The comic was better (or at least funnier) when Hussie allowed direct reader interaction, before the command box got shut down.
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001951 John burns the Gamebro. What could have, in another universe, been an enduring and annoying key item goes up in smoke. No one will miss it. Imagine if Nana had been prototyped with Gamebro instead? 001952 begins with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001950 contains the awkward linguistic formation cata(ptcha)gorically, which is really fucking difficult to pronounce. It gives us a first glimpse at the face of someone who will shortly become an important, enduring character, Nana Egbert, aka Jane. Her picture, as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001948 Gives us our first mention of Betty Crocker, who is certainly the opposite of a dropped element. Even from the beginning John is on to her ‘plot’ and calls her his arch-nemesis. Frankly my personal opinion is this is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001939 Dave informs John he’s now stuck using hammers forever, which John shrugs off saying it ‘can’t be that relevant’. This is just the first of a number of fourth-wall groaning literary ironies that the comic will try to pass[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001936 John sticks the fake arms into the cake. This doesn’t really have any earth shattering consequences, but maybe you could theorize it makes the arms stick better to the mannequin in a few pages. 001937 John allocates his strife[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Homestuck may have the highest acknowledged bodycount of any singular work of fiction.
001935 Another John and Dave pesterlog. This one introduces, mysteriously, the character of Rose, here only called TT, and referred to as Her. We can infer from John’s offline chums that she is tentacleTherapist. Rose has apparently been hitting on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001932 contains our first obvious case of foreshadowing in the plot, in fact, I’d call it the first foreshadowing whatsoever. John goes to read Colonel Sassacre’s book and we’re told that “It could kill a cat if you dropped it.”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001930 Hussie teases us again with the possibility that this is an escape the room plot, and makes the obvious ‘stuck at home’ reference. “Stuck, if you will, in a sense which possibly borders on the titular.” This page also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001927 John looks out his window, and the MSPA fandom collectively wonders if this is going to be another ‘escape the room’ style plot, with the mailbox as its final goal. This, thankfully, is a notion that will be disabused[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001926 has our first pesterlog. These multi colored walls of text are going to become very, very familiar. Ironically at one point people coming into reading the comic had to be directly told to read the pesterlogs and not skip[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001923 has John rejecting the idea of eating more cake, but more importantly it introduces us to what will be a persistent element throughout most of the comic- computers. Specifically John’s computer. 001924 AHHHH, there are so many important elements[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why People Are Frustrated: A Critique.
THIS!! ALL OF THIS!!
Act 6 was just some kind of nightmare. It just descended into madness. Everything else before that made a kind of sense but 6???? no? Like, the ancestors and the alpha kids they make sense sure but the rest of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve written 3000 words on Homestuck so far and I’m only on page 001923. I’m gonna stop for the night and pick up tomorrow.
001922 formally introduces John’s calendar, which has been hanging around in the background of panels until now, just begging to be looked at. There are two dates marked on the calendar, John’s birthday, and three days prior, the suposed launch[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001917 Introduces yet another sylladex mechanic, in the form of merging sylladex cards. He merges the hammer card, and the nail card, to get hammer and nails (and a free card). Does this come back? Other than with punchcard alchemy?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001916: John: Squawk like an imbecile and shit on your desk.
001914 Captchalogue cards are full. Prepare for incoming SHENANIGANS, as John tries to captchalogue nails with which to hang the poster. 001915 John takes the nails into his already full sylladex and we are shown more of how it works[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001911 gives us a nice self referential MSPA merchandise plug. As of 4/16, the link still works. 001912, besides being an obvious example of a reused page (page 001905), also sets up one of Homestuck’s early running gags that is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001909 gives us a taste of more knowledge of how John Egbert’s sylladex functions, and that’s about it. John captchalogues some smoke pellets for later use, and they shunt the fake arms back a ‘slot’ in his sylladex. In 001910[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001908 The contents of John’s chest, when he investigates it are, to use a MSPAism “incredibly silly” which is a given at this point in the narrative as at the moment it hasn’t outgrown from mere referential and randomness humor.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
HOOBOY. 001907 introduces us to two concepts, captchaloguing and sylladexes. Two funny words that would be the basis of a lot of the humor and antics of the early comic, and then fade out into obscurity and uselessness as the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001906 Introduces us to what one could consider the very first ‘dropped element/dropped plot point’ of Homestuck, and that’s ‘you’ and ‘your’ interaction with the comic. The text reads “>>Remove CAKE from MAGIC CHEST.”“Out of sympathy for John’s perceived lack[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001905 ‘Retrieve arms’ is a recurring gag from earlier MSPAs that fans liked to call back to. I can’t really emphasize this enough that at this stage of the game, Hussie was very much in a literal dialogue with his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001902 is the same kind of joke that MSPA initially relied on, making fun of dopey fan input. Somebody actually suggested the name Zoosmell Pooplord, and Hussie made a panel rejecting it. This is a joke that I believe gets[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
001901: The first page. It’s been altered since its original inception. First of all the date 2009 was added. Other than that I THINK it’s the same. Although who knows? Actually this isn’t technically the first page of homestuck. There[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone. H.P. Lovecraft