Chillier Elliot is happiest in the lab and envisions a state-of-the-art facility where she can make fertility miracles happen and push the boundaries of what is feasible in bespoke babies. Beverly is the quieter, more insecure, more cerebral half of the pair and her vision of the future Mantle birthing centre revolves round the empowerment of patients and the removal of the accrued stigmas and myths around pregnancy, childbirth and women’s bits generally. The Mantle twins are played by Rachel Weisz and what a great time she has with them both, and what a great time she gives the viewers.

That at least one of the pair is already edged with delicious wildness is just a bonus. It’s fast, fierce, very funny, properly feminist and a fine way to open a show about a pair of gynaecologist sisters bent on revolutionising maternity and women’s health care. This perks them up at least as much as their drinks and ends in their total victory. They take it in turns to beat the verbal crap out of the dickhead – whom they decide, over his baffled objections, to name “Larry”. Twin doctors Elliot and Beverly Mantle are in a bar after a hard day of delivering babies and battling emergencies when a tiresome man decides to disturb their peace with his “friendliness” and “banter”. It's a horrifyingly good read.D ead Ringers opens with a bravura set piece that establishes much of the tone for what’s to come. When Jasper's afraid of the dark, Brown gives us a full spread that's completely black, followed by one that's all black except for two wide, frightened eyes.

He renders the underwear in a garish green, the fluorescent color of nuclear waste, and for maximum effect, juxtaposes it against black backgrounds. Peter Brown's art is the perfect pairing. For instance, when Jasper cuts up the underwear with his mom's scissors, Jasper thinks, 'She didn't like him using them, but this was an underwear emergency.' And when he digs a hole to bury the underpants, the hole is '100% underwear-proof.' All of which helps highlight his shaky insistence, 'A grown rabbit couldn't be terrified of his underpants.' Creepy Pair of Underwear! has a really clever premise - an ominous, indestructible pair of underwear straight out of a horror film - and author Aaron Reynolds tells the story with text that's hilariously dry and deadpan. There's lots of silly, spooky fun in this story about a pair of underwear with a 'ghoulish, greenish glow' that slyly plays on kids' conflicted feelings about their big-kid underwear.

Creepy pair