But it’s ribbed for her pleasure.
NO NO NO NO NO dudes DUDES willis has said repeatedly to PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NOT SEXUALIZE RILEY (in so many words)
TWELVE YEARS OLD
tweeeeelve
CUT IT OUT
You’re not from around here, are you?
oh my friends, I have been reading mr willis’s comics for a long time. regardless, uh, pedophilia jokes are pretty off-color, and I don’t think it takes a genius to see that. right? right???
I mean the general here: reality. People’re going to do it regardless of anyone else’s wishes, it’s just a matter of whether you see it or not.
If you don’t agree with rachel, I wish that you were not from around here.
And by “wish” I mean “strictly enforce your departure from this website.”
I’ll be good.
http://www.dailywav.com/sites/default/files/wavs/itsacartoon.wav
You must be new to this…
—-
The Internet is really really great…
FOR PORN!!!!
Hush, let the poor newb wallow in blissful ignorance a little while longer.
I agree with you but I don’t think the condom hat is itself particularly sexual?
oh cool so what do you use your condoms for
hats
pretty much walked right into that one
I wonder if Kerny will like this pic.
Cereal rules.
So do Riley and Dina.
What is life without cereal?
Milk.
Milk soup.
Toast.
Which, yknow, is perfectly acceptable. Just sometimes you wanna change it up a bit, yeah?
Crumpets.
I’ll just leave this here and let the cereal fans battle it out among themselves…
http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-breakfast-cereals-of-all-time
>Frosted Flakes ranked #1
But that’s wrong…
Frosted Flakes are good but Captain Crunch is definitely better
If only you guys been to Malaysia…you never tasted Koko Krunch or Honey Stars.
Read: most popular. Not best.
This is very true. Sometimes we just get to-go boxes and fill them with nothing but Lucky Charms.
ONE PANEL TOGETHER AND I ALREADY SHIP IT
No. No no no. You fail. Get out.
Dina and Riley = OTP/BFF!
The acronym you’re looking for is BrOTP.
I remember grabbing one of the to-go styrofoam containers and filling it with Cocoa Puffs or Lucky Charms in the dining hall a couple times a week.
Or when I started working there, just taking home all the leftover hamburgers and bacon and tacos that I could.
Word of advice to college students and those about to enter college:
DO NOT WORK IN THE DINING HALL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO HATE YOUR LIFE AND/OR LOSE ALL FAITH IN HUMANITY. Seriously, my time on the dining hall staff permanently damaged my faith in humanity and exposed me to the true stupidity of people for the first time. Seriously, you’d think that some of them were raised by animals from the messes they made and left.
You mean, don’t work in any capacity where you have to deal directly with customers (or their aftermath) =p
though, if more people DID, I bet there’d be fewer assholes
Excellent point. you are totally right. it’s the ones who have been servers who always tip the best!
Mostly.
and people that have worked in customer service tend to be polite and clean up after themselves.
I’m done with customer service jobs, or jobs that require you to regularly deal with non-coworkers. A people person I am not, no matter how hard I try to be.
I always feel like people constantly judge humanity as a whole – an accumulated one hundred thousand million lifetimes, or 35 000 000 000 000 000 man hours of people being people – by a few acts by a few individuals that show either the best or the worst we have to offer, depending on if they want to think well of us or not.
Dining hall? Dining hall??
I don’t even wanna think about that, having seen the state that people who are supposed to be responsible adults are able to leave a previously pristine Lecture Theatre in after a 90-minute seminar.
At my school you weren’t allowed to bring food out, unless you were getting a specifically packed to-go lunch. People still stole food with their own containers. And utensils and dishes. Douchebags.
That’s how the world works, kiddo. You’re not allowed anything until you’re too old to simply not care you have it anymore.
D there has what looks like fruity pebbles. no surprise there. I’d go for plain Captain Crunch myself. Love that shit.
Now I want to eat cereal…
So many American cereals that I don’t know about…
Do you at least have Krave?
Do you have Koko Krunch where you’re from?
No we do not.
American cereal is straight up balls to the wall weird by international standards. But then, so are most of their breakfast choices.
OK we’ve got yer cornflakes … frosted cornflakes … honey + nut cornflakes? (certainly a favourite in Britain) … special K / its equivalents … rice krispies … chocolate krispies (by various regional names) … sometimes frosted krispies … cheerios or equivalent … chocolate cheerios … shredded wheat … shreddies / grahams … frosted / golden version of that … and, weetabix?
So far so fairly normal. But then you start going down the rabbit hole.
