[5] Detectives in 1890, 1940, 2014, and 2050 each find the body of a dead man in the middle of the fictional Longharvest Lane in the Whitechapel district of London.
The body has sustained several injuries, including the loss of an eye, burns, and a symbol resembling three tally marks with a horizontal slash branded onto its arm.
Detective Sergeant Shahara Hasan, a Muslim woman of Persian descent born in England who faces racist rioters.
Broken Frontier named Bodies the best limited series of 2014, stating that "Spencer's energetic dialogue and narration [...] create a strong sense of time and place, backed up by the inspired choice of artist for each segment".
[6] An Asbury Park Press review was more tempered, saying that "Spencer doesn't always achieve everything he attempts with this particularly ambitious series, but Bodies is still more hit than miss".