Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: The Authority — Revolution
February 17th, 2007
This weekend’s examples of the psychic nosebleed come from the final issue of The Authority: Revolution when Jenny Quantum and the Engineer are trying to free Midnighter from Henry Bendix’s influence. Though the actual injuries are fairly physical in nature (the Engineer is in Midnighter’s brain destroying Bendix’s implants, as well as planting a virus “that will wipe out any implant instaled after the 20th century”), I’m counting it as a psychic injury as it is all taking place within Midnighter’s brain, and there is no anatomical reason for his nosebleed short of a skull fracture.
Scenes from The Authority: Revolution #12
Script by Ed Brubaker, pencils by Dustin Nguyen
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February 19th, 2007 at 9:08 am
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I think we have reached the point where Psychic Nosebleed Zen has become synonymous with brain damage. So now *any* internal effects automatically produce a nosebleed – the same way telepathy produces a butterfly halo around the eyes – regardless of how “psychic” the underlying cause actually is.
As the nation’s (world’s?) leading expert on PNZ, it is imperative that you take a stand againt nosebleed creep. All of these “quantumm explosions” and “telekinetic blenders” are merely attempts by less scrupulous members of the medical profession to try and capitalize on the fame of PNZ. Such fraud adds untold billions to the already strained medicare systems of superhero universes. Just say No to Fake Zen!
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