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It seems like a pretty complicated comic and I don't know if it worth my time to read.
Should I read Homestuck?
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Under no circumstances should you read Homestuck. Read Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff instead.
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Problem Sleuth is better.
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NO. Avoid that shit like it's Airborne Ebola & Super AIDS put together.
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Honestly, if you ignore any Fandom or third party bullshit, homestuck is an incredible, innovative story that really presses the boundaries of what a story can be. The multimedia, the text format, is incredibly unique and effective in how it's utilized. Idk if the flash animation stuff still works in 2022 but yeah,homestuck is gr8.
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It starts off pretty funny (although it's really fucking dated and not just because a tumblr comic has them all dropping "retard" jokes) but then it gets more convoluted and boring and the whole thing turns into a complete mess.
Read Problem Sleuth instead. It's really good.
Read Problem Sleuth instead. It's really good.
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It is until it isn’t, and a lot of it isn’t. I don’t regret reading it as a teenager, but I dunno that I could seriously recommend it to anyone, considering the entire latter half (e.g, all of Act 6) is a complete dumpster fire in regard to the characters, the story, and its increasing Tumblrization.
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Are you TRYING to catch autism?
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Let me put to you this way OP. Between reading Homestuck and shoving a centipede up your urethra, you'd be better off with the centipede.
I do. Those are hours of my life I won't get back, that I could've used to sound myself with a centipede.
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No.
Once I dated a polyamorous, nonbinary whore. That bitch was a nymphomaniac, self-diagnosed herself with autism, and was a social democrat.
Can you guess what comic she spent all her time reading when she was younger?
Avoid Homestuck like the plague. Also, don't stick your dick in crazy or you'll learn the hard way (pun intended).
Once I dated a polyamorous, nonbinary whore. That bitch was a nymphomaniac, self-diagnosed herself with autism, and was a social democrat.
Can you guess what comic she spent all her time reading when she was younger?
Avoid Homestuck like the plague. Also, don't stick your dick in crazy or you'll learn the hard way (pun intended).
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If you feel like reading some webcomics it's a pretty funny one to go through, but it requires a very specific brand of internet shitlord humor sense. It does get kinda fucky around the "act 6" time when they got the popularity explosion from people that didn't read anything but the parts with the grey fuckers in them and the still to be completed kickstarter game started being worked on. The site got broke when they rebranded to "homestuck.com" a few short years ago and fucked over the mspaintadventures website's comfy easy to navigate design for some mobile friendly clusterfuck that messes with text spacing in the little dialogue window things you need to open every once and a while, and a lot of the flashes and walkarounds are broken as shit now and replaced with nonsense slurries of screenshots of them unless you go and do some third party download archive thing which is apperently the reccomended way to read it by even the Hussie guy hmself as I guess he doesn't even want to bother reverting the site to a usable format again though that could just be some shit someone told me.
It's never stopped being genuinely odd how the most anti-fun assholes kinda latched onto the comic post-popularity spike via clickbait going "THE LONGEST WEBCOMIC EVAR!" Fuckers really out there claiming they love Homestuck and how it really made them who they are today but call retard or fag "The F slur" or "theR slur" and shit unironically when the comic is choc full of those words and more. Basically everything but the N word is there in terms of swears. HOWEVER... if you count the Blog Hussie did reviewing some dumb shit under the Dave strider pen name that somehow hasn't 404ed yet like all other old Hussie shit where he says nigger as part of Homestuck, then yes it's totally in Homestuck.
I would recommend basically any other one of the things Hussie did before Homestuck before you read Homestuck as the thing is just callbacks within callbacks at times, sometimes linking to the older comics as ads for them. Short 3 panel format shit like the teamspecialolympics strips and Zoosmells are still good IMO but you'll have to dig through internet archives to find them as their pages went 404 at some point in like 2014 iirc. Modern Homestuck fans are literally braindead in the fact they don't recognize Lil Cal, the recurring teamspecialolympics namesake of the puppet from Homestuck , is a blatant Gary Coleman parody character. They don't have an excuse either most of the ones I see that go "OH HUSSIE IS JUST BAD AND RICIST CIS MAN THAT COMIC IS BEST LEFT FORGOTTEN!!!" in response to OG Lil Cal are in their 20s and 30s and people that age ABSOLUTELY know who gary coleman is they have NO fucking excuse.
Best time to read Homestuck was when it was first coming out over 10 years ago, not because of the "length" or how act 6 drags on forever, but because the atmosphere in general was a lot more chill and the mspa site wasn't some broken "mobile friendly" shell of it's former self and the current year no fun allowed types that say shit like "OMG YOU GUYS HOMESTUCK HELMPED ME REALIZE I WAS TRAAAANS!" unironically didn't have their claws in so deep.
If you really want to go into Homestuck first before literally anything else webcomic-wise. I do not suggest you look at any prequel or sequel stuff from the past few years unless you want to see how ridiculous the retcons the newly hired writing staff started imposing on the lore as a whole to fit what they thought would appeal to reddit and twitter.
