History Webcomic / MSPaintAdventures

** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190630115147/http://mspaintadventures.com/unlock.html The secret page]] also counts, as it lists Andrew's Formspring account, which is now out of service. Its equivalent on Homestuck.com, the [[https://www.homestuck.com/info-more More page]], links to the defunct old domain for ''Webcomic/ParadoxSpace''.

** [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/unlock.html The secret page]] also counts, as it lists Andrew's Formspring account, which is now out of service. Its equivalent on Homestuck.com, the [[https://www.homestuck.com/info-more More page]], links to the defunct old domain for ''Webcomic/ParadoxSpace''.

** [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=3 A single panel]] exists of a standalone Midnight Crew adventure, with only the title (''Blood Spade'') known from the URL.

** The [[https://web.archive.org/web/20180304023102/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?viewpage=new old New Reader page]] notes itself to be out of date. The claim that ''Problem Sleuth'' is 'by far the longest adventure' is crossed out and followed by "(Homestuck is now much longer)", and the section about Homestuck has a link to a more up-to-date primer at the top of the old description. As of the Homestuck.com update, the page has been deleted entirely.

* EldritchAbomination: Fluthlu. And possibly the lesser "terrifying beasts" as well. Not to mention the entire Noble Circle of Horrorterrors.

* IndecisiveMedium

** [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=3 A single panel]] exists of a standalone Midnight Crew adventure.

%%* InterdimensionalTravelDevice

%comment%What pumpkin?

** ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' has this as a major element in the form of each characters weapons, which are also mundane items like a ring of keys or a lipstick tube. Most of the time, referring to an item as its counterpart seems to get around this (e.g. using the keys on the door shoots it with a gun), except when working normally would be [[RuleOfFunny more frustrating and funny]]. It's explicitly described in universe [[BreakingTheFourthWall on [=GameFAQs=]]] as a bug.

* CerebusSyndrome: Very noticable over the course of the comic. ''Webcomic/{{Jailbreak}}'' was driven completely by user suggestions without regard for quality, and as a result is completely nonsensical and gag-driven. ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' was still largely user-driven, but managed to incorporate characters and a plot (albeit a comedic, cartoon-y one). ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has a pre-planned story arc and serious themes mixed in with its humor.

** The comic apparently exists in the Homestuck universe, with the pre-Scratch kids being able to read it, along with the "real" Midnight Crew on Alternia (who the in-universe comic is a reflection of) being able to read a reflection/parody of Homestuck.

* {{Imageboards}}: [[http://ib.skaia.net/ Skaianet imageboard]] and [[http://www.mspachan.net/ MSPAchan]]. There is also [[http://mspa.booru.org/ MSPAbooru]]

** [[OffWithHisHead Severed heads]].[[note]]The guard's "proper burial" in ''Jailbreak'', The Bard's bad endings in''Bard Quest'', the skull puzzles in ''Problem Sleuth'', and a whole bunch of decapitations in ''Homestuck''.[[/note]]

** The inclusion of ''Webcomic/{{Jailbreak}}'''s Suicide Stump.[[note]]A prisoner and Ace Dick kill themselves there in ''Jailkbreak'' and ''Problem Sleuth'', and the Land of Stumps and Dismay in ''Homestuck''.[[/note]]

** The inclusion (and [[YouCantGetYeFlask narrative denial]]) of pumpkins, which when acknowledged are actually fairly useful to the characters.
** The "game" {{reset|Button}}ting at some point, and the occasional changes made to the story because of it.
** The inclusion of ''Webcomic/{{Jailbreak}}'''s Suicide Stump.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While still being pretty comedic, ''Homestuck'' is ''much'' darker than the other three "canon" adventures, partially due to the fact that it actually has a story and plotline (''Jailbreak'' was just RuleOfFunny without any over-arching plan, and while ''Problem Sleuth'' and ''Bard's Quest'' do have plots, they're completely goofy and aren't treated seriously).

The site was later rebranded to [[SpotlightStealingTitle Homestuck.com]] after Creator/VizMedia bought the rights to the comic in 2018, though the other adventures are still hosted there (if not mostly relegated to the "read" section).

** '''''Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues''''' serves as a follow up to {{Webcomic/Homestuck}}, this time taking the format of an online novel.

** '''''[[Webcomic/Homestuck2 Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon]]''''' is the official sequel of the series, continuing on after the events of ''The Homestuck Epilogues''. This features contributions made not just by Hussie and the writers of the ''Epilogues'', but other fan-creators, as well. [[FlipFlopOfGod As decreed by Hussie himself, the sequel is primarily more a continuation of the Epilogues than the main series, but it is the reader's decision to consider it all canonical or not.]]

* OrphanedSeries:
** ''Jailbreak'' (until September 2011) and ''Bard Quest''. ''Bard Quest'' much more so than ''Jailbreak''; most fans have never even read ''BQ'', but ''Jailbreak'' gets a fair number of call backs.

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!!> Continue your downward spiral into the [[ArchivePanic MSPA archives]].

'''[[YMMV/MSPaintAdventures > Consume subjective opionions with a grain of salt.]]'''

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[[caption-width-right:350:You are quite positive there has never been a pumpkin in this image, and never will be.[[note]]'''Clockwise from upper-left:''' ''Webcomic/{{Jailbreak}}'', ''Webcomic/BardQuest'', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', and ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth''.[[/note]]]]

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''[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/ MS Paint Adventures]]'' is a catch-all term for several webcomics by Creator/AndrewHussie which were originally made in Microsoft Paint, but [[ArtifactTitle later switched to]] [[NeverTrustATitle Adobe Photoshop, and later Flash]]. The TropeCodifier of the InteractiveComic genre, each is written in the style of an InteractiveFiction game, where each panel is accompanied by a text description, and the link to the next panel represents a player's command entered into a TextParser. It originated in 2006 as a series of games run on the Gangbunch forums, a small gathering of artists and miscellaneous people from the ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' forums which later became the current MSPA Forums, and were played by a group of Hussie's online friends; it graduated to its own site and effectively became a webcomic in 2007.