Ahahah oh, cats! The tearing through the house is normal (ours go crazy like that at least once a day) but the clothes-hanging - heee!
Heh...I was a bit, erm, intimidated by Homestuck myself. But then I sat down and started reading and after a while I couldn't stop. It might help to think of it not as a webcomic at all? A lot of the basic structure is more a directed old-school text adventure - illustrated, but it really depends on clever writing (and the writing is very clever, don't let the chat-speak fool you.) The story is more coherent than it seems - extremely confusing and quite surreal, but there's an underlying order that slowly emerges.
(It also has a strong friendship theme, and a knack for characters who are more likable than they really ought to be, so yeah, worth reading for more than just the twisty narrative structure!)
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Date: 2011-06-02 11:58 pm (UTC)Heh...I was a bit, erm, intimidated by Homestuck myself. But then I sat down and started reading and after a while I couldn't stop. It might help to think of it not as a webcomic at all? A lot of the basic structure is more a directed old-school text adventure - illustrated, but it really depends on clever writing (and the writing is very clever, don't let the chat-speak fool you.) The story is more coherent than it seems - extremely confusing and quite surreal, but there's an underlying order that slowly emerges.
(It also has a strong friendship theme, and a knack for characters who are more likable than they really ought to be, so yeah, worth reading for more than just the twisty narrative structure!)