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12 Responses to “ Picture Quiz: Jesse Quick ”

1. Dan Grendell
   July 6th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
   

   The hamstring is above the knee, not below. That looks more like her gastrocnemius.

2. Laura
   July 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
   

   Is having a hamstring in the wrong place what gave her superpowers?

3. DXMachina
   July 6th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
   

   I’ve pulled my hamstring. It runs runs along the back of the thigh, not the calf.

4. Gordon
   July 6th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
   

   Wouldn’t getting a laser across the Achilles Tendon (or, what Jesse misidentified as the “hamstring”) leave you unable to stand, much less walk?

5. Danielle
   July 6th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
   

   That’s not a hamstring. Unless maybe her legs are on upside down?

6. Mike Blake
   July 6th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
   

   I can say Gordon’s right (having had Achilles Tendon surgery), but at least they do show her with crutches and keeping the leg in question raised.

   Lord knows I’ll never forget the pain I felt when I accidentally put the bad leg on the ground and put pressure on it when arising from a chair to use my walker. It caused me to fall right back into the chair gasping in agony…

   –Mike

7. Christopher
   July 6th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
   

   Hey! I…well, I don’t own these. But I’ve read them (Terminal Velocity was a really good story).

   Jesse’s got her leg back and is in the JSA and is the new Liberty Belle, so I guess this wasn’t too permanent…

8. Carl
   July 7th, 2008 at 7:27 am
   

   I partially tore my Achilles’ tendon myself. That really, really hurt. I could get around on crutches like Jesse is here, though.

   Of course, the question does arise, why can’t she just have the tendon surgically repaired like everyone else?

9. Fergle F Fergleson
   July 7th, 2008 at 10:29 am
   

   Looking primarily at the picture (as the text has already been hashed over pretty well), I’m wondering how she is lifting her leg at all. If that connector has been clipped entirely (as is suggested), how is she raising her foot that way? Doesn’t it require that connection? She’s on crutches, but i don’t see any external device holding the foot up.

10. Bad
    July 7th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
    

    Lesser problems: Do ER doctors generally allow patients to wear giant metal helmets with wide rims that would prevent their heads from being positioned in the standard matter, and would probably cause some serious neck pain period?

    Crutches: generally people who have only one leg that ever touches the ground need two of them, at least the underarm kind she has here: trying to get around with just one is, uh, well, you try it and see. A single crutch could help support a weak leg, though an underarm one probably isn’t a best for that. But with a leg essentially completely out of commission, you’re going to need two, unless you happen to enjoy having every step being an exhausting balancing act. Of course, maybe she’s put her other crutch aside to talk though, and it’s just not depicted here.

    Since she’s perfectly fine from the knee up, she could probably get by with a knee support crutch though.

11. Scott
    July 7th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
    Official Comment

    Everybody got the answer right: the hamstring is not on the back of the calf.

    Also, Jesse Quick can fly as well as run very fast, so she doesn’t need the crutch for movement, just standing. Still, it’s a screwy way of doing things.

12. Sean Duggan
    July 10th, 2008 at 9:03 am
    

    They may be confused by the common usage of the verb “hamstring” for all kinds of tendon-cutting crippling (although most movie-based versions I’ve seen do involve the cutting of the achille’s tendon, usually for horror movies involving the villain hiding under something with the additional horrific element of the victim trying to crawl or hobble away while the villain casually strolls up to kill them. Witness the usage in Child’s Play 3 and Hostel).

    As for having it repaired, I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole super-speed thing precludes any kind of human repair holding up. And I suspect that having your tendon “blow out” at 500+ MPH is probably at least as dangerous as a highspeed tire blowout.

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