Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: Posion Candy
September 15th, 2007
Continuing the manga theme, this example of a psychic nosebleed comes from TokyoPop’s new title Poison Candy, highlighted in last weeks PW Comics Week newsletter.
To quote from the preview, “In David Hine and Hans Steinbach’s original manga, Poison Candy, a virus infects adolescents giving them telekinetic powers.”
It also seems to give them a need to carry a tissue…
All previous Psychic Nosebleed Zen posts
September 18th, 2007 at 7:05 am
Ouch! You got me! I had no idea this site existed until you posted this example from my own Poison Candy. I plead guilty to lazy short-hand cliche and not checking the medical provenance of psychic nose-bleeds.
What would be really interesting is to track down the origin of the psychic nose-bleed. I’m willing to bet it started in the movies.
(By the way I can vouch for ringing in the ears and bulging blood vessels on the neck and forehead - happens every time I levitate anything bigger than a teaspoon)
September 18th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Doesn’t anyone get a nosebleed by being punched in the nose anymore? You’d think with all the fisticuffs that go on in comics, you wouldn’t need psychic powers to get a nosebleed.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Official Comment
David,
AS far as I can tell, the first prominent psychic nosebleed did indeed start in the movies, Scanners (1981) to be precise.
The X-Men graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills (1982) was its first appearance in comics.
This earlier post (and the comments) lists other possibilities.
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