The Letters Page! Episode 26 Discussion - Plague Rat

Haven't heard the latest episode of The Letters Page? Do you live in a sewer?

http://theletterspage.libsyn.com/episode-26-plague-rat

Seriously don't do drugs. 

I was hoping Benchmark might have been involved in Plague Rat's story at some point since it seems like a great way for them to introduce their new hero.  Also, Im surprised Revenant and Parse weren't mentioned.

I just like knowing there was actually a person behind the rat. And I mean, he obviously wasn't a nice guy, he probably deserves what happened to him, but I always find myself sympathetic towards the rat, a la Setback. Ever since he was mutated, he's just been getting hungrier and angrier, and people keep experimenting on him and using him as a tool. :C He's just a big, gross puppy who can turn you into another big, gross puppy! Is that so bad? D:

The episode started off with Christopher and Adam claiming they made up all this Sentinels Comics stuff including their history. And now those fond memories of reading tales of my favourite heroes are.. fading. And what about that time by happenstance I shook hands with that famous writer of Tome of the Bizzare (you know the one)? Now they're all made up? I hate it when real history gets retconned like that. What a conspiracy!

I was pretty amused by the tangle in trying to navigate the linguistic ambiguity of "we just made that up" in terms of non-canon joking and "we just made that up" in terms of how technically speaking they made everything in Sentinels Comics up, but some things they said were more made up than others...

I was entertained by the word they decided to BLEEP out.

Yeah, good to know of all the things they can't say, they certainly can't say Matban.

They can avoid mentioning other comic heroes in relation to their heroes but get too far on a tangent...

Break me off a piece -> Kit Kat ( wait can't say that) Bit Bat Bar -> Bit Bat Car -> Breaking peices off cars -> Cars spliting into 2 motorcycles -> Motorcycle spliting off car -> Matban

Handelabra should totally do a weekly one-shot with Plague Rat vs. Omnitron-X, Absolute Zero, and Dark Watch Mr. Fixer.  Maybe Golem Unity and Akash'Thriya, too--they weren't mentioned but they don't have functional animal metabolism either.