Remember this webcomic, /co/?

>>90943117
I've heard actual people use this argument to say Lex Luthor is the actual good guy, ignoring the fact that BM making the arguement is defeating it, and it a good indication that they've never read Superman, and possibly haven't even seen a recent movie

>>90943179
Reminds me of that cringe inducing "Clark Kent is Superman's critique of the human race" speech in Kill Bill.

>>90943117
He makes a good point.

>>90943117
>>90943179

People also use this argument about God and/or Jesus, that by holding up a being of perfection as your ideal to aspire towards, Christianity necessarily traps human beings into feeling like failures forever, and thereby creates a problem that only it can solve through offering "forgiveness", in return for which it demands obedience and subservience.

So, Superman's better than that, at least.

>>90943218
The whole point of that speech was elaborating on Bill's character and getting you to understand how he thinks. It's not like that's Quentin Tarantino's actual opinion of Superman.

>>90943218
Written by a man with a massive foot fetish who makes hyperviolent goreporn movies and delivered by a man who got famous by stealing a role from Asians and then died by hanging himself in a closet while jerking off.

Rilly maeks u think, huh?

>>90943484
How is any of that related to the point that's being made with the superman speech?

So which of the light warriors is the worst?

I mean, you'd think Black Mage's omnicidal tendencies would win out, but Thief is a money-grubbing tyrant, Fighter is an idiotic murderhobo, and Red Mage's whole deal is attempting to cheat the universe into giving him free shit.

How often do webcomics ever get an official conclusion?

>>90943606

Well they're all terrible with the minor exception of fighter because his idiocy happens to make him pretty naive

It was still pretty awesome seeing him get all badass after BM got killed temporarily

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I wish I had more Black Mage quotes

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>>90943665
Not only that, but an official conclusion that didn't suck.

>>90943606
Red Mage and Thief are just amoral. Black Mage is evil incarnate.

>>90943784

>>90943877
Oh right, he did conquer hell that one time.

You really gotta wonder how he is simultaneously incredibly competent and yet a total fuckup.

>>90943665
Fucking RPG World.

>>90943942
>You really gotta wonder how he is simultaneously incredibly competent and yet a total fuckup
Hubris

>>90943942
>You really gotta wonder how he is simultaneously incredibly competent and yet a total fuckup.
Ever played a multiplayer game? Your own team can bring you down hard.

>>90943971
I dunno, sometimes he's committed heinous acts of self-sabotage. He has thrown his entire team under the bus multiple times, been trying to kill Fighter for their entire partnership, and none of the bastards die. Actually I think the only member of the team to ever die was just BM.

You can't attribute his failure entirely to those dumb schmucks, can you?

What's the strip around 500 strips in that foreshadows the semi-climactic BM vs RM fight? It's crazy that it was planned that far ahead.

>>90943942

He's the cosmic plaything. He has so much bad karma that the universe breaks its own laws to fuck him over.

>>90943179
>>90943218

Yes, the very fact that the people making the speeches are the worst creatures in their respective works *should* get people to reflect for a minute that hey, maybe if these psycho assholes think this, maybe it'll be wrong. But apparently some people genuinely say it with a straight face.

>>90943784
Fuck it I gotta re-read from the start.

How did the guy succeed in making an edgy nihilistic character like BM? Was it the humor the key?

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8bit theater was great one of the higher quality sprite comics.
My favorite would be Chicanery.
http://chicanery.comicgenesis.com
WHICH IS A STILL ONLINE I JUST FOUND OUT D:

>>90943117
8bit Theatre was good times.

Ten years for a single fucking punchline

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>>90943606
Sarda says it best

>>90943942
Because whenever he succeeds at anything, he inevitably succumbs to his own hubris almost immediately and becomes a completely ineffectual fop.

Like, he's only an actual threat when he's being looked down upon, and that's purely because of his need to throw shit back in people's faces. As soon as he accomplishes that, it's back to being a petty, arrogant tosser who doesn't think or care about any bigger picture than satisfying his next tiny whim.

>>90945839
Because BM was never portrayed as in the right about any of that shit. You liked him because like thief, he sometimes took on the role of straight man to the idiocy of the party, yet he also had silly moments. You liked him because he was a source of tons of slapstick and decent comedy. You liked him because you could see it was POSSIBLE for BM to be a decent person, but that it was never going to happen ever. You liked him because he'd sometimes pull some clever trick that was entertaining to watch. You liked him because you saw him screw over the other dickheads in his party, and get screwed over instead.

If the light warriors weren't a combination of comedy, evil, and karmic retribution, they would be less interesting to read about.

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Picking and sticking with FF1 gave the comic a timeless feel, because the setting was extremely outdated then and still is. It holds up a lot better than other sprite comics, even MSPaint Masterpieces.

>>90943303
Hinduism believes that the most flawed, selfish and outright evil people make the greatest saints, because they had to grow more and better signify the almighty power which can cleanse even the most troubled person more than someone who was already saintly to begin with.

>>90947009
I miss checking for updates to 8bit Theater and Bob & George during the week.

Both floundered a bit near the end (B&G especially so), but I still miss them.

>>90946906
It was "it's always sunny" before It's always sunny.

>>90943179
>and possibly haven't even seen a recent movie
i wouldnt be surprised by people walking out of the teater thinking superman was the bad guy in any of those films

>>90947167
To this day I never went past MM5 in B&G. It felt like the proper climax to the story, did I miss anything good.

>>90947846
No, his heart wasn't in it anymore and it pretty much coasted on mediocrity until the stupid conclusion. Didn't even properly finish up the MM6 parody as it segued into the final showdown between Bob & George (and it turned out the entire B&G storyline was set up by their mother in an an attempt to make George man up instead of being a pussy).

>>90944605
>It's crazy that it was planned that far ahead.

What about the brick joke about BM reading the nintendo power magazine and going "Four white mages? That would never work!" Wasn't there ten IRL years and over a thousand strips in between the set up and the pay off?

>>90948201
Yep. Throwaway line was a set up their final humiliation years and years later.

>>90948201
There is NO fucking way that he deliberately made that setup line because he intended to do that comic for ten years and then deliver the punchline over 1000 strips in the future.

It's not fucking feasible.

>>90948453

It was. 8-bit Theater was originally intended to be a much shorter story. He knew how he wanted Chaos to be defeated, but it just took him a long time to get to that point in the story.

>>90943218
He's right about Pre-Crisis Superman, but he's wrong about Post-Crisis Superman.

Who was your favorite warrior of light and why was it black mage

>>90948591
You must be color blind friend and instead meant Red Mage

>>90948501
Explain the airship flash-forward bit then.

>>90948648
>You must be Black Mage and I must be a complete and total idiot, because that's the only plausible reason we wouldn't pick Thief as our favorite character
FTFY

Aww, c'mon guys, no love for fighter? He made quad-wielding swords a viable tactic.

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>>90948815
Didn't he eventually get up to 8 swords? Then again, I think he couldn't move because he'd drop all of them otherwise, so it wasn't so viable.

>>90948707
Plot point that he stuck in there and forgot to do anything with until the last minute. That exchange between BM and RM during their 'final fight' was awkward as it was pretty much shoved in to appease people.

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>>90949329
He became a walking ball of weaponry at one point.

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>>90943117
>Remember this webcomic, /co/?
Occasionally.