Hey everyone! As you can see, it’s a very special comic today, as I’m paying homage to the recently ended Brawl in the Family. BitF, for those of you who don’t know, is a wonderful Nintendo-themed webcomic by Matthew Taranto. A few months ago, Matthew announced that it would be ending, and today, he closed out with One Final Song, one of his trademark musical comics.
Brawl in the Family is one of my favourite webcomics, and I’ll be very sad to see it go. For me, its selling points have always been Matthew’s unique art style— his ability to effortlessly convey whatever tone he wants with each comic— and his amazingly awesome and ambitious musical comics, every last one of which is worth checking out (every last one!). Needless to say, he set the bar pretty high for us other cartoonists!
I apologize if this strip will seem a little nonsensical to those unfamiliar with BitF. I made this simple three-panel gag to harken back to the early BitF strips, many of which followed this exact formula (although with Kirby instead of Matthew). Kirby sees something, Kirby eats something, Kirby turns into something. I liked the idea of Matt eating Smash Bros and turning it into his own comic strip— in a very real way, that’s exactly what he did. He made the world and characters of Smash Bros his own in a pretty awesome way. Seriously, check the strip out if you haven’t already.
In a way, I wish I’d had the time (or the talent) to make a more ambitious homage, and find a more complete way to merge the worlds of BitF and LoM. But I didn’t want to focus too much on my own characters, and it took a somewhat disturbing amount of time to put together what you see here. As it turns out, pixelating other people’s artwork isn’t easy after all! While the pixelation is more my own style, some other aspects of the comic (the blue border, the lack of a text balloon in panel 1), were meant to imitate Matthew’s style.
So, in conclusion: the comic title says it all. Farewell, Brawl in the Family, and thanks so much for 600 comics’ worth of awesomeness! Best of luck in your future endeavours!
-Jesse
So long BitF! I’ve only known about it for a few weeks too. :/
I know about soon as this was posted
I knew for some time. Months? Not quite sure. Maybe a year. Either way, it was great.
Farewell BiTF
Jesse, promise us that you’ll never stop this comic. Please 🙂
Eventually the story of this is over just like 8-bit theater….
Stop seeing the future u dark wizard
…only that it’s 32-bit.
Why do u promise an anonymous
Guys, the little ad bar at the bottom of the site just gave me a Legend of Maxx ad.
It has been giving me that all the time. Don’t worry, it’s common.
I’ll miss BITF, been reading it scince comic 500 or so.
What is bitf?
Brawl in the family!
yeah… now is clear for me:)
RIP Brawl in the Family.
It’s been a good run.
Cmon jesse, I want more of the wrench AFV (Armored Fighting Vehicle)
it’s the Quesadillamobile btw
uhhh… no.
Never forget
I’ve never heard of it. But if Jesse liked it, it had to be good.
Holy crap, you actually got a mouseover tekst as well 😀
Well of course, It wouldn’t be official without it. :p
That’s actually just because the comic is named “Farewell, Brawl in the Family!” so obviously the mouseover text will say that.
Oh, of course xD. I still wonder if Jesse did it intentionally or not, though.
Im gonna miss it… but we still have legend of maxx! 😀
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RIGHT?! :0
YEA! WE STILL COT THE WRENCH TANK/APC/AFV
you forgot LAV {light armored vehicle}
or support vehicle!
P.S. I am not looking any of this up
if you are not looking it up, does that remove your title of clueless?
yes, yes it does.
i am clueless when it comes to useful stuffs
Wowza… Are you on the forum Jesse?
So long, BITF, and thanks for all the fish- errrr, laughs!
-.- damn it dude
KILL THE BOSS $ EPIC LOOTZ
sorry 4 not $
*pause*
I only joined on the Ganon/Goron comic. I’ll definitely get tadpole treble!
Well, it seems like tadpole treble COULD go to the WiiU, which is a miracle to achieve, but it can work if…*Hey, Let’s throw money at it!* (throws Benjamins at a boring chair)
RIP bitf ,(sob) : ,0
Strange… I love both of these webcomics. Their both amazing and I check them both everyday… guess i’ll just have to check one now i-i
How to use a Video Game
1: Eat it
2: Ask Miley to use a wrecking ball on it
3: Suicidal
Haha, I’ve been checking LoM right after BitF all these years. Now… I won’t. Ironically, I looked at BitF’s last comic, then looked here and found this. <3 BitF
Speaking of ending comics, i want this one to go farther than WoF, if you haven’t planned that already. I would like it to feature every boss, in the PC version at least.
Pumpkin moon and frost moon could be interesting. So would the solar eclipse.
He hasn’t even implemented the blood moon into the comic yet, it’s too early to be asking about the Solar eclipse! But it would be good to see all the bosses in LOM(so this comic series can last relatively longer).
My guess would be Jesse is saving an event like that, For some “Extraordinary” on this comic. Like creating the Night Edge would generate both a Blood Moon, and Solar Eclipse. (This is assuming it’s created after the WoF is slayed)
Do blood moon on comic 666
Well a blood moon happens when you have certain amount of health, which I’m sure Maxx has 50 so maybe it will happen when he meets the certain criteria.
50 Health is impossible, 100 is the minimal.
Yeah I made a miscalculation, but you get the gist of it.
No Squideer, i’m pretty sure pythor’s right. 50 health seems legit for maxx
So he has to break (eat like a fail and make a harpoon ) 1 more for his face to get shreked by a blood moon
Not exactly, Maxx has to use the Crystal heart, not “eat” or consume it. Also it takes more than 120 health to activate a blood moon.
