August 31st, 2007
#324 - Ball
I had lots of toys get stuck in dangerous places when I was a kid. The worse places were usually on a roof or up a tree. Sometimes we would use other toys to try and dislodge the original. We would wind up losing a baseball in a gutter while trying to knock a frisbee off of a roof. I had one famous frisbee success story when I shot one out of a tree with a bow and arrow. It took me 20 or so shots but I managed to get it down without spearing it first… or any of the spectators for that matter.
August 31st, 2007 at 5:25 am
Ahh the good old days.
Awesome comic as always.
August 31st, 2007 at 5:29 am
It took me looking away from the ball to notice his arm’s HORRIFYING condition. AAAAGH!
On another note, what are his bones made out of? They have a bit of a metallic look to them to me…
August 31st, 2007 at 6:09 am
*whimper* And he’s not even FAZED? This is a little extreme even for HIM, I think!
August 31st, 2007 at 6:18 am
at first I thought that this was something about a robot arm, but now I see that thats his ulma sticking out O.o
August 31st, 2007 at 6:23 am
Looks to me like.. Biff is made of.. some kind of dough? Held together by metallic bones?
August 31st, 2007 at 6:34 am
Hmmm… maybe modelling clay of some sort.
August 31st, 2007 at 6:36 am
At least his eyebrows are okay…
August 31st, 2007 at 6:46 am
I don’t think Biff is human. He’s got a spaceship. ‘Nuff said.
August 31st, 2007 at 7:18 am
I find it interesting that there is no muscle or tendons, how does he move?
August 31st, 2007 at 8:01 am
BIFF. IS. A. CYBORG. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
August 31st, 2007 at 8:26 am
Biff makes another slashing drive between the defenders…
Seriously though, there are bushes like that. I’ve gotten scrapes and welts walking places I shouldn’t have. And is something got caught in a tree, I threw rocks at it and had to dodge out of the way before the rocks bonked me (gravity is a bitch sometimes).
August 31st, 2007 at 8:28 am
I second the clay theory. The colour of his skin made me think of clay (or paper-mâché?) when I first saw it.
Since he’s amphibian, I theorize that he’s the descendant of some exotic organic-clay creature that evolved out of a riverbed
I love it when things like this pop up, Biff’s physiology is always so much fun
August 31st, 2007 at 8:36 am
Looks like suicide is a no-go for Biff, eh? Not even a drop of blood. Can’t say I’m surprised, though.
Another great comic, Chris.
Nice job.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:15 am
Another valuable lesson, courtesy of Biff.
I’m mashing everyone’s theories together to go with the amphibious clay cyborg doodle that has no blood and doesn’t feel pain thing.
Has anyone ever fallen into a yucca plant? Those things look like swords sprouting from the ground and the center is full of razor-sharp spines. Once when I was a kid I reached into one to get a frisbee and lost my balance. I managed to slap my right hand into the middle of the bush when I tried to stop myself. I hit bone and couldn’t use my right hand for a month… luckily I’m left-handed, at least.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:47 am
Ha! He looks robotic! Maybe this explains his VCR and ATM compatibily.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:15 am
That’s not natural! But, then again, this is Biff we’re talking about. It looks like some sort of prosthetic limb. What bizarre past does Biff have (besides what we’ve already seen) that we don’t know about?!?
August 31st, 2007 at 10:43 am
Biff has mechanical arms?!?!
Oh wait. That’s his bones. My bad…
August 31st, 2007 at 10:55 am
BIFF’S A HUMANOID ROBOT BENT ON DESTROYING US ALL!! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
August 31st, 2007 at 12:12 pm
you forgot that he is going to destroy all of us with spaghetti
August 31st, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Ah. Biff’s a robot. explains a lot
August 31st, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Razor bushes… Though never seen one quite as extreme, we use to lose balls and all other manner of toys to those vile bushes. Generally the youngest person was made to go get the toy and brave the pain of those sticky leaves, but sometimes if there were only a few people, rock, paper, scissors would be involved.
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August 31st, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Is itt possible biff an a-morph like Shlock in the comic Shlock Merecnary, considering he never seemes to manage to bleed or brake bones?
