One thing that's always bothered me about Jonah Hex

[Parallax]

Those things of skin that come over his mouth on the one side. Seems
like they'd get really annoying, especially when eating. Shouldn't he
have had a doctor take care of them, or at the very least, take his
knife and cut them off himself?

[Brian Doyle]

Post by Parallax
Those things of skin that come over his mouth on the one side. Seems
like they'd get really annoying, especially when eating. Shouldn't he
have had a doctor take care of them, or at the very least, take his
knife and cut them off himself?

Major artery running through it?

[Pudde Fjord]

Post by Parallax
Those things of skin that come over his mouth on the one side. Seems
like they'd get really annoying, especially when eating. Shouldn't he
have had a doctor take care of them, or at the very least, take his
knife and cut them off himself?

The medical profession those days were not as good and well tought-of as
today, and there might be other things, like muscles, nerves and
blood-vessels in that icky-looking strip. And I think that there was a
reference that some doctor patched him up as well as he was able to
after he was disfigured, but that this was the best he could do.

Most of all, the character was *designed* to look ugly and inhuman on
his scarred side, so that strip really belongs there.

Pudde.

[Tom Hutson]

Post by Parallax
Shouldn't he

have had a doctor take care of them<<

Very often in the old west, the town barber was also the 'doctor'
and/or 'dentist.'

Oddly, I don't recall it ever being the other way around. I'd rather
get a haircut from doctor than have a bullet removed by a barber!

;-)

Have fun,
Tom

[Hunt]

That strip always annoyed me too. How did it get there in the first
place? Isn't he supposed to be scarred from some kind of injury--how
would an injury make a strip of flesh grow from above your mouth to
below it?

[Aaron F. Bourque]

Post by Hunt
That strip always annoyed me too. How did it get there in the first
place? Isn't he supposed to be scarred from some kind of injury--how
would an injury make a strip of flesh grow from above your mouth to
below it?

I always thought that it was his cheek cut open, but not his lips.

Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque

[Hunt]

Post by Aaron F. Bourque
I always thought that it was his cheek cut open, but not his lips.

In most of the versions I've seen the strip begin close to the nose,
and goes down over the mouth--it doesn't appear to just be a piece of
cheek.

[M.O.R]

Well, if he was a burn victim, say from a fire, the skin could have
melted so severely that it would literally have ran down his face like
candle wax, and thus stayed the way it is when the curns would have
healed. I mean in one incident, which I saw on Ripleys believe it or
not, a young girl's face was burned by acid or I believe a fire, and it
actually caused her face to become joined to her neck, she also had
great difficulty in closing her eyes, due to the tension that the skin
was causing by being attached to her upper chest area. Fortunately, it
was only her skin which had melted, and with surgery, she was able to
regain her original appearance.

[Mikel Midnight]

Post by M.O.R
Well, if he was a burn victim, say from a fire, the skin could have
melted so severely that it would literally have ran down his face like
candle wax, and thus stayed the way it is when the burns would have
healed.

That's how I always interpreted it. But yeah, it always seemed sort of
odd to me, too ... maybe it was the only thing holding his lower jaw
on? 8)
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