Actually, that should be "Oh, Mark Waid and Landry Walker, how you've let us down." But, there's only so much room in a post headline, and Mark Waid is the more famous one, so, there you go.
You may recall, a couple of months ago I was raving about how freakin' cool the character of Cap'n Mummy was in Incredibles #0. You may also recall that I was astonished by the appearance of this fellow:
No name, no powers, just hangin' in the background of the Confederacy Of Crime.
Well, this week, in Incredibles #2, he's back...and this time, Waid and Walker give him a name:
What??
Oh, no, indeed. What a bitter disappointment. Centsus? Really? Is that the best you can come up with??
Because A) Centsus isn't even a particularly good pun, and B) is in no way particularly evil or frightening or threatening or cool or a good villain name in any sense of the word. Because who's scared of the census?
Especially in comparison to a bitchin' name like Tronasaurus. Sigh...
I mean, you could have called him Bad Penny ("He always turns up!!"). You could have called him Coppertop, or Copperhead. You could have called him Dishonest Abe. He could be a commie, and you could call him Red Cent.
But Centsus?? Man, that's beyond lame.
So, Mr. Waid and Mr. Walker, I refuse to refer to him by that name. Until you come up with a more fitting moniker for our copper-plated Lincoln-headed villain, I'm just going to always refer to him as "Evil Penny Guy." Because I'm embarrassed to tell my friends about this rad new character called...Centsus.
Fix this. Thank you.
You may recall, a couple of months ago I was raving about how freakin' cool the character of Cap'n Mummy was in Incredibles #0. You may also recall that I was astonished by the appearance of this fellow:
Well, this week, in Incredibles #2, he's back...and this time, Waid and Walker give him a name:
Because A) Centsus isn't even a particularly good pun, and B) is in no way particularly evil or frightening or threatening or cool or a good villain name in any sense of the word. Because who's scared of the census?
Especially in comparison to a bitchin' name like Tronasaurus. Sigh...
I mean, you could have called him Bad Penny ("He always turns up!!"). You could have called him Coppertop, or Copperhead. You could have called him Dishonest Abe. He could be a commie, and you could call him Red Cent.
But Centsus?? Man, that's beyond lame.
So, Mr. Waid and Mr. Walker, I refuse to refer to him by that name. Until you come up with a more fitting moniker for our copper-plated Lincoln-headed villain, I'm just going to always refer to him as "Evil Penny Guy." Because I'm embarrassed to tell my friends about this rad new character called...Centsus.
Fix this. Thank you.