>>3712843The humor will either speak to you or it will not, but I thought it was hilarious. Hussie is a really clever wordsmith, and the use of callbacks and running jokes was so intricate that it was impressive. The absurdist comedy really speaks to me. I still lose my shit every time I read SBaHJ. Nick Cage movies have never been the same since.
The world building also really captured the imagination. It's fun trying to imagine what you would do if you got a copy of sburb and only had a few minutes to decide what you were going to prototype your kernelsprite with. Or what your classpect and world might be. The art style might be a bit off-putting to some, but there was some real beauty in the background frames and the color composition.
And of course, the characters. Even if they were all intended to be one-note caricatures of people you meet online, many developed a real pathos to them that let them wriggle their way into your heart. That is, before Andrew gave up on the project and let other people ghostwrite terrible, unfunny teen drama at the end.
I can't imagine reading it now, though. Most of the fun was in waiting for updates and being a part of the community that was built around it. The rate at which fanart was being produced at the time was probably unrivaled by any western fandom outside of the pones. Three updates a day was not uncommon in the height of it, and we would lose our minds. The /co/ threads were so chaotic that we eventually got ourselves banned. I don't think a new reader can ever experience homestuck the way it's meant to be, because homestuck lived and breathed hype.
