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7/12/2025, 9:54:26 AM
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Homestuck is a terrible, terrible comic to read through, absolute bottom-of-the-barrel liquid shit. Hussie obviously had no fucking idea what to write, no through-line or plan, and the story reads like it. The pesterlogs are fun until you realize that they barely ever advance the plot, and there are only so many ways you can spin teenagers fucking about on IRC before it gets stale. Interesting plot threads are introduced and then abandoned (Davesprite,) the story gets incredibly convoluted to no real benefit, the meager plot elements that are introduced will be regurgitated to you repeatedly, Sburb as a game is never taken seriously by either the author or the players and the entire thing is just deeply stupid. Jade's entire purpose as a character is to go "cool stuff is going to happen, tee hee! can't tell you about it though :(... but it's gonna happen :)" The only satisfying payoff is when John gets to recreate the ending of Con Air, which should tell you exactly how fucking bad the whole thing is.
The classic response is that "it was great until act 6," but Hussie stops bothering to pretend he likes either his fanbase or the story he's writing pretty early into A5, and the plot shifts from meandering to actively spiteful when A5A2 rolls around. John doesn't reunite with his dad because you wanted them to; characters die in extremely stupid ways to make their fans feel stupid. The shittiest characters are given far more plot relevance than anyone asked for, and when a fight isn't off-screened it plays out like a fucking child bashing their action figures together.
The one defense I ever see anyone pull out for this miserable shit is that it's a "comedy," as if this excuses the fact that it was written specifically to shit on anyone that was invested in it. The only joke Hussie's got is at your expense, and it's called Homestuck. Go read any other webcomic, you'll get more mileage out of it.
Homestuck is a terrible, terrible comic to read through, absolute bottom-of-the-barrel liquid shit. Hussie obviously had no fucking idea what to write, no through-line or plan, and the story reads like it. The pesterlogs are fun until you realize that they barely ever advance the plot, and there are only so many ways you can spin teenagers fucking about on IRC before it gets stale. Interesting plot threads are introduced and then abandoned (Davesprite,) the story gets incredibly convoluted to no real benefit, the meager plot elements that are introduced will be regurgitated to you repeatedly, Sburb as a game is never taken seriously by either the author or the players and the entire thing is just deeply stupid. Jade's entire purpose as a character is to go "cool stuff is going to happen, tee hee! can't tell you about it though :(... but it's gonna happen :)" The only satisfying payoff is when John gets to recreate the ending of Con Air, which should tell you exactly how fucking bad the whole thing is.
The classic response is that "it was great until act 6," but Hussie stops bothering to pretend he likes either his fanbase or the story he's writing pretty early into A5, and the plot shifts from meandering to actively spiteful when A5A2 rolls around. John doesn't reunite with his dad because you wanted them to; characters die in extremely stupid ways to make their fans feel stupid. The shittiest characters are given far more plot relevance than anyone asked for, and when a fight isn't off-screened it plays out like a fucking child bashing their action figures together.
The one defense I ever see anyone pull out for this miserable shit is that it's a "comedy," as if this excuses the fact that it was written specifically to shit on anyone that was invested in it. The only joke Hussie's got is at your expense, and it's called Homestuck. Go read any other webcomic, you'll get more mileage out of it.
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