So, what is Homestuck? Here’s the most common and least accurate summary you’re likely to get: it’s a story about four kids who play a magic videogame.



To be more precise, Homestuck is a multimedia internet drama about thirty four teenagers spread across two sets of universes, all of them trapped together in convoluted chains of time, space and authorial fiat in an unending nightmare quest to figure out what went wrong with each of their respective universes’ attempt to create all the other universes.



Imagine if Chuck Palahniuk and Ursula Le Guin wrote His Dark Materials via parking lot shopping cart jousting match, then got 4chan to stage the broadway musical.



God is a pack of snarky thirteen year olds. Satan is three kinky puppets and an alien clown with daddy issues. Everyone is their own grandmother. The writer shows up in the comic itself to give the fourth wall double middle fingers, and the big bad is Betty Crocker. It’s a story about love and hope and friendship, but mostly it’s a comic about a pack of juvenile shitheads being complete dicks to each other over the intergalactic internet.