Ls-Land itself is revealed to be a linguistic construct—a sentence that has forgotten it was ever spoken. Issue 18’s title is recursive: Alien Starsbfdcml is the password to exit the land, but reading it aloud traps you deeper inside.
Artist-writer "K. V." (pseudonym of Kay Venn, a reclusive new media theorist) employs a technique called —taking actual corrupted digital image data and using it as panel borders. In Issue 18, the gutters between panels are filled with hexadecimal code that, when translated, forms a short story about a dying AI falling in love with a pulsar. Ls-Land-Issue-18-Alien-Starsbfdcml