![]() Long-term health effects, such as cardiovascular, neurological, and psychological problems aren’t uncommon, either. Lightning in a human body wreaks havoc often starting with the eardrums rupturing, and then with the nervous and cardiovascular systems (it was strong enough to cause cardiac arrest in Tony, remember – which is insanely serious for a guy who’s had some not-so-minor heart issues over the years,…but okay, yeah…we’re not here to talk about Tony…), and most often results in a loss of consciousness and loss of memory surrounding the event itself. In reality, walking away from a lightning strike with minor Lichtenberg marking isn’t unheard of, but it is a very lucky break. Lichtenberg’s discovery and observations were the seeds of the current field of plasma physics which…again, slight spoiler, is something that Korvac is just crazy for, as evidenced by his work to capture lightning.Īnd speaking of the Korvac-made/channeled lightning that hit Patsy…yeah, okay, getting hit by that kind of energy in comics is like…Tuesday. The heat would cause areas of the powder to burn, and Licehtnberg would then press a piece of paper against the insulator, transferring the pattern. This particular branching pattern was first observed by German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg who then went on to create them by sending high voltage electricity through insulators that had powered materials on their surface. Korvac shows Iron Man and Patsy a shockingly good time (c) Marvel Patsy’s look a little more…geometric, which to be fair, could be some artistic license on Cafu’s part, or perhaps (and probably a little more likely) being a visual signal of some kind of “infection” from Korvac which Tony didn’t get because…armor. ![]() In reality, Lichtenberg figures on human skin have a very organic look because they’re following blood vessels or other (relatively) low-resistance pathways. All in all, the skin is a pretty good insulator, and even though the near-surface blood vessels are better conductors than the neighboring skin, the pathway along the vessels slows the electricity enough to generate heat and cause very localized, superficial burns in a very distinctive pattern. The slower the electricity (the higher the resistance) the more heat produced. Both are designed with high resistance – such that the electricity must slow down as it travels through them. Think of a filament in a light bulb or a heating element in a toaster. Super-short version: when electricity is slowed in its motion, it releases heat. Often the vessels themselves will burst, but the pattern is caused by the heat from the electricity as it presses forward, trying to keep moving, despite traveling in a material that doesn’t conduct it very well. In skin, this happens as the high voltage electricity travels on the path of least resistance – most likely the surface of blood vessels near the skin. Patsy’s face is showing a Lichtenberg figure, a natural phenomenon that happens when high voltage pushes through something that is normally an insulator. Slight spoiler – Korvac isn’t done with Patsy.īut let’s talk about that marking on Patsy’s face. Tony tries to blow it off, suggesting that maybe Reed (Richards, of the Fantastic Four) or someone else can make sure it won’t scar, but this is comics…when a villain “marks” you, it’s most likely they’re not done with you. For Patsy, a former fashion model and someone who doesn’t like to have hundreds of thousands of volts of electricity shot through her, let’s just say she was pissed about the new marking. Okay, so this week’s issue (#4) – hey, she’s alive! But – and here’s the thing, she’s got a fractal-shaped lightning pattern on the left side of her face as the result of Korvac’s zap. At the end of the issue, we didn’t know if Patsy was alive or dead. ![]() As part of that reveal, both Iron Man and Patsy Walker (aka Hellcat) got hit by a massive bolt of lightning, directed at them by the aforementioned Korvac.īad enough that Tony’s armor had to defibrillate his heart to get him going again. ![]() Real quick – new Iron Man series by Christopher Cantwell and Cafu.
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