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🕑 Added 2025-01-13 00:32:38 +0000 UTCIt is imperative to view this update on the site, readers! Javascript on! Follow Boo's lead! He can sense her out!
https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch18/ch18_211.html
This update is a little bandwidth intensive so I'm trying to stagger it by posting it here first. Feel free to share the link on Discord, but I'll wait for the usual time to update everywhere else. Worried about the site slowing to a crawl. Thanks! :)
Comments
Malik M.L. Williams
I’m late, but I don’t care. HOLEEEE SHIT!!! This was amazing once I read and realized what I was supposed to do. I just want to bookmark this update to do it over and over again. I love the way your brain works, Ashley Cope.
Malik M.L. Williams
Ditto, ditto, ditto!
Malik M.L. Williams
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!
Karvil
...holy carp
Reed Copperstrand
Thank you! <3
Capsandnumbers
Order of the Stick gestured at the idea of characters travelling around the website, on its page 649, though that wasn't interactive
Alexandra Valtakis
GO BOO GO!! THIS IS STUPENDOUS!!
Josh
Homestuck isn't the best story thing ever or anything (the first thousand pages are a little slow, then it kicks into gear when the second set of characters show up) but I do think it's taken advantage of the format possibilities of the internet more than anything else I've seen. (There are probably even more innovative ones that I've never seen; considering how traditionalist comic readers on the netoweb have turned out to be, one of the most remarkable things about Homestuck is just that it was as popular as it was.) Also, hey, if you feel that bad about it, you can still read it, y'know.
Ashley
Aww, happy birthday, Reed! Do something fun today!
Ashley
It's all good, I never read Homestuck either. Thanks!
Ashley
Nothing lasts forever :)
Spen Cyrrh
I save everything for my archive in case I ever lose access to everything you put here. I ... am not sure I can find a way to save this one as is.
Mason Prater
Ashley (and i mean this in the best way possible) you are insane. I love it. I can't wait to see what this means for Sette!
Sergris
This is just the most clever, creative thing I've seen a webcomic do. (Please don't flame me, I wasn't there for Homestuck!)
Cherenkov
Another stunning update Ashley
Cherenkov
I'm excited to see it Ashley!
Cherenkov
I look forward to seeing the print version :D
Cherenkov
She and Duane would really benefit from properly talking, wouldn't they? Duane's uniquely qualified to warn her of that trap, and to help her escape from it...
Capsandnumbers
Amazing! I loved the walk/scroll down the comic's archive
jaaama
So good!! I absolutely loved this
Benjamin
This is some of the most creative thing I have ever seen in a webcomic. Your old art site was a lovely blast from the past . I used to enjoy going there back when I first started reading Unsounded a decade ago. Well done. And poor Sette. Hopefully, Boo can cheer her up.
acloudwithfeet
Uhhhhhhhh holy shit?
Reed Copperstrand
WOW! This is so cool!! I read the page on the main site first and your comment for it afterwards and then went back to follow Boo. I was really impressed how complex the journey was! (Coincidentially, today is my birthday, so extra thanks. :-) )
Cassie
A fellow reader of taste :3 I always knew I could trust you. <3
Duke BG
Yeah, I can only think of two other webcomics (that I know) that done something on this level. Edit: and even then – one of closer to a level of Murkoph taking a knife out of the chapter art template (although a bit higher level than that– that webcomic had a permanent change to the about page done)
Spider
I've seen other webcomics utilize the medium in similarly creative ways, but to my knowledge Ashley was among the first and continues to innovate and try new approaches, and I've never seen anything exactly like this before. If you like meta-breaking webcomics though, I humbly suggest All Night Laundry.
Spider
Holy crap, that was adorable and fun. Absolutely your best and most creative use of multimedia yet, Ash! What a treat.
Gaby
Best web comic ever!
Ashley
Boo, like Knock, is the faithful friend that makes our worst days bearable :)
Ashley
Be careful~ Sette's fallen into that trap as a ghost. Reliving her past, all her mistakes, wishing she could go backwards and stay there.
Gally
o well now i just have to reread the whole comic, since i'm back at the start and all... Fucking Fantastic
chrysannarose
It wouldn't be TOO difficult...
