Wyatt Cenac Is The Vigilante Hero Brooklyn Deserves In His New Web Series

In his career, which has included a role as a Daily Show correspondent and monthly installments of a comedy show called Night Train, Wyatt Cenac has cultivated a comic persona that includes a fair amount of grumpiness. His curmudgeonly side is on full display in aka Wyatt Cenac, a new web series in which he portrays a masked crime fighter who delivers a very Brooklyn brand of vigilante justice.

During the day, Cenac’s new persona is, well, Wyatt Cenac, a thirty-something who meets the changing face of Brooklyn with withering comments and pithy remarks. During the night, however, he assumes the identity of The Viceroy, a costumed hero who does battle with sub rosa criminals. His enemies, however, aren’t supervillains with dastardly comic book schemes; instead, as a comment on the number of young yuppie parents who are moving to gentrified Brooklyn, the first episode of aka Wyatt Cenac

ends with The Viceroy stumbling upon a clandestine stroller-crafting operation.

aka Wyatt Cenac is distributed by Topic, a brand launched by First Look Media that describes its fare as “a wide range of subject matter, both fiction and nonfiction, with an emphasis on stories of consequence.” It is currently home to all six episodes of the first season of Cenac’s new show. If you finish binging the comedian’s superhero satire and find that you still have an appetite for similar stories, you can check out the other projects Topic has curated as part of its October 2017 issue, which carries the theme “Masters of Disguise.”