>>41923277Very complex. There's a lot of rich detail that if revealed in advance, may ruin some of the genuine delights of reading it. That said, it goes very wrong towards the end, so it's an open question if it's even worth recommending at all. It's like showing someone what could've been the movie of the century, but which got 1/2 completed, lingering through production hell for 3 more years, and then a joke early ending got shat out that seems to vaguely appeal to a political cultism and thus earns approval from them, but which everyone else rejects.
Homestuck's creation is in many ways as important as the actual content of the story itself. The author, Andrew Hussie, drew and uploaded the webcomic basically one panel plus text at a time, resulting in a fast-paced, hectic and helter-skelter update pace. The earliest parts of the story were actually driven by user suggestions, which is why the entire story is presented as a text parser-style game; this is Homestuck says "You are John Egbert, what will you do?" and then when John does something, the narrator reads "You walk to the fridge and inspect the crude drawing. It was done by yourself six years ago as a kid".
Oh yes, and while this is generally well known by now, it bears repeating that the "webcomic" that is Homestuck is in fact a multi-media experience with animations, an extensive soundtrack and even small games built into its structure. Excellent music in general that matchs the best stuff in the comic and surpasses the worst stuff, and quite literally launched Toby Fox towards his stardom. (Toby lived in author Andrew Hussie's basement for a period, and that's where he conceived of Undertale).
