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	<title>Comments on: The Blood (or is it Ink?) of Life</title>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Speaking of transfusions, my dad says he knew a doctor who had O- blood and kept a tube with needles on both ends with him whenever in the veldt.  This way, if he met someone bleeding too much then he could do a transfusion on the spot.  How well do comic authors tend to handle *that*?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speaking of transfusions, my dad says he knew a doctor who had O- blood and kept a tube with needles on both ends with him whenever in the veldt.  This way, if he met someone bleeding too much then he could do a transfusion on the spot.  How well do comic authors tend to handle *that*?</p>
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		<title>By: Rose</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yay, Scott! I&#039;m really excited about this. 

I don&#039;t know of any other books you should be looking at, but I think it&#039;s fascinating how often blood transfusion here is viewed as some sort of mystical communion. I can understand its importance in a WWII story, but having it in Spider-Man with all the gravity and import we&#039;d usually save (at least on the donor end) for giving up a kidney or some bone marrow is an interesting storytelling choice. And it will be fun to see the medical side of things!  Thanks for following through on this potentially hare-brained scheme.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yay, Scott! I&#8217;m really excited about this. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know of any other books you should be looking at, but I think it&#8217;s fascinating how often blood transfusion here is viewed as some sort of mystical communion. I can understand its importance in a WWII story, but having it in Spider-Man with all the gravity and import we&#8217;d usually save (at least on the donor end) for giving up a kidney or some bone marrow is an interesting storytelling choice. And it will be fun to see the medical side of things!  Thanks for following through on this potentially hare-brained scheme.</p>
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		<title>By: Scott</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great!  I wish I was clever enough to plan something like this, but it&#039;s purely coincidence...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great!  I wish I was clever enough to plan something like this, but it&#8217;s purely coincidence&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Dave Lartigue</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave Lartigue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And, right on schedule:  http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20041229l.jpg</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And, right on schedule:  <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20041229l.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20041229l.jpg</a></p>
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