One of my favorite strips of the year. I really like how the artwork turned out here.
- Huitzilopochtli: Huitzilopochtli means “Hummingbird of the South”. What did you expect?!
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[0742] Under A Killer Balloon: The Cereal Killer, Page 20
└ posted on Monday, 7 December 2015, by Novil
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Well I didn’t expect something in particular… I’m surprised that Huitzilopochtli showed up in person rather…
Hey, don’t laugh. Hummingbirds can be vicious.
@ Trimutius:
The virgins went in the fire. I guess that’s all the ceremony required.
I wonder how the original problem will be resolved?
“Get your own Aztec god in every cereal box!” (And then they run out of gods, and have to include lumps of sugar …)
Lookfar wrote:
I meant I was thinking it will be just a voice…
Uh-oh, now we have a god that takes blood sacrifices. Something tells me this is going to be a very different personality from Seeoh and Thomas J. God.
… Remember when this was about cereal?
Do raccoons generally eat hummingbirds?
@ Mr. Random:
You mean like the strip before this one? 😛
@ Xezlec:
Nah, sacrificing some honey and nector should suffice.
“Don’t taunt the Aztec god.”
“Why? Can he hurt me?”
“No, it’s just… tacky.”
@ Xezlec:
I want to erase my memory of everything that happened from Part 4 to part 19 of this arc, just to see how I would react. I think it would be halarious XD
@ Mr. Random:
Well… Yeah… They just… *Sigh*
…okay? Now, I haven’t looked up a lot of mythologies and religions of the region, so how powerful is the guy?
i hope Huitzilopochtli is a reoccurring character
@ Mr. Random:
THAT BETTER BE SOME GREAT CEREAL . now that 3 men have been consumed by fire>@ Mr. Random:
Hummingbirds aren’t made for combat…
Honestly, I was expecting a hummingbird.
Reminds me of the bit from ~~Faust~~ Eric by Terry Pratchett where an Aztec like tribe summons their god, who is about a foot tall and is almost instantly crushed to death by The Luggage, whom is subsequently worshiped in his place. When Lhe Luggage failed to return to his people, they converted to aithism, and continued on with their ritual killings, “but didn’t have to wake up so early about it.”
Sandy South: You could have been a reeeeally big hummingbird, breathing fire and lightnings, and clothed in a vast pall of ash…
Huitzilopochtli: Now you’re just rubbing it in! 🙁
>:=)>
He’d best not Mess with Woo.
Seeoahtlahmakaskay really doesn’t like losing Worshippers and Raccoons consider Hummingbirds to be a very Tasty Snack.
What is even going on anymore? O.o
Now if you excuse me, I’m off to eat my body weight in nectar.
@ Trey Marlette:
I hope so.
Kinda expecting him to be an all out nice guy now. 😛
Hummingbird of the South meet Sandy of the South
Kevin wrote:
Ever see them fighting for territory? Those beaks are rapiers!
Finally some suitable pet (aside from Landon) for Larissa! She!ll feed him energy drinks though! 😀
Well, I kinda hoping for a Deathclaw to appear, oh well.
Conquistador theory was that the Aztec Gods were real evil spirits who derived power from human sacrifice, but were not in fact very powerful.
Okay, this is reminding me of Waspi Square now.
This has got to be some sort of hallucination brought on by hazardous building materials in a condemned office of a cereal manufacturing company.
My suspension of disbelief has been shot all to hell.
I have seen a hummingbird on a feeder get blindsided by another one on multiple occasions. The loud buzz from their wings make it sound vicious. They seem rather aggressive to each other, but I never saw them pester anything else.
Does the hummingbird of the south have a song? And does this song speak of rabbits and bears? – Sorry I’ve watched a lot of OLD movies (1946 in this case) so I understand if the reference went over your head
@ feneris:
I’m pretty sure that Sandy South ≠ Sandra North. It’s like an extended Empress of Northia imagination sequence, a step beyond the superhero arc.
The same thing happened in that Buffy Halloween episode
And now he complains about people sacrificing people to him and how he’d really just prefer to be left alone, seeing as how he doesn’t really want to be in the mortal world anyway.
@ D-Rock:
In the original myths, he’s one of the most powerful, alongside quetzalcoatl and tetzcatlipoca.
He is, after all, the sun.
@ feneris:
There has also been Seeoahtlamawhatchamicallit so it’s not like this is that different from what they’ve experienced before.
@ Dr-Calamity:
Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.
Motion to re-name the arc “serial about a surreal cereal”
Now ask the lil’ hummingbird to make the cereal tasty again
@ Cervisia:
Or Xokolatl 😀
But seriously, is this guy going to have a serious Napoleon complex, or something?
toloc wrote:
Yes, Taigan already paraphrased a couple of lines from it.
After that incident, Giles berated himself for not having translated the Gaelic caption beneath a 3″ tall illustration of the demon. It read, “actual size”.
Maybe, being a humming bird of sorts, he’ll love sweet things and help Sandra with improving the cereal recipe.
@ feneris:
Why would this break your suspension of disbelief? It has been firmly established that gods actually exist in this comic strip. This part of the story is built on established precedent.
I expected many things, but not a mini version of the guy….
Why did he manifest at all if he’s that small??
Friend of Seeoahtlahmakaskay?
@ Cervisia:
Another web comic already did this (sorta), though it has been a while
@ Trey Marlette:
when they can catch them. Generally, predators which try to catch hummingbirds have the same problems as predators who try take catch cheetahs.
@ Dr-Calamity:
Don’t know where Quez is, But Tetz is over at wapsi square