Homestuck

Of course it is pretty much impossible to read the entirety of Homestuck in a week but I skipped around and read decent chunks of it. It is a comic I haven't revisited in many years and so expansive and complicated it is sort of difficult to figure out what it even is about. I think love it or hate it though Homestuck is unique and important in webcomic and possibly even fandom history. It has such a weird sense of humor and difficult to capture structure and charm to it. I hear people say things are "like Homestuck" all the time but they never really are. I don't think anything will be as impactful, strange and obscure with a massive following like it had ever again.

I also don't think I have ever seen anything use as many mediums as Homestuck did. It is a webcomic, but almost completely told though chat logs and a second person narration which is jarring enough. Then it breaks boundaries by not only having gifs, but videos, flash games and even vine as part of the story telling. Even if it is painfully long and very strange I think the way Hussie used the online medium to his advantage in an incredibly interesting way.