Comments on: Friday’s Top Five on the Injured List

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:06:42 +0000

Yeah, I’ll be paying an extra $300 to be put under. I don’t want to be conscious of them slicing open my gums!

By: The Fiendish Dr. Samsara

The Fiendish Dr. Samsara — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:46:22 +0000

Didnâ€™t Spidey also sprain his arm the second time he fought the Vulture, in Amazing Spider-Man #7?

Yeah. The Lizard story isn’t the first time that happens to Spidey. But,that said, the Vulture one isn’t really so much about the pain as the inconvenience of fighting with a sling. The Lizard story feels more painful.

By: Dalarsco

Dalarsco — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:21:36 +0000

Good luck with the tooth. One of the managers at work got an emergency root canal the other day, and the next day her mouth started bleeding. It was really sad, but at the same time I love the fact that I got to use the phrase “botched oral surgery.”

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:14:04 +0000

So whatâ€™s the deal with Luthorâ€™s glowing shoes?

Something about evening out Superman’s advantage in a higher gravity. Superman actually provided them for him.

By: Perry Holley

Perry Holley — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:23:23 +0000

So what’s the deal with Luthor’s glowing shoes?

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:30:47 +0000

Wuss.

I’ve never denied it. Hell, I’m a part-time schoolteacher and magazine writer. Those are not professions that attract a Rambo.

Now I’m going to have paranoid nightmares about MY root canal needing to be redone, you sadist. Thanks a lot!

By: Scavenger

Scavenger — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:19:11 +0000

“thereâ€™s something terrifying on a visceral level about seeing your dentist reaching in there with pliers and hearing your tooth snap.”

Wuss.

Let’s talk when you have to get the Root Canal redone, and you’re watching the dentist take what’s essentially a solder iron into your mouth to melt out the cores they implanted the first time.

And yes, you can see the smoke.

By: John Trumbull

John Trumbull — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:39:19 +0000

No Spidey lifting the tons of machinery from the Master Planner saga? I’ll attribute that omission to the painkillers. >;) Didn’t Spidey also sprain his arm the second time he fought the Vulture, in Amazing Spider-Man #7?

Get well soon, Greg!

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:27:04 +0000

What was cut out of the abridged version of Daredevil #180?

Marvel cut bits and pieces of the Miller Daredevil run together to form a complete narrative in the trade paperback collections Gangwar and The Elektra Saga. Parts of #180 were reprinted in each but neither one of them presented the entire issue.

By: Annoyed Grunt

Annoyed Grunt — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:49:16 +0000

What was cut out of the abridged version of Daredevil #180?

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:09:28 +0000

The fight itself didnâ€™t exactly leave them all that bruised, as each guy only threw a few punches anywayâ€¦then it became a survival-on-an-alien-planet story.

Actually, that’s true. I was thinking more of the second fight in the Lexorian arena, where Luthor threw the fight on purpose. But Superman gave a good account of himself both times, though he did take quite a beating.

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:00:57 +0000

I read that Superman issue…the fight itself only lasted a page or 2. My memory is a bit hazy, but I thought Superman won by a knockout. The fight itself didn’t exactly leave them all that bruised, as each guy only threw a few punches anyway…then it became a survival-on-an-alien-planet story.

Love that B&B cover.

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:52:24 +0000

I think I can empathize with your sense of apprehension.

Insist that they put you under. Even numbed with the local, it’s still traumatic lying there with your jaw open, hearing your teeth crackle and snap as the dentist is pulling them out.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:14:16 +0000

I’m getting all four wisdom teeth taken out on the fourteenth.

And I have zero insurance.

I think I can empathize with your sense of apprehension.

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:16:36 +0000

Yeesh. Sorry about the dental trauma. My first root canal (I think I’ve had 2, but I may be confusing what I think is the 2nd one with a wisdom-tooth extraction some 3 years ago), about 15 years ago, was relatively painess … but the painkillers the doctor prescribed for me (which I didn’t really need but took anyway, just in case) made me itch like mad. If it ain’t one thing, it’s another.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:21:35 +0000

I never noticed Luthor’s magical glowing shoes on that cover before… Now I am mesmerized by them.

Er… I mean… “What? No broken-back-Batman?” But, of course, I’m not that evil.

By: McK

McK — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:01:03 +0000

Teeth can suck. Get well soon!

That Luthor/Superman story is a classic. Not that the others aren’t, but that story came at a time that Superman just wasn’t hurt in that kind of way — kryptonite, sure, but not in mano-to-mano fisticuffs.