I always loved stuff that glowed in the dark. Stickers, necklaces, shirts. I had a Star Wars paint by number kit that I thought was really cool because of the glowing lightsaber. Another favorite of mine was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles t-shirt although I guess I never got to show it off much. I didn’t really hang out with people in the dark back then. Did anyone have one of those cool bedroom ceilings covered with the glow-in-the-dark planets?
I so had glowing planets and stars on my ceiling.
I still regularly wear a glow in the dark shirt.
Hmm Thats a good idea I should start doing that
so close to being first!
Hee! I really like this one! I wasn’t expecting it to update today, and so the Green Glowing Biff caught me by surprise!
Love it!
My sister used to have the glowing stars. We had this game that involved hiding them, and beanie babies around the upper floor, and blindfolding whomever was ‘it.’ we then had to find them…or something like that…the rules changed every time…so its hard to remember how to play…
My sis had the stars too, she liked to change the constellations around according to the season
My brother once had glow in the dark planet stickers, as well as the little plastic glowing stars that I had/have.
I had them and photos all over my walls, but after taking them down to repaint at the beginning of the year, I completely forgot about them all, until my boyfriend found the box they were in on my bottom shelf.
I figured I’d go back to being a little childish and stick all the stars back up
I have some posters and toys that glow in the dark (old ones, though)
There is that thing that is awsomely cool – Glow in the Dark tatoos! I saw someone on the web that tatooed a skeleton on his body and it is transparent in the day, but in the dark it looks like a skeleton moving. Awsome.
my childhood ceiling = milky way.
And that’s the way I liked it =D
Wow, I started laughing before I read the caption.
I always had those glow in the dark toys, never any stickers. I remember my sister and I got some glow worm toys when we were younger. They were weird.
My dorm room in high school was completely covered, ceiling and walls and furniture, with glow stars and planets and moons. When the light went out you were surrounded by a glowy universe.
I like tings that glow in the dark, but not in my room. They scare me at night.
I had some glow in the dark planets on my ceiling. I had a few stars up too, and I intended to make constellations out of them, but I got bored with it.
The glue on the planets was lousy, so they fell on me while I slept and scared me senseless on a regular basis. Even putting tape along the edges didn’t help keep them up, it just made them feel like giant bugs with lots of legs instead of giant bugs with no legs.
When my high school came to Israel for our senior trip, we were housed in rooms with those awesome slats that keep all the light from the outside out and from the inside in, just in case Syria or Egypt decides to bomb us. Some friends and I initially planned to fill most of the ceiling with glow-in-the-dark stars, but we ran out before we could make it cool, so we just wrote “Obscene.” To this day, we still love that story: “Hey, there’s something obscene on the ceiling!” I hope we spelled it right, at least.
-Gabe C.
In my old bedroom we had a bunch of planets and stars on the ceiling. We put them up randomly but they ended up roughly in the shape of a cartoony bee. After we noticed the shape I would always see a bee up there instead of a random assortment of stars.
Also, I wonder how many people don’t actually know that nuclear material doesn’t glow
I know it’s glaringly obvious it’s a popular visual effect, but I just wonder about some people…
I went walking early in the morning a few days ago. My mother asked where I’ve been, but later wrote it off, seeing as I was “freaky”.
I was recently suffering from sleeping problems
Nuclear material does not really glow? Don’t they add some sort of artificual color to warn others from radiation like with gas smell (which is actually smell-less but manufacturers add smell so you would not choke without noticing that you are in a gas filled area)
Oh, yes, the glow-in-the-dark stars… One by one they would fall down until there were only three or so left. I think I might still have one or two.
Nowadays I’m totally obsessed with glow-in-the-dark skeletons, spiders, maggots… They are so tacky =)
I used to have the glow-in-the dark stars and planet. I put a comet on the ceiling fan: instant fun!
no there is no thing like a color added to neuclear material. it would only contaminate the stuff, and they do enormous efforts to get it as pure as possible. anyone coming in contact with radiation should be trained enough to make the required precautions anyway.
My brother had glow in the dark stuff on his ceiling. I used to like sleeping in his room when he was gone (he had a bigger bed) but I always had trouble falling asleep because the bright glowing planets kept me awake at night. I live in the country so I’m used to near pitch-black at night.
I had the plastic glowy stars too. Took them to college with me and made a star chart on my ceiling. Stupid stucco ceiling meant using a lot of that sticky putty though, and occasionally I’d get hit in the face when one fell down.
