#588: "Ghost aliens!"
 

Not to give away too much here 30 minutes before the comic uploads, but I wanted to show what was going on nearby during Episode 587. It's sort of a mirror comic to it. I like working in dualities like that, and they're actually all over 8BT in general (though usually not as obvious as what we'll have with today's installment).

Stupid, pointless trivia: what I did with Ranger's dialogue box is what I wanted to do with RM's in the previous episode but there just wasn't space for it. And now you know.

But you won't know what you know for another 28 minutes!

Dammit, Red Mage!

So, I've come to the conclusion that pretty much everybody in this comic is really stupid. That, or they have no ranks in Sense Motive.

but if there were ghost aliens, they would possess people from space! where else? not like alien ghosts could do it from earth, they'd no longer be immigrants! there story checks out.

also, i want a sammich.

Another greatcomic.I want to know where Redmage learned that song from.Possibly from Thief? I also love that ghost aliens line. But how are we sure they weren't ghost who were abducted by aliens? And if they were posseed they know they were. Only two reasons, one is that everyone of the nuetral warrior are morons, or a wizard did it.

P.S. Brian we need our whitemage love.Bring white mage and another lacky(maybe BB or someonelse?) Also there should be a spell that makes a sword. Best of both worlds.

"Agreed.....Their Story checks out."

I fell off my chair when i saw that line, its now broken and i'll be sending Brian the bill :D

GREAT comic :D

Wow. That explains it all. Ghost Aliens from outer space. I bet they're why my sandwiches must suffer as well.

I feel you on the sandwiches Brian, Few on this earth know my intense love of all things that are sandwiches, a love that is second only to burning things and flashing lights. I swear, when you have to pry something only slightly thinner than air off of a tightly rolled wad of turkey meat, it's difficult. I've always thought it to be one of those spiteful things the world does to you. I always sneeze when I'm doing something delicate or around sharp objects, whatever I hold breaks in the worst possible way, and I can't ever get the turkey out right.

Fortunately peanut butter and honey don't need no unpacking. Fo real.

And if you guys haven't noticed yet, if the words "Warriors" comes after your group name, you will not only be immoral, but also ineffective at whatever you do, and stupid about it as well.

i know what you mean bout sandwhiches Pyros, and Brian. ive just made myself some bacon sandwhiches, and while it may not be turkey, its exactly the FRIGGIN same. you cant peal it off without it TEARING!! turkey, bacon, what next? chicken? then we'd be screwed

Haha. Space Ghost.

I bet the space ghost pirates are the ones who used up all the toilet paper as well which always gets blamed on ME and im always getting stuck in there without it.

Is that a new Red Mage crotch-grab sprite? Great.

Thief and Red Mage are no longer permited to make up lies together. From now on, all two man lies shall be handled by Thief and Black Mage. Fighter shall sit in the corner and wait for the big kids to finish talking. Red Mage shall be bound and gagged and then thrown off of a cliff....oh, and he'll not talk whilst they make their lies.

Great job once again Brian. =P

Is it just me, or has RM been getting rather poncy since they arrived on this island?

He's just going back to his old self...either that or Thief is getting some of his 'head revenge'

I hope the Not-So-Light Warriors reveal they devastated Elfland.

I'm a fan of RM, but seriously he's even freaking me out. "Sisters are doin' it for themselves!"

RM is my favorite character too which is why I hope Twinkin out updates soon to see if he's answerd any of my letters... If not Oh well.

Anyway to the point RM is great but getting a little goofy. I don't really mind it myself because well... RM is the kind of character you can make him say and do anything and it just wont be out of character. Either that or maybe he IS possesed by... Hold on...

Directed by Edward D. Wood Jr.

Y'know, just when you think the Light Warriors are the dumbest group in the world, along comes Rogue's dense bunch.

For the bazillionth (is that a word?) time, Twinkin' Out is on indefinite hiatus. Sosa apparantly has better things to do than answer inane e-mail. Like make his own webcomic. Perhaps Brian should put that on the Twinkin' Out page to let the newer folks know (and EPS, while he's at it).

AUGH! Post #666!

Ew. I just got an image of Micheal Jackson as a Red Mage. THRILLER!!!!

I actually understood Brian's electron-beam-through-Atom-thin-turkey joke. I'm only slightly more entertained by it than I am scared.

Great Comic.

