Homestuck

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 abreviated into MSPA. It is famous for being even more WORDS WORDS WORDS than Ctrl+Alt+Delete, having a shitton of characters and one of the most annoying fanbases in existence. For this reason it is often referred to on /tg as Homeskub.

Let me tell ya about Homestuck

Homestuck began on April 13th 2009, one month after the creator's previous story, Problem Sleuth, 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.

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 a soundtrack of its own. 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 5,5 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. Those really are 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.

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