Art style: Dark Comic.
A medium shot of the Inspector shaking his head slowly from side to side. Behind him, a semi-transparent sepia overlay shows a line of historical workers being handed modern-style hard hats. The Inspector is positioned in the left-third of the frame, looking toward the Worker. The lighting is soft and even. The color palette mixes the modern orange and grey with the sepia of the flashback. A large dialogue bubble is centered.
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FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image in the following art style:
dark graphic-novel illustration — gritty comic book art style, heavy black inking, bold outlines, detailed cross-hatching and dramatic shading. Exaggerated character features, intense expressions, deep wrinkles, highly defined musculature. High contrast lighting. Desaturated grim background colors (grays, browns) with stark contrasting pop-color elements. Satirical and edgy atmosphere, masterpiece comic art.
Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.
