January 24th, 2007
#175 – Keys
I used to work at an ice cream store with my best friend. His key chain was a long string of 25 or 30 different pieces. Consequently it didn’t fit it in his pocket and he would leave it on the back counter. No matter how many times I hid it on him, he refused to take off the extra part of the chain. He had to spend 5-10 min every day on a scavenger hunt before he could go home. I think I found it more amusing than he did.
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January 24th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Heh. This comic is quite whimsical, and also a tad bit thought provoking at times. It’s easy to relate with Biff because although he seems to be less than intelligent, he is merely acting on the kind of ideas that pop into everyone’s head from time to time – those ideas that make you stop and think “Wait, that would NEVER work!”
Keep rocking, Chris-man. Looking forward to more comics – both from Biff and Captain Excelsior!
January 24th, 2007 at 3:32 am
first post ^^
January 24th, 2007 at 4:04 am
how much fun was it drawing all those keys, chris? HooooOoooo!
i used to forget my house keys all the time as a teenager. i’d come creeping home in the wee hours and my stepfather would intentionally lock me out. sleeping on the porch steps is not cozy!
January 24th, 2007 at 4:43 am
*Of to buy 3000 screws*
January 24th, 2007 at 4:45 am
I put all my keys on one chain, that way when I loose one I loose all. That way you take care of your keys.
Is it just me or does those keys look dangerous or like sea-monkeys? o.O
It’s all in the copy-paste Chris, all in the copy-paste, some of those keys differ. =)
Just trippin’, great comic! Keep it up!
January 24th, 2007 at 4:46 am
Oh right, forgot to say that it would be fun to see Biff in a “real” picture.
Just a thought.
January 24th, 2007 at 6:26 am
jingle jingle jingle of a thousand keys…..erm three thousand?
I keep all of my keys on a D-ring when I work in the zoo. This comic makes me giggle something fierce in the mornings.
Nice Job!
January 24th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Thanks Enzo Dragon, glad you made it here.
January 24th, 2007 at 7:31 am
That’s not such a bad idea, really. When I first saw the picture (not having read the text yet), I figured he’d bought some car key wallpapers and thusly lost his real ones ’cause he couldn’t remember where he hung them up.
Something I’ve been wondering – Biff isn’t alone in this universe of his, is he? I don’t think I’ve ever seen any other person but him in the comic…no family, no friends? No pets?
January 24th, 2007 at 8:31 am
very nice Chris… i used to loose my bike ke all the time then 1 day i went to my uncle (a keymakerdude) and he made me 6 spare keys…
still got 1 left \o/
January 24th, 2007 at 8:33 am
I though it was going to be a new wallpaper at first as well. I like the one nail that doesn’t have a key on it.
January 24th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Robert, yeah, there is evidence of other people in his universe (like the person that sewed his jacket sleeve closed) but we have never seen them. We have seen creatures though, like the Gungerlock in #4.
January 24th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Err… why do I have the feeling that Chris and I have had the same dream, where one runs to the door in a hurry to get somewhere, only to find thousands of hooks of thousands of key rings, none of which seem to be ours?
January 24th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Man, my keyring makes me feel sorta useless now. I think I have maybe 5 keys and a lighter… It used to be more, but then I stopped working, and my keychain is now smaller than ever.
January 24th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Lucky number thirteen for my keyring…which is several key rings attached to each other, along with various extra bits dangling on it, haha.
The desert keeps getting colder. And wetter.
Lol.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Are those keys inside or outside his front door? If inside, what happens if he locks himself out? lol
January 24th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
It’s not that I have a lot of keys on my keyring… it’s that there’s a few keys on there that I’m not sure what they go to… And I’m afraid to take them off of there in case I come across the lock they’re for…
January 24th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
And Dark… those are probably on the inside so he can grab his car keys on the way out… No sense leaving them outside so just anyone can grab his carkeys… Besides, he wouldn’t have room out there… he probably keeps his housekeys outside in case he loses one…
January 24th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Im scared of when Biff gets bored of having to actually pick the keys off the wall and invents an electromagnet for picking them up.
January 24th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
This kinda reminds me of The League of Gentlemen, you know when the Dentons are showing their nephew around the house and they that cupboard full of keys, and they’re all colour coded? Although Biff doesn’t seem to have an obsession for toads. Or scary children.
