In topic: "Whistles, AIDS, and other lesser known works."

Thursday, August 7th, 2025, 6:31 AMabout 1 month ago

Hussie's pre-mspa works are pretty fantastic, especially the beautiful artwork of Whistles, but Wizardy Herbert and the Mobius Slipknot takes the cake for me as my favorite. I've made a thread for it already so I'll try to keep this short despite said thread's relative inactivity. Hussie's writing prose is on full display in Wizardy Herbert, their trademark sense of humor and really powerful characterization shine through, and even though the script is supposedly just a rough draft it honestly could have been released without revision. The structure is just as breakneck and neurotic as homestuck at times, swapping between characters and perspectives just as quickly, which could be a turn off for some, but I enjoy it greatly as one who is similarly neurotic. Everything I love about it makes it all the more unfortunate that it is missing its seemingly final chapter(s), theres plenty of clues as to what could've happened but sadly nowhere near enough to really say much definitively. The amount of ideas that end up being used again in Homestuck is also fascinating, especially when Wizardy Herbert himself is closest in characterization to Caliborn out of all the Homestuck cast. Even concepts that appear super late in the comic like Caliborn's Ultimate Weapon juju has clear parallels to the titular Mobius Slipknot. I really wish more people cared about it in comparison to Hussie's more visual works, since I find their writing is just as good (nowadays I would say better) than their artistic skill. Not even half the cast have fanart posted anywhere online, which is real shame, so I've attached a sketch that I made a few months ago of the character(s) Allen Pycroft. Sorry for the long windedness, I just care a lot about this neglected puppy of Hussie's litter.

Cambyon