Polite Dissent

20 Responses to “ Picture Quiz ”

1. David Lawson
   June 23rd, 2006 at 10:12 am
   

   Is that IV going up her nose?

2. Scott
   June 23rd, 2006 at 10:31 am
   Official Comment

   Correct! This scene combines two of the most common artist medical errors (IVs and nasal canulas) into one helpful picture. Imagine the wet nose poor Allison must have…

3. David Oakes
   June 23rd, 2006 at 10:39 am
   

   I pride myself on coming up with Comic Book Logic-al reasons why these blatently bad images could actually function in a superhero universe. But I am at a loss here.

   Unless the Ultimate Dazzler not only converts sound to light, but saline into breathable oxygen as well…

   (Hey, at least it’s just saline. They seem to have some whole blood just hanging around. Half a point, Scott? Or do hospitals regularly hang up blood and not use it?)

4. Scott
   June 23rd, 2006 at 10:45 am
   Official Comment

   Nope. Blood has a very short shelf life (measured in hours) once it is hung up. Given your self 3/4 point for that one.

5. Matthew Craig
   June 23rd, 2006 at 11:01 am
   

   By crikey, that is some god-DAMN overwritten dialogue.

   …that may not be a medical diagnosis, though.

   I keep going back and reading it again, just to make sure! And it gets worse each time!

   It actually distracted me from making a guess as to the medical gaffe.

   Here’s one, though: have they removed her many piercings? Would they affect the MRI machine? Would they be torn out? And ow, incidentally?

   //\Oo/\\

6. Chuck T.
   June 23rd, 2006 at 11:03 am
   

   Ah, I was wondering if the bed wouldn’t tip with Kurt perched on the end. (By the way, as a huge Nightcrawler fan, I rrrrealy hope Kirkman isn’t going somewhere creepy with this…)

7. Scott
   June 23rd, 2006 at 11:10 am
   Official Comment

   I should point out that the two panels I posted are not contiguous, but are the first and fourth panels on the page. I didn’t used the intervening panels because they didn’t show the IV/Nasal Canula any better and they were full of Nightcrawler whining because Peter was “teh gay.”

   Any metallic object is a bad idea in an MRI — particularly steel or iron piercings because they are highly magnetic. Best case scenario: they’d make the MRI results unreadable because of interference; worst case scenario: they’d turn into lethal projectiles.

8. Anonymous
   June 23rd, 2006 at 2:25 pm
   

   Maybe they’re giving her alternating feedings of red and blue dye through an NG tube, since the cannula end isn’t even a nasal cannula.

9. Scott
   June 23rd, 2006 at 2:46 pm
   Official Comment

   It could very well be a nasogastric tube, and that thought did cross my mind. However, the depiction is consistent with the way comic book artists usually draw nasal canulas so I’m sticking with my assumption that Professor Xavier has poor medical skills.

10. Laura
    June 24th, 2006 at 12:29 am
    

    I also find it odd that there is a pitcher of water next to Ali’s bed. Someone is real intent on keeping her hydrated.

11. Ragnell
    June 24th, 2006 at 4:18 am
    

    The IV is leading into her nose?

12. lilacsigil
    June 24th, 2006 at 7:05 am
    

    I think Magneto ripped out all her piercings a few issues back, so the MRI would have been fine.

13. Aaron Sapp
    June 24th, 2006 at 9:46 am
    

    I’m kind of wondering why the blood looks like it is kind of oozing slowly out of the bag.

14. Eric TF Bat
    June 25th, 2006 at 7:28 am
    

    No! You’re all wrong! It’s a snot drip! She’s got a terrible cold, and the drip is to save her blowing her nose every five seconds and getting a rash on her upper lip! It’s so obvious!

15. tomthedog
    June 26th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
    

    I thought it was that the hospital is letting filthy little monkey creatures into the patients’ rooms.

16. Joe Brown
    June 26th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
    

    In that first panel, is she missing feet?

17. Lea Hernandez
    June 27th, 2006 at 9:14 am
    

    Looking at this again–is it typical to have blood out as shown?

18. Lea Hernandez
    June 27th, 2006 at 9:14 am
    

    I mean typical in a real hospital, not in comics. ^_-

19. Yasei
    July 6th, 2007 at 5:32 am
    

    I don’t mean to nit-pick, but shouldn’t there also be some sort of, I don’t know, tape or some other keepy-in-place device to hold the IV into her nose, too?

20. Bob
    May 23rd, 2010 at 11:13 pm
    

    Even nonmagnetic piercings would be a bad idea due to inductive heating.

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