Homestuck

thumb|In in its own weird way, Homestuck is a lot like James Joyce's Ulysses, where only the strongest, most dedicated readers make it through to the end ... Most people don’t expect such expansive and daunting works to find a home on the internet, but Homestuck has done it, illustrating that its followers' time and effort may actually enhance rather than lessen their devotion. —Mike Rugnetta thumb|Homestuck starts with a kid stuck in his house. And for the first couple hundred pages that's all it seems to be -- but then it grows and grows. There's a whole world in there. —Bryan Lee O'Malley Homestuck is a webcomic by Andrew Hussie that ran from 2009 to 2016 and has continued as an expanded media franchise. Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff All typos are in the original Comic 1 thumb| I TOLD YOU MAN I TOLD YOU ABOUT STAIRS! Sweet Bro: i cant wait to be a useless piece of shit all day and play all these games Sweet Bro: FUCK IM FALLING DOWN ALL THESE STAIRS Hella Jeff: I WARNED YOU ABOUT STAIRS BRO!!! I TOLD YOU DOG! Sweet Bro: IT KEEPS HAPPENING Hella Jeff: I TOLD YOU MAN I TOLD YOU ABOUT STAIRS! Comic 3 Sweet Bro: Today i put...... JELLY on this hot god Comic 4 [Sweet Bro is fighting a squirrel for his game] Hella Jeff: maybe there right... that some times video games, DOES CAUSE violence Comic 5 [Bro and Jeff are attempting to hug] Hella Jeff: where doing it man Hella Jeff: where MAKING THIS HAPEN Comic 7 thumb| THE SOCK RUSE WAS A........... DISTRACTION i HAVE the car Hella Jeff: THE SOCK RUSE WAS A........... DISTRACTION Hella Jeff: i HAVE the car Comic 10 Hella Jeff: dude… you got to FLIP it, TURN-WAYS Comic 13 Sweet Bro: SHIT bro you scared me dumpass Hella Jeff: who were you expecting.... the easter bunny> Comic 14 Caption: any way the bottom line was what do you do with these nachoes falling in the air. Sweet Bro: why don't you take a picture, it'll will last longer Hella Jeff: oh WOW ahahahahaha! he was RIGHT. thits shits lasting FOREVER Comic 15 Hella Jeff: WHAT'S IS that guys even his PROBLEM? is like heg got BROAD SIDE SCHOOL FED the BONE BULGE Comic 17 Sweet Bro: HOPY SHIT That dog is HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE Sweet Bro: wtf. is there ANYTHING you do thats not falling down that DOG? shithead. Comic 18 Sweet Bro: well? time to put the spoon. back in the drawer Hella Jeff: you complete shit. you fucking shit, that was gay. stop being gay you gay fucking shit. put the drawer back in the hole and TURD THE SPOON FLATWAYS. Hella Jeff: "it was at that point when i got distracted by his moms HOT ASS... Comic 19 Caption: the big mans about 2 WRECK SOME HAVOC…. in the yard. Hella Jeff: ah right homies... everyboby all yall hold up..... the BIG MAN wants to take a,, TIME OUT! Caption: ahah.. fuck yes: it looks linke the big man wants wants to level with us about some thing? Caption: he wants that us all to keep it real about………………… AIDS Comic 31 Hella Jeff: Dizzaaaaayuuum. Gok my pop corn for sports Hella Jeff: AHA, the sport pile doesnt stop from getting taller. Comic 33 Sweet Bro: Whow were you expecting, eintein, the THOOTH FAIRY? ‘nuff said. Comic 35 Sweet Bro: today we go on this HOT DATE with this BEAUTIFUL WONAN. Hella Jeff: the DATE IDEA (plan)…… is to go to go tot the………… SUBWAY and stand out side and smell the smell that the sand wiches make! for awhile Sweet Bro: STOP SMELLING THOSE SANDWINCHES you HIDEOUS COCK, she’s ESCAPING TO THE SIDE. Comic 36 Sweet Bro: who gives a fuck about that elelephant and its HUGE BUTT and its GREY MUTANT PENIS Hella Jeff : DUDE DUDE chech out this fuckin squirrelt! I'm giving him my momey. Sweet Bro: GOD Sweet Bro: DAMN! Comic 46 Sweet Bro: i SAY, butthole Hella Jeff : indubutubly? Sweet Bro: who put SHIT in my PIP Comic 47 Hella Jeff: foresooth! it was I, who thook a dump in thine pypé Caption: (like it was a tiny toilet) Hella Jeff: I DID IT WHILE YOU WERE NOT LOOKING Hella Jeff: HENCE THE MYSERTY Caption: stay tuned for the twist! Comic 48 Caption: the twist: was that He was lookind Comic 51 Hella Jeff: THIS LITTILE GREEN TOILET ELF THINK 'S HE IS THE FUCKING PRINCE OF THE LILYPOD. HES ACTUALLY THE PRINCE OF MY STU-PID DICK. Caption: PRONCE OF HIS STUPID DICK Hella Jeff: I’ AM NOT EVEN GONING TO CAP ENSNARE HIM. I AM ———— ASHAMED OF HIM AND THIS ENTIRE POND. Comic 53 Caption: attention all you SICK FUCKS out there. this comic is now an ADAULT ONLY comic. this is what you want, you horoney cretins. you SLOBERBING JACKALS... ADmit it. only grown-ups of age 41 AND OLDER may view the illicit smunt below...... Sweet Bro: my GUY. could you STOP sucking the DICK of Mans Best Friend Quotes by Andrew Hussie thumb|right| It's a story I've tried to make as much a pure expression of its medium as possible. —Andrew Hussie While the story includes hours of animation, and thousands of relatively static panels, the overarching experience is actually more similar to reading a book. There's a good deal of dialogue between characters, as they chat to each other over the internet during their adventure. The result is an unusual media hybrid. Something that reads like a heavily illustrated novel, frequently interrupted by cinematic Flash sequences, and sometimes even interactive games. It's a story I've tried to make as much a pure expression of its medium as possible. Andrew Hussie, September 7, 2012https://observer.com/2012/09/a-noobs-guide-to-homestuck-the-favorite-webcomic-of-internetty-teens-everywhere/ Observer.com A Noob's Guide to Homestuck, the Favorite Webcomic of Internetty Teens Everywhere Roy Jessica 2012-09-10http://mspaintadventures.com/scraps2/homestuckKS.html MS Paint Adventures WHAT IS HOMESTUCK? Hussie Andrew 2012-09-07 Creating it was a lot like being the Dungeon Master of an RPG involving thousands of people, dealing with a similar balance of planning and improvisation. Readers have had a lot of influence on the way the story unfolded, in more ways than just submitting commands. The story is really a kind of dialogue between the readers and author. There is always a sense that the story is aware of the individual reader, and the readership overall. Much the way an adventure game tends to be cognizant of the player. Andrew Hussie, September 7, 2012https://kotaku.com/homestuck-kickstarter-raises-over-275-000-in-hours-to-5940466 Kotaku Homestuck Kickstarter Raises Over $275,000 In Hours To Make Game Of Comic That Makes Fun of Games Cox Kate 2012-04-09 Homestuck was just: Problem Sleuth plus a little more of a story, try adding a dialog system, try adding Flash animation, see what happens. There was also the different premise; where Problem Sleuth was "detectives in offices," Homestuck was "kids in houses." When people asked me what I was doing next, that's how I would put it: "Something with kids in houses." Andrew Hussie, October 2, 2012http://comicsalliance.com/homestuck-interview-andrew-hussie-bryan-lee-omalley-ms-paint-adventures/ ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Guy Interviews ‘Homestuck’ Guy: Bryan Lee O’Malley On Andrew Hussie O'Malley Bryan Lee w:Bryan Lee O'Malley 2012-10-02 Comics Alliance https://web.archive.org/web/20180603181723/http://comicsalliance.com/homestuck-interview-andrew-hussie-bryan-lee-omalley-ms-paint-adventures/ 2018-06-03 live Today marks exactly seven years from the day Homestuck began. And Act 7’s single-page installment marks the end of the story. Seven acts in seven years, to finish a sprawling “creation myth about kids in houses,” as I would describe it for those who asked what my next project was about before I started it. What is there to say about this ending? The short and funny answer is, Homestuck has finally completed its long