White Noise (Webcomic by Adrien Lee) SPOILERS

[Jitter]

Seriously it’s a bit weird that the part of their group who remained in Ardh and met Hawk earlier (the doctor guy etc) never talk to Parker and Teige, or at least never mentioned that Hawk is alive. Maybe cross-world phones are extremely rare.

[thorny]

Hawk knows that Teige is still alive - the important thing is that Teige now knows that Hawk's alive and okay. Hopefully they'll be able to talk next panel.

I'd forgotten that Hawk knows Teige is alive, or else missed that part -- but, given that, why hasn't Hawk tried to contact Teige? Cross-world contact may be difficult, but it's obviously possible -- not only in that phones appear to work, but also in that people move from one to the other.

[Jitter]

Hawk doesn’t know where Teige is, but he knew Teige escaped with the others when Hawk was captured. And he knew Teige was planning to go to Aetheri to enlist. So he knows Teige is presumably alive, whereas from Teige’s perspective Hawk has been presumably dead or lost, or at the very least, MIA.

And again the doctor guy and others must have told Hawk that Parker and Teige went over to Aetheri and were alive at that time at least.

[thorny]

Page, yesterday, how did I forget that?


So that's why Hawk didn't. But why didn't Abi?

And I am hoping very hard that next Sunday's page doesn't shift scenes --

[Jitter]

Dammit Abi! Why didn’t you!

[Jitter]

Not just one glorious page, but two!

[thorny]

I was just coming here to post PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGES --

(hope Hawk's not having a heart attack! but I don't think that's where this would be going.)

[Jitter]

Yeah, the text description only says he’s heart is beating faster, which is very understandable, but in the picture it’s so prominent that I was a bit worried too. Hopefully it’s just the glass that is destroyed by the news (I thought, when he picked it up, that the glass is doomed, and it was).

[Keep Looking]

Oh Hawk...

My god the author's done an amazing job at bringing across the gravity and emotional weight of this scene. My heart was really in my chest for Hawk, just, like - you can see everything this means for him. And I feel like it's especially important given that practically the whole story has been building up to this scene.

[thorny]

Page --

yeah, how are you going to answer that? (Bearing in mind that Hawk's bound to find out pretty quick once he's in Escalus, even if he's not warned before.)

Not that we'll find out this week. Mow!

[Keep Looking]

Oh boy oh no oh boy this is gonna get.

Mari. Mari you could've solved this problem much, much earlier through the magical power of "communication"

[Jitter]

“Tomorrow we’ll fix this” I certainly hope so Vlad, I do!

But, the bad boys are in town… and now you’ve gone and jinxed it! Why you this, Vlad?

[Keep Looking]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh

This is my reaction to waiting in anticipation for the next pages to drop. Are we going to get an all-characters-in showdown with the slavers? Will Mari finally tell Hawk the truth? Will the broadcast be successful? All these answers will be drip-fed to us week by week.

[thorny]

Yeah, there's another shoe coming, Hawk --

and I really hope you don't first see it in the middle of a battle.

[thorny]

And here we are, two weeks later, and those were both good pages but I'm still waiting for that shoe --