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.