He’s not the handsome Mark of her imagination, but Bell feels the need to connect with him, nonetheless. A young man had helped, and called an ambulance. She did go to the pool, but it was she who slipped. It emerges that Bell’s delusion has been based on real events. Bell can hardly believe this wonderful new chance life has given her, and when her daughter Laura comes to visit it starts to unravel. This creates a bond between them that quickly becomes an affair. The sight of his blood, in turn, causes her to faint and fall. She’s admiring handsome lifeguard Mark, when he slips. It begins when Bell, widowed and financially comfortable, has the urge to visit a swimming pool where her husband received therapy in his last days. It’s familiar territory for Dash Shaw, who mastered the genre with his earliest shorts, now collected in The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century. Doctors is SF in its Speculative Fiction variety, and focussed on the human implications of this possible technology. This is no gothic horror with rotting corpses clawing their way out of the grave, though it shares with such stories the idea that bringing people back will have consequences. The Doctors of the title run Charon, a facility that brings the dead back to life.
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