Problem Sleuth Volume 5: Sepulchritude

Problem Sleuth #5

by Andrew Hussie, Christina Major (Artist)

Problem Sleuth Book 5 is the final book in the series, containing chapters 18-22, with author notes on each page.

Genres: Comics, Fantasy, Comedy, Comic Book, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Webcomic

222 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 2013

About the author

Andrew Hussie is the creator of MS Paint Adventures, a collection of webcomics that includes Homestuck, as well as of several other webcomics, books, and videos.

Reviews

[Hazel Fabrizio Fabrizio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now there is no overall page for this series so my rating on this speaks for the entirety of Problem Slueth. I finished this in basically two sittings. Witty, verbose, extravagant, meta, and for certain a product of its time. My current reread of Homestuck made me tackle this having never finished it before. This is a slow burn start just like it's successor of Homestuck. It is not even close to serious, it's super silly! That said this story is so creative from a writing and visual perspective, Hussie is a genius. When I finish my (8th) Homestuck reread and review it here I will go more into that comment but this story is such a crazy growth in scale from the prior mspa website stories. Problem Sleuth being 49,015 words (then comes the next one and it blows this out of the water! 817,000+ words, eat your heart out bible!) I'm overly passionate about Homestuck so finally reading this felt great. All the hype over the years I've garnered from others was sufficiently true. Back to act 3 of homestuck, hopefully I can do this is under a month.

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Do yourself a favor and read the free version online.

[Page 815 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazingly entairtainting silly epic tale of three detectives from the Prohibition Era who can't exit their offices and so set on a journey to the Imaginary World to bring peace to fantastistical kingdoms, battle demons and confuse reader.
Andrew Hussie has an amazing skill to make his story silly and epic at the same time, to thread plotlines like few others, to make make his characters interesting and unique (even if they are copies of the same character sent from past/future) and fill his stories with amazing creativity and invention, creating on the fly locations and concepts making his stories absolutely unique and muich fun.

[Mark Moon]

Both ridiculously and seriously awesome. Perhaps more importantly, I found Problem Sleuth to be significantly different from any other fiction I have consumed to date.