prokopetz:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

The frequency with which I see folks reblogging my posts with the tag “#not homestuck” raises some interesting questions about this blog’s readership.

@yoshilisk replied:

at this point i’m not convinced that everything you say ISN’T secretly a homestuck thing, honestly

Hey, let’s be fair.

I also make references to other, equally pretentious webcomics.

@mostlyscrutable replied:

Do you have any recommendations for equally pretentious webcomics?

Sure thing!

• The Abominable Charles Christopher – In theory, it’s about a mute yeti having whimsical adventures. In practice, like 80% of the strips have nothing to do with that, instead focusing on the daily lives of various forest creatures whose primary pastime seems to be acting out a surreal parody of human society. Also, there’s a couple of primal gods involved in some capacity, and this elderly bear whose blood-soaked tragedy of a backstory keeps popping up completely at random. The end result is like a very bleak sendup of Garfield-style newspaper comics with a complicated epic fantasy yarn just sort of happening in the background.

• Minus – The daily life of a little girl who is, to all indications, completely omnipotent. Her various misadventures range from cute and heartwarming to utterly horrifying in their implications, and the comic doesn’t distinguish between the two; both extremes are presented in the same soft-toned, storybook-like fashion. The author vanished off the face of the Internet some years ago, and their comics are now accessible only via independent backups (one of which is linked above); by fortunate coincidence, Minus is one of their few works for which a complete archive still exists.

• Rho – Highschool magical realism with a post-ironic twist. Basically, picture Scott Pilgrim if the protagonist was a. a teenage girl, and b. not an irredeemable douchebag, and that won’t be exactly right, but you’ll be in the same general ballpark. Largely episodic with few recurring characters, it ends abruptly and without resolution, so if you’re looking for an actual arc, this one may not be the best choice. It was published like a decade ago, when screen resolutions were lower, so the dialogue can be kinda squinty on a modern desktop, and also the site sometimes runs porn ads – fair warning on both counts.