Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: The Authority — Revolution (part 2)
A second example from The Authority: Revolution. This scene takes place near the end of the book (oops, Spoiler Warning), when Jenny Quantum takes on Henry Bendix.
Again, it’s mostly a physical injury — Jenny is “exploding tiny quantum bursts inside [Bendix's] brain.” At least, I think that’s physical. By definition (particle physics definition, anyway), “tiny” quantum bursts is redundant, as anything quantum would be sub-atomic. I think quantum is being used more as a modern catchphrase than anything else, much like many of the pseudo-scientific crackpots on TV and the web invoke quantum-this and quantum-that without really understanding what it means. Anyway, I’m considering it a psychic nosebleed for the much the same reasons given yesterday.
Scenes from The Authority: Revolution #12
Script by Ed Brubaker, pencils by Dustin Nguyen
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February 20th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Rifing on “It’s a finer world” – though basically it’s just the latest PNZ post – but I finally saw “The Butterfly Effect” last night. They had some lovely Medi-babble to explain the protagonist’s time travel induced nosebleeds. Apparently they are caused by hematomas in the brain due to “neural pathways rewriting themselves”.
But it also got me to thinking (again) how commonly accepted nosebleeds are for any number of transcendental traumas. And I began to wonder just where they occured for the first time. I am certain it was in comics or movies, becuse it is such a visual, uh, Visual. But part of me wornders if something similar wasn’t going on in all of those “Psychic Invesigator” stories of the Victorian Age. Anyone out there have an idea on the first recorded incident of Psychic Nosebleed Zen?
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