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August 26, 2008
Onomatopoeia, a new baddie from webcomic PvP
Scott Kurtz created a comic bad guy based on my all-time favorite word: onomatopoeia. Awesome. I love how the character, in a single word, neatly summarizes his entire concept *and* just about every action scene from the Batman TV series.
Correction: Scott Kurtz didn’t create him. Kevin Smith and Phil Hester did.
Tangential: does onomatopoeia itself exhibit onomatopoeia? And can it be spelled using “œ” (oe-ligature)? Yes it can.
Update: I didn’t notice it before, but if you follow the graphic link to the PvP comic, Scott Kurtz updated his comic because he unintentionally ripped off Kevin Smith’s bad guy. He replaced his Onomatopoeia with Palindrome. The new baddie is still funny in the storyline and still works well, but still… anyhow, kudos to Kurtz for correcting it. See also The Webcomic Overlook’s rundown of this “controversy”.
