Fandom:Cool and New Web Comic

Cool and New Web Comic is a Homestuck parody fan-adventure published on the unofficial MSPA forums, which was created by the anonymous author "O" on April 10th, 2016. In a similar manner to Homestuck's own Homosuck segment, it utilizes the principles of stylistic suck pioneered by projects such as Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, in order to create a "shitty" parody of Homestuck proper for comedic purposes. All characters are accordingly rendered in a deliberately crude style, with the exception of Rose, who is depicted normally in contrast to the rest of the cast, and a few other characters. The comic follows parody versions of the main Homestuck cast through a series of events reminiscent of those of Homestuck itself, but generally more bizarre, crudely realized, and nonsensical. The comic can be viewed here.

The comic is notable particularly among fan adventures for the popularity that it gained within the community, which resulted in the creation of the Cool and New Music Team. Initially as a project to create an album for the comic that parodied the official Homestuck soundtrack, the project quickly broadened to produce an assorted collection of Homestuck parody albums, Cool and New Webcomic inspired OST pieces, more-serious minded Homestuck fan albums, albums dedicated to fandom memes, and more besides.

Although much of the music team's tracks are purposely ironically "bad", in the same manner as the source material, other releases gradually became more serious over time and some tracks even eventually found their way onto a few more serious fan compilations. The overall lower expectation of quality required of these albums compounded with a surprising degree of fan enthusiasm resulted in an astonishing level of output following the music project's founding in mid 2016. As of December 2017, 61 individual Cool and New Music Team albums and single releases have been published, making the project the largest collection of Homestuck music albums of all time, outstripping not only the Gaiden and Unofficialmspafans albums, but also the official Homestuck OST.

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The first Cool and New Web Comic soundtrack album, cool and new voulem.1, was released by the Cool and New Music Team on their bandcamp on the 2nd of July, 2016. Since then, as of July 13th, 2020, the Cool and New Music Team have put out 63 individual Homestuck and Cool and New Web Comic albums and single releases, constituting, by the numbers, the largest Homestuck music project of all time. A large proportion of the albums and tracks mirror the "stylistic suck" of Cool and New Web Comic to at least some degree, but there are many exceptions to this rule, and other tracks which are not easily catalogued as one or the other.

In order of release:

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