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OK, I promised it, so it’s time to rant wax lyrical tell you all about another of my favourite webcomics. Probably my top, all-time favourite. White Noise.

It’s queer, it’s engrossing, it’s well-drawn, it’s cleverly drawn, and the world-building is incredible.

I should warn you: White Noise explores some dark themes. Slavery, genocide, and the trauma of living through that (and of knowing people who didn’t) all feature. That said, it’s not a bleak story, by any means. It’s a story of fighting back, of standing together, of forging new lives, of self-discovery. And it’s a story of people and places on the boundaries (which, let’s be frank, is where all the best stories are).

Adrien Lee’s careful layouts and juxtapositions do a really great job of enhancing the story, and drawing parallels. I find they only get better when revisited, and I like to read pages, and read the text descriptions, and read the comments, and read the pages again - and each time I find something I missed previously.

Also, the world-building is amazing! As with any well-told story, you only see the tip of the iceberg, but for those who (like me) can’t get enough of fictional worlds and what makes them tick, Adrien has a side blog (not updated recently, but with plenty of past material) called Tape Hiss.

White Noise Textposts (from the discord) 1/?

bonus:

Today’s Follower-Recommended Webcomic: White Noise by @thephooka​ (recommended by @poichild)!

In the early 1900s, the nation of Aetheri came out of its long interdimensional isolation and revealed to the humans of the Symphony Archipelago that they were not alone in the multiverse. Things swiftly got ugly after that.

Aetheri’s leadership changed, and in the Archipelago, a tiny broken family of half-siblings banded together in the face of the bile and hate that was boiling up between the humans and the non-humans.

In the early 2000s, that family was split apart. Hawk Press and his sister Liya Kiski both begin a long and exhaustive journey towards understanding the difference between friend and enemy–and between the family you’re given, and the family you make.

I like to watch Vinny play Mario Kart 8 when I'm mad, because I can never be as mad as he is playing that game 👌

Starts crying during the credits

Heavily projects onto EvilX

Realize it's not projecting if that what's the character is like