Luuuuuuu
First Boo
Nikaleles
i was so captivated by the javascript wizardry that ive only just now had it sink in that sette is also there actually. boo kind of totally stole the show can boo be her new soul. not the First Soul, but definitely the Best Soul
Luuuuuuu
I got nuthin but a quiet <3
Stephanie Aldrich
Ahhh that was awesome!
Ashley
It was honestly the best thing he could do. Now First Sette will concentrate on tearing the crap out of him for grabbing her ankle, instead of siccing him on Sette's corpse again.
Ashley
Naw, but I'm so glad you enjoyed the update! <3
Ashley
I'm holding out hope someone makes a Boo plush for the next fanworks contest :3
Old Coal Soul
That was so cool. Absolute kino - something you could ONLY do in a webcomic. So creative and clever.
CD
OH THAT WAS SO FUN
Ascender
I swear to fuck, Ash, if you don't sell plush Boos soon...
Ascender
I hereby accord our little squishstruct pally the sobriquet "Boopool".
Ascender
WUT, and I cannot stress this enough, DAFUQ?!
Tony Wilkey
Oh boy, that was a really fun, if not emotionally scarring ride.
Manic Raven
I just want you to know that after this update, you are my god Cope
GracieV
Whoa!!!! What a ride! Webcomic brilliance, in no other form would it work so well. Bravo!
Quinton
That was amazing. People talk a lot of talk about "taking advantage of the medium", but this is utter next-level madness. I love it.
Michael Stakely
15/10 update.
Dr. Badvibes
loooove this update!! boo is the best little creature. what a journey.
codeGnave
Excellent interactivity!
L Anon
I gasped at being able to follow Boo around. I love it! And following him to the update comments page where you’re all “Boo! What are you doing here!?” Duane seems like he was able to resist the order! He’s paying heavily for it, but he resisted!
Madison
Haha makes sense! I'm so glad to see Sette interacting with the website again. So fun when she does it-- and I adore the trip to the casuallvillains page and Boo messing with Murkoph! Hah! I also love the footprints along the archive page- puts me in mind of the imagery from the pageant...
metrocube
WHQT THE FUCK THIS UPDATE IS AMAZING ASHLEY EHAT THE FUCK
Ashley
The print version will of course have to take a completely different tack :) I know what it'll be, but I'll fuss with drawing it later, haha.
Madison
I think about how this could ever translate to print and I laugh. I'm so pumped to see this-- Sette! Sette...! You gotta come help! Please! I believe in you so much!
Madison
Cassie I was gonna say Peter Pan but you got there first!!! Can't help but agree in every way.
Pat Murphy
OMG this is amazing
Rifter
Damn Ashley. Back to the beginning...That was the most amazing journey I've been on, not just in a webcomic, but in any comic. Hats off.
Ashley
It's what Sette would have wanted.
The Clag
Ashley you are the GOAT, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Ashley
Yaaaay! I was hoping it would feel like you're participating. Boo couldn't have done it without you!
Duke BG
There should be an asterisk on that statement. Characters getting out of bounds of the pages into the website is rare, but it's a thing.
Ashley
You gotta help Boo find her! Don't let 'em down!
Rifter
Yes! BOO! FIND SETTE! We're with you!
Duke BG
Wow
Wambling Wombat
that was crazy fun. thanks so much!
Cassie
The way I had a giant smile on my face clicking through this! Just utter delight, even through this horror. Absolutely incredible. You've always utilized this medium so creatively, but this really knocked it out of the park. This reminded me of the old Peter Pan musical of my childhood, where the audience had to clap to bring Tinkerbell back to life.
Emily Rocke
🤯
Renee
I love this story so much
kaitou
Hint: keep clicking Boo.
mellothumb
aaaaaaaa ashleyyy what the hell this rules
Simon
Ashley! No one has pushed the medium of webcomics as far as you. Amazing!
LordOfChains
And like any true gangster, gotta engage in some graffiti along the way...
Nikaleles
homie this is literally insane. GREAT WORK
Ben Dennard
Damn, Boo is way better at sounding than the rest of the cast. Someone get this bug some farcyte.