How I explained my obsession with Homestuck to Mom.

[snarp]

"It's like manga without the misogyny."

(I no longer read new manga without having seen at least three reviews from trusted sources affirming a complete lack of misogyny. Because I work at a criminal defense firm, and my tolerance for sexual predators is pretty thin by the end of the day.)

Comments

[yeloson]

LOL. I got in deep, then dropped out when I saw all the racist comics Hussey did back in the day. Maybe I'll read it after it's done.

[snarp]

Yeah, some stuff that has gone on in Homestuck is also pretty bad. Like, he claims that the human protagonists have no ethnicity, as sort of a defense for the fact that it looks an awful lot like the only people to escape the apocalypse were white. And while he would still be the frigging M. Night Shyamalan of webcomics even if that was how he intended things from the beginning, it's clearly bullshit, given that he did call one character a "white guy who raps" early on, and his claims that the characters were "rendered symbolically" didn't start until a few thousand pages later.

And that particular guy's actually blood-related to or a clone of five of the seventeen other human characters, so.

(Oh, god, it's pretty bad that I tallied up that family tree in my head so fast.)

[pseudo_tsuga]

....oh my god, it totally is. But which kind of manga genre suits it best if you don't take the easy road out of saying all of them? From the plot summaries I've read, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is closest.

[snarp]

I feel like it would run in a shounen magazine, I guess? Except that if I were tasked with ectobiologically recreating Andrew Hussie from two manga artists, I would probably select Ai Yazawa and Yumi Tamura.

So, I don't know.