Hi everyone! We thought we’d do something a little different for the commentary this month, and bring you an exciting and VERY serious live discussion between two of the members of the writing team. What witty and engaging insights will they choose to share, I wonder…

Tue Feb 25, 2020

Sketches and Commentary: Chapter 5, “YOUR 3Y3S H4V3 B33N CLOS3D”

First off, let’s talk about the elephant in the room: One very long page. There were a couple reasons for this authorial choice, which was planned quite a long time before reader support made this the first “second update,” which we can call a happy coincidence.

Sat Feb 29, 2020

Sketches and Commentary: Catnapped, Part Three

Jasprose displays her most tact yet here. Well, as much tact as you can display while complimenting someone’s “ample bosom.”

Sat Mar 21, 2020

Sketches and Commentary: Chapter 6, “A Conversation Regarding Relevance”

Page 145-146

Wed Mar 25, 2020

Sketches and Commentary: Diamonds, Dames, and Dads, Part 1

I really was drinking whisky while I wrote this scene. For the ambience, mostly, because I don’t actually like whisky that much.

Fri Apr 03, 2020

Sketches & Commentary: Chapter 7, Distress Call From the Closet

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Fri May 01, 2020

Sketches and Commentary: A Daughter Astray

So here we are. Another month of Homestuck draws to a close. But of course this wasn’t just any old month of Homestuck, Oh Goodness No.

Mon May 04, 2020

COMMENTARY: A Threat, Sensed

Hello, everybody. Writing in from my ivory tower high on the hill, offering you my sincerest wishes for your good health and continued toil toward building a better future. I know shit is rough, and it’s only going to get rougher. Am I talking about real life or am I talking about homestuck? At the end of the day, does it even matter anymore?

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Sat May 30, 2020

Commentary and Sketches: “The Influencers”

Oh it’s these guys again. You thought they were throwaway characters?!?? HA!

Tue Aug 18, 2020

Commentary + Sketches: 1 WOND3R WH4T TH3Y T4ST3 L1K3

A science fiction writer I really respect once told me that “the purpose of prose is to take an hour to examine a moment” and I think about that a lot. I think that at its most basic level, the beauty of prose is to let yourself linger on shit you really couldn’t in any other medium. In reality, someone drops an egg, and it takes maybe half a second to hit the ground and crack. But with prose you can freeze that egg on its way down. You could really dig into what’s so very messed up about this egg getting smashed. Maybe it was the final egg. Maybe it was a lucky egg. Maybe you’re known as the motherfucker in the family who drops all the damn eggs all the time.

Sat Aug 29, 2020

Chapter 11 Sketches + Commentary

From the get go, we have this ship. A lot of hs^2 is like… very serious. I think thats cool because I don’t know how to do that. I am pretty good at writing goofy things though so my original goal for this chapter was to make it a little less serious. My favorite parts of homestuck were always when it made me laugh, or when it was just extremely silly. Where are the JOKES? I drew the original draft of the ship in paint and made it a twitchy gif. The artist thought this was so funny that they insisted we keep it in. So he cleaned it up and we kept it.

Sat Sep 05, 2020

Commentary + Sketches: Chapter 12

Here we are with these guys. You like these guys, yeah? Well, if you don’t, too bad. They’re in love so fucking deal with it.

Fri Sep 18, 2020

Commentary + Sketches: Diamonds, Dames, and Dads Pt. 2

Here we go again at Midnight City. My darkhorse favorite setting in all of the MSPAdventures canon. In fact, as much as I love everything that’s going on in HS^2 (a very uncontroversial comic) this is probably my favorite storyline we’ve got going. For obvious reasons, probably. I’m not sure if I honestly have anything too new or groundbreaking to report. I love cheesy bullshit noir, and one day I will write an entire game completely filled with cringey pastiche of men in crumpled suits smoking and making eyes at each other.

Wed Sep 23, 2020

Sketches + Commentary: The Funeral

Okay so…The Funeral. Initially this chapter was called “A Funeral for a Universally Beloved Figure” but since that’s kind of the Joke aspect of Jane’s whole speech, we pared it down to be more simple.

Fri Oct 02, 2020

Bonus Commentary + Sketches: The Influencers pt 2

It’s these guys again!

Tue Oct 06, 2020

Commentary + Sketches: Best Laid Plans Pt 1

PANELS 327-330

Thu Oct 22, 2020

Sketches + Commentary: Best Laid Plans pt 2

Oh yes, time for more intense Vriska/Vriska action. And by that I mean one Vriska is sort of condescendingly competent while the other looks on in simultaneously excited and disquieted awe.

Thu Nov 05, 2020

Commentary + Sketches: Diamonds, Dames, and Dads pt 3

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Mon Nov 09, 2020

Sketches + Commentary: Best Laid Plants pt 3

Mon Dec 07, 2020

Sketches + Commentary: Influencers Pt 3

PANEL 1

Sun Dec 27, 2020

Commentary: December Bonus

November was a very stupid month. I mean, stupider than the rest of the year, which is saying something. Didn’t Destiel happen in November? Fuck, it feels like Turbo Hell became a thing at least a year ago. Whatever. Between personal life stresses, a pandemic, the election, and scrambling to get last minute details squared away before we shipped Act 2, I arrived in December with my brain feeling like a large, floppy mushroom growing between my ears. A large, floppy mushroom that did not want to do anything besides kind of ooze around, and definitely not come up with any clever ideas for comics.

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Thu Dec 31, 2020

Commentary and Sketches: Welcome to My Secret Lair

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