The protagonist, John Egbert
is the current project of Andrew Hussie. You may have heard of Problem Sleuth, his previous work which was based off point-and-click adventure games. Homestuck is, in Hussie's own words, "the conception of HS had its roots in loosely combining the themes and feel of Earthbound, The Sims, and Spore."
Why has it caught on so much? Hussie is a great storyteller, and the characters are strongly written and unique. I won't provide examples here, you'll have to read on your own.
His art is simple, but emotive.
It is also rather funny.
For important pages, Hussie uses flash. was made a year ago, and he's improved a ton since then. (Relatively low spoiler content)
He even has a volunteer art and music team. The art team includes Lexx, and the music team has put out .
I don't know what else I can say except that
and spoiler that, though.
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