@dionysia -

Strongly agree on "It's a work of art." We have a terrible tendency nowadays to see fiction as just "content" and "entertainment", rather than as "art". Like it's a length of Generic Extruded Entertainment Product squirted from a nozzle onto a conveyer belt in a factory somewhere. That goes for TV, movies, comics, games and even novels. If the GEEP doesn't meet our (individually differing) expectations exactly, it must be defective, so it's time to put the fear of Death into the stupid factory-serfs.

It is really, really hard to fit Homestuck into the Sausage Factory Model. The OG comic is whimisical and disturbing; deliberately confusing and frustrating; full of the author's personal obsessions and unfiltered thoughts; unsanitised and rough around both the edges and the middle. Art doesn't have to do what we expect. Art doesn't have to do what we want. You consume product, you engage with art. Same goes for all the later Homestuck works, even if they are more of a team effort.