This issue contains the first section of a serialized novel, short fiction, and one-shot comics. Between them, something is transmitted that cannot be attributed to any one of them individually.

Your job is to find it and put it on the cover.

The issue is called Signal and Noise. That is not a description. It is a question. What survives transmission? What gets lost? What arrives that was never sent?

Front cover, spine, back cover — one continuous surface. What you make of that is yours.

— R.H.