A man can hope
 

I hope the whole 8 bit theater will come out in one big book format.

I would so buy the shit out of a thing like that.

I mean, I know its for free over here, but still...

A man can hope.

(Ever since the Dark Knight I also try desperitly to put the name of my posts into the post itself.)

Square-Enix's lawyers would absolutely love it.

Yeah. Brian'd have to go through them, and they'd get to take almost all the profit and the credit.

Or we could wait ninety years or so for all the sprites to become public domain.

Pfft, mankind would have to fall to extinction before SE let any intellectual property become public domain, and even then, the paperwork would still cover the next 500 years afterward.

And that's assuming Disney ever stops pushing to extend the "x years after creator death" thing.

The sprites aren't the only problem. Having a 1200+ pages comic printed is likely an enormous investment, even if you disregard the risk that your operation could be shut down at any time for completely expectable legal reasons, and the end result would be expensive enough that you'd think twice about buying it when it's on the web for free.

Also the episodes as they are now aren't fit for printing anyway. They're all optimized for web display, the resolution is too low, and many of them have visible compression artifacts and colour differences. Really, the entire thing would have to be redone from scratch, and that would be an even larger investment with a not necessarily guaranteed return.

An 8-bit theatre movie, on the other hand...

What? There's already a perfectly good plot! See?

This is what I mean when I say 8BT is a dead end for me as a creator. There's no future in it. While other webcomic artists invest years to build and develop their properties into something they can make a part of their on-going careers, I gave you guys nine years of my life to complete a project I knew couldn't go anywhere.

It's also why I get a little annoyed when people accuse me of being selfish or trying to screw the fans or whatever inane things immature children say when they don't get their way.

It'd be cool to see the entirety of 8-bit theatre redone, by being drawn, but that'd be a ridiculous amount of work, for a printed book which probably wouldn't make up the initial costs.

Well everyone KNOWS that, but it's not as if you didn't get anything out of the deal. 8BT earned you legions of fans, an outlet to plug your other projects and eventually led to some really awesome creative opportunities for you. Plus any comics created in college don't count anyways ;P

Frankly, I'm just eagerly awaiting the epilogue, I have no complaints.

Hell, I didn't even know I was being fucked with as a reader until I started browsing these damnable forums. I just thought the Light Warriors were perennially doomed to failure.