Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.