is a Cyberpunk webcomic by the collective of creators Team Slipstream. The comic is the first part of a planned multi-part story titled Metempsychosis.A dockworker and recreational hacker is exposed to the cruel reality of the world's power structure when a revolutionary takes them captive to free people being secretly transported as product in shipping containers.
The comic can be read on its dedicated website and at its Patreon where paying supporters get early access to pages.
Provides examples of:
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Mag and Freya have blue skin, as do a few of the background zoned out patrons at Chotsky's.
- Brain/Computer Interface: Tilo has an wire behind his ear he can pull out to plug into various computer ports.
- Brand X: Chotsky's carries Tres Serpientes rather than Dos Equis.
- Cyberpunk: The work depicts a world with highly advanced technology, where the one percent and mega-corporations all but own everyone else, and do engage in outright slave trade secretly.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: The fact that one of the captives in the shipping container has already started to break their restraints is visible moments before he snaps them entirely to grab those who had just opened the container.
- Hidden Eyes: Tilo's eyes remain hidden behind his opaque glasses even when he gets knocked down. The glasses go askew, but don't fall all the way off.
- Hostage Situation: The plot kicks off when Tilo opens the door to a mysterious man whose face is obscured on all the security cameras, and is immediately held at gunpoint.
- Human Traffickers: Tilo discovers that one of the shipping crates at the dock he works at contains restrained people in the first chapter. He's informed, by the revolutionary that's taken him captive, that OPAL is secretly partaking in a very lucrative black market on "labor".
- Improvised Umbrella: Freya carries a used plastic bag over her head to protect her hair and outfit from the rain.
- Ludicrous Gibs: Killit's flashback to the last time they were freed includes memories of tearing through a bunch of scientists, some of whom they made quite a bloody mess of.
- Symbolism: During Tilo's interview, which got him the job the Union abducted him from, there's a glass of water on the table that's dripping with condensation reflecting his own nervousness and level of discomfort with the affair by calling to mind a nervous sweat.
- The Nicknamer: Larry calls Tilo "Baby", their leader "Groucho", and Mag "Blue", though he easily switches to Mag's name when Mag makes it clear he doesn't care for the nickname. Tilo avoiding addressing that the flirtatious "Baby" seems to make him uncomfortable rather than saying anything about it seems to amuse Larry.
- Shout-Out: One of the boards in Chotsky's displays bits of a conversation which include references to Hodor, Sansa, Jon, Ygritte and Arya.
- Sigil Spam: OPAL has their logo stamped all over buildings and walls in the Greater Garlen Product Commune.
- Silence Is Golden: While fleeing the docks there are three pages without any dialogue, though the sound effect of the blaring alarm is constant.
- Teeth Flying: While escaping the dockyard Mag knocks a security guard's tooth out when he punches him in the face.
- Third-Person Person: Killit always references themselves as Killit while talking, rather than using I or me.
- Unsound Effect: When Mag decks a security guard the sound effect is "KNOCK DOWN".
- Wink "Ding!": When Larry gets his first look at Tilo he grins and gives a flirtatious wink, accompanied by a little star.