August 31st, 2007 at 6:23 pm
I have a basketball net set up in my backyard. The problem is I live on a hill and my backyard is overlooking a street. Usually when I would shoot a ball and miss, the basket ball would go over my fence and into the street. I lost many basket balls that way. One time I accidently hit a car. Cool thing is the guy who was driving the car I hit didn’t get angry. The un-cool thing was that the guy stole my basket ball afterwards.
August 31st, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Is Biff a freakin robot? Somehow he survives decapitation AND this. I mean, is that anything logical or what?
August 31st, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Sometimes, reading the comments is almost as fun as reading the comic. This comic is awesome, though.
September 1st, 2007 at 12:14 am
Yay! Mutilation. I like these the best.
September 1st, 2007 at 1:13 am
There’s no doubt, He is a robot lol
Those bones do have a metallic look into them, They have a gray tint.
September 1st, 2007 at 6:40 am
His bones are clearly some titanium alloy. He’s Terminator IV, just wait ‘t ill the movie comes out…
September 1st, 2007 at 8:21 am
Biff is, including all theories, an amorphous clay creature (from outer space) with a robotic skeleton and no ability to feel pain.
Or just the result of and artist being dropped on his head as a baby.(just kidding, chris)
September 1st, 2007 at 9:08 am
Biff’s tolerence of pain must be wayyyyyyyy up there…
and no blood? interesting…
September 1st, 2007 at 9:10 am
Another lol comic =D
and Biff must have a very high tolerence of pain from his expression.
September 1st, 2007 at 9:25 am
or maybe he just has an adamantium plated skeleton…
September 1st, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I think Biff is clay. It looks like it to me.
September 2nd, 2007 at 12:32 am
Maybe he’s like Darth Vader or the Bionic Woman or something…fake limbs and such, but highly advanced.
September 2nd, 2007 at 2:12 am
My friend lou threw a frisbee onto the school roof while playing ultimate frisbee. Lou managed to get to the roof and get the frisbee via a window on the second floor. Unluckily for him, someone decided to close the window.
How did Lou get off the roof?
He fell. Or rather he “dropped” himself, though he doesn’t remember doing so.
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:23 am
I had several baseballs wind up in a gutter… And I lost a shoe trying to get a basketball off the school roof once… I had to walk home sans a shoe… Oh! And I also lost a soccer ball in the thorn bush that was once outside my apartment. When it was cut down, the ball was nowhere to be found. ._o
September 2nd, 2007 at 8:54 am
I made it the whole way through. Took me three hours. I love your comic. Great humour… I have homework to do now. *sigh*
September 2nd, 2007 at 9:25 pm
thats not as bad as the time i stuck my hand in the chain sawgrass.
September 14th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Just like that part in the terminator…
October 18th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
The front yard of the house I grew up in had pampas grass (razor grass) growing around two edges of it, my hands and arms are still scarred from going after baseballs and other lost toys… I feel your pain Biff.
October 21st, 2007 at 2:16 am
Biff, you were better off buying a new ball…
Once, I lived on a hill that was surrounded by a brambly ravine. If I lost my frisbee, I’d have my dad get it. I’m way too clumsy and my arm would end up like Biff’s
November 17th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
I don’t think Biff is clay…but hes not flesh and bone either…the bone May be normal, not metallic, but still. He is very pale.
He has a skelital structure that we’ve seen before. Nobody questioned weather his skull was metal…Perhaps some ultra strong bone?
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
STEEL BOOOOOONES!!!!!
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
He’s Skulpy, of course.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Biff is a defect Terminator!! thats why he is nearly killing himself and not us!
May 12th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Isn’t it obvious? Biff is made of tofu, his facial features are nori (Seaweed) and his bones are made of dried bamboo cut into strips. I want to eat him now. -Licks lips-
July 13th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Ohhhh Snap!
August 28th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Admantium bones and nanomachines to stop bloodflow to a damaged area while rapidly fixing it. MGS2 and X-Men.
September 12th, 2008 at 6:30 am
I think this is the first evidence that Biff has bones? Interesting.
November 29th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I think he’s made of very well taped together paper pieces. His eyebrows and mouth are made of licorice. That’s my theory.