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Homestuck

by Andrew Hussie

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Lu Yu said: " Readers generally prefer something that they can relate to and that has some connection to their life.people born around the late 1980’s or early 1990’s could appreciate some good old fashioned video game humor, as well as some fun poked at the state Readers generally prefer something that they can relate to and that has some connection to their life.people born around the late 1980’s or early 1990’s could appreciate some good old fashioned video game humor, as well as some fun poked at the state of unworthiness and conflict on the current day internet. If that person is you, you could definitely get a decent kick out of the over 8000 page web comic: Homestuck.
Early we discover: a boy is sitting in his room he is named John Egbert. It is his birthday today, and he is waiting to get the beta of a new game SBURB. It turns out his dad has it downstairs in the kitchen. He goes downstairs to get the beta. After an encounter with a large doll he gets the beta after a strife with his dad. He installs it and finds out that it can manipulate the universe. He finds out that his friend has it too they manipulate stuff, sadly they find out that by activating the game they brought about the end of the world. John gets trapped in his room when his friend blocks him in his room because she went offline dropping a bathtub in front of his door. It turns out that John's friend is his neibor Rose Lalonde, she gets to a place with a better wifi connection and gets back online. She moves the bathroom, then makes an apple tree that grows an apple for John, they hope this will stop the end of the world. Just before John takes a bite he looks up to see a meteor coming right for his house. End of act 1.
Even with this compelling story this is all the information presented to us in “act 1” of the book, that was however, this is just a summary, the problem with the actual book is that to understand most of what is going on, you need to slog through mountains of old style text through homestuck’s main text format, text chats from a program in the book known as Pesterchum. While these text libraries are very interesting and give lots of insight into the book, there is just so much. However, even with the amount, they do have a decently nice system of organization. Every character have their own text color, and their own text quirk, for instance there is a character that replaces some letters with numbers, or some characters speaking in all uppercase. While this system in very innovative, if you don't remember which character has which text quirk, it can be very confusing differentiating all of the characters while they are speaking in the book. One other nitpick to have also has to do with the dialogue. Every time a character talks, or in this case types a new message, it shows two capital letters then a colon, (eg. AS: ) then whatever that character says. The problem with this, similar to the font colors and quirks, is that it can get to the point where the reader can forget who is who, since many of the letter pairs are similar. Along with this the book does deal with time travel a bit, and when that happens and characters from different times are talking, along with the two letters and the colon, it shows (current), (future), or (past), to show when that character's dialogue takes place. I personally like this feature a lot, in this case it is very clear to the reader the difference between the different characters talking. Now to people who dive deep into the book and intensely read every piece of wording in this web comic, remembering the difference in tag, font color, or font quirk becomes second nature, but that memorization of character difference takes lots of mental practice to understand. This fact alone might disturb more casual readers, however the deep and very humorous fourth-wall-breaking writing style of author Andrew Hussie could easily draw in just as many if not more people than those turned away. ...more "

Nov 28, 2018 08:56PM · see review