Artist and writer Andrew Hussie is a reluctant father of internet fandom. His comic, Homestuck, published under the website MS Paint Adventures, followed a group of teens who accidentally brought ...

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MS Paint Adventures (MSPAA) began as a series of "crowdsource-your-own-adventure"-type stories, which Hussie wrote at the behest of his fans and readers. This worked well for earlier stories like ...