Alex Spencer

They’re also characters who sample multiple aesthetics and pull them into a superhero universe, so it’s appropriate that the three stories here jump between genres: martial arts to super-spies to mystery story.pic.twitter.com/Uzxzuc4Ahv

The whole book is stylised – and stylish – as hell. The dialogue is turned up just a little too high, full of impossibly polished word-bombs. It’s incredibly arch and I love it.pic.twitter.com/nWQleO8XDp

Likewise the visuals, which take every opportunity to present moments in an unusual, cinematic or just plain cool way.pic.twitter.com/S3oThBN0VH

There’s a drug trip sequence that is basically an excuse for Foreman, colourist @gibsoncomics and letterer @ferrandelgado to just cut loose for four pages, switching up approach slightly for each new panel. [chef kiss]pic.twitter.com/SuSTrNU237

Style = substance, fig. i: Three pages of panels slipping off their neat grid (note the contrast with the rows of dominoes), as Misty breaks free from mind control. The third layout references one in an earlier story, where Colleen did the same.pic.twitter.com/89v2j43SVx

Style = substance, fig. ii: Three tall thin panels with a fixed angle is an eye-catchingly weird way to lay out a page, but it’s not a great use of space, especially when the top of a panel is left essentially empty. So, when the baddie appears and fills the void, it feels right.pic.twitter.com/Xh3XB49Y0N

Style = substance, fig. iii: Title pages are always a welcome addition, as far as I'm concerned – but more importantly, they set up a pattern that the third story can break, in order to establish ‘something’s wrong here’.pic.twitter.com/9hH4WQIKGj

Style = …actually, naw, this trunk shot is just a Tarantino homage, one that makes perfect sense given how close DotD’s style feels to the genre-hopping excesses of Kill Bill.pic.twitter.com/PMvIQLTkUd