I had been considering it, the last thing I had read was when meat and candy first dropped, literally I stopped reading after the site asked the question Meat Or Candy?
I heard a lot of really mixed things about it and no one has managed to sell me on reading HS^2 or anything beyond the core comic. Is it worth it? I've heard some music from HS^2 which was banger.
It's defintely worth it imo!! Even if you end up not liking what happens in the epilogues/HS^2, the fandom is going to keep moving forward with the comicand it's so much fun ヽ(//▽O)ノ
I also think it's a good continuation of where the original comic left off, pickung up loose ends and giving some more insight on the characters
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just wanna get ahead here and say you may get. quite a few biased opinions.
That being said in general I do recommend it. I'm a big post-canon defender and I've found that there is some like made up version of the Epilogues that morphed out of a nightmare game of telephone that haunts a lot of people who would enjoy it if they gave it a chance. So if you are willing to throw everything youve heard (good or bad honestly!) out the door and approach it with fresh eyes and an open mind you might surprise yourself in how much you enjoy it. BUT its not for everyone and if it doesnt align with your tastes and you bounce off thats fine too, at least you gave it a fair shot!
now for hs2 it does kinda require at least-AT LEAST-the basic knowledge of where the characters ended up and what the major plot beats are for both universes. I say "kinda" because you can technically just read it if you want but you'd probably be a little bit confused. but its fun! i like it a lot! theres some occasional inconsistencies just by nature of it changing hands so many times but its hard to knock it for that when the og comic written by one person also has inconsistencies. what story doesnt for that matter?
so uh yeah. at least try it out
HS:BC starts with the thoroughly weird situation reached at the end of the Epilogues, so there's that to consider.
I found parts of the Epilogue a bit of a slog, but I liked the story and coped with the more disturbing elements just fine, thanks. Worth going in with the thought that this is not the tale of the "happily ever after," it's a tale of life continuing and exciting new bad things happening, many of them done by characters we like. Hussie didn't exactly handle the characters with kid gloves in the original comic, and the Epilogues continue with that.
A girl stands in her bedroom on her 26th birthday. As she waits for the mail-centipede to arrive, her fingers twiddle with her long grey beard. The beard twiddles back.
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I love the Epilogues and consider them the best part of Homestuck. They're very dark and weird and more explicitly adult in theme, and very meta, but I love them. Meat more than Candy, but Candy I find very valuable to the overall narrative.
HS2 is pretty good, but it has some cut corners in art and overall problems in direction I disagree with, as well as the comic becoming quite bad around chapters 8-12 or so.
Beyond Canon is awesome and I love it, I think it has great art and I'm really interested to see the direction it goes, as well as having some really deep insights into the main cast, like with Vriska and Jade. I think it's been consistently excellent. The only reason I don't put it above the Epilogues is that, as of now, there's simply more to The Epilogues.