journey over the rainbow, and become the anime it was always meant to be. The longer and less funny answer will need some reflection. Maybe some day I will say some things about it. For now, I will leave you to draw your own conclusions. Andrew Hussie, April 13, 2016http://www.comicsbeat.com/homestuck-ends-its-seven-year-run-with-a-nine-minute-cartoon/ Comics Beat Homestuck ends its seven-year run with a nine-minute cartoon MacDonald Heidi w:Heidi MacDonald 2016-04-13 Quotes by critics and analysts thumb|right| It’s something I've never seen before. It’s like a book or a comic, only it's not a book or a comic... it’s something new. It's like an entirely new way of telling a story. —Bryan Lee O'Malley It’s something I've never seen before. It’s like a book or a comic, only it's not a book or a comic... it’s something new. It's like an entirely new way of telling a story. I'm reading this story on the internet, learning what's going on through pictures of these characters and their "IM" conversations... There is no other time in history that a story like this could be told and in this way, except for now... That's kind of amazing. Dante Basco, November 14, 2014https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dante-basco/what-is-homestuck-who-is-_b_6159280.html What Is Homestuck? Who Is Homestuck? Why Is Homestuck? And WTF Is Homestuck? Basco Dante w:Dante Basco 2014-11-14 The Huffington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20180603162946/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dante-basco/what-is-homestuck-who-is-_b_6159280.html 2018-06-03 live Homestuck ended this April as one of the most wildly successful and passionately loved comics online. Shaenon Garrity, August 12, 2016http://www.tcj.com/webcomics-binge-read-homestuck/ Webcomics Binge Read: Homestuck Garrity Shaenon w:Shaenon Garrity 2016-08-12 The Comics Journal https://web.archive.org/web/20180603215350/http://www.tcj.com/webcomics-binge-read-homestuck/ 2018-06-03 live As a grown up this is not something I ever got into or could understand, but its youthful fanbase was clearly enthralled with it, and it will definitely form a part of ‘Teens nostalgia in 20 years. And you know it’s better to burn than to rust. Heidi MacDonald, April 13, 2016 Homestuck starts with a kid stuck in his house. And for the first couple hundred pages that's all it seems to be -- but then it grows and grows. There's a whole world in there. It gets big and weird and intense. Reading it a second time, I start to see the seams of where stuff was probably made up as you were going along, but on a first read through, the big reveals not only blew me away but seemed to have been in place from the first page. I think this mostly means you're a great writer of serial fiction and you think well on your feet. Bryan Lee O'Malley, August 2, 2012 The four main characters in Homestuck have the most relatable internet friendships I've ever seen in fiction. It's a new kind of relationship that you capture really accurately. The characters are best friends, but they haven't technically met, and they only ever interact through this chat medium. And this is all presented via communication interfaces that feel much more 1999 than 2009. Bryan Lee O'Malley, August 2, 2012 In in its own weird way, Homestuck is a lot like James Joyce's Ulysses, where only the strongest, most dedicated readers make it through to the end ... Most people don’t expect such expansive and daunting works to find a home on the internet, but Homestuck has done it, illustrating that its followers' time and effort may actually enhance rather than lessen their devotion. Mike Rugnetta, September 06, 2012Is Homestuck the "Ulysses" of the Internet? Lauren Rae Orsini http://www.dailydot.com/culture/homestuck-ulysses-james-joyce-internet/ The Daily Dot 2012-09-06 References Category:Webcomics