2012-10-25, 07:48 PM
[video=youtube;MLK7RI_HW-E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MLK7RI_HW-E[/video]
I follow about 30 different webcomics. Homestuck can be tedious, frustrating to read (Oh god, the troll typing ticks are infuriating... still), and nonsensical for dozens of pages at a time. It has a fanbase everyone loves to hate (including it's own fanbase) a la My Little Pony, Naruto, etc. It's also the only webcomic I've ever read that truly takes advantage of the fact that it's on the web via flashes, gifs, stretches of story that expand outside the typically panel space and run parallel to the main story in the panel (the midnight crew arc mentioned above), and excellent music. The best humor is derived from the acute knowledge author Andrew Hussie has of his internet-savvy readers and all the tropes and memes and in community-driven theories and fan creations that Homestuck has spawned. It's truly a circlejerking piece of glory dedicated to youth on the internet, and if you don't like it, it's understandable. But if you give it a shot, and get through the first few acts (I'll be honest, AlterniaBound - Act 4 I think - is miserable, but the story really hits fullstride after the closing flash to Act 5, Cascade. which, rather awesomely crashed newgrounds when it was first released)
I follow about 30 different webcomics. Homestuck can be tedious, frustrating to read (Oh god, the troll typing ticks are infuriating... still), and nonsensical for dozens of pages at a time. It has a fanbase everyone loves to hate (including it's own fanbase) a la My Little Pony, Naruto, etc. It's also the only webcomic I've ever read that truly takes advantage of the fact that it's on the web via flashes, gifs, stretches of story that expand outside the typically panel space and run parallel to the main story in the panel (the midnight crew arc mentioned above), and excellent music. The best humor is derived from the acute knowledge author Andrew Hussie has of his internet-savvy readers and all the tropes and memes and in community-driven theories and fan creations that Homestuck has spawned. It's truly a circlejerking piece of glory dedicated to youth on the internet, and if you don't like it, it's understandable. But if you give it a shot, and get through the first few acts (I'll be honest, AlterniaBound - Act 4 I think - is miserable, but the story really hits fullstride after the closing flash to Act 5, Cascade. which, rather awesomely crashed newgrounds when it was first released)