Centino/Nocenti?

Heh...Ultimate X-Men does something nice this week in making Mojo and Longshot - two characters from the distant edge of the X-Men universe that includes Dracula biting Storm and the New Mutants kicking it in Asgard - closer to the core concept. Mojo and Longshot are their real names in the Mojoverse from which they come, but in the Ultimate universe, they're a touch or two more realistic. So writer Brian K. Vaughan makes Longshot's first name Arthur and Mojo's surname Adams, after the original Longshot artist.

But where's the name Centino coming from?

As I read on, there's a great metatextual conversation between Mojo and his Major Domo about the values of decompression in storytelling. I agree with Vaughan's point that it can be a great tool, and nothing's inherently bad about any storytelling technique, but the point that it can be used to heighten tension as a response to those who are sick of decompressed stories fails with me, because their point is "yes, it CAN but no, it HASN'T." Even some of the top writers today are guilty of just spinning their wheels for four or five issues with very little material. Vaughan isn't one of them, however, so maybe he's on top of this decompression thing.

Still, comics, and one big publisher in particular, need to remember the origins of the phrase "cut to the chase."

Centino? An inversion of Nocenti. Der. Why didn't that occur to me earlier?

EDIT: Altered for clarity's sake by TGC Overlord Segura.