She sees something in him that strikes a chord, and it seems as though it is reciprocated. She manages to reach one of the more difficult patients, a young man called Daniel.
The more she interacts with the patients, the more she realises that there are those that try and get help, even though they do not have any mental issues – and as such can’t be helped by the asylum the darker things become, the harder she finds it to cope. It seems that the chief doctor has seen something in it, and she received encouragement, but there is also a crack in her personality, something that slowly starts dragging her down. The story takes place in an asylum, where Daniel is an inmate, but in some ways he is only incidental, the main character being Dr Christina Marceau, a young just qualified doctor, thrown in the deep end to see whether she will sink or swim. The second series tears that down, turning it into a pretty child’s tale with pink ribbons and cuddly unicorns. The first series introduced the reader to the character of Daniel, a Nephilim and although dark in nature it is more standard fair, in that it has a powered protagonist, with a tragic backstory, that requires him to face a ‘bad gut’ (his father’ and bring redemption for both himself and his father. It is grim, slow, but relentless and about as far away from the comicbook norms of Image (at the time) that it could be seen as one of the comics leading the way to less traditional output by the publisher. This is the second series, and to say it is dark is an understatement. Hellshock is a graphic novel written and drawn by Jae Lee, originally produced as a limited series by Image comics back in the mid 1990’s.
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