January 24th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
before i read the caption, and saw the picture this is what i thought:
“that housekey wallpaper is a pain when needing to find the acual house keys”
(or something like that)
but thats funny too.
January 24th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
…so I would sneak around to Biffs house that night & change the lock.
January 24th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
why doesn’t he just replace one of his hands with a cyborg one? Then, he could just store it inside, and then it would extend from one of his fingers.
January 24th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Knowing Biff, he could lose that one too.
January 24th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Oh, this comic isn’t all that old, is it?
January 24th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Ah yes, the good ole days at King Kone when you would hide my keys. I have no idea why I kept such a huge collection of key chains. Those memories are almost as vivid as when you would pour jalepeno juice into my rootbeer.
January 24th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
O.o well, if someone ever broke into his house, they would have a free getaway car. XD
January 24th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
I found this comic through a sidebar ad on Shortpacked!, attracted to it by the sampling of comics seen on it. I will now proceed to add this comic to my webcomic list, and also post it on a message board I frequent. Yay free advertising! I’m looking forward to the crazed misadventures of the mightily eyebrowed wonder known only as Biff.
=D
January 24th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
T.S. – You’re absolutely right. I misread the comic at first and assumed they were house keys, lol.
January 25th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Hey MXR, thanks for stopping by.
January 26th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
What does Biff drive? Im imagining that a car wouldnt be nearly logical enough…Im imagining a tank so he doesnt have to worry about traffic or something.
“When the air force finally arrived Biff realised that using a Sherman to make his daily commute shorter may have been a bad idea”
January 26th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Biff drives a green invisible car.
January 27th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
duh… he keeps it very clean and shiny, so the green is always quite sparkly.
February 18th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Looks like Biff lives in a really safe place, having all those keys for his car is not very smart when there’s the possibility that someone could break in…
February 24th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
But if they are his spare car keys wouldn’t it make more sense to hang them on the outside of the car so he can get in if he looses the key while he’s out. Invisible keys of course.
February 24th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Though thinking about it they’d clash with the car.
April 16th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
YES! perfect idea, thanks Biff/Chris!
lol, I’d do this too, because I’m always ‘losing’ my keys (they’re easily found)
April 26th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
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May 28th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Hi all…i’ve been reading through the archives for some time now (mostly at work
) and here i was unable to resist posting a comment…
)
Chris, it seems that the friend of yours was similar to me, I had keychain (made of amount of keyrings attached together) long about 50 cm, whole thing weighted almost a kilogram (sorry for metric units, here in Czech we are not used to measure in inches) and consisted mostly of rubbish (of a sort…theese things were invaluable to me at that time…and part of my syle,yes
This comix is a great one, far most funny i have ever seen…
June 14th, 2007 at 10:34 am
If he has that many keys for each car, then the prices for keys has probably gone up.
June 20th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Huh. I’m really forgetful, so I could use a system like that.
July 16th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
At least he didn’t put them on the outside…
July 25th, 2007 at 11:24 am
A few is an understatement.
December 13th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
One of Biff’s rare moments of brilliance.
December 23rd, 2007 at 8:49 pm
I’d probably lose it on the way to the car….thank God I don’t yet have my liscense (sees jbox ‘drive safely’ charm) I should buy that for Chloe…the only person who will ever crash into themselves (she can’t drive yet either, so I’ll make sure she stocks up on charms)
February 12th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Chris did use copy/paste for the keys.
If you look up/down in a slightly zig-zag fashion you will see that there are rows of c/p ‘ed keys!
Nice way to make it look real while being lazy chris
Alternate the rows of copy and paste so it looks like you drew them all… hehehe.
Over all: Great comic. Found it a few weeks/months ago.
May 14th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I’ve seriously concidered doing this.
June 21st, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Key patterned wallpaper!
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:06 pm
are those for both his van and his invisible green car?
July 9th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
For everybody reading the archives either front-to-back or back-to-front: THIS is how many cars Biff has.
November 13th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Robert, someone else keeps leaving the peanut butter sitting around with the lid off.
March 17th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
But then he got car-key wallpaper, so he STILL couldn’t find those darn keys…