Your Weekend Moment of Super-Hero Nosebleed Zen: Kingdom Come

January 14th, 2007

Filed under: General

Continuing my look at blockbuster mini-series. Today is a scene from the final issue of Kingdom Come. It shows what happens to Superman after being “shazam”-ed by Captain Marvel repeatedly. Bloody nose, bleeding ears, and burst blood vessels in the eye.

This one is a little iffy. It’s certainly not a classic “psychic” nosebleed, but is it a super-power related or magic-related nosebleed? I guess it all depends on how you interpret the damage Superman took. It wasn’t a direct blow to the face that caused the bleeding. Was it the magic of the thunderbolts? Or the sonic pressure from the thunderclap? Or a bit of both? I think it’s both, so I’m including it (the bleeding ears make me think it is barotrauma [pressure-related], but Superman’s suffered extreme pressures before without bleeding, so it must be the magic of the thunderbolts and the pressure of their thunderclaps).

I shouldn't have driven that Q-Tip so deep in my ear......or my nose.
Scene from Kingdom Come #4 by Mark Waid and Alex Ross

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4 Responses to “ Your Weekend Moment of Super-Hero Nosebleed Zen: Kingdom Come ”

  1. Juho Salo
    January 15th, 2007 at 5:26 am

    I always thought that the “Superman is vulnerable to magic” worked so that if you create a lightning bolt with magic that has the same properties as normal lightning bolts, they cause the exactly the same damage to normal human, but Superman would only harmed by the other, and harmed in the way as normal human would be by lightning bolt.

    This may have been what you said, but I just wrote it down in any case..

  2. Dave
    January 15th, 2007 at 7:53 pm

    Regardless of what caused it, would there be some reason the blood would come out sideways and along the cheekbone, rather than straight down?

  3. Scott
    January 15th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
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    Dave,
    I think he was flying face down when the injury happened and that explains why the blood flowed first that way, and then down the face when he straightened up.

  4. Hugh
    January 16th, 2007 at 3:49 am

    Yeah, that’s exactly what it was, I loved that attention to detail.

    And I think the bleeding can be blamed more on the vulnerability to magic than anything else. Earlier in the series Superman cut his hand on WW’s magical sword, I think that scene was put in to prepare us for this one.

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