Worst Comic Book Medicine of 2006
This year, I’m going to start my annual recap of the year in comic book medicine with a look at the Worst Comic Book Medicine of 2006 because that’s the part everybody loves best anyway. This year, there were no comic books with horribly bad medicine, but there were still too many with medical mistakes.
Worst Depiction of Medicine:
Nothing this year was as astoundingly bad as the winners from the past two years, so I’m going to go with a soft call and award Renee Montoya’s Magic Cast from the high-profile 52 the “Worst Depiction of Medicine in 2006.“ Is it a short arm cast? Long-arm? Splint? Who knows — it changes from issue to issue (and panel to panel).
This year’s worst OR scene was in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #3.
Worst Doctor:
Hush wins the award of worst doctor this year for his part in the Joker/pacemaker storyline in Batman: Gotham Knights #73-74.
Worst Single Medical or Scientific Concept:
Ultimate Spiderman #98, for revealing that chimpanzee DNA is closer to Peter Parker’s DNA than the DNA from his own clone.
Worst Imaginary Medicine or Treatment:
Spider-Woman’s breast implants. Well at least the truth is out there now.
Dishonorable Mentions:
For comics that went benarth beneath and below the call of duty, delivering scenes fraught with horrible medicine and science.
- Ex Machina #18-19, for confusing ricin wih sarin
- Batman Annual #25 for leaving Jason Todd’s stiches in for over a year.
- The use of lithium (the lithium used in rechargeable batteries) during an emergency resuscitation in Generation M #5
- The intentional stopping/starting of Crimson Dynamo’s heart in Iron Man #7.
Tomorrow, I’ll take a look at the Best of Comic Book Medicine over the past year.
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December 29th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
benarth?
December 29th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
Official Comment
Oops, that should be “beneath” — though Benarth would be a good name for someone from G’Nort’s planet.
December 30th, 2006 at 1:02 am
The “worst of 2005″ link doesn’t work.
December 30th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
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Fixed the link.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:57 am
Brian Vaughan has disputed his place on the dishonorable mention, and backed it up mighty good. The man has definitely definitely done his research. Check out his forum for the post
December 31st, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Official Comment
Sounds good. I look forward to reading his thoughts. (unfortunately, I’m on call this holiday weekend, so it might take me a few days to have significant computer time).
December 31st, 2006 at 8:21 pm
Um, just for those who find this archivally: “Wosrt”?
January 1st, 2007 at 12:20 am
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I saw that typo when I was writing the post and meant to fix it, but then I totally forgot until you reminded me…
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