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LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOMESTUCK
Nov. 26th, 2011 10:36 amA while back I got into a comic called MS Paint Adventures. It is ridiculously long. It is apparently, by page count, the longest webcomic out there, clocking in at over 6000 pages and continuing to increase by several pages a day. There was a self-contained gumshoe noir called Problem Sleuth (a mere 1000 pages, which I read in 8 hours), and now he's 5000 pages into an epic called Homestuck.
The format is a text adventure, where the player/cartoonist uses increasingly ridiculous commands to forward the story. Homestuck is a webcomic simulating a video game about four kids playing a video game. Pages are occasionally implemented in Flash as a video game. The word count exceeds War and Peace. The end of act cut scenes are cinematic works of art.
It is not a consistently "funny" webcomic, though I often find it hilarious. Its primary goal is to build increasingly complex data structures in my head, and then reward me for knowing the prior structures by building more structures on top of them.
This means that, even more than most media fans, Homestuck fans cannot stop talking about Homestuck. This macro of some fans at a convention captures it precisely: LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOMESTUCK. (Go ahead, click this one even if you don't want to be contaminated by the comic itself.)
The cartoonist has stated, though I am not entirely sure he is serious, that someone has already gone to a convention dressed as the security guard in this macro. There is an official music team that has put out nineteen albums of video game music to go with the comic. That is the level of meta we are talking here.
So.
That is all I intend to ever say about Homestuck in this journal. If you catch me talking about Homestuck, please shake me or something. If you start reading it yourself, I warned you, and Jegus have mercy on your human brain.
The format is a text adventure, where the player/cartoonist uses increasingly ridiculous commands to forward the story. Homestuck is a webcomic simulating a video game about four kids playing a video game. Pages are occasionally implemented in Flash as a video game. The word count exceeds War and Peace. The end of act cut scenes are cinematic works of art.
It is not a consistently "funny" webcomic, though I often find it hilarious. Its primary goal is to build increasingly complex data structures in my head, and then reward me for knowing the prior structures by building more structures on top of them.
This means that, even more than most media fans, Homestuck fans cannot stop talking about Homestuck. This macro of some fans at a convention captures it precisely: LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOMESTUCK. (Go ahead, click this one even if you don't want to be contaminated by the comic itself.)
The cartoonist has stated, though I am not entirely sure he is serious, that someone has already gone to a convention dressed as the security guard in this macro. There is an official music team that has put out nineteen albums of video game music to go with the comic. That is the level of meta we are talking here.
So.
That is all I intend to ever say about Homestuck in this journal. If you catch me talking about Homestuck, please shake me or something. If you start reading it yourself, I warned you, and Jegus have mercy on your human brain.
