Trivia / 8-Bit Theater

• Creator Backlash: Near the end of the series' run, the author was fairly open about the fact that he was a bit burnt out on investing so much of his time and effort into a series that (due to copyright issues) he could never really support himself on. Though as it turns out, he could manage to make some money off it by turning it into a script.
• Defictionalization:
  • A comic mentions the Sardapedia. Once a wiki for 8-Bit Theater, and by extension all of Brian Clevinger's work, was made, of course it used that name and that "castle" entry.
  • Real-life Sword Chucks.
• Schedule Slip:
  • Used to update every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 12:00 am without fail, but during the last few months of its run it updated those afternoons instead, or sometimes just skipped updates entirely.
  • The epilogue took several weeks, due to its length and radically different art style.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: Brian Clevinger entered an university class where he would write a 25-page comic. He made it a Sprite Comic because he can't draw, and funny so he'd keep being interested in writing. And given his teacher barely saw his e-mail, Clevinger was putting it online. Soon he was getting many page hits, and was having fun writing, so the comic became his full-time job for a while.
• Trolling Creator: The author once accompanied a particular troll-riffic update with a newspost saying "My favourite joke is the one played on the reader."

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