White Noise (Webcomic by Adrien Lee) SPOILERS

[Jitter]

The spirits have much longer lifespans than us Earth humans, I seem to recall Vlad was gone for many decades and he still appears to be on the younger side, definitely not old for his species.

[thorny]

Yeah. That's got to be an issue for Numair and Hawk, eventually -- though right now Numair clearly doesn't expect his lifespan to be longer than Hawk's. But I wonder whether it might be one already, in that Hawk, though an adult, may be much younger than Numair.

[thorny]

I suspected I knew the answer; but I went and googled gator jerky, to find out whether it's readily available in our world.

It is, of course -- though, not surprisingly, not around where I am; except by mail/internet order.

Interesting that in both worlds there it's apparently legal to sell homemade jerky off the back of a truck/boat. Or, at any rate, commonly done.

[Keep Looking]

I dunno about gator jerky, but at the butcher my mum goes to (old-style Italian butcher covered in all kinds of signs advertising their wares where she can ask "what's your best pork roast to feed 10 people" and the butcher who she has befriended will find the best thing) you can buy a LOT of different meats including crocodile meat. And camel meat. So hypothetically you COULD make crocodile jerky.

[Keep Looking]

Is anyone else getting a 404 error when trying to access the White Noise website? The comic's not gone from the internet, all the pages are still up on Adrien's patreon (publically and for free, members just get early access), but the actual comic website seems to be completely down.

[thorny]

Yikes! Me too:

 Sorry, this page doesn't exist.
Please check the URL or go back a page.
404 Error. Page Not Found.

It was all right on Sunday. And on Sunday there wasn't any warning of closing down; so I expect it's a glitch of some sort, and hope it'll be fixed soon.

I don't know how to get at the patreon page if it isn't.

[Jitter]

It’s back! Probably a glitch, possibly due to aggressive geese activity.

[Keep Looking]

I don't know how to get at the patreon page if it isn't.

Go to patreon.com and search for "Adrien Lee" and his page should come up. But it's good to hear that the site is up again!

[thorny]

Thanks. I probably won't, now, as the site's back up -- which is in any case a relief. But it's good to know where there's an option.

No comment on the page about it; maybe the glitch was really brief.

[Jitter]

Seems to have been several hours, but as it was not new page day there was perhaps less traffic

[thorny]

Looks like next week we'll start getting a 10 page short story. Or maybe an exposition. I'm looking forward to it, in any case.

[Keep Looking]

Looks like next week we'll start getting a 10 page short story. Or maybe an exposition. I'm looking forward to it, in any case.

Oh, yay! I'll be looking forwards to that!

[thorny]

Looks like a combination of story and exposition. Nice start -- I wonder what kind of cake it is?

ETA: there's two pages, but you seem to need to go back one to see the first one.

(And have a good Christmas, if you're celebrating that --)

[thorny]

I'm glad that issue's being brought up; though I'm sure Teige thinks it is, or he wouldn't be teaching her.

[thorny]

We're not getting an ancient traditional love story, as I thought from the start of this sequence we were going to (though I suppose we might get to that later.) We're getting the next chapter in an entirely (in-story) contemporary one: Numair/Mari meeting Hawk's social circle/ family including chosen family, one of them for the first time, all of them for the first time as a group -- and also, rather importantly, for the first time in both of his personas at once.

Looks like a good if cautious start so far --