Thor #600: A Medical Review (Day 1 of “Pick on Donald Blake Week”)
March 15th, 2010
Sorry Doc, but you don’t treat a black eye by putting some sort of cream on it. Think of it this way: a black eye is essentially a bruise around the eye — and when do you put anything on a bruise? The real treatment of a black eye is easy: ice, and time. That’s it. Nothing fancy needed.
(Now in his defense, I guess the skin around the eye could have been broken open by the punch, and Blake might be putting some sort of antibacterial ointment on it, but that’s still a stretch).
March 15th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Asgardian Healing Salve? (In convenient tube form!)
March 15th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Does bruise cream not make the bruise less prominent? I mean, I wouldn’t put it past skincare companies to have made that up, but my friends swear it works. (Although even if it works it’s probably not Don’s job to be applying it.)
March 15th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Although even if it works it’s probably not Don’s job to be applying it
Don Blake is just a shill for Big Pharma!
March 15th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
$70?
Kid’s getting off cheep…..
*grumbles*
March 15th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
That Allergy! Doesn’t he ever learn! Still, it’s nice that he’s grown some more hair. Maybe the Human Growth Hormone is starting to kick in..
March 17th, 2010 at 2:24 am
Ice? Nonsense! I have it on good authority from dozens of old tv shows and cartoons that the best treatment is a nice piece of raw steak held over the black eye.
The coldness of the steak acts like the ice does with the added benefit of the raw meat drawing the bad blood out of the bruise.
Really! ;->
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:42 am
When I was young and got a knock in the eye my mom used to rub vanilla extract around the eye, I swear it really did reduce the swelling but that may just be my faulty memory…
Smelled great though.
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