I don't know why, but for some reason Homestuck grabbed me in a way no other "franchise" really ever has - I picked it up while I was out of school for a few days (about a month before the Gigapause announcement), and managed to blow through the entire thing over the better half of about four days. So, basically, all of its content in one go save for the handful of panels that got added leading up to the end of A6A6I2. Only things I skipped were the more technical bits in flash games, a conversation between Dave and Jade in Act 3, and one or two expositional pesterlogs during the Doc Scratch info dump leading up to Cascade. I was actually surprised with the brevity of it all, albeit I didn't realize the pacing was so random. I was expecting way more required reading along the way with how much people complain about "oh you have to read like 300 pages before it gets good," but people don't realize a page is basically a single comic strip panel with some technobabble and pop culture references thrown in. With the MSPaint Adventures wikia and a few tidbits from tumblr, it all went pretty full-circle. I never had any problems with it.