Picture Quiz: Wonder Woman #7
April 26th, 2007
 The set-up: Wonder Woman has rescued the wounded Nemesis from the clutches of Circe. She breaks into a veterinary clinic to get the supplies necessary to treat his injuries. She found bandages galore to treat his wounds, including band-aids — and I didn’t realize that veterinarians used band-aids. Though on second thought, they’re probably for the vet herself after getting scratched by all those cats. What’s wrong with this picture?
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April 26th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Well I do find it quite interesting that there is liquid coming out of the needle when there is still a good inch of air before she hits liquid.
April 26th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
In addition to the air in the syringe, shouldn’t the tape be holding some type of pad over a wound, rather than (presumably) being directly on the wound itself?
April 26th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Yep the syringe. Unless it is those special syringe’s that you can only evidently find in veterinary clinics, then all bets are off. What is she supposed to be giving him?! Unless she is putting him to “sleep”. Poor Nemesis, hopefully he got a doggy treat first.
April 26th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Official Comment
Actually, he is munching on doggie treats in this scene.
April 26th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Her fingers look… wrong.
What kind of medication is green? Also, if it WAS a rabies shot, shouldn’t the needle be bigger? Maybe not for a veterinary clinic, tho.
April 26th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
…then again, judging by the colour of the wall, perhaps the *air* is yellow, and the liquid is actually white? Also, perhaps archers shouldn’t give injections if they’re going to hold the syringe like that!
April 26th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Oh, and you’re exactly right about why there’s band aids at the vets – I work in a pharmacy and we supply the local vets with a giant box of band aids for their first aid kits every year.
April 27th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Does Wonder Woman need to worry wearing gloves? Does she have to worry about disease transmission?
April 27th, 2007 at 1:56 am
I’d comment on the syringe, but I’m too busy being freaked out by Wonder Woman’s giant man-hand.
April 27th, 2007 at 2:14 am
Wonder Woman never kids :)
Additionally, the George Perez version didn’t use drugs, including asparin apparently.
Oliver Townshend
April 27th, 2007 at 7:41 am
I’m sure this has been covered by you Scott many times, but in comics it seems that bandages are applied more aesthetically than for medical necessity. I want to know what type of wound has cut Nemisis spirally around the chest. Perhaps in the previous scene he was fighting a potato peeler? Also, there is the hackneyed bandage around the head. Just what purpose does that serve? I can’t think of any wound which that arrangement of bandage would be necessary. Perhaps he was scalped and Wonder Woman skillfully taped his new toupee back on?
April 27th, 2007 at 8:55 am
I’ve never known a veterinary clinic that stocks human rabies vaccination, either pre- or post- exposure. Even workers who are under threat of exposure to rabies from animals have to be sent to the Health Department, Hospital or other Clinic that caters to people. Of course I’m sure it’s possible, but without doing any research, I can say I’ve never heard of it.
Of course getting an inactivated (or modified live, eesh) doggie rabies vaccine is probably just a secondary issue. I’m not sure what kind of effect that would cause, if any. Also, that’s a heck of a lot of vaccine. Maybe a case of the colorist filling in the wrong part of the syringe?
At least it doesn’t suffer from the well-covered (on this site) IV bag fluid syndrome, where all fluids must be confusingly red.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:38 am
The mistake is that no one in their right mind would EVER refuse a free rabies shot. ;p
April 27th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
The beard, obviously! Scott is a tricky bastard.
April 27th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Rae, anime (and comic book apartently) rule #142 – Bandages fix EVERYTHING!
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=228
April 27th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
It might not be wrong, but let’s be honest: That soul-patch needs to go, Tresser.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:29 am
It’s definitely the syringe and on two counts. Yes, the liquid coming out of the needle with air in the syringe is odd, but do you also notice that it’s coming out straight UP? There’s no way it would come out at that angle unless Wonder Woman has some powers I never read about.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:23 am
Easy one, there’s a drop of liquid squirting out of the needle, but the actual syringe has air between the liquid and the needle.
April 28th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Let’s see… aside from the air, if I’m not mistaken, don’t you need a much larger needle to give the rabies treatment… unless of course, you subscribe to the Samuel Shem theory of any body cavity can be reached with a good strong arm and a #14 needle.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:08 am
why isn’t the liquid horizontal?
April 29th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Dr. D, obviously the panel isn’t squared properly, and Wondie’s @ some wierd angle.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Apart from everything noticed above, is it Nemesis or Wonder Woman who’s saying “I was kidding?”
“I was kidding, I really *do* want the rabies shot?”
“I was kidding – it’s *not* a rabies shot?”
April 29th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Is it just me, or how is she holding the syringe? That’s a strange way to hold it. I’m only assuming that she’s pushing the plunger with her other hand.. though it’s kind of awkward.
Surprisingly, I don’t have as much issue with the drop coming out the top as I do with her holding the syringe between her middle and index finger.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:27 am
There’s a massive air-gap in the syringe. If she injects him in a blood vessel, there’s a good chance he’ll get a coronary embolism, thanks to an air-bubble, and die.
I’m not a doctor, so let me know if I’m even partially right.
April 30th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
I disagree that the air bubble in the syringe is the problem. It is quite possible for the needle to hold a little serum, and the syringe chamber an air bubble. Wonder Woman would want to evacuate that air-bubble before injecting her patient, and it looks like that’s what she’s doing (the evacuating air has squirted the drop of serum upwards).
Alternative problems:
- the apparent discrepancy between the level of the surface of the serum in the syringe chamber and the trajectory of the squirt
- Nemesis’s left arm appears to be attached to the top of his torso by a thin strap of skin. I can’t see any real shoulder there.
May 1st, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Looks like she’s going to give him an embolism (that’s what it’s called, right? When a big ol’ pocket of AIR is injected into your veins?).
Ouchie to the deadski
~P~
P-TOR
May 8th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
The only such yellow substance I can think of would be pabrinex (vitamins B & C for treatment of post-alcohol deficiencies and aiding physical recovery) and I am not aware of vets using that for their alcoholic patients.
I think the air /droplet in the syringe could be acceptable – if that droplet didn’t appear to be going up (are they in Space?) – and if the liquid’s viscous enough, even the angle in the syringe might just pass.
When I first looked, I thought Wonder Woman had three fingers, but I see it’s how she’s holding the syringe.
Is she left-handed ?
Since the fight was with Circe, has he got swine fever ?
All of which (and everyone’s comments taken into account) just leaves me with a question – is there ANY veterinary drug dosage that would be acceptable for human consumption – points deducted for “horse tranquilisers”.
The bandages. I reckon it’s the bandagery.
December 16th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
First mistake: if the fight occurred in WW’s greek mythology homeland, then Nemesis should be female.
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