I bought a box of Fruit Loops once, which had escaped from the “world foods” aisle onto the shop-soiled cart. It was still somewhat expensive vs my normal choices, but no more than a regular box of cereal off the normal shelves would be, so I figured I’d give it a go.
Can’t say I saw the attraction. Or that I was able to taste the fruit.
The rest of them – pebbles, lucky charms, captain crunch, count chocula and the rest – are a very closed book.
Though, I wonder … do they have, or have they ever had, “Start”? I really miss that. It was so bizarre a concept, about as close as we ever got to space-cereal I think.
What about Coco Pops: Moons and Stars? They were pretty spacey.
We got Honey Stars in Malaysia.
This was my mentality when it came to chocolate soft serve.
Since they renovated the dining halls they only have vanilla soft serve ice cream in any of the machines.
and i am sad
Wait what
You live somewhere
that has a machine
which dispenses unlimited whippy icecream
ready for putting into a cone and licking
then refilling
and refilling
and refilling
AND THIS IS A BAD THING?
Where even is this? I’m going to go to there. And then, I am going to kill you, and steal your identity.
And all the icecream.
ALL OF IT.
PS chocolate topping sauce is hellsacheap, bro.
The bad thing is that twirls is in the situation of…
Lives somewhere
that had a machine
which dispensed unlimited chocolate icecream
ready for putting into a cone and licking
then refilling
and refilling
and refilling
…but no longer does.
I remember this one Maccas in Queensland where they had chocolate softserves for 30c… I miss that.
All the cereal all the time!
Live the dream.
The cocoa puffs dream.
With milk from this giant invisible cow.
One presumes there is a milk dispenser.
nah dude definitely a giant invisible cow
Oh, so THAT’S how breakfast works in the DoA world. I get it, now.
(And that’s why Riley couldn’t just go and get her own damn breakfast…)
Man, and I thought I had it good keeping an eye out for the shop-soiled boxes of cereal that mean I can get a pound and a half of /real/ honey nut cornflakes for 50p… I mean, there’s /cheap/ and then there’s “very nearly free, if you have enough of them in one go”.
Sure beats hell out of the unbranded super-value crap (plain cornflakes or plain rice crispies, always slightly soft and/or deflated even right out of the pack) that I had to put up with at college as that’s all I could afford.
Porridge is a better breakfast option but unfortunately it just doesn’t taste as good…
No one is asking the important question: are those Fruity Pebbles Dina holds in her grasp, or is there something else out there dyed in those delightful colors?
Oh, and I’m still wondering what happens if you introduce her to Cadbury Egg Cereal.
She will wake up after 3 days and discover that she’s the new school council president.
The stupid adult in me says “Oh no, be good and eat a healthy breakfast”. Well no more! I will be going out and getting a box of Honeycomb cereal, because THAT’S where it’s at! 🙂
CINNAMON LIFE FO’ LIFE
Weren’t people saying that Dina and Riley should become friends, or pair up as a buddy cop duo a while back.
YES! I mean. I didn’t. but WOW what a good idea
Riley and Dina, now and forever, BFFs. So when do we get the spinoff comic that’s just them eating cereal and talking about dinosaurs?
Wow, those eyebrows probably influence the tides.
I want everyone here to know that my husband, a stroke neurologist, loves to eat a bowl cereal for dinner. I tend to consider cereal a snack myself, and eat it straight out of the box, like chips. Also, Dina and Riley…what’s the word for girl bromance?
Very cute 🙂 I love the contrast between his ultra serious job and the kiddie style cereal. Everyone needs an outlet, and I imagine a stroke neurologist more than most!
Is it just me, or does anyone else read Dina’s lines with Starfire’s voice?
Somehow I read that as “Starscream’s voice” at first.
I think I like that better, actually.
I hear it as Fluttershy’s voice myself… yay!
She does make the perfect fluttershy doesn’t she?
On some deep, existential level, Walky is kicking himself for not being involved in this conversation.
Cereal for a snack is great…and Captain Crunch is where it’s at!
Who is Mrs. Piper?
I think we are to assume that she is a teacher or guidance counselor at Riley’s school.
I think we are to assume that she is a teacher or guidance counselor at Riley’s school. Remember? Anything that happens in school goes on your *PERMANENT RECORD*…….
Here I sit alone all day,
muchin’ on my special K
Another vote for Lucky Charms.
Although I had a soft spot for Apple Jacks, but there’s a backstory. I was a freshman orientation leader, and we would play a video every week for the noobs that Student Housing had put together, about communal living and the dining hall and all that.
