8 bit theater epilogue!!!

[DerangedWhale]

Well he finally finished it. 8 bit theater is complete. Don't know about you guys but I loved this comic and im kind of sad that its over. Id like to hear your opinions on this it you don't mind. Please and thank you.

http://www.nuklearpower.com/8-bit-theater/

[Mirby]

I like how it ended... I wish there was more, but meh. Still, it's cool, and I like the art style.

He's been doing it for 10 years or so; it was originally supposed to be a class project. Want proof?

http://metakirby.110mb.com/index.php?p=2_2

An interview I did with him back in 2006.

[Thalzon]

He's gonna do FF2 now, right?

Right?

...

[K.B.]

It's over?!?

Urge to destroy world rising...

[DerangedWhale]

He's gonna do FF2 now, right?

Right?

...

That would be awesome

[Black Mage]

I used to read 8BT religiously, but felt it stagnated some point around the first battle with the Litch King. Maybe it's time I went back and finished it up.

[Deep Thought]

I used to read 8BT religiously, but felt it stagnated some point around the first battle with the Litch King. Maybe it's time I went back and finished it up.

Spent two days doing that. Its stagnant, boring humor hurt to read. Yet somehow I couldn't look away. My blame goes to the ever-nagging question of will black mage succeed. The ending was deserving of what the comic had become, not bad, but a huge anti-climax.

[Scufo]

He basically took the whole anti-climax thing and ran with it. The comic eventually became a never-ending stream of build-up that never pays off. Which is fine, I guess, but not when you do it over and over.

itt I admit to having, at one point, liked a sprite comic

[Gollgagh]

itt I admit to having, at one point, liked a sprite comic

hey man, Coop's minisonic comics were pretty good

[The Damned]

Hell, even I had one. It only got to eight pages, but I had one.

[Mirby]

I had one. Five pages. With more on the way once I decide to make them.

They're up on my DA page.

[BardicKnowledge]

The first 300 or so are much better than the rest -- I haven't read from about 1000 to the end though, so maybe it picked up again.

[Tinaddar]

Yeah, I quit reading around 300 or so. Every once in a while I'd come back and check on it, read two or three, and remember why I stopped. It just got uninteresting (having every single character with an IQ in single digits gets really old, really fast). Also, the ending: I'm sure it took extra effort to make, but... When the comic is called "8-Bit Theater" and your epilogue is done in a pseudo-anime style? That's kind of disappointing.

[Overflow]

I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one who got discouraged around half-way through. It just got repetitive and depressing, what with all the continual murders. I felt it picked up again though after that, but yeah, the beginning was the best.

I felt the end was suitable, although a little confusing. It didn't tie up everything as much as I hoped. What happened to King Steve and Evil Princess Sarah?

[The Pezman]

They don't update often enough, but Power Rings has been going for a while now. They're filled with in-jokes and homages to the Archie series, so I enjoy it. Not to mention they make custom sprites, and they're 16 bit so there's a bit more detail than in Clevinger's comic.

Can't say I like the "meta" parts where the authors themselves are characters, though.

[Mirby]

Hey, anyone notice all the little things thrown in the epilogue? Like the fact the messenger was still being chased THREE YEARS LATER?

[Skyline Drop]

Glad it's finally over. Dragged on *much* longer than necessary, really fun at first, got boring about a third of the way in, anti-climactic and unsatisfactory finish. But at least it's done.

... You know, I once dated a girl like that once.

[Less Ashamed Of Self]

I have to say I feel the same as SiriusBeatz. I enjoyed the comic for about... um... 200 strips? Then each character got to be nothing more than simple bit-jokes and the repetition killed it for me.

I rarely cling on to webcomics actually trying to maintain story. I prefer my comics to be stupid, quick, random one-shots... if I wanted any kind of story out of a webcomic I'd read a graphic novel.

[Antonio Pizza]

Hell, even I had one. It only got to eight pages, but I had one.

Ditto...sorta.

[Deep Thought]

I haven't read from about 1000 to the end though, so maybe it picked up again.

It didn't. Not like you have that much farther to go though.

[Hawkwing]

I've been following 8-bit since the 30th comic. I loved it from start to finish. I never got bored with it. I enjoyed it for what it was, a light-hearted easy to read sprite comic.

[Mirby]

Finally, another person who liked it.

Also, for all you haters out there, you would've bitched if he had stopped when you still qualified it as "good" so shut it. Haters gonna hate.

[NeoForte]

I admit it was kinda slowing down in the middle but I've always liked this comic a lot. Just so awesome seeing a demented version of FF1 in a way heh. The ending fit the comic well. Just sucks it's over now :/

[Poke'G]

Wow, nine years have come to an end. I read the epilogue and considered that I found the series shortly after it began when I was a freshman in high school, and now I'm a college grad living in the real world. Bizarre.

I enjoyed the comic a lot over the years, and he'd always recover from slow points. But that epilogue was disappointingly serious and underwhelming. I think the joke ending he did a year or two ago was a much better way to end it.

[Scufo]

Wow' date=' nine years have come to an end. I read the epilogue and considered that I found the series shortly after it began when I was a freshman in high school, and now I'm a college grad living in the real world. Bizarre.

I enjoyed the comic a lot over the years, and he'd always recover from slow points. But that epilogue was disappointingly serious and underwhelming. I think the joke ending he did a year or two ago was a much better way to end it.[/quote']

http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/12/11/episode-1070-what-were-you-expecting/

Agreed.