February 7th, 2007
#185 – Balloon
Every 4th of July I go to see the fireworks and notice airplanes flying overhead. I wonder what it’s like flying over hundreds of towns all setting off their fireworks. I imagine that it’s pretty awesome. Some day I hope to find out.
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February 7th, 2007 at 12:55 am
heh, that sounds like tthe kind of thing i would do
February 7th, 2007 at 1:58 am
Is it bad that I can’t tell which lines are broken wires from the balloon and which ones are Biff’s eyebrows? haha
February 7th, 2007 at 4:34 am
Funny ^^
February 7th, 2007 at 6:36 am
Well on his way down his balloon will be a nice firework (after biff has gotten out of course
February 7th, 2007 at 8:26 am
It must of been beautiful up there. =p
February 7th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Oh my god, that’s pure genius.
February 7th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Biff is my hero. Just wanted you to know that.
This has become a daily comic of mine
February 7th, 2007 at 11:47 am
That looks like fun!
February 7th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Well, Biff has somewhere to play solitaire now.
Found Biff through Death and the Maiden II and I must say thank you for the laughter. I have added this to the comics I check everyday. I was really glad to see that you are publishing every day now. Yea!
February 7th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
That’s the sort of thing only satellites can do… that’d be gorgeous!
February 7th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
that sounds like fun
February 7th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
In a simular vane, everytime I see the guys in the middle east fire their guns in the air I have to wonder where they come down.
Maybe why you don’t see the middle eastern corrispondants “eye in the sky” reports.
February 7th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Thanks Kristin.
February 7th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Hey! i should do that on the 4th
but with a parachute on my back
February 7th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
snapkracklepop!
great web comic!
February 7th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
I think I like how he’s looking down, not up at the puncture. It’s almost like he’s got a defeatist attitude: “Oh, crap. Well. Looks like I’ll be meeting the ground soon.”
I picked this up a little while ago – I saw the ad on Bob and George – and I have to say, I love this comic. It’s hillarious. Great job on it.
February 7th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
What is at the bottom?Ground?Ocean?A thousand crocodiles with a few fanatic Biff fangirls, all waiting to tear him apart?!…..Biff is so tiny…
February 8th, 2007 at 5:43 am
Wow, Biff’s eyebrows must be heavy to droop down instead of waving around in the wind. I’m assuming this is the moment right as the air is escaping and before he starts plummeting to the ground, or his eyebrows would be going straight up.
I still want to see Biff Super-Saiyan.
Additionally, the guys that fired those fireworks off must be jerks. I think they’d notice a hot-air balloon floating above them, especially if they’re looking up there at fireworks.
They probably aimed at him.
February 24th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Strange he wasn’t flying a hydrogen balloon.
February 25th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Last January I was in Florida and we flew out at night, right over Disney World. They were doing their fireworks show, it was awesome, but we were in a commercial airliner and headed from Florida to Canada so we were already pretty high, they were small, but pretty cool
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March 4th, 2007 at 11:07 am
last june i went to mexico with my fiends we returned a few days before July 4th and had the pleasure of flying over a dozen early fireworks displays when returning to newark airport we we pretty close to the ground by then as well and it was nice and dark out. it was the most incredible thing i’d even seen in my life it’s beyond anydescription i could give…unfortunately the photos i attempted to take with my cellphone(we were still electronically safe at that point i nthe flight)came out like crap so no one will ever know what i saw except for the others on the plane.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Once again, lesson learned.
June 21st, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Meh. Next time he’ll use a helicopter.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Guy on ground- “Hey look! A cockroach is in that balloon! Shoot it down!”
July 17th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Just use his fancy camera.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:43 am
He’s like a little kid!
December 25th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
@ Ahmed – parachutes burn REALLY REALLY REALLY easily.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
@PeterC: Hydrogen hasn’t been used since the Hindenburg incident. Everyone uses helium now.
February 5th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
I once had an experience kind of like watching fireworks with a birds eye view because my hause is at the top of a hill near a city I had an absolutely stunning view of Fireworks, it is the most beutiful thing I have ever seen