Grocery store yesterday, buying lunch meat for dinner.
I need breakfast cereal–I’d finished my box of Peanut Butter Cookie Crisp that morning. I don’t recommend the Peanut Butter Cookie Crisp, but that’s a story for another time.
What do my eyes spy, but a cereal box with Batman on the front. The Batman cereal, Limited Edition, the box proclaims. I pick up the box, examine it closely–choocolate-flavored Batman symbols and marshmallows. Intrigued, I toss the box in the cart.
This morning, The Batman cereal.
And it’s terrible. It’s positively gross. It doesn’t taste like chocolate. It doesn’t taste like anything.
I’m disappointed. Batman has let me down.
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A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over ten years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.
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No, “THE Batman” has let you down. That inferior creation that is trying to usurp the superior Bruce Timm version. Of course the cereal is just like the cartoon, all flash and no substance. WB idiots.
It could have tasted like quano…so you’re ahead of the game
I came across this doing a google search for The Batman Cereal. I wanted to see if, somehow, I just happened to purchase a really bad box. But no, it appears they really did release a cereal this awesomely rancid. It is by far one of the worst things I have ever had the displeasure of ingesting.