Despite the potentially salacious nature of the set-up - the original one-liner had played on the association of actresses with vice compared to the moral standing of bishops, who are among the highest ranking clergy within the Church of England[3] - Bolland felt "the least interesting thing to do with them was turn them into porn".

She wears a revealing black evening dress complete with elbow-length gloves and heels for lounging around the house or domestic chores, occasionally switching up to a fetishistic Britannia-style headdress and basque.

[1] She may not be an actress; The Bishop invites her into his home after discovering a card advertising her services next to a public phone in Crewe, having interpreted their description as a sign of divine contact.

[10] The Bishop: always dressed in full episcopal regalia - mitre, cope, pectoral cross, surplice and crosier - with the notable exception of anything covering his legs bar a pair of fluffy slippers.

The Bishop seems unaware that he accidentally killed Pugh soon afterwards with a chair he threw out of a window, while Ethel ends up also living in Rayner's Lane, something unknown to him until the Actress suggests throwing a party to meet the neighbours.

[11] Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool was effusive about the Desperado one-shot, calling it "beautiful, sexy, funny, intricate, astoundingly well written and structured, and an example of the creator at the top of his game", and praising how much was packed into the short stories.