Today in Joystiq: December 27, 2007

It looks like he's holding an E-Meter. Maybe he's being audited to find out his Thetan level. :|

Welcome to Corneria. :O

the early comics were the best

that shit got real boring by comic 150 or so. they had still done almost nothing and the writer got wordier and wordier

I totally disagree. There's only so much you can do with sprites, and what Brian did was make the comic more cleverly written than just “Fighter likes swords & Black Mage stabs”. Yes, they're still quite one-dimensional, but that's the whole point -the ones saving the world are the least capable to do so.

I would say the fact that it got wordier was for the best. Brian's strength has always been his writing, which has become marvelous with the years. Case in point, the Dragoon saga, which is just hilarious.

You should definitely check his other comic, Atomic Robo, and his book, Nuklear Age, which has some pacing problems similar to the beginning of 8-bit, but which is very rewarding if you stay through the end.