Lio by Mark Tatulli for July 21, 2021

The cereal there must be a few years old and really stale-tasting.

Phooey!

Deceptive advertising culture in a spade.

Poor Lio…all that digging…for nothing!

well, the map wasn’t wrong.

The real treasure is the prize inside, it must be a collector’s item by now.

Not gonna lie: I would eat the hell out of “Golden Doubloons” cereal

Good think it wasn’t Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs, else they would have blown up in his face land-mine style…

The secret message decodes to: D-R-I-N-K M-O-R-E O-V-E-L-T-I-N-E

Note that the box says “Golden”. That is a color. It should have said Gold. I could go for that.

Was there really a Golden Doubloons cereal from Post?

All that glitters is not gold…

At least Calvin got a decoder ring in his cereal.

All that work for precious little.

Gotta’ give credit where credit is due—it’s a great name for a cereal.

Seven more, and he’ll have Pieces of Eight.

An effective product placement. Nine out of ten pirates approve.

Good to see him get what he deserves: a box of stale cereal. Excellent!