Polite Dissent

12 Responses to “ The Continuing Saga of Luke Cage’s Heart (New Avengers #60) ”

1. Tom
   December 31st, 2009 at 8:19 am
   

   He’s a doctor right? The rest is just class upgrades. Neurosurgeon is the top of the body and the toughest, so obviously he already accumulated the heart surgery upgrade.

2. Jillian
   December 31st, 2009 at 11:06 am
   

   Oh boy, what a precedent Hush has set.

3. Joe
   December 31st, 2009 at 11:35 am
   

   I haven’t been keeping up with the comics, but when was the last time Dr. Strange performed ANY surgery?

   I’d think that would be something you’d want to do more than every once in a while before jumping back into someone’s heart or brain.

4. Jon
   December 31st, 2009 at 2:49 pm
   

   Tom –

   So you think he started as a podiatrist and worked his way up?

5. Jon
   January 1st, 2010 at 1:48 am
   

   Actually, come to think of it, wouldn’t a supreme sorcerer be a better choice for fixing a cardiac problem than a superannuated surgeon? Why can’t he just point and say ‘XIF TRAEH”, or something?

   I really have to get a life…

6. LUFIE
   January 1st, 2010 at 2:53 pm
   

   I heard Doctors basically study all of them. And young Doctors get to have experiences. E.R is one thing.

   So geniuses like Strange can performe surgeries that can match, or overcome realy talented cardiologists.

   BUT, that’s when he was the chief of neurosurgery, not after decades of years without practice. He almost failed to save his own life in Vol.2 #80.

7. Seth Finkelstein
   January 1st, 2010 at 3:49 pm
   

   Indeed, while Dr. Strange’s magic can’t do “XIF TRAEH”, you’d think he could at least have some sort of powerful healing spell he could cast. Especially as this isn’t spur of the moment, but he can work it up.

   I’d No-Prize this by saying he didn’t feel the moment was a good idea to nitpick a correction of “Actually, I was a neurosurgeon.”

8. Nanchang Cutie
   January 2nd, 2010 at 7:59 am
   

   Clearly, Dr. Strange has been taking lessons from uber-surgeon, Dr. Robert Chase.

9. Steven R. Stahl
   January 2nd, 2010 at 10:12 pm
   

   The neurosurgeon error was an error, but there were worse problems with the story. Bendis has acquired a nasty habit of just imagining technology into existence, even if there’s no context for it. Harrow’s general power disruptor, the astral form detector in NA #59, and now a gadget small enough to be attached to the heart without causing problems, yet can receive and transmit signals, apparently had pressure and/or visual sensors, had complex programming, and also had powerful explosives packed within. The idea that signals could be sent by something that small through Cage’s “unbreakable” skin and received miles away isn’t believable; the entire package is just absurd.

   Bendis has also had Strange repeatedly say that he’ll use “a series of spells” to do this and that as needed, without bothering to do anything specific. The complaint from many readers thru the years has been that Strange is a deus ex machina, but that’s just what Bendis has used him as.

   Also note that Strange uses a spell to get rid of the device — magical teleportation — in this issue, when he could have teleported Cage and his bed to safety in NA #59.

   SRS

10. Jon
    January 3rd, 2010 at 3:56 pm
    

    Anyway, there are nerves in the heart, right? So what’s all the fuss about?

11. Bob
    January 3rd, 2010 at 7:03 pm
    

    In a universe where a biochemist can create devices to control ants, build artificially intelligent super-robots, create “particles” that can shrink people to arbitrarily small sizes, and give his girlfriend wings and energy blasts, I’m not too amazed that one guy can be an omni-surgeon. And a sorcerer.

12. Hana
    January 3rd, 2010 at 7:15 pm
    

    Oh, and Jericho Drumm is an MD in psychology. Sigh…

Leave a Reply