He’ll probably defeat the 1.3 boss in 1.4, which should add more bosses.
So long, Brawl in… wait..
I didn’t even know what that is.
🙁
On the other hand, cliffhanger alert.
Well, except for Plumber’s Best Friend.
You should.
READ IT.
READ IT NOW.
*filler and where’s comic
YOU KNOWWWWWWWWW YOU KNOWWWWWW I IZ SO HAPPYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
… Brawl in the Family does not deserve to be treated like crap. You, sir, judge books with covers ONLY. I love it for one, and have been crying at its departure…
CrapthatwasaimedtowardsDrayknteh”Epic”…
What do you mean? Jesse likes the comic.
I tried to use the reply, and now this happened…
Whoopsies.
That was awesome my brother was just talking about that comic yesterday. I’m going to start reading right now.
By the way, I didn’t mean that it was awesome that it was over. I’m now on comic 200 and think it is great!
Since other people are mentioning how long they’ve been reading, I’ll just mention here that I’ve been reading Brawl in the Family since it was in the 200s. The Christmas of Waluigi was a fun time for me (but not the people around me, because I kept playing it over and over).
Never heard of this “Brawl”, it’s sounds decent enough I guess it deserves to R.I.P?
I read this when it started. Good times.
Hey Jesse, It’s honestly ok that the Brawl in the Family series ends, because everything born dies. it’s almost like the ending of a good book. The resolution leaves you touched and satisfied, but also a bit bummed. This is my personal favorite webcomic out there because of its continuation, but i know deeply that at some point, Maxx gets the night’s edge and the Corruption deceases, thus ending the story of our idiotic, yet awesome hero, Maxx.
In kind regards, Dead Nitr0.(P.S.) keep up the good work, the comics are awesome)
3 words: What. The. Hell. I have never heard of brawl in the family, but I have played Kirby. And Mario. And some other random nintendo 3ds games.
You know, Legend of Maxx and Brawl in the Family were the first two web comics I’ve ever followed.
God, I’ll miss it. The first ‘comic’ I saw was ‘History of Nintendo.’ Pretty cool that it ended with exactly 600 comics, though.
You know, I have literally the exact same backstory as you. I watched ‘History of Nintendo’ before I even knew what the comic was. I then proceeded to be on and off for a few months before eventually reading the entire Backlog.
Then I found LoM when someone metioned it in a 1.2 suggestions thread (they said that the Dirt Rod should do all the cool stuff June does with it, and linked to a comic where she uses it).
THIS COMIC IS AWESOME( I’m talking about BITF)!!!
I did not know it exsists till you published the link. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE LINK JESSE!
Never heard of this bitf, but it looks good. On an unrelated note *POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT*, I heard somewhere that you need to sacrifice a guide voodoo doll to summon the WoF. Is this going to be in the comic? Does it mean that Cyril will die???
Cyril has already died once. Maxx is the only character that would actually be affected by death now that I think about it. He won’t respawn from what I can tell.
3 times. by zombies, June and a giant dirt fist and then was revived by aley, and in the dungeon he got squished by a trap and again, aley revived him.
And then even more times then. I also think Aley would also be affected by death.
This little comic just reminded everyone of the inevitability of death. Now I feel sad. >.<
I've been wondering; Isn't it kinda strange that Maxx is in the dungeon? If you know what I mean? Or maybe the guardians will be in the next comic… 😀
We’re all dying slowly, if you think about it. You will be dead, your best friend with be dead, all your friends will be dead, your family will be dead, I will be dead. We’ll all be dead at some point, and so will all things. Deal with it and move on.
But in death somewhere life replaces it, who knows there may be something after death that may be a whole new life.
Remind me to tell you “Deal with it” at the next funeral you go to.
Well, I’ve known brawl in the family for most of its six year life, but I’m heart broken right now.
It sounds like you’re insulting Jesse without the appropriate punctuation, Guidey… Just sayin’. BitF FTW!!!
Comic plz Jesse
Tuesday buddy
werez da comic?
I cried at the*Well, I guess it’s time to wrap this up* and *symphony of music comics*, so I can relate…
I have never heard of Brawl in the Family, so I don’t really feel sad. However, I will be sad when the Legend of Maxx ends. It’s a great webcomic!
Now you have heard of it.
READ.
Just because it’s over, that doesn’t mean it’s any less good.
I been playing super smash since I was 3 I’m now 13
rip in peace
bitf
20XX-2014
The smiley face watches us.
Matt is not kirby lol xD
🙁 shrug
We put our plumber’s hats over our hearts in memory of the true epicness and hilarity that was BitF…
And our green sock hats.
Green sock hats!!!!
I just heard of BitF. Now it’s over. *sob*
Looking at this announcement, I decided to look at BitF.
IT.
WAS.
AMAZING.
And it’s gone.
Reading (and watching) all 600 comics, I can see how its popularity boosted, but it somehow never managed to get into these ears.
So,
Were you expecting an actual ending? Too bad. WALUIGI TIME!
Nope
He should try to do more comics he got the skills
The one final song is so sad but awesome we need a new word. Saesome
Lightin my candles and stompin my goombas. FOREVER.
Guys dont be impatient.
brawl in the family
it video game.
im violeta you
…Rip in rest, Brawl in the Family. I still party with the random button…
I just read all of brawl in the family comic and now I am feel sad but thank you for the happy memories anyway. This is a good comic for all of the nintendo players!