![[0741] Under A Killer Balloon: The Cereal Killer, Page 19](/comics/2015-12-03-0741-under-a-killer-balloon-the-cereal-killer-page-19.png "[0741] Under A Killer Balloon: The Cereal Killer, Page 19")
And this, dear food processing industry, is exactly why you shouldn’t change the formula of your products!
Also, every Pearls Before Swine reader should have known from the start that a character named Tommy won’t see the end of a story arc alive. Disregard this, I’m stupid.
- Roger Brown: Very good. Now I can finally finish my work on the new Crunchies formula!
- Lloyd Parker: You changed the formula of the best cereal of all time?!!
- Roger Brown: That’s correct!
- Lloyd Parker: … And I thought Tommy was the bad guy in this story!
- Lloyd Parker: Die, fiend, die!
- Roger Brown: Wait, no!!
- Roger Brown: ARGH!!
- Sandy South: Uh-oh.
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2 villains with one hero and a volcano. That works for me.
That is some rough day for them.
I hope Sandy can figure out how to drive one of those cars, fast – and that the keys are still in it. (Qoo can’t reach the pedals, so he’s out.)
Well that certainly won’t scar Sandra for life 😀
Sandy: “It looks like things are going… south.”
It would seem unlikely that none of them had the sex, I wonder what Huitzilpoctli will do in anger at this failure to meet His specifications. Also, this arc has gotten weird even by the standards of S&W, to the point I’m wondering if there is some ending that reveals none of this actually happened.
So, because Sandy South and Qoo interfered, two people died who wouldn’t have otherwise. But Roger was misguided, Tommy was evil/crazy, and Lloyd was insane, so… haha?
I see what went wrong here. As Lloyd was attacking Roger, his fedora flew off. If that hat had stayed on, I guarantee that he would have simply flew out of that volcano unscathed.
Izek wrote:
I planned to do a much more conventional serial killer story arc, but I wasn’t able to come up with good ideas for it. So I wrote this instead which practically wrote itself.
“And that’s how Huitzilopochtli arose and, thanking me for my part in his revival, changed Crunchies back to the original recipe.” -Sandra at lunch the next day.
3 Virgins for a sacrifice?
On the unrelated note. Lloyd is right, Roger is the worst guy in this story…
Trimutius wrote:
While I think this honor goes to Tommy, people shouldn’t forget that he suggested that Tommy should rather sacrifice Sandra than him.
Aww… I liked Lloyd.
…and everyone died. The end.
Uh-oh.
It sounds like the Volcano God preferred the Original Recipe too.
.
It was all that Extra Sugar.
The Volcano god has been trying to Lose all that extra Lava weight.
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It was a noble sacrifice.
I just noticed Qoo now wielding the brain manipulator. And being the only one wearing a protecting hat to boot.
Of course there would only be one eligible target present at the moment. And that’s someone he usually wouldn’t use that device on. But who knows what the future may hold?
(Probably them ditching the gun to run for their very lives, but hey! 😉 )
Van wrote:
Yeah, but only one of ’em is a virgin. Volcano god not like?
@ Lukkai:
Lukkai wrote:
Methinks Sandra keeps it as a Christmas present for Larisa.
You do NOT
MESS,
WITH A G’s cereal.
Just turn around and walk away then act like nothing happen.
Ding dong, Tommy’s dead!
RIP?
At least one virgin, possibly two, has been sacrificed.
So, a rather unpleasant demon god should now return.
Prepare for even more weirdness.
I think I know what the “uh oh” is about: Sandra now has to explain the missing persons with no other witnesses to corroborate her story.
So, yes, we did start with raisins in cereal. Thanks!
This strip just goes to show that learning Woo can talk is fatal. Poor Sandra.
@ rileytaskman:
No rocks fell, just rockheads.
….did Sandra and Woo just witness the death of three people? Dang, this comic just got DARK!
@ WizardOfIz:
Poor Landon… But I am curious about what she would do with that kind of power.
On another note, Lloyd knows he’s holding a shotgun, right?
myth buster wrote:
Methinks a big bad volcano going BOOM while she’s standing near it’s crater might be a slightly better reason for her concern.
Plus: Who will bring back the original formula now?
Death is funny if it’s absurd enough.
Actually I’d kind of like to see what Larissa does with a brain manipulator. Probably set it on fire but the possibilities are intriguing.
… Great. Now the only people who can confirm this happened are Woo, a talking raccoon. And Sandra, a girl with a known imagination.
And “tomorrow”, Huitzilpoctli, angry at being proffered non-spec sacrifices, spits them back up to the top of the cliff. There, having seen the light from their near-death experiences, regain their sanity and go on to become monks and servants to their fellow man.
Nobody dies, justice is served and peace and well-being ensues.
Some probably did when they fell, so… Rocks fall, everybody dies.
Wait… how are they going to drive back?
Go in wanting better cereal, come out with deep mental scarring.
Lol! all 3 instead of 2? this is even better then i predicted!
Looks Huitzilopochtli got two more for the price of one.
3 virgins for the price of one
Adelle Whiteshade wrote:
Sandra is quite robust, I’ll bet. The bad and the crazy killed each other of, time to walk home now 😉
Huitzilpoctli will be glad for the 3 virgins and will happily arise out of the volcano. And it will fall to Seeoahtlahmakaskay to come and stop him from doing things that evil gods of war do.
Okay, well this is something I never thought I’d see in this comic.
I don’t think I want to know what the rest of this arc will be like.
“Woo, you know how to drive a stick?”
Noooooo not paranoid-guy! He was funny!
… wait he has no phones, he can’t die then. Well that’s a relief. But the other two are long dead. *claps* Shakesperean tragic love stories are always touching. But my popcorn disappeared.
In Pearls Before Swine the name “Timmy” is a death sentence, not “Tommy”.
As thus ends the tale of how the only english-speaking raccoon in history got his own POV Gun. Long live our new overlord.
@ tomlak:
Was it ever said he’s evil? Maybe the whole virgin sacrifice thing just pisses him off and he hates it, like Lucifer in Drive Angry or DC comics.
Ashes, ashes, they all fall DOWN!
Sandy South’s mental scarring will be much less if she turns away and plugs her ears. Falling into lava would be a quick death, but not quite instantaneous.
I think Sandra North just melted a few GI Joes. She’s starting to think like Larisa.