Although it features the same characters, the first Homestuck intermission is not actually part of this main Midnight Crew storyline. In fact, Andrew has stated that the "Blood Spade" story seen by the kids is like a bastardized window to the events of post-apocalptic Alternia; the reverse window of this is the Homestuck comic Spades Slick briefly reads in the intermission before deciding that it's all a load of nonsense. Apparently, the intermission to the Midnight Crew adventure is a bastardized version of Homestuck, although Jade only reads the last panel of said intermission. Later it is revealed that the intermission was created by Caliborn as part of his retelling of Homestuck.