Spirits haunt a young Victorian girl in this Daphne Byrne exclusive

This exclusive preview of next week’s Daphne Byrne #2 shows the lead character the morning after a disturbing nightmare that may or may not have been real. The blood on her mattress is attributed to her “monthly humors,” but that doesn’t explain the ghastly spirits lurking around her. Jones creates an atmosphere of paranoia with panels composed to give the impression of someone watching these characters from beneath the bed or outside the window, and Michelle Madsen’s adds dimension to the linework without distracting from the stark shadows that fall over the characters and the environment. There’s a particularly striking panel of a water pitcher smashing against the ground and the liquid taking the shape of a skull, a small moment that spotlights how the art team inventively depicts this haunting to reinforce the omnipresence of the spirits around Daphne and her family.