Er, anyway. Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff is a webcomic which is pretty much the epitome of the Stylistic Suck trope in its medium. Originally spawned by Andrew Hussie from an exchange on the Penny Arcade forums, it was some time thereafter integrated into Homestuck as a Show Within a Show, ostensibly written by Dave Strider. It stars the eponymous Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, as well as their Black Best Friend Geromy, as they get up to... well, plenty of things, none of which quite make sense. A S Ba HJ book is in the works, and it's being co-designed by Hussie, KC Green, and John Keogh.
AHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHERE do you even get tropes thats that many
Aborted Arc: The Nancho Party, although Dave had already planned on doing so in advance.
Art Evolution: Hella Jeff's appearance here◊. Actually, it's more like Art Devolution in this case. In addition, the comic's policy of saving in JPG and copying over parts from previous comics causes artifacts to gradually build up, meaning that each character pose gets worse the more it appears.
Author Appeal: An in-universe example: Dave clearly emphasises the rumps of characters in SBaHJ. Dave's Bro, whom Dave strives to emulate, appears to have an odd puppet-ass fetish.
Fan Disservice: If it's even vaguely intended to be sexual, it's this in spades; sexualising anything with this much Stylistic Suck makes it infintely more disturbing to regard. Even stuff that isn't presented in a sexual light but is nonetheless emphasised is this; we're talking a comic which put heavy focus on an elelephant's HUGE BUTT and GREY MUTANT PENIS◊.
And issue 44 features a close up on a bull's ass. Then it takes a shit.
Fountain of Memes: In-Universe. The whole reason it was brought into Homestuck was to provide a source of memes that would be original to the comic and exclusive to the characters. (It's also one in real life, of course.)
Gag Penis: The elelephant, with its GREY MUTANT PENIS.
Gambit Roulette: "the short... GLOWNS IN THE DARK / the short acutally DOES NOT GLOWN IN THE DARK / too find out watch thing is true...... BUY THE SHIRT????" The first run did not glow in the dark. The second run did. Then the same thing happened again with the second and third S Ba HJ shirts.
"... The thing is, some of those new shirts got mixed in the the old ones. So I guess if you order one there is still a CHANCE you will get one that doesn't glow in the dark? So really the offer stands as the wild card originally advertised."
I Warned You: "I TOLD YOU MAN I TOLD YOU ABOUT STAIRS!"
Karma Houdini: Hella Jeff. He steals the car, bangs Sweet Bro's mother*
something Sweet Bro has also done
, and is all around a total douchebag.
Lampshade Hanging: There's now a space for advertisements on SBaHJ, which feature the remark below "(i hope the ad is for some ponography!", seemingly hanging a lampshade on the fact that most of the ads on MS Paint Adventures proper end up being for porn comics.
Living Prop: Geromy, despite getting a formal introduction in big letters. He doesn't even move.
Long Pants: Hella Jeff and Geromy are always wearing these. Sweet Bro actually had differentiated pants at first, but is now always drawn with these.
Loophole Abuse: After being corrected during a chess game, Sweet Bro throws a pawn in the toilet and declares checkmate.
Minimalism: "that's the comic fuckmunch, its't just a wall."
Misaimed Fandom: In-universe- Dave mentions he has tons of fans who think the comic is hilarious and played totally straight, when it's meant to be ironic. However, that's just the way he likes it.
Parental Incest: The punchline of the second comic (which was actually the first one made). The psychological repercussions are not explored.
Poe's Law: An in-universe example: in Homestuck, it's described as "a webcomic ironically maintained through a satirical cipher" with "legions of devoted fans, most of whom are totally convinced" of Dave's sockpuppet persona's sincerity.
Then you realise that SBaHJ really does have large numbers of devoted fans and is arguably more well-known than Homestuck...
Punchline: They're there occasionally, usually complete non-sequiturs or orphaned.
The banner ad block is somewhat less lighthearted, riffing on the number of advertisements for porn comics which are an inexplicable regular feature on the main MS Paint Adventures website (well, and Oglaf...).
The Klutz: Besides falling down stairs, Sweet Bro has been seen failing various tasks like holding a ruler the right way, putting a spoon in the drawer, pouring milk or putting on boots.
Totally Radical: A substantial portion of their speech is a rather garbled version of this, as do some of their activities of choice, particularly Bro being god's gift to grinds.
Two Gamers on a Couch: It initially sells itself as such, but quickly descends into madness. Very few comics have to do with video games, and even then only tangentially, and the only comic where Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff are actually on a couch playing video games quickly turns to... something else.
What Could Have Been: Dave originally planned to make Cool Dude and Stoner Lou despite regretting the fact that it looked too much like his brother's stuff. As part of her trolling and a stable time loop, Terezi's artwork inspires him to make SB&HJ.
with the new friend........................GEROMYsome may might say its is an exomple of stylist sock, but its moe like stylistik AWESUME AM I RIGHT???......... . . . . .. ...... .'(foldurb)
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