![]() I admit it: I laugh when the characters draw shippy fan art of each other.Now we cut to a prison-escape side story cum extended callback to the very first MS Paint Adventures comic, Jailbreak. This has become the central theme of my binge-read, but only now do I fully realize that Homestuck is only sporadically about itself.That’s eerily close to the way it went down, Aaron Hussie of 2012. We’re drifting away from the main action for a while to follow a plot thread about a dystopian America created by reality TV star Guy Fieri taking over the government.Everybody just stop playing this universe-destroying video game! It’s not even that fun! Gah!.“The Land of Crypts and Helium” is another good land name. ![]() They’re all jerks, it’s kind of entertaining. Have I mentioned that the characters can IM each other through time? Because now entire scenes consist of characters having long conversations with past and future iterations of themselves.I can see this material being a lot of fun when thousands of fans were reading it together and scrambling online to dissect each update and working in unison to make it make sense, but reading it all by my lonesome is a slog. I can’t keep all these characters straight anymore.Also, some of the characters who are absolutely 100 percent dead are still participating in the action as ghosts, off in the ghost realms, so nobody’s really gone.Until then, they mostly play video games, because of course, and kvetch. John and Jade are on a flying ship in space, everyone else is on like a big flying rock or something (Hussie doesn’t always try so hard on backgrounds), and they’re all headed for the new universe where the new kids live. I have absolutely no idea who’s dead anymore, but most of the gang seems to be walking around. The original kids and trolls are still alive.The Homestuck universe is the most socially awkward universe since wherever it was Scott Pilgrim lived. Finally, thousands of pages in, two characters are given the special, heretofore undreamt-of ability to talk to each other without using some kind of electronic medium.Judging from the fansites I just checked to make sure I had the names right, a fair number of readers are still confused. Hussie teases the question of whether they’re the first group’s descendents, or forebears, or reshuffled versions in an alternate reality, or a combination of the above. They have a lot of character details in common with the first set of kids, but mixed up and reassigned. The new kids are Jane, Jake, Dirk, and Roxy.The story sort of resets to the beginning, with John preparing to play Sburb, except that John is now Jane and has a slightly different list of ironic interests. Nose to the grindstone, eyes on the prize… We meet a new set of kids in a whole new reality.The Homestuck wiki: “Act 6 of Homestuck is divided into six sub-acts and is by far the longest act.”.I've finished Acts 1 through 5, and now only Act 6 remains to be read. We're here! We've made it at last to the final installment of my Homestuck archive binge. Features Webcomics Binge Read: Homestuck Part 3
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