NEW YORK — A Brooklyn paramedic has turned his experience on New York City’s front lines into a comic superhero story.

FDNY EMS Paramedic James Parrish has spent the past eight years responding to emergencies across Brooklyn, and is the creator of “Detonator,” a six-issue independent comic series he spent nearly eight years completing, according to the Brooklyn Paper .

The series follows Kaz, a character whose extreme attempt to jolt his superhero best friend out of a debilitating mental illness sets the story in motion. Parrish describes the book as an action-driven, darkly funny exploration of friendship, trauma and the fragility behind superhero myths.

“The main question that ‘Detonator’ asks is how far you would go to help a friend struggling with mental illness,” Parrish said.

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