Now Student Housing was like one of those uncles who thinks he’s still young and fresh, even though nobody says “fresh” anymore (I was an RA too, so I got it from both ends), and so the video was all ham-handed overwrought attempts at appealing to frickin’ kids who think they know everything. As such, most people tuned it out. But they came back when this stoner dude appears on camera, eyes barely open, cheesy grin, and mumbles, “I’m not right without my Apple Jacks in the morning.”
This. This right here.
This is officially my new favorite comic. 🙂
Also, Riley’s my new favorite character.
I’m starting a “Riley Needs Glasses Too” campaign.
Who’s in?
Do you mean something like THIS, OmegaDez?
Ah, dear Moongoose. I knew you were listening. 🙂
Now, let’s just hope Willis thinks it’s a good idea too.
Enjoy cereal while you can! I found out a few months ago I’ve got a wheat sensitivity that can go into a full blown, serious allergy if I eat too much wheat. Soooo now my cereal options are dramatically reduced. 🙁
Dina made a friend. See, miracles DO happen!
I don’t eat any cereal that has sugar as one of the first two ingredients.
Haha, yeah my friends tend to think I am weird but I have always preferred stuff like plain Cheerios and Special-K to the sugary stuff. I never added any sugar either. IDK, it is not like I do not like sweets, I am just not really a fan of sweet cereals.
I can’t countenance her taste in junky food, but I can empathize with her really wanting to have it.
Looks like Riley can’t see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
She really is a DeSanto after all. That’s a relief.
I’m glad this came up again. A few weeks back, I reread Dumbing of Age and found myself feeling a bit nostalgic about the college-campus-full-of-cereal that I totally didn’t appreciate at the time. Mourning what might have been for nearly a full minute, I eventually realized that as a grown-ass adult with a middle class income, I could damn well eat all the cereal I wanted.
I went to the store, and bought enough boxes of enough types of cereal that I got more than one funny look. For two days, it was heaven. Sure, all that fiber left me a little gassy, but being able to simply eat delicious food whenever I was hungry without an ounce of preparation was lovely. After the third morning, though, I stopped eating. I stopped eating altogether.
There are no words to describe the horrible nausea, constipation, and bloating that results from eating -nothing- but cheerios, chex, banana nut crunch, and so on. I looked like I was pregnant and felt like an alien chestburster was trying to claw its way out of my intestinal tract. Drinking lots of water and taking lots of walks, I still only found relief on the fourth morning of this ill-fated experiment. It was hell.
Now, I’m not saying that Dina can’t eat cereal all day if she wants. She’s of a different age, gender and race than me, and our intestinal flora are sure to differ as well. More importantly, she is fictional and unbound by the treachery of real world biology. But, if it ever comes up, no matter how much or how disgusting his Taco Bell splurge might be, Walky should not be considered a shoe-in for a Dumbing of Age farting contest.
Thanks for the comics, Willis. They are as they have always been, an inspiration.
See, that’s why it’s dessert for me. After dinner, and only one bowl at a time.
Although, I have finally tried Frosted Mini-Wheats [or, the store-generic version], and I seriously don’t taste the appeal. Might be the store brandness, but I can’t fathom that the “real” version is significantly better.
I think I can see how both Roz and Robin tried to shape their little sister in their own image.
They both succeeded.
Which means they both failed.
I have shipped them as best friends forever!
That’s what I call…
FriendShip.
Cragalanch doesn’t like Coco Puffs. Cragalanch likes Frankenberry
I used to get two or three bowls and mix them all together like sodas.
I also like cereal. 😛
Finally the main character returns.
Both of them!
Dumbing of Age!
Starring Dina and Riley.
Everyone else is the secondary characters!
I am really hungry and this only made me want cereal. Two giant bowls of cereal.
D-DANG YOU WILLISTERS
DangYouWillisters is my low-budget knock-off doppelganger.
This girl used the word “unfettered” in a sentence. And what is she, 12? She is some kind of genius.
I once had a friend’s three-year-old daughter greet me at the door with, “John, John, I vanquished Daddy in battle!”
Twelve is plenty old enough to have a reasonable vocabulary.
It does make me suspect that she might be one of those deviant freak children who reads books, though.
great page
Anyone else remember Waffle Crisp? Just me? I miss those little sugary fucks…
There’s a little irony in the fact that my primary problem with Cinnamon Toast Crunch is that it gets soggy too quickly. Of course, Golden Grahams were always my favorite and they had the same problem.
Can…. Can we just have a Dina & Riley spinoff?
But can Willis see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?