Homestuck

No, seriously, what is with this comic?

Homestuck is a webcomic by one Andrew Hussie. It is but one of the comics featured on his website, MS Paint Adventures, which is often abbreviated into MSPA. It is famous for being even more WORDS WORDS WORDS than Ctrl+Alt+Delete, having a shit-ton of characters and one of the most annoying wonderful fanbases in existence. For this reason it is often referred to on /tg as Homeskub.

Fandom-specific memes inbound. You have been warned.

Let Me Tell You About Homestuck

Homestuck began on April 13th 2009, one month after the creator's previous story, Problem Sleuth, had ended. It started out in the same vein as its predecessors; a Quest-style comic run soley by user input. The first three stories, Jailbreak, Bardquest (unfinished), and Problem Sleuth channeled old-school point-and-click adventure games based of a man trying to escape prison, a bard in his quest to slay a dragon, and a hard-boiled private investigator trying to leave his office respectively. Andrew Hussie went in a different direction with his newest work. All the different directions.

Homestuck started with a kid called John Egbert who was trying to talk his friends into playing a hot new game called Sburb with him. This soon escalated in surviving meteors, cloning themselves, fighting all sorts of monsters, dealing with aliens of various degrees of friendliness/bloodthirst and an immortal Time Lord demon mobster pimp wanting to DESTROY EVERYTHING. Notable is that it is more than a regular comic strip; it sometimes includes simple animations, complex Flash animations, entire flash games, and several soundtracks of its own. You can even buy book compilation versions of the comic from the website. So you do not only read Homestuck, you watch it, play it and listen to it.

So Why's This so Popular?

For a number of reasons.

First off, Homestuck is fucking HUGE, and therefore has huge guts. Said guts include having a page count that hit 5000 on June 1st (only two webcomics at that time shared having passed that count, and they started in fucking 1995 and 1997) MSPA as a whole hit the 7000 page count on June 21st this year. This is an average of 5 panels per day, every day. Wrap your heads around that one.

It should be noted that what counts as a "page" for MSPA can vastly differ. It can be a simple image with a caption (or none at all), or as complex as a 13-minute flash movie that brought down MSPA, Megaupload and Newgrounds when it was released.

So to honestly judge its length would be by word count. That, my friends, is where it goes balls-through-the-wall insane. Around August 30th 2012 (that is 3 years, 4 months and 17 days since the start of the comic) this webcomic is (including all transcribed words in the flashes, walk-around games and static images), are you ready for it?

Approximately 800,000 words long.

That is not a typo. That is really an eight followed by five zeroes. Homestuck has a bigger word count than freaking Ulysses, combined with certain translations of War and motherfucking Peace. Shit's long, yo.

Not only all of that, but Homestuck self-generates memes. After reading the comic for a while, you realize how much other content, other ideas, other bits of popular media were thrown into this monstrosity, and ended up as something new and completely different. But that just builds the world in which the story, and memes, takes place. You see, Hussie recycles his jokes. A lot. And not just from the same comic, either. He will strip copypasta from his previous comics, notably Problem Sleuth, and inserts them into Homestuck like Easter-eggs. He builds off of the old crap he made to make new crap, turning things like falling down stairs, questionable existences, juggalos, and "What now?" into absurdist memes like there will be no tomorrow. And his jokes take forever, too. You see something weird? It will come up, Chekov's Gun style, 50 pages later. And it will remain a plot point for the next 500.

And remember those forums for the older user-generated quest-comics? He still uses them, don't you worry. He takes the memes that the community generates, and morphs them into everything from punchlines to plot points in-comic. It isn't just him coming up with the jokes, it is him, his fans, and his older comics coming up with the jokes. Hussie has this humor about his comics that either sucks people in like moths to a lighthouse, or repulses people like Nurgle's stench in literary form. And if his humor doesn't do it for you, Homestuck's rabid fanbase sure does a solid job of repulsion.

Gallery

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  The average Homestuck reader.

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  ANdrew Hussie, Creator of Homestuck, doing the dance of his people.

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  He knows, and so should you.

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  The comic makes a joke about grimdark for a while.

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  Yes, it has gotten this bad.

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  Problem Sleuth gave us this glorious porcelain edifice of a bust, known as the Bowen Stilson Dogg.

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  Andrew Hussie knows of /tg/. And he finds great pleasure in our gifts.

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  Problem Sleuth never got as complicated as Homestuck.

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  Sister of Battle initiate Kanaya Mayram shows you how rage is done.

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