Oh sweet Jesus, they're going to split the Turkey! It's Hiroshima all over again, in a small joint deli community... run for your lives!!!

And Brian, you don't know what you're talking about. Thin slices give you more variety; if you like the quantity, then put many thin slices in your sandwitch, as opposed to few. But when you want them on their own, you can take a single piece and lay it against your tongue, the taste spreading from its surface area, as it'd be exactly alike had you sliced them thick. Agreed, though, that Deli meat beats the mass-production wrapped ones. Though when I have those, I just rip out a ball of turkey and stuff it in the sandwitch. But if you want thickness, then just buy that piece of turkey as it is, unsliced, and take big chomps out of it.

Now I can't say that I don't think of that whenever I lay sight on one of those things, without keeping a straight face. It's because I'm not a good liar.

That’s twisted man.... RM grabbing his crotch. You have done some horrible things to RM in the past but now you have crossed the line. In fact, I may start a boycott of 8-bit theater till you remove/change this episode.

EDIT: Nevermind, I made a mistake. He's not doing that.

Lord, people. He's not grabbing his crotch or doing any kind of Michael Jackson pose. Ever hear of Saturday Night Fever? The clue was the pose and the disco background.

Quite right, Brian.

Oh, I see. I better stop jumping to conclusions. And actually, I didn't see it as MJ pose at first.

I curse you...

THINNER!!!

... What the devil are you on about?

It's a line from a crappy movie based on a Stephen King novel called "Thinner", in which a fat guy accidently kills an old gypsy guy's daughter, so he gets cursed so that he gets thinner and thinner everyday.

The old gypsy guy's line when he curses the fat guy (in which he screams in a crappy fake gypsy voice), "I curse you THINNER!!" is pretty much the most memorable thing about an otherwise lame movie. So much that a local radio station from where I lived back up in Massachusettes would play the sound bit regularly.

I made the reference because Brian mentioned in his daily though about how people at a deli would scream zombie-like about wanting their turkey cut thin.

But I guess the whole thing failed, didn't it? I'm going to go somewhere and cry now...

Ohh, in reference to the blog, I get it now.

... I mostly dislike deli food. Except for lox and cream cheese.

I think we should all get together with our sister groups and do some probeing disscussion about eachothers notes and DOUBLE our standards... SISTERS ARE DOIN IT FOR THEMSELVES!

Because of the topic of the newspost, I had to add my 2 cents...

Because of his newspost, Brian is now my god. (I work in a deli, slicing meat, and all of that good stuff)

You think he's exaggerating... he's not.

And it kills your arm to cut that much shaved meat. (unless you have a nice automatic one)

I assure everyone that every time you ask for shaved meat at the deli, the deli worker there curses you to the abyss (no matter how friendly they seem). If it's the choice between just very thin meat and so-thin-it's-falling-apart meat, choose the former, there's really no difference, and the deli worker will be happy. (remember, they're people too!)

And for the love of god, don't go get two pounds of shaved roast beef at 8 at night, especially right after the worker tore apart and cleaned the slicer. /personal rant

Remember: the best meat comes from happy deli workers.

Damn. Wish I lived near a deli. Only thing remotely similar nearby is Schlotsky's. MMmmm...Schlotskys.

Well, Celes I sympathize with your suffering, so therefore I won't even go into any jokes about a girl handling meat.

Also, Brian, next time you go to the deli, wearing that "GTA made me do it" or the like. I'm sure the housewives will appreciate it. And anychance we could get a T-shirt with Ghost Aliens on it?

that whole red mage thing was the creepiest ive seen yet....

and after all this time of reading 8-bit and reading in the forums (since early this year) i finally joined.... but dont worry guys i no the rules by now...

Just when you think RM may have a scrap of normality within him.... The sister disco starts. It brings me back to Thief's statement about RM's daddy problems and cross-dressing being a result of Thief's mental conditioning. Has Theif completely twisted RM's mind, or is this RM's own doing? Does he have sister issues as well as daddy issues? Should he seek counseling of some sort? Is he a good dancer? Does he own a white disco suit of his own?

And the turkey thing was just hilarious. There was absolutely no exaggeration there, which is why it's so damn funny.

Woah, Brian? A serious political/religious comment in a comic? I'm really not sure how this is going to bode for you. I've heard that Scientologists can be pretty rabid. The alien ghosts that possess people and make them do bad things comment may get you in a bit more trouble than it's worth.

