In the pool of Marvel Comics' 5,000 or so characters there's going to be a few that were created for reasons that may have been really good at the time -- Like basing a new villain on societal ills and/or just making the publishing deadline (I'm leaning more toward the looming deadline). You and I have known about these characters for awhile but do we sit around the comic book store and talk about them? No, not so much.
However, upon greater scrutiny after the Disney-Marvel deal earlier this week, Time Magazine has discovered that many of these characters are not necessarily bad ... just odd.
Well, some were really bad too. I'm not hating on Howard the Duck or Lockjaw of the Inhumans, but Hellcow...?
See the collection of the "oddest" over at TIME.COM.
Pictured above, courtesy of Marvel Comics, the Hellacious HELLCOW.
Curse you, Howard the Duck for punching the ticket of Hellcow! Now there was a character with potential.