Homestuck 2 Reaction! 

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I think Homestuck always was kinda of a meta narrative

I'm not going to. It's not by Hussie, so I don't feel compelled to read it.

CadBrad Actually, Hussie is helping make it. And by help, I mean he made the outline, and is basically the advisor for the whole thing. You would know that if you read a bit of the “Learn More”, right on the first page.

@@Jack-lo5me I already knew that, thanks. But he isn't writing. He isn't drawing. He also "outlined" the Epilogues, which I also don't care for.

@@CadBrad Why does Hussie need to be the sole writer of anything homestuck related for you to care about it. The last thing he wrote by himself was skaianet. Not exactly the peak of homestuck. On the other hand, some of the routes in pesterquest and friendsim has (imo) better writing than most of act 6. Jade's episode in pesterquest is now one of my favorite moments in all of homestuck.

@@tirox8834 I am more of a fan of Hussie in general than just Homestuck. I love Problem Sleuth. I love his blog posts where he goes on soul destroying adventures to the Olive Garden. I enjoyed reading his Formspring responses. I love Barty Anderson, although that's more of a Byron Hussie thing. Nearly every single one of Hussie's old projects influenced Homestuck in some way. I think the other MSPAs influencing it goes without saying. Even Bard Quest influenced it, with the Bard God Tier getting a cod piece. But we can see his other works being an influence to Homestuck. Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff and Wizardy Herbert appeared in the comic as works the kids made. Wizardy Herbert is also the work Hussie drew from with that whole "magic is fake/real" shit. Whistles inspired the relationship between Gamzee and Lord English. Team Special Olympics gave us the name of Lil Cal. That whole Jigsaw theme with Caliborn resulted from some Muppet Babies shitpost thread on the MSPA Forums. The incredible use of colors was due to the fact his father worked extensively with color theory. So I view Homestuck as the culmination of his life's work. It was what he was building towards, unknowingly, with every project he made. But it goes deeper than that, Homestuck was an extension of him as a person. He was making a story he would find interesting. His sense of humor obviously played a big part. His love of complex bullshit, playing with the medium of the comic itself, and his writing style is what made Homestuck what it was. During the comic's height, every single waking hour he was working on Homestuck. His work ethic led to the update culture, which is one of the reasons the comic took off. In short, there is no one that could have possibly made something like Homestuck. Not even close. Through the effort of one man, we got an incredibly unique and wonderful experience. But after a while, Hussie crashed and crashed hard. He had to deal with the Odd Gentlemen. His father died. He had a giant, rabid fanbase. And he was probably very burnt out. So his enthusiasm for working on Homestuck waned. So, he stopped the constant updates, and the comic trickled to the end. But, he couldn't just end it when he ended it. It had to be a franchise now, it was far too popular and profitable. So, he handed it off to other people. The first instance of other people taking over was Paradox Space. Remember that? Most of the comics were aggressively mediocre. Want to see the meteor crew take out their garbage? Well, Paradox Space has you covered! They only hit gold with a non-Hussie written comic at the very end, with Summerteen Romance. And then we have Hiveswap, which is a whole can of worms in itself. I guess I should refrain from the end to judge that as a whole. Act 1 has little excitement going on, but of course that's because it's the very beginning. Now, on the topic of Homestuck 2, I am not a fan of the writing team. Right now, from what I understand, they're making the comic just to spite old fans that preferred Acts 1 to 5 and don't like Act 6. I have no interest in reading that whatsoever. So, the point is, I was only ever interesting in the Homestuck as envisioned by Andrew Hussie. I'm not interested in someone else's interpretation of Homestuck. Right now, it just feels like they're making things because Homestuck HAS to be a franchise now. And Hussie just doesn't really care anymore. So, if he made something new for Homestuck, that would mean the enthusiasm returned. But, Hussie historically moved from project to project once it finished or he lost interest. In his old Formspring answers, he talked about how Homestuck wasn't going to be his magnum opus or something he wasn't going to be able to escape from the shadow of. Homestuck was instead just practice for his next and greater project, like how Problem Sleuth was practice for Homestuck. Frankly, I'm sick of Homestuck. It's an 8000 page webcomic, which I have read a great deal multiple times. I don't even want him to return to Homestuck, I want him to make something new.

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