An Unholy Breakfast Pact Is Made in the LatestSnifter of BloodCereal Horror Tale

For the past few years , Ahoy Comics ’ Edgar Allan Poe ’s Snifter of Terror serial has given us Mark Russell and Peter Snejbjerg ’s toppingly gothic take on the macrocosm of … breakfast cereal mascot ? You would n’t think it ’d work , but hey , Count Choculaexists for a reason — and we ’ve got a flavor at his latest laughable tale .

Russell and Snejbjerg ’s Monster Serials adventures have re - guess the world of of the Count and other breakfast icons into a grim , deal macrocosm of catastrophe and frosted treats . Here , Chocula — hem , sorry , the Marquis de Cocoa — and his bride are despairing , Byronic figures , hidden in the darkness of their castle walls as they distressingly harbour client by daylight andsustain their vampiric lustsby nighttime .

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Dare you miss out on an interview with a Chocula?

Dare you miss out on an interview with a Chocula?Image: Peter Snejbjerg/Ahoy Comics

“ The Monster Serials is a satirical gothic about breakfast cereal grass monstrosity engulfed in actual repugnance account , ” Russell enounce in a brief command allow to io9 . “ They ’re about the very veridical pain of betrayal , being transformed into a monster in the service of a purpose not your own , and the cruelness of being a vampire who is expected to show up for breakfast . ”

As the series has developed , we ’ve been introduce to the predicament of the Lucky Charms’own emerald icon , here the oust King of the Leprechauns . Now in the latest spooky special — rebranded as Poe ’s Snifter of stemma — as the apprehensiveness General Post threatens realms beyond the Leprechaun ’s own , he must attain out to Choclavania and see if he can notice an friend in the Marquis and his wife …

Edgar Allan Poe ’s Snifter of Blood # 2 strike shelves on November 18 — and early edition of Snifter areavailable to orderintrade softback book formnow .

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