Comments on: Stitching Up the Man of Steel

By: dr.talbot

dr.talbot — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:35:03 +0000

@ tualha
Um, going off topic for a moment, how the heck could Superman donate blood to a human? He’s an extraterrestrial, remember? (Not that anything else about the guy is remotely plausible, of course.)

it might be that his blood, while being alien, is a close cousin to the human race. i have no idea, and no comic- proof to back this up. just theorizing. well anyways, have a great day everybody.

By: dr pepper

dr pepper — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:27:23 +0000

1. Take him to Kandor.

2. Or counterwise, call out the Superman Emergency Squad.

3. Don’t forget, Superman has at least 200 pounds of kryptonian steel and copper from when he had to fight that kryptonian robot. And he has a device his father invented, i think it’s called a decoherer, that can cut, weld, and shape the metal. So he can make a set of medical tools from it.

4. There was that one story in which Superman faked his own death by building a short lived fleshly robot. His supposed will included a kryptonite laser scalpel. Surgeons were able to dissect the robot with the laser so that part could be used as transplants. I distinctly remember that the panel where the surgeons were looking at the organs they’d retrieved was solid black with the caption “this scene censored by the Comics Code Authority”. The fake death was of course a ploy to trick criminals into stealing the organs, which were preprogrammed to fail after transplantation. That scalpel should still exist.

By: Scott J

Scott J — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:09:15 +0000

What about hemostatic agents like Quikclot? Presumably Superman has water in his blood, and the rest is simple chemistry (if clotting can be thought of as simple).

By: Bad

Bad — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:42:10 +0000

” Tualha: Um, going off topic for a moment, how the heck could Superman donate blood to a human? He’s an extraterrestrial, remember?”

SHUT UP, THAT’S WHY!

By: Bad

Bad — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:41:27 +0000

“In the silver age, Supes could also get a needle from Krypton’s past. All Kryptonian objects became similarly super under a yellow sun, so it would now be a super-needle capable of piercing his skin.”

Finally, a solution to the man of steel, woman of tissue paper dilemna. Clark just needs to find one Kyrptonian condom, and they’re set for life.

By: David Akers

David Akers — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:38:35 +0000

Oh, and if Superman’s skin is so hard as to be invulnerable, does that mean he can’t be X-rayed?

-David

By: David Akers

David Akers — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:37:24 +0000

In the silver age, Supes could also get a needle from Krypton’s past. All Kryptonian objects became similarly super under a yellow sun, so it would now be a super-needle capable of piercing his skin.

As a stop-gap measure, he could always be put into the Phantom Zone. Well, it worked for Lar Gand, right?

Supes (or Supergirl) could shave off a fingernail chunk and form it into a needle-like shape.

Supergirl could use her heat vision to form the holes through with the sutures could be passed.

Without going into the past, surely there’s a fragment of either Kal’s or Kara’s ship that could be used as a needle (again, it would have become super in an Earth environment).

I’ll have to think some more about this one. :)

-David

By: Tualha

Tualha — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:02:44 +0000

Um, going off topic for a moment, how the heck could Superman donate blood to a human? He’s an extraterrestrial, remember? (Not that anything else about the guy is remotely plausible, of course.)

By: Haerandir

Haerandir — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:35:00 +0000

I suspect that it’s not just his skin that’s invulnerable. He’d have to be similarly resilient all the way through. Otherwise, I imagine his insides would liquefy the first time he got punched by Doomsday or Zod or flew into a mountainside.

By: Conor E

Conor E — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:38:50 +0000

Wouldn’t red sun light do the trick without the toxic effects of Kryptonite or the unpredictable side effects of magic?