#1133: "Dun, Dun, Dunnnnnn!"

[Sliths]

Heresy: A story doesn't have to fall into some classical blueprint to be good. The "morale" of the story(if there is one) isn't known yet because it isn't done. This was just a plot twist.

[tacticslion]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

Word.

Heresy488, you pointed out the purpose of the comic in your own post. The point is "Hah-hah, this is funny! Enjoy!" That's all there has been. Sure there are serious moments, but that makes the story interesting. You don't like: ok! Truly, we can't tell if there is a moral or any real purpose to the comic until after it's over. Currently, yes, there is no moral justification. But there's a fine comedic one.

Also, it may at some point or another have a relatively serious and/or subversive undertones because Brian want to do something original which is technically impossible, but he can at least do something we haven't seen someone do before or seen only very rarely, which is almost - if not just - as good. Not your cup'o'tea, but that's ok. It's not really trying to be. Brian's mentioned that quite a few times.

And: which book? I felt similarly about the Light Ages - guh that one sucked horribly.

Edit: Ninja'd by The Wizard Who Did It! It is his name after all. And also by Sliths!

[Dr. Casey]

... holy shit.

I didn't even begin to call that.

Holy fucking shit.

This does make Sarda slightly more sympathetic, I must admit. At least he's not a complete jackass for no reason. Stupid Black Mage. If he hadn't been such a dick back in Corneria, there would still be 36 hours to a day.

Yes but that's really the joke of the story. It leads you along, wanting to make you believe it has a point or a justification and then at the end you realize that you've been following it for 8 years, waiting for a meaning that you'll never get. The joke's on you.

asdf;;;;

Okay, this is something that's been annoying me lately. When, exactly, did Brian gain the reputation of being a master prankster/magnificent bastard that pulls jokes on the audience every other strip? Let's make a list of all the jokes he's pulled on us.

- White Mage bringing Black Belt back to life.
- Retroactively changing Thief's ninja outfit from red to black.
- The fake ending in 1071 or 1072 or whatever.
- The anticlimatic resolution to the 'showdown' between Black Mage and the other Light Warriors.

I'm sure there's a few others, but the expanded/complete list would maybe only double the size of what I've already composed. I just think the whole "Brian is a troll he constantly plays jokes on the audience he's such a bastard you can't trust a thing he ever says" thing is really dumb, because for the most part 8-Bit has always played out like a completely normal story, ie. one with a minimal amount of trolling the audience.

[LTGM]

I think the book he was referring to was Nuklear Age. Which, in my opinion, is amazing! It's one of the few books i've read recently that actually used the medium to its fullest.

[Neni]

You know why this is such a great twist?!
Because it was actually one of the most popluar theories here, so nobody would have thought, that Brian would make it actually happen!

But he did!

OK, now I wanna see time paradoxes of some sort!

And something bard-related would be funny as well! XD

[UndrDog]

Originally Posted by stefan

I think you forgot the bit where he disassembled chocobos with a chainsaw and grafted them back together into a mound of agonized flesh that yearns for death.

I FORGET NOTHING!

Oh come on! He HELPED chocobos by forwarding their evolutionary line beyond that of any of their dietary rivals or predators! Obviously when you speed up evolution you speed up the side effects of evolution. That being natural selection.

[Mirai Gen]

why is Sarda's crotch talking

[shiney]

UndrDog, you make a worthy companion to RM himself.

[Neni]

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

why is Sarda's crotch talking

Because Brian lettered this comic as quickly as possible, to get it up as soon as possible, so we could post as much nonsense as possible so he got as much funny stuff to read for himself as possible.

If that's possible.

[OverNineThousand89]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

It was a pretty sweet burn before Ninesy ruined it.

Is... is that my nickname now? Great, now I'm obligated to sig it.