The night shift
never sleeps.
Halftone reads like the comics it publishes — bold inks, dot-screen textures, and pages that assemble panel by panel as you scroll.
Start issue #1 Meet the castThe page builds itself.
Scroll and the panels drop into place — the same way an issue page is laid out on the board.
2:47 AM. The dispatch desk.
The scanner's been quiet for an hour. Too quiet, if you ask Ruiz. Nobody asks Ruiz.
"Quiet nights are just loud nights on a delay."The call.
Static. Then a voice that shouldn't be on this frequency.
Every light on the board goes red at once.
Ruiz grabs the mic.
Fourteen years on the night shift and she's never heard the board do that.
"All units — whoever's broadcasting on channel nine... channel nine doesn't exist."To be continued.
Issue #1 · "Graveyard Frequency" · on the stands now.
Who's on the page.
Ruiz
Dispatch · 14 yearsRuns the night board. Believes every frequency has a story and most of them lie.
Marlowe
The voice on nineFirst appearance issue #1. Broadcasts from a channel that was decommissioned in 1988.
Pact
Night courierDelivers anywhere in the city in under an hour. Never says what's in the bag.
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