Problem Sleuth

by Andrew Hussie

You are one of the top Problem Sleuths in the city. Solicitations for your service are numerous in quantity. Compensation, adequate. It is a balmy summer evening. You are feeling particularly hard boiled tonight.

What will you do?

Genres: Comics, Fiction, Comics Manga

1673 pages, ebook

Published April 7, 2009

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

[Turntech Godhead · Rating 5 out of 5]

amazing. the best. i love this nonsense.

[bog g · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very simplistic artstyle makes the info easy to digest. The writing is also funny... i love u mr problem sleuth

[Laura Friestad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazingly fun! The setting is very interesting and confusing at times. This being my second readthrough, I was able to understand it a lot more. GPI is the best character.

[Eva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow this ended up being not a detective noir story at all! It was for some reason really unexpected, even if when you think about it the whole game thing should have been expected.
Another unexpected thing that I should have expected was how good the art and animations ended up being. The fights looked really cool.
It was great to also learn about the origins of a bunch of other self-references in MSPA, and see more references to the other 2 previous comics.
Minus one star because this is a Hussie work and there was not a single motherfucking wizard in it, or even a reference to magic, what a sham!

[Jen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I binged this webcomic back in college *years* ago and remember really loving it. It's strange and surreal at times, but also very clever and cheeky. I recall that the ending dragged out somewhat, but I think things wrapped up quite nicely, making it a long, but satisfying read.

[cringekid · Rating 3 out of 5]

the first half is dreadfully slow and thinks it's funnier than it is, but the second half is fucking phenomenal, would recommend

[skittidot · Rating 2 out of 5]

entertaining enough to keep reading i suppose, or maybe i was just determined to finish it so i could catch all the references when i re-read homestuck. regardless it's not bad, it very different from HS in that there is 0 character development and overall it does not take itself seriously, ever. it is supposed to be a comedy though so it makes sense. while i didn't find it all that funny myself it was charming to see how elements of this carried through into HS, specifically a lot of the absurdism and complicated game mechanics. i also thought despite the much more simplistic artstyle there were still some cool panels, especially the fractal stuff

definitely a painfully slow start for some just decent payoff but at least i can say i've read it

[Pashmina · Rating 5 out of 5]

A masterpiece.