Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: The Age of Apocalypse

April 7th, 2007

Filed under: Comics, Medicine

This example of the psychic nosebleed comes from Factor X #4, one of the comic book “re-imaginings” that took place during the Age of Apocalypse back in 1995. (For those of you who don’t know or don’t remember, the Age of Apocalypse was a glimpse at what the Marvel Universe would have looked like if Charles Xavier had died before he could start the X-Men. For four months in the summer of 1995, all the X-books were renamed and together told the story of this alternate world. On a recent rereading, the stories held up surprisingly well, but the art — with all its ’90s excesses of shoulder pads, pouches, and facial tattoos — did not.)

Anyway, here is the Age of Apocalypse’s Jean Grey giving it everything she’s got. There’s a nose bleed, an eye bleed, and what appears to be a forehead bleed. I have no idea where that last one comes from — she didn’t have it in the previous panels and suffered no head trauma in the meantime. Maybe it’s just miscolored sweat.

Jean Grey
Scenes from Factor X #4. Words by John Francis Moore, pencils by Steve Epting

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5 Responses to “ Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: The Age of Apocalypse ”

  1. M
    April 7th, 2007 at 9:28 pm

    Not that it’s of any interest or significance, but I hated AoA. That … event, and the bleed over from it are why I stopped reading comics.

    I like the X-Men ergo I don’t read any X-Men comics.

  2. Jonathan Hohensee
    April 7th, 2007 at 9:33 pm

    You mentioned a while ago that nosebleeds are caused by dry air. Ever think that the use of physic powers could suck mostiure from the air?

  3. Parry Stiles
    April 8th, 2007 at 12:08 pm

    I love me some Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen! My nose used to bleed a lot when I was a child, from elementary to high school. It seemed to do this when it was hot outside or because I would run around too much without proper rest, I’m not sure. It doesn’t happen anymore. I wonder if I had budding Psychic abilities trying to manifest. Where was Xavier when I needed him?

  4. moon_custafer
    April 10th, 2007 at 11:50 am

    I think it’s meant to evoke stigmata. The only other psychic forehead bleed I’ve seen is in The Fifth Element, where Zorg gets one while talking (over the phone, yet) to the big evil
    fireball. That would make it an evil stigmata, I suppose.

  5. John Nowak
    April 17th, 2007 at 7:39 pm

    I think it would be sort of neat if a psychic character developed a nosebleed for no particular reason — just flew on a plane, something silly like that — and everyone assumed he was tinkering with their minds and got extremely irate.

    “You fool! Do you think that I would get a nosebleed from tinkering with your puny mind?! Wait, that didn’t come out right…”

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