You often find common words used as onomontoPOWia in comics, which is both understandable and lazy at the same time. Usually it doesn't work, as we saw when a young Jim Starlin tried to use "BRONX" as the sound of Iron Man hitting a galactic vampire. Joe Staton swings and misses in the pages of "Millennium" as well with the same technique:
Both are one letter off from common sound effects, and the effect is jarring. POW and BASH I can mentally translate into something I might hear. But adding a letter to turn each from a sound effect to an actual word decreases their ability to convey meaning. You can't help but bring up the words' definitions in your mind when you read them, and instantly you're not in the realm of the auditory but rather the physical in one case and emotional in the other. You want to keep your reader in the moment, not break them out of it thinking, "That's not what a plow is ..."
Keep it simple, folks; sometimes more is less.
