Picture Quiz: Iron Man
November 7th, 2007
In this scene from Iron Man #23, Tony Stark is explaining how the super-villain Graviton managed to commit suicide by using his powers. He cuts an imposing figure with all his expensive technology, but there’s a significant mistake in the scene…
November 8th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Those guys must have bought their tickets WAY late!
November 8th, 2007 at 9:34 am
His torso is in front of the picture, but his legs seem to be behind the screen…
November 8th, 2007 at 10:13 am
The basilar artery isn’t in the frontal lobe
November 8th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Ben, the screen is at least partially transparent. Iron Man is standing behind the screen (from our perspective). (You can also see one of the Mysterious Observers (I don’t read Iron Man, so I don’t know who they are) through the screen, about halfway up on the right-hand side.)
November 8th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Is it that Stark is terrified of public speaking?
He would totally choke on “microgravitational”
November 8th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
There are far too many lanes on that road for it to be one-way.
November 8th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Well, I’m no doctor, but I can tell you that “microgravitational burst” is singsong nonsense language…
November 8th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
According to my google search, “Subarachnoid hemorrhage is bleeding in the area between the brain and the thin tissues that cover the brain.”. But then stark says “into his frontal lobe” which is somewhere else entirely.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:46 am
My wife’s comment is that a this sort of bleed wouldn’t kill instaneously. The blood has to seep out a build up the pressure on the brain.
November 9th, 2007 at 8:42 am
I’m sure our host means that “subarachnoid” and “cerebral” are contradictory, but any gravitational force strong enough to tear an artery would also make a pulp out of the surrounding gray and white matter.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:00 am
What an absolutely excellent point that is, Carl. How much force would it take to tear an artery, anyway? Bet it’s a lot.
November 9th, 2007 at 10:39 am
the basilar artery is in the posterior portion of the brain, not the frontal lobe.
November 9th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Damn subtle colouring…
November 9th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
basilar artery doesn’t supply the frontal lobe
November 10th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Obviously Graviton’s “microgravitational burst” was so powerful that it opened a rift in spacetime, creating a wormhole connecting his frontal lobe with his basilar artery, which was then severed upon the collapse of the wormhole.
That’s Stark’s story, and he is sticking with it.
(Can you just imagine the technobabble answer to “Is waterboarding torture?”)
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