Comments on: A Bloody Nose

By: Comics Should Be Good! » Comics Should Be Good Mailbag for 11/19

Comics Should Be Good! » Comics Should Be Good Mailbag for 11/19 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:04:52 +0000

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By: Jack Hare

Jack Hare — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:58:04 +0000

Perhaps it’s because psychics do a lot of coke?

By: Harvey

Harvey — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:11:40 +0000

It was also a plot device used by Stephen King in “Firestarter.”

By: Your Obedient Serpent

Your Obedient Serpent — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:35:44 +0000

Two years later, the obvious answer hit me:

“Cold spots” have long been associated with poltergeist activity and other paranormal manifestations.

Cold air retains less moisture than warm air.

Use of psychic powers creates cold spots that dry out the air around the psychic. Extreme psychic exertions will dry the air out so thoroughly that nosebleeds result.

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:38:02 +0000

Are psychics closet nose pickers?

That one gets my vote. Hell, you’re right. It makes more sense then the others.

By: Devin Harris

Devin Harris — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:04:55 +0000

I always assumed it was elevated blood pressure, and frankly expected the Invisible Woman to croak off by the end of the Fantastic Four movie.

Perhaps that was wishful thinking on my part.

By: Lea Hernandez

Lea Hernandez — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:49:30 +0000

Nosebleeds look cool, that’s why.

By: MacQuarrie

MacQuarrie — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:57:01 +0000

I thought it was a case of comic writers having watched “The Fury” too many times….

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 03:09:49 +0000

I always thought it was meant to be brain bleeding, it just happened to escape out the nose. People do it when they have non-psychic problems on lots of shows, right before they pass out.

Of course, I am completely unknowledgeable on the subject, so whatever.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:26:48 +0000

“Are the psychics straining so hard that they raise their blood pressure high enough to burst arteries in their nose … And are they straining any harder than the more physical heroes who are lifting houses and bench pressing Buicks?”

Maybe part of the *process* of using psychic powers requires increasing the blood pressure in the head, to “supercharge” the brain. Say it doesn’t cause a stroke since the brain blood vessels of psychics have a corresponding adaptation to cope with the “supercharging”. Unfortunately, their facial blood vessels don’t have this enhanced toughness, hence the
bleeding in eye/ears/nose/(throat?)