For those of you who don't know, according to Scientologist theology, people are possessed by ghosts of aliens that cause pain and make people do bad things.

Brian, even if you didn't mean for it to be a Scientology reference, I'd be careful, it's way too much of a coincidence for those who know about their theology to overlook.

Though to be honest, many Scientologists don't believe the theology since there's no "church" par say, just a collection of books that people read and take from them what they want. I don't know how many believe the theology though; for all I know, it could be most of them.

Edit: However, it just occured to me that many may be offended by the implication that all Scientologists believe in the "ghost aliens"

Ha, see, that's why I stick with ham for my sandwiches.

Heh, a pretty good comic. I laughed at the new RM sprite, (you people have dirty minds), but was confused by his sister rant. Is it supposed to be a complete sentence? Or some sort of reference? 'Cause I can't fully get it. Though I do accept that RM is being weird.

Ghost Aliens; the perfect, all-purpose scapegoat.

Dude, that in and of itself is a joke.

Anyone else catch a Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within vibe when they started talking about alien ghosts?

Also, you can tell it's a slow news day when Brian writes a novella on deli meats.

[Edit] Now that I went back and read the previous posts I now realize I am a moron and that Silver Rose already mentioned it.

Scientologists are funny. I laugh at thier silly ways.

But seriously, if that was not a scientology joke, it should be. Because if any organized group outside of the US government needs mocking, it's the Scientologists. Damn cult founded by a Sci-fi writer who needed a way to scam money out of people because he was poor.

Final fantasy the movie. A good movie. But when they possesed you they actually possessed you in a blue glowy form and took you somewhere. Too bad fanboys couldn't get over their hopes of seeing moogles, chocobos, and Cloud and sephiroth duels. Punks.

As for the joke, I meant it to be that way.

Wait...That's what scientology's about? Whoaaa.

All I can say about that is Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Those in the know will understand.

Lets recap at the last three words that have been used repeatedly in the newest comments.

583: Double
587: Probing
588: Sisters

Is Brian trying to make some sort of hidden message that will make us all go out and bye incest lesbian porn about ghost aliens and transformers?

It is the only message he ever sends.

Damn you, Brian, now you've given me a craving for a turkey'n'cheese sandwich. At 10:00 in the morning. ...And to my knowledge, there is no turkey in the house. Or even cheese. Damn you!!

So he's secretly trying to advertise a film called "Double Probing Sisters".

I'd watch it.

It sounds more like a popup pr0n website ad. DOUBLE PROBING SISTERS!!! ONLY $19.99 PER MONTH! But, I doubt it would beat Butt Busting Brothers.

They hold a lot of power in the media and the such though. And I know that they can be really dangerous. There have been instances where they have been rumored to have killed enemies and no one was pursecuted for a while because the police and the courts were full of Scientologists and the Scientologists threatened those who would try to come forward.

A professor at my brother's university speaks out against Scientologists on radio talkshows, and now he occasionally has Scientologists following him around and threatening him, and he has to have the security guards on campus remove them.

Dictionary.co doesn't bring up any results for "poncy"...

Poncy is also spelled poncey.

http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/pq.htm#poncey

Ghost aliens hmmm sounds awfully similar to the good old Robotic ghost space pirates from Ratchet and clank. But im not complaining i nearly wet myself on both occasions especially the comment " well it makes sense that ghost aliens would possess people from space, Their story checks out"
Comedy at its finest

Hehe..

"Please tell me this is a typo"
"That says robot pirate ghosts, Mr. Genius"

I only recently bought ratchet and clank 2 & 3 and in all seriousness they are perhaps 2 of the funniest games i have ever played.

"Um sir could you come to (some planet whose name i have forgotten)"
"Why?"
"Um.... It's T29's birthday party!!"
"Sounds like theres fighting going on?"
"See I TOLD you he wouldn't fall for it!!. Sir were getting hosed can you come give us a hand"

You know how we recently had a post about the best way to read 8-Bit? Well, I can say for a fact that the worst way to read 8-Bit is in the library, as I would probably get shot if I laughed the way I want to right now.

Their story checks out! [silent chuckle]

Damn internet dying a week and a half before I go back to school.

One week and no 8 bit make me a dule boy :confused: . Oh well I guess I just have to go on a ramage killing everyone who resembles fighter :D .