Your Weekend Moment of Super-Powered (?) Nosebleed Zen: Wasteland
 This week’s example comes from Wasteland #12, a recent issue of the excellent post-apocalyptic comic published by Oni.
In a flashback scene, Doc has suffered an apparent cardiac arrest and Abi is able to restart his heart. How she manages this is unclear, and one of the ongoing mysteries of the storyline. This issue does give the reader some clues, though. Like the fact that Abi develops a nosebleed while in the process of miraculously saving Doc’s life. A little suspicious (especially for long time readers of this blog), don’t you think? Wasteland #12 is written by Antony Johnston with art by Christopher Mitten. It’s a well-written series that manages to combine action, political intrigue, and a fascinating (albeit depressing) setting. It’s definitely worth checking out if you haven’t already (and Oni has the first issue available as a free download).  All previous Nosebleed Zen posts
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December 10th, 2007 at 6:49 am
It must be psychic powers! Honestly, how else can someone develop such a nosebleed? Falling down? psh… no. Although I used to get horrible nosebleeds when I was a kid.. and I’m not psychic at all… I think. Unless of course, her powers are “restarting a heart after cardiac arrest” and she just over-used them. But what an awefully specific power to have. It’s like you’d have to run around a hospital listening for codes all day to get to use them at all. Although there is always the classic explanation for nose bleeding- she was picking it.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Funnily enough, I used to suffer really bad nosebleeds as a child. Maybe my subconscious is trying to tell me something…!
December 13th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Obviously, she restarted his heart by slamming her face into his sternum repeatedly, trying to create enough physical shock to restart the rhythm. Chest thuds are still considered effective CPR, right?
And I’ll chime in with the “frequent nosebleeds” club. Finally, about a year ago, I suffered a straight week of my nose gushing onve every few hours and I had veins cauterized. When it was just the occasional blood, I was Ok with it. When I couldn’t sleep because I kept waking up choking on my own blood… I’m pretty sure this was a special case situation. My nosebleeds had settled down from when I was a child and this one resurgence happened shortly after a night helping build and paint sets for the theater show, so I suspect that something irritated my nasal lining. FWIW, it was not a case of high blood pressure. My typical blood pressure is around 110/70, almost into the hyptension category. When I was a child, I regularly recorded as 30 diastolic.
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