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@darthmongoose Kate Holden
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:05:14 +0000

@darthmongoose wrote:

A big RIP for... HeroBreak.

So HeroBreak was a participatory comic I was making on the mspa (Homestuck) forums, where the actions and also the names of the characters were influenced by user suggestions. It was a Fantasy story about a group of people who didn't know each other from our world, who found themselves in a new world, all separated by miles, but able to communicate via a psychic link.
It was done in a Homestuck style, ie. Single panels rather than separated with gutters with logs of text underneath. Though the visual style, other than limited colour and use of gifs, was quite different from Homestuck, and I did sometimes use panel borders to facilitate conversations between multiple characters in different places...

There were some pretty fun characters like "Sumisu Jou" (Joe Smith), The Warrior, a massive weeb who basically wishes he was Kamina from Gurren Lagann...

And Minerva, The Sage, who kinda ended up as the main protagonist by virtue of being picked as the first player character. She takes no guff from wizards and doesn't just let nonsense slide.

It died due to a combination of my own hubris, thinking I could make a Homestuck style animated set piece where The Paladin leaps out of an airship on a magical unicorn and smashes through a hoard of flying monsters timed to music I commissioned specially despite never having animated anything so long or complex and having a full-time job.
...aaaaaand the fact that then the Homestuck forums went offline when the site was changed and.... they never came back. Ever.

So because I didn't really keep the site I mirrored it on going... the text is pretty much lost to time now and I only have the images.