Too Many Tubes (in New Avengers #59)
In this scene with the recuperating Luke Cage, there are a couple of things I’d like to draw your attention to:
1. An example of the too-many tubes problem, as Luke Cage has six separate tubes/wires going into his mouth.
2. Another example of a patient who is intubated (hooked up to a breathing machine), yet still has a nasal cannula (which delivers oxygen to the nose — which is unneeded in this situation because Cage has no choice but to breathe through the tube in his mouth). [Annotated panel]
Other thoughts:
It’s interesting how there is always a bag of blood hanging next to Cage — even when he’s in the Avengers HQ — though he’s never shown with an IV, so there’s no way to give him the blood if he needs it.
Plus, now that there’s no power drainer around, there isn’t any way to place an IV at all through his invulnerable skin.
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December 7th, 2009 at 2:27 am
Is the inside of his mouth invulnerable? No, that’s a stupid place to put an IV. Forget I mentioned it.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:20 am
I haven’t read the storyline, but in the one panel you show here we can’t see Cage’s arms. For all I know, he does have an IV line in place. For that matter, this picture doesn’t exclude a central line.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Animus, that’s what I was thinking, too! Then there are other reachable places that also aren’t skin. If he an IV into his mouth rather than those other places, probably he should count himself lucky. Now, I don’t know how one finds a vein in the mouth or those other places, but desperate times and super science can achieve anything.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Official Comment
Later panels — where the bag of blood is still hanging — show the rest of the body and there are no IVs or central lines, or IV tubing leading to his bed at all.
As for the IV in the mouth — veins aren’t big enough and there’s such a thing as the hard palate getting in the way.
December 7th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
“Plus, now that there’s no power drainer around, there isn’t any way to place an IV at all through his invulnerable skin.”
Adamantium needle on the IV cath? Would that do it?
December 7th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Good question on the adamantium. I don’t follow the main Marvel titles much anymore. Is Cage truly invulnerable now? Used to be he just had “steel-hard” skin and could take some damage, though he was way tougher than most. I can’t swear to it, but I think I remember that weapons of sufficient caliber left marks or bruises on him. I need to pull out my Power Man Essentials.
December 8th, 2009 at 12:04 am
In one issue of Power Man and Iron Fist it was stated that so-called “cop killer bullets” (which will go through a bulletproof vest) would penetrate Cage’s skin. That was decades ago, though.
December 8th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Logan can cut Luke Cage, because his of his razor-sharp adamantium claws. Marvel’s Excalibur blade, Silver Samurai’s sword, and Muramasa should all equally work – though with somewhat less surgical precision. ;-)
Bullets sprayed with teflon ought to bounce off Luke’s skin like any other bullet. A story with cop killer bullets working on Power Man sounds stupid, no offense.
December 8th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Official Comment
To be fair, that was probably a Claremont written issue; it sounds like something he’d write.
December 8th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Speaking of Wolverine’s razor-sharp adamantium claws, how does he sharpens them?
December 9th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Alberto, he doesn’t NEED to sharpen the adamantium claws, because they can never be dulled by anything.
December 10th, 2009 at 3:45 am
The last time I saw the Marvel Universe’s version of Excalibur, it was being used by a superpowered MD. Maybe they should give her a call.
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