Insta-rec: Stand Still, Stay Silent

[luzula]

Stand Still, Stay Silent is a post-apocalyptic web-comic set in the Nordic countries (and drawn by a Finnish-Swedish woman), with beautiful, varied art, rich and slowly revealed worldbuilding, and interesting characters. I have not finished it yet, but on the strength of what I've seen I really recommend it! You will possibly get more out of it if you're from a Nordic country (Mora is now the capital of Sweden, with Stockholm and Göteborg gone; all the surviving Danes live on Bornholm and dream of re-conquering their lost mainland; Iceland is the civilizational hub of the world) but I really think that anyone can enjoy it. Just as a taste, here's a map of the known world.

Is anyone else reading it?

Comments

[riverlight]

Oooh! Exciting. Having become obsessed with Check, Please recently—it's a comic about a gay college hockey player who likes to bake—I'm newly interested in webcomics, so I'm glad to have another rec!

[luzula]

I usually prefer to read comics in actual books (not that I read a ton of comics to begin with) but this one really grabbed me. I hadn't seen anyone in fandom talking about it--actually it was a couple of RL friends who recced it to me.