Polite Dissent

Uncanny X-Men #423, Holy War, part 1writer, Chuck Austen
artist, Ron Garney

The X-Men return home to find some of the other mutant residents of the Xavier Institute crucified (6 or 7, the number of injured seems to change during the issue). Utilizing Archangel’s healing powers, Nurse Annie tends to the wounded. Meanwhile, the other X-Men go off in search of the perpetrators, the Church of Humanity.

My main concern was with Austen’s statement about religion and cancer, but I covered that in part 1. Other than that, this issue contains only a few minor medical errors (and these seem to be more art errors, than writing errors):

1. Archangel’s blood is being transfused into the wounded mutants, but the art shows bubbles coming up into the blood bag. How is air getting in? This is not like getting a glass of water from the water cooler, there should be no bubbles. It’s a closed system.
2. A nasal canula is shown in Jubilee’s nose, but that’s not how nasal canulas look. The one pictured would keep falling out.
3. Finally, the patients are shown hooked up to breathing machines by face mask. Crucifixion kills by suffocation. They are going to need more help breathing than a simple mask can provide, they are going to need intubated (breathing tubes placed down the trachea).

There are bubbles in my blood!	My nose itches! I think I’m going to sneeze!
What a nasal canula looks like	How a nasal canula is worn