Brian Clevinger

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Brian Clevinger (born May 7, 1978) is an American writer best known as the author of the webcomic 8-Bit Theater. He is also the author of the self-published novel Nuklear Age and its upcoming sequel, Atomik Age. Clevinger has recently received attention for his Eisner-nominated print comic Atomic Robo.

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[edit] Webcomics

Further information: 8-Bit Theater

Clevinger's webcomic is 8-Bit Theater, hosted on his site Nuklear Power. The comic is very loosely based on the video game Final Fantasy I and tells the story of four would-be fantasy heroes, known as Black Mage, Fighter, Thief, and Red Mage, along with the two "stalking" heroes White Mage and Black Belt, who set out to save the world from the embodiment of Chaos, but trip over their own stupidity in the process. The comic is done using 8-bit quality graphic sprites taken primarily from the Final Fantasy game or created by either Clevinger himself or Kevin Sigmund.

He has also created two mini-comics: Dynasty Memory was created in 2002 as a parody of the Dynasty Warriors series, and Field of Battle was created in August 2005 as a parody of FPS games in general, Battlefield 2 in particular.

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Clevinger has stated that "[his] favorite comics are the ones where the jokes are on the reader."[1] He is especially known for his anticlimactic moments. For instance, the protagonists of 8-Bit Theater, the Light Warriors, accidentally defeated one of their adversaries, King Astos of the Dark Elves, via a heartbreakingly awful taunt rather than the conventional epic battle. After the Light Warriors received their class change Thief got a red ninja suit. The next comic it changed to black, and his explanation was that it was always black. To support this, Clevinger changed every previous occurrence of the red ninja suit. A third example is when the Light Warriors fought Kraken: despite the "formula" calling for a long and dramatic boss fight, Clevinger decided to make a simple anti-climax, explaining on the forum that he did it to annoy the audience and was just following his self-destructive impulses.[2]

On Wednesday September 21st, 2005, Clevinger attempted a "hostile takeover" of Ctrl+Alt+Del.[3][4] The result was a brief outpouring of "resistance" in support of Tim Buckley, the author of the "seized" webcomic.[5] This aid kept coming even as the news posts on both sides became more and more outrageous.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Clevinger, Brian (2004-04-03). Teaser!. Nuklear Power. Retrieved on 2007-03-27.
  2. ^ Clevinger, Brian (2006-09-11). #767: "What The Hell is This?" – Post #11. Nuklear Power Forums. Retrieved on 2007-03-27.
  3. ^ Clevinger, Brian; Buckley, Tim (2005-09-21). The X-Box controller is large. Ctrl+Alt+Del Productions. Retrieved on 2007-03-27.
  4. ^ Clevinger, Brian; Buckley, Tim (2005-09-21). Tragically |4M3. Ctrl+Alt+Del Productions. Retrieved on 2007-03-27.
  5. ^ Clevinger, Brian (2005-09-21). Possession is nine-tenths of the law. Nuklear Power. Retrieved on 2007-03-27.
  6. ^ "Episode 681: Of Civilizations", nuklearpower.com, 10 April 2006. 

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