May 17th, 2007
#248 – Kite
I think I went through 2 or 3 kites a year as a kid. Many were eaten by trees or telephone wires. Sometimes the crossbar would snap after a few too many nose dives into the ground. A kid down the road would get one kite up almost to the end of the roll of string and then tie it to a stick he stuck in the ground. He would then start up a second kite and keep going. I think I remember him having up to 4 flying at once. It was kind of an inverse image of someone fishing with multiple fishing poles.
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May 17th, 2007 at 12:02 am
man eating trees!! those are fun to draw
May 17th, 2007 at 12:18 am
lol so thats where my science project went, looks like my tree/venues fly trap hybrid got a good home ^^
May 17th, 2007 at 12:23 am
reminds me of those man eating stumps on maplestory…….
*shudder*
May 17th, 2007 at 12:24 am
I can see that used as an excuse…
“My tree ate my homework.”
May 17th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Haha, MapleStory… That was addicting.
Yeah, I’ve had many a kite get caught in the telephone wires around the neighborhood.
May 17th, 2007 at 12:42 am
haha, that tree had teeth for a reason, and it aint for photosynthsis…
May 17th, 2007 at 12:49 am
To hell with Charlie Brown’s kite-eating tree…we got something worse here.
May 17th, 2007 at 1:29 am
What if the kid down the road WAS fishing…?
May 17th, 2007 at 1:37 am
fishing? for clouds of course.
May 17th, 2007 at 2:10 am
For the last couple of years I have had such a desire to go out kite flying. Of course, I’d need to go out and get something a little more than those plastic ones (a 24 year old flying a kite is strange enough with out it being a crappy plastic one with Spiderman on it…). Perhaps this year I will do it.
May 17th, 2007 at 2:32 am
Looks like Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity with his kite, while Biff discovered… well, biff-eating trees.
May 17th, 2007 at 5:33 am
Looks like the tree from Ocarina of Time, except without the mustache
May 17th, 2007 at 5:35 am
Good luck being covered with tree sap. Biff-eating trees tend to do that.
May 17th, 2007 at 6:09 am
You know, I wonder if there really ARE any gigantic, parasitic, armor-plated, two-legged BUGS down there. Seriously, Gohma only had two or three legs.
May 17th, 2007 at 6:23 am
matbe the tree likes the the scent of chocolate and rueben sandwiches, i just saw the wizard of oz lately,and this totally reminded me about it
May 17th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Oh noes! It’s Wispy Woods gone psycho!
Yeah, overly-hungry trees are a problem. They almost justfy defoestation. it’s them or us, after all…
May 17th, 2007 at 8:03 am
glad to see I’m not the only one reminded of the great deku tree. Those were some days well spent, saving the world with Link…
May 17th, 2007 at 8:10 am
*sees comic*
Biff might have a bit of trouble finding himself in that tree is he’s not careful. Just hope they don’t have teeth inside too.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Hopefully Biff has some type of squirrel or beaver forefather on the non-amphibian side of his family; then he could chew his way out.
May 17th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Sometimes, it’s best to just try and distract the tree with a sexy twig, or branch. Causing it to for a moment let down it’s gaurd and allow biff to get the kite. Or if he waited he could let his gravity bill expire and the kite float out.
May 17th, 2007 at 11:09 am
If Biff wiggles his ears, maybe he could trigger the Tree’s gag reflex?
May 17th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Charlie Brown’s tree’s back. With an even bigger appetite
May 17th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Nice, Kind of remonds me of the Great Deku Tree in Ocarina of Time
May 17th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I wonder how biff tastes…
May 17th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
I hate kites. I could never get one to fly. I would be running for as long as my little legs could, and even then, I still couldn’t get it to fly. My dad always got the kite to fly for me, and then he would give me the string. But as soon as the string touched my hand, the kite would go kamikaze on me and make a beeline for my head. I guess kites hate me.
May 17th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Hmm Maybe this is one of those comics with a hidden inspiration that we’re supposed to guess. Wispy Woods, Great Deku from ocarina of Time and Alice in Wonderland all popped in my head
May 17th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I’m liking how the majority of you are thinking of the Great Deku Tree instead of Charlie Brown.
For shame.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Holy snap! That tree has teeth!
May 17th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Eyebrows and Mouths must be unconfortable going down…
May 17th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
The ents think they can do what ever they want. It sickings me.
May 17th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
is that he same tree that he got good cell phone reception in
May 17th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Its bark is NOT worse than its bite!
May 18th, 2007 at 10:53 am
I feel I’ve missed something out in my early childhood. I’ve never flyed a kite in my life. The only problem I’ve had with tree’s were falling out of them or being attacked by them on Maplestory. Good times : )
May 19th, 2007 at 7:28 am
If the Deku Tree is in Biff’s garden, then his home is in the Kikori Forrest…
That makes Biff a Kikori… or at least part Kikori…
I’ve discovered the other side of Biff’s family
Biff is a frogXKikori freak of nature
May 19th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Hyshinara, that’s very close to what I was thinking. xD
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:55 pm
The Deku giant seed-thingy has grown into the age of Biff! Let us rejoice!
May 25th, 2007 at 12:06 am
charlie brown! kite eating tree!
May 25th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Biff prolly has loads more heritage than just amphibian and whatever else he is…He may be a giant melting pot of…well, everything for all we know.
June 7th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
“Friends don’t let friends get eaten by trees without then snaping the tree off and casting it into the sun.”
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:30 am
Looks like he needs to get an axe!
July 8th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
My grandmother has a huge field that is perfect for kites. I have several fond memories of kite flying. I wish more kids would do it today.
July 26th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
TREES ARE GETTING THEIR REVENGE!
August 25th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Uh oh! The Kite-Eating Tree eats people now! Run!
August 28th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
I have yet to play maple story.
May 25th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Can anyone say Xanth tangle tree?
June 4th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
If you set your kite on fire you do not have the problems with trees that others do, or if you do it is removed very fast.
August 14th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Yay, finally I see someone who appreciates Xanth!
I love both Biff and Piers’s novels, though there’s only one store in n. California that sells them. 
February 9th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Space Treeeeeeeeee!