It's never stopped being genuinely odd how the most anti-fun assholes kinda latched onto the comic post-popularity spike via clickbait going "THE LONGEST WEBCOMIC EVAR!" Fuckers really out there claiming they love Homestuck and how it really made them who they are today but call retard or fag "The F slur" or "theR slur" and shit unironically when the comic is choc full of those words and more. Basically everything but the N word is there in terms of swears. HOWEVER... if you count the Blog Hussie did reviewing some dumb shit under the Dave strider pen name that somehow hasn't 404ed yet like all other old Hussie shit where he says nigger as part of Homestuck, then yes it's totally in Homestuck.
I would recommend basically any other one of the things Hussie did before Homestuck before you read Homestuck as the thing is just callbacks within callbacks at times, sometimes linking to the older comics as ads for them. Short 3 panel format shit like the teamspecialolympics strips and Zoosmells are still good IMO but you'll have to dig through internet archives to find them as their pages went 404 at some point in like 2014 iirc. Modern Homestuck fans are literally braindead in the fact they don't recognize Lil Cal, the recurring teamspecialolympics namesake of the puppet from Homestuck , is a blatant Gary Coleman parody character. They don't have an excuse either most of the ones I see that go "OH HUSSIE IS JUST BAD AND RICIST CIS MAN THAT COMIC IS BEST LEFT FORGOTTEN!!!" in response to OG Lil Cal are in their 20s and 30s and people that age ABSOLUTELY know who gary coleman is they have NO fucking excuse.
Best time to read Homestuck was when it was first coming out over 10 years ago, not because of the "length" or how act 6 drags on forever, but because the atmosphere in general was a lot more chill and the mspa site wasn't some broken "mobile friendly" shell of it's former self and the current year no fun allowed types that say shit like "OMG YOU GUYS HOMESTUCK HELMPED ME REALIZE I WAS TRAAAANS!" unironically didn't have their claws in so deep.
If you really want to go into Homestuck first before literally anything else webcomic-wise. I do not suggest you look at any prequel or sequel stuff from the past few years unless you want to see how ridiculous the retcons the newly hired writing staff started imposing on the lore as a whole to fit what they thought would appeal to reddit and twitter.
Both kind of require the same sense of humor to be enjoyed, but sweet bro and Hella Jeff despite getting tied into homestuck came before it. Similar case to the Muppet Babies SAW comic but that didn't get a continuation like SbaHJ did. Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff literally the only webcomic I ever bought a physical edition of. I also got the standalone sequel story book collab between Hussie, KC, and Dril for $30 before they inexplicably raised the price for it to $50, and I somehow accidentally dented it with a TV remote. Kills the clean visual of the fucking absolutely majestic cover art, but also somewhat adds to the funny intentional shittiness of the book not even being shaped right and having 50 bookmark lanyards.
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It's not hyper-focused on a character from the wizard of Oz so it's nowhere near wogglebug but I fully understand the assumption somehow.
Maybe it's because there's a lot of references to Robin William's HOOK as a running gag or something who the fuck knows.
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It’s alright. Act 1 is pretty short, just read through that and continue if you’re enjoying yourself. You’ll either like it or you won’t. Don’t commit yourself to reading the whole thing, just duck out if you get bored.
Eventually it will get so slow and boring that you will either end up forcing yourself to continue or giving up entirely. For most people this is somewhere in Act 6, which makes War and Peace look like a pamphlet. Reading through the entire comic is an exercise in wasting a lot of fucking time, unless you somehow end up really engrossed and don’t care about having to read 10,000 word conversations between 2 characters you already don’t care about but one of them is half bird and they’re from an alternate universe and only exist in a dream.
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No. Read Problem Sleuth, a much better work by Hussie.
If you must, go ahead for as far as you can stand it, but bail immediately if you get to when the ancestor kids are introduced. The real descent into hell begins at that point, and the ending of the whole thing and the epilogues were terrible.
As much as there's some very interesting concepts introduced, they're not well executed; and it's not worth it.
The music, however, generally goes from pretty good to great (for what it is; don't expect orchestrated masterpieces or something like that)
You want a good long-running webcomic with an interesting story, crazy metaphysics and other worlds, strange concepts and flawed characters, that leverages the medium in ways that can only be pulled off by being a WEBcomic? Read KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS.
If you must, go ahead for as far as you can stand it, but bail immediately if you get to when the ancestor kids are introduced. The real descent into hell begins at that point, and the ending of the whole thing and the epilogues were terrible.
As much as there's some very interesting concepts introduced, they're not well executed; and it's not worth it.
The music, however, generally goes from pretty good to great (for what it is; don't expect orchestrated masterpieces or something like that)
You want a good long-running webcomic with an interesting story, crazy metaphysics and other worlds, strange concepts and flawed characters, that leverages the medium in ways that can only be pulled off by being a WEBcomic? Read KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS.