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Comedy is hard. Wank is easy.
With a fanbase like Homestuck's, the bar is set pretty high for "baffling" things to say about the comic, but one Timothy Sexton catches creator Andrew Hussie's eye with his review/article/wordpile on Yahoo Movies that clears that bar easily:

"If you remain unaware of Homestuck as an internet phenomenon, then you either don't kids or aren't aware of this here thing called the internets. As George W. Bush liked to refer (and probably still refer) to it. Homestuck is one day going to become a movie of some sort. Comedy is hard. Death is easy. That makes Homestuck a juggler."

You can read the full thing here. You can't read it in its original form on Yahoo anymore, though, because it was removed. According to Timothy Sexton, Homestuck fans got it taken down because it was too intelligent for them and they were jealous, or something. We know this because he says so in his follow-up article, entitled "Homestuck Fans: Not Quite as Hip and Intellectually Gifted as They Think."

"Don't feed the troll? What does that mean?" -dozens of Homestuck fans.

Hussie, for his part, finds the entire thing hilarious.

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frenzy
2013-01-10 11:20 pm UTC (link)

The problem with Homestuck (really its only serious flaw, IMO) is the story concentration. There's no filler; nearly every word is important, even in the silliest dialogues, and every second of every flash is crucial. Expecting to understand the plot of Homestuck on one readthrough is like expecting to learn to speak Chinese fluently by listening to a Chinese dictionary read aloud. I don't think a complicated plot on its own is inherently bad, though, especially in a long-running canon.

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	soc_puppet 2013-01-12 12:39 am UTC (link)
	On top of that, Hussie keeps including things from fandom (Pantskat, trollsonas/fantrolls, and now [SPOILER for EoA6A5A1] what the actual fuck), so it's like we have to read all of canon and the supplemental material if we want to catch everything. I have thoroughly given up on the idea and resigned myself to missing half of what's going on at any given time. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

frenzy
2013-01-12 01:02 am UTC (link)

And don't forget that some of the jokes make more sense if you've seen ConAir, Armageddon, Weekend at Bernie's, etc.

People like to whine about how Hussie's such a trooooooollllllll, what with all his "cliffhangers" and "red herrings" and "other storytelling devices," but I think that if anything makes him a troll, it's forcing people who want the most thorough understanding of Homestuck possible to watch a bunch of incredibly mediocre movies.

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	eleutheria 2013-01-12 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	That makes it even less likely I'll read it, I've never even heard of Armageddon or Weekend at Bernie's, let alone seen them. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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