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In terms of describing space, FQ’s art is improving.
A lot. After walking through ASS1, I went for a stroll around JLA: earth 2 - there was not as much room to run around.
Okay, sure, in the first few pages, we have that lovely crashed airliner to muck about in - there’s real ‘depth’ in the scenes portrayed, but after that, FQ goes flat, and do many of the scenes Grant writes for FQ to depict; basically there’s quite a lot of talking in heads to contend with in JLA: Earth 2. not so with ASS.
So, post We3, I think GM’s going down a certain route with FQ’s art. He’s describing more 3D-oriented scenes for him to draw. He’s getting spatial on DC’s ASS. (the world’s first 2.5D comic?)
And for those wondering who’s doing the better work: GM or FQ - which is best, writing or art? - I believe this misses the point. GM writes instructions for FQ on what to draw. He describes the scenes that FQ forges. GM’s writing is bound up in the exquisite lines of FQ’s layouts.
So, I think GM’s writing takes a different turn when he works with FQ, whose art allows GM to see and experiment with new possibilities in how to tell stories, particularly in the use of space as a ‘character’ or narrative driver.
Truly, GM’s and FQ’s ASS is a really spatial comic. 
Hey - I enjoyed it. Was good fun.
Some of the colouring was shite tho, bit blurry. spesh quint’s wonka’s coat. also was a bit shite in the panels where we see the spaceship behind Superman as he drops the suicide bomb on the sun. Press office seemed a bit empty as well. bit of a theatrical, stage set feel with no extras. And Clark Kent, great, but the side-on trip up shtuff was not a good enough exploration of his physicality, espesh when we consider how Quitely might have interpreted it from a 3D perspective. Movement, time and space in relation to character was done brilliantly in We3 - I kinda want a similar hi-res approach to Clark’s fumblings (but only cos GM said that they would go to town on this and in issue one, I’d say that didn’t reality happen).
And its nice to see GM as Lex, isn’t it?
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