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[sparksol]

It's been a while since I've posted anything here. It's also been a while since I've caught up on the Homestuck comic. (Years, on that one. I think. Certainly a few thousands of pages.)

Seems like every few pages, every few dozen maybe, something happens that is so over-the-top insane (in my favorite style of insane!) that it blows the last crazy thing they did out of the everything else.

And I'm barely halfway through the archives, if the pagecount means anything.

As I type this, I'm listening to a sequence where the Sburb game is being loaded for the second time. By Rose and Dave, I think. (Took a while to load, or I'd be watching it. I can only imagine how far awesome it'll be by the time I reach today's comic.)

Edit minutes later: Yep. Mind blown by that sequence. If I'm missing plotholes, they're pretty well hidden, methinks. Things fitting together scary impressive.

Comments

[jacel]

Pagecount is less representative than you might think, simply because one page might have just a single image, whereas another might be a five-minute flash animation, and another still might be about 30K of text. It's hard to judge on raw page numbers.

I'm pretty sure that Rose's entry to the Medium is towards the end of Act 2. Act 5 so far has covered almost as much content (I think) as the entirity of acts 1-3, so you've a way to go yet.

And just wait until you hit "[S] Descend" :)

[sparksol.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to realize this. I should have taken it more seriously when one of the recommendations I read for this piece of work went: "Yes, everyone who hasn't heard of this, this is, in fact, a webcomic that will spark disagreements about how to count to four."

It was referring to the number of realities present, but I suspect it works for other parts of the comic as well.

[sparksol.livejournal.com]

Got to [S] Descend. There was so much going on in there, in so many different directions emotionally, that my main description for it is "Intense."

There was "awesome", "holy crap", "bittersweet", some "wtf", a large chunk of "that makes so much sense now and wait, that looks bad" followed by "that's kind of impressive" immediately followed by "oh no", then "holy crap impressive", "squiddly wtf intermission", some more stuff that was draining combined with previously foreshadowed "that's bad" which was kind of obvious except that hearing about something and going through it are always such different experiences, then a short "wait, they did what?", a recap of old troubles, and a touch of eye-widening "what's thi-ohcrap".

tl;dr? "Intense. With well-fitted music I might even pay for."

[jacel]

I agree entirely. And there are a few of similar levels of visual awesome, not least of which is "[S] Wake" which features MeGaLoVania. Now THAT is good music.

Also, "[S] Jade: Wake Up", which is Squiddle nightmare fuel @.@

But yes, all in all, very worth paying for. The albums all live on my phone where I routinely hum along to them during runs to work.