Your Weekend Moment of Pyschic Nosebleed Zen: S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Locke

July 28th, 2007

Filed under: Comics, Medicine

SHIELD

This nice example of a psychic nose bleed — and accompanying eye bleed — comes from Ms. Marvel #16, where S.H.I.E.L.D. psychic Agent Locke fires a “neural blast” to incapacitate the various members of A.I.M. and their monsters that she is fighting. It worked incredibly well, but also knocked her down for the count.

I’m a little behind on my S.H.I.E.L.D. history — I remember that there were S.H.I.E.L.D. psychics (“ESPers”) shown during the the original Micronauts series (issues #25-28, the return of Baron Karza), and now Agent Locke and other psychic agents have been introduced recently. Was their any mention of S.H.I.E.L.D. psychics in the intervening twenty-five years?

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8 Responses to “ Your Weekend Moment of Pyschic Nosebleed Zen: S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Locke ”

  1. Dwight Williams
    July 29th, 2007 at 8:57 pm

    The ESPer Division of SHIELD predates Micronauts v.1, going all the way back to the original Strange Tales stories.

  2. Omar Karindu
    July 29th, 2007 at 9:46 pm

    And, to provide the other end of it, they weremost recently seen in Bendis’s New Avengers, where Maria Hill had them forcibly retrieve information from Spider-Man’s mind.

  3. Dwight Williams
    July 29th, 2007 at 9:49 pm

    You suppose they have an ESPer contingent assigned to each active Helicarrier?

  4. Johan Åberg
    July 30th, 2007 at 3:03 am

    SHIELD had ESPers in Marvel Boy, too

  5. SanctumSanctorumComix
    July 30th, 2007 at 9:21 am

    I seem to recall a story where Doctor Strange just pops onto the helicarrier to help (save?) the ESP-ers.

    I think it might have been in an issue of ROM?

    I also seem to remember something about a crew of ESP-ers all dying at one point, due to some psychic overload.

    Sorry, I don’t remember WHERE that was.

    It’ll bug me all day.
    …hurm…

    ~P~
    P-TOR

  6. Evil 102
    July 30th, 2007 at 11:50 am

    I have vague memories that the psi-division got taken over by the Deltas during the Nick Fury vs Shield mini-series in the late eighties, but I can’t be sure.

  7. Chris Arndt
    July 30th, 2007 at 11:08 pm

    The ESPers were in the Nick Fury movie too.

    One was the love interest.

    Way to lose your average Fox audience. You know too much sci-fi will hurt a Fox executive.

  8. xavier(xxl)
    August 1st, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    Yes, Espers were used intensively during the Wraith War, from Rom 52 to Rom 62. It was Bill Mantlo scripting too.

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