File: Don't Read A Webcomic Called Homestuck.swf-(5.89 MB, Other)
[_] Anonymous07/04/12(Wed)23:43No.1713302
Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)00:18No.1713319
I'll look for it right away. Thanks.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)00:51No.1713336
It's quite an amazingly well written web comic. Don't know why all the hate. People just jump on
the, what people hate homestuck I HATE IT TOO bandwagon. If you actually tried reading it you
might actually like it.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)01:09No.1713345
>>1713336
It's because the fandom can be fairly obnoxious. But of course, what fandom isn't?
I quite like how MSPA practically redefines the webcomic genre with so many things rarely/never
before seen in the format. Panel a page + text underneath + command fits the adventure game style
quite nicely, the suggestion box in Problem Sleuth/early days of Homestuck added a great audience
participation and author improv element, the frequent use of gifs makes it much more vibrant, the
flash movies are incredible, the minigames are neat, the soundtrack is wonderful, and the fully
playable adventure game psegments are just holy fucking shit. But by far my favorite innovation
is the header in the Doc Scratch intermission.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)01:19No.1713348
>>1713336
Because if I wanted to read a novel with pictures I could at least read a good fucking novel with
pictures.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)01:22No.1713351
>>1713348
Say what you will, the story in Homestuck is actually literally so complex many readers who are
dumb as fuck don't know what's actually going on. It takes someone with a brain to see what
Andrew Hussie actually doing, and it's really quite brilliant.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)01:24No.1713352
>>1713345
homestuck wasn't originally a webcomic. it was a quest, which is a thing that i'm pretty sure
started on /tg/. so the reason it doesn't look like a webcomic is it's not. webcomic is just the
easiest thing for it to be called now that the interactive element has been removed.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)01:25No.1713353
>>1713336
Naw. I used to read it but dropped it hard. It starting stinking to high hell.
It's pretty fucking insane to assume anyone who dislikes it just hasn't tried it. Most people who
dislike it HAVE tried it, and that is why they hate it so venomously for what it has become.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)01:26No.1713354
>>1713352
Nope, it derived from similar type threads originally on something awful.
It's also shit.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)01:29No.1713356
>>1713353
What's really funny is how people think the Boku no Pico one is ripping THIS off, rather than the
other way around.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)01:36No.1713363
If you were at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, there was a Homestuck panel which was cancelled both
times and was never done.
Go AX.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)01:39No.1713366
>>1713356
I actually read and enjoy homestuck (though the last few acts have been declining in quality
imo), but I hate homestuck for that. The fanbase has to make a shitty homestuck version of
anything decent, then because it's homestuck it ends up more popular than the original, which
half the people who watched the homestuck version don't even know exists because half the time
the original isn't linked to or mentioned by the homestuck version. Then the fanbase has the gall
to get mad at the original for being a rip off of the homestuck version. Ponyfags do the same
thing, and it's just terrible.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)01:44No.1713368
Problem Sleuth was a lot better, I haven't really liked most of the new songs, and the trolls are
mostly fan catering.
Wish it was better.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)04:05No.1713436
Homestuck sucks for the same reasons Lost sucks: it was clearly supposed to be over years ago,
and now the creative forces behind it no longer have any idea what the fuck they're doing or
where the story is going.
Lost was meant to be only a few seasons, but a lot of people were interested, they had a budget,
and they had the go ahead to do more, they did, and the story suffered.
Homestuck just keeps adding shit, and next to nothing has been resolved. Most of the questions
driving the narrative during the first three acts have just been fucking taken for granted as an
aspect of the setting at this point. This is bad. This is dissatisfying.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)06:27No.1713498
>>1713356
That would simply be because this thread was posted first and everyone is new.
>> [_] Anonymous07/05/12(Thu)07:39No.1713520
>>1713336
>It's quite an amazingly well written web comic.
That's a funny joke, you funny person.
Homestuck relies exclusively on gimmicks to tell a needlessly complicated story from eighteen
perspectives. That does not make it amazingly well-written.
