Webcomic Book Club Summary Reviews of 8-Bit Theater by Brian Clevinger

"8-Bit Theater is a successful comic, which adds to my cynicism about life in general, since it's successful despite itself. With no real art, a corpselike story, characters that couldn't be interesting if our lives depended on it and writing that couldn't go anywhere but up, having the creator 'brag' about his fans in the comic itself almost feels like a slap in the face. Do not touch 8-Bit Theater with a 10 foot pole, because you will certainly find better writing in Captain SNES, and you will find both better writing and truly original sprite art in Kidd Radd." Review by Benor | Read Full Review | Read All Reviews of 8-Bit Theater

"It's funny. I'm the one who recommended this comic in the first place, and I almost ended up not reviewing it, since I made a point this time to finish the comic before saying something about it. See, some webcomic creators have been upset at my negative reviews because I didn't bother to finish their archives. While I don't fully agree with them, I realized that comics do tend to get better as they go on, so I figured I'd read this comic to the bitter end, no matter how much I disliked it. Then I read this page, and said, "Okay, I'm done."" Review by Cobra | Read Full Review | Read All Reviews of 8-Bit Theater

"I'd review the comic, but I'm biased because it was my /first/ webcomic. All I'm going to say is that he does an alright job at photoshopping things. There we go." Review by Thalamasa | Read Full Review | Read All Reviews of 8-Bit Theater

"I'm sorry. Did you just say 'pixel art means you don't have any drawing skill'?...Don't make me kill you, sir. Incidentally, there's lots of custom sprites, pay attention. Granted, he's not the guy that does them, but there are a LOT of custom sprites." Review by Thalamasa | Read Full Review | Read All Reviews of 8-Bit Theater

"Well, it's pixel art, who can blame the guy for not having any drawing skill. What he lacks in hand drawn art he makes up for in storyboarding and editing of the frames. In some cases he's mades some interesting panels. The only downside I've seen to the art is the fact that sometimes he doesn't have enough sprites or backrounds to take up space so he just keeps writting a blog." Review by Brian V. Conan | Read Full Review | Read All Reviews of 8-Bit Theater

"What you must understand is that 8-Bit Theater was the first webcomic to really effectively use these character designs. You can't very well say "I don't like Shakespere's plays because they're so full of cliches", now can you? I'm not saying 8-Bit is on the same level as Shakespere, but they were the first to use their respective character designs." Review by Professor Logic | Read Full Review | Read All Reviews of 8-Bit Theater

"Excellent reviews (the first two). I thought I was the only one who felt tihs way, but it's nice to see that there are people who agree, and can vocalize the specific reasons why this comic sucks with such wit and elegance. RIGHT ON THE MONEY! 8-Bit Theater BLOWS!" Review by John Blaze | Read Full Review | Read All Reviews of 8-Bit Theater

"Therefore I have to give this two reviews: One is an art review - 5/10, yes, there isn't much "art" but so what, it's not art. It's a comic. The other review is based on the merits as a comic, 9/10 - mainly because of the skillful writing and crafting of jokes. The wit and intelligence (yes that's right, intelligence." Review by MundanePhilosopher | Read Full Review | Read All Reviews of 8-Bit Theater

"I liked it, because it has been writtin to poke some fun at RPG games and gamers. Like in all Final Fantasy games, where the NPC's are only able to repeat simple generic messages and Fighter stands there saying "I like swords" and the NPC repeats itself and they go back and forth for a few lines. I wouldnt shout "COMIC Genius" but I did chuckle when I saw it." Review by Strained | Read Full Review | Read All Reviews of 8-Bit Theater

"I can hardly believe anyone would give 8-Bit Theater such bad reviews. It's the only webcomic I bother to read anymore. I haven't come across anything else as consistently funny, fresh, or with such interesting characters." Review by Loren | Read Full Review | Read All Reviews of 8-Bit Theater

"My 13-year old son showed it to me, and I thought it was great -- and I write comedy for a living." Review by 8bit_dad | Read Full Review | Read All Reviews of 8-Bit Theater

"Here is every 8-Bit Theatre ever written: I LIEK SWORDS Thank you." Review by Squirting Dicks | Read Full Review | Read All Reviews of 8-Bit Theater

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