Minor nitpick: the kid's session was quite a bit longer than a few hours. At least 24, since that's how long the Reckoning lasts.
I don't get why people can't just be satisfied with having an opinion. They have to pretend that their standards of quality are objective truth. It smacks of insecurity.
Wait, isn't 'really interesting' a subjective opinion?
/pedant
What's precedent ever done for us?
I got bored of it by the start of act five. The Kids didn't have too much going for their characters, trolls were far worse designed to be some mix of antisue and actual troll. Most of the content tends to come in the form of call backs used in new and unique ways but for me, I felt a serious lack of content in the characters themselves and the plot got complicated to the point of me not caring.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not the kind of person who looks at a film which is more sombre than Michael Bay and pass for lack of explosions but I need to feel I am getting something from the plot which is real and human and interesting. To me personally, this just provided self-referential humour leading to surreal drama which would sometimes reach back years. He can be creative with it but the novelty eventually wear.
Also, techno music bores me.
I gave this a fair chance but me and many others are have gotten bored of this 'objectively interesting' comic.
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Aw, don't knock the music. soundcloud.com/dmguillotine/upward-1st-movement
It's cool you're bored though, I hope you find something more suited to your tastes!
Maybe I should update this after the epilogue drops. Always wondered why people acted like there was a gun to their head or something forcing them to read HS.
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Objectively, Homestuck is interesting
Homestuck is a webcomic that encompasses the adventure of four internet friends who live in different corners of the USA, and through chatlogs and single panels, play a video game called Sburb that alters reality and destroys earth. This makes no sense even in context, which is generally how the rest of the plot goes, like piecing together a mystery.
Homestuck is unique in the way it is told, running on what amounts to pure dialogue to show personal growth of each of the characters, the cast of which quickly grows and morphs as the universe expands. The setting spans from various parts of Earth, to the afterlife, to a game medium where each kid has his own mythology, super-powers, and planet. Dialogue and narration is written in such a way that every memetic line and visual clue amounts to a complicated puzzle about how every character's storyline (nearly all independent of each other) affect one another and the fate of the universe, respectively. The story spastically jumps from pov to pov and even different timeframes and memories, running more on thematic parallels that basically equal almost complete narrative freedom. The story is huge, the characters slowly becoming fleshed out and really unique from one another. The rapport off they have of each other is genuinely fun to watch and leaves you wishing they talked to each other more, unbelievable as that sounds with the veritable slogs of dialogue you brave.
Usually the art is a major part of the essence of a webcomic but in HS it seems secondary to the story. The actual mini-movies and rpg style games that can tell hundreds of pages worth of story in one update certainly make it up, along with gorgeous guest assets and well utilized leitmotifs customised to each character, fight, and situation.
Even if you don't want to read it for numerous equally as subjective reasons, HS is interesting as a general phenomenon. Also, the music is pretty amazing!
I've read a lot of books, and in storytelling, HS is way up there. The format is nothing but creative. Acts 1-5 (with the interlude of the Troll's 600 hour session) ostensibly take place within the span of a few hours (trollside) and a day (kid's side) on the main characters birthday, and the sheer complexity and closed time loops, interweaving of character's timeline, and general intelligence in which everything from the stupid jokes to the Cascade climax was revealed was very exciting and actually satisfying for all that build up. Since then, a revelation that changes the impact of every action in the comic thus far has been common every few updates. Reread that sentence and appreciate how difficult that is. The author is not afraid to bring points to their conclusion after years even with the resulting confusion of a casual reader. I frankly have no idea how Homestuck will actually end- and that's novel. It stimulates the imagination. Worth a read.