No glow-in-the-dark clothing per se, but I do have an electroluminescent shirt with the Decepticon insignia on it.
Good comic! This one took about 5 seconds to kick in before I started giggling for a minute without being able to stop.
My sister used to have the glow in the dark planets and stars on her ceiling, but I couldn’t sleep with lights in my room so I just elected to paint moons and stars on the walls with a stensil.
LOL
Great comic today!
I had the stars and moons in my bedroom.
Yea…I had glowing planets. The sticky stuff on the back dried up, though, and they all fell down eventually.
@Kree; “…I wonder how many people don’t actually know that nuclear material doesn’t glow…”
Well, actually that’s not *entirely* true, though it’s true for most purposes. If you get enough radioisotopes of the right energy embedded in an insulator (like water), you can get Cherenkov radiation, which *does* glow, albeit it glows *blue.* Note that the human body is largely water…
Of course, Biff isn’t really human, and his glow is the wrong color for Cherenkov, so I suppose he simply has a large natural (or unnatural) body burden of copper-doped zinc sulfide or other radioluminescent material, allowing the radiation from the plutonium to cause his body to luminesce.
I love the glowy green color on Biff.
I’d deff follow him with my headlights.
My sister used to have the glow in the dark stars on her ceiling, but they were put up far from a random pattern. Now when my husband and I stay at my parents house we sleep in her old bedroom – now the guest room and we fall asleep staring up at a ceiling that says “I *heart* Jim”. Jim was her high school boyfriend.
The first two places I lived in college both had glow-in-the-dark paint on the ceiling.
I still have glow-in-the-dark planets and stars on my ceiling.
i have, and commonly wear, a glow in the dark Felix the cat t-shirt that i bought a few years ago, it’s pretty sweet
As an avid runner, and one who likes to run at 4-5AM, i can tell you that this could come in handy…except for the obvious side effects (i.e. Death)
I also had the glowing stars in my room and a black light to illumintate them.
I have a T-Shirt with an alien in skater clothes on it, the skin parts of the alien are glow-in-the dark. It’s really cool when you go to a club with UV-light, because UV-light makes them light really good. In my days as techno-head back in the middle of the nineties (OH GOD… A sentence like this makes you feel old…) I had black and white camouflage pants, where I painted all the white parts with UV-light orange… Was quite a sight on the dancefloor
Excellent comic.
I never put the planet and stars stickers up myself. When I was living in the college dorm, apparently the person the lived there before me was a huge fan. My roommate and I didn’t notice the stickers all over the ceiling and upper walls until we turned the lights off to go to sleep the first night. Needless to say, we were surprised.
When I was a kid, I got a HUGE packet of glow in the dark stars and a few planets for my B-day. There were over two thousand stars and 7 planets. It took me a week to put all the stickers on my walls and ceiling, but when I was done, it looked absolutely amazing. I still miss that room to and have been longing to buy another packet of stars for my starless room.
Holy schnikes batman! The first person to post today stole my name!
My room when I was a little kid had a bunch of glow in the dark fish my mom cut out of wrapping paper and glued onto my walls. Why somebody made glow in the dark wrapping paper is something I’ll never understand.
While we never had the glow-in-the-dark stickers, my sister and I had a miniature planetarium (it shined pinholes of light onto the walls and ceiling) that one of us got for Christmas or a birthday. (I can’t remember exactly when because we were *very* young.) Needless to say, it was pretty cool…
Yes! I had glow-in-the-dark planets on my ceiling and I even had them arranged in constellations and such. Some of them are still there and you can even see them if you look for them out of the corner of your eye.
I’ve seen ads for this comic on other sites for awhile, but I never read it until a few weeks ago. I’m glad I did. I enjoy the humor, sometimes it’s like random association.
I had glow in the dark asian dragons. They kept falling off the celing, so I’d put them on my bookshelves.
When I was younger my mom put glow-in-the-dark stars and planets on my old bedroom’s ceiling. I’m older now but my parents haven’t bothered to remove them… It’s now my moms “lounge” and a different color. I’m in my bro’s old room which doosn’t have these on the ceiling, he wasn’t as cool as me when we were younger
. But even if they’re up there, the glowyness stopped several years ago…
My brother bought a pack of glowy planet-stickers from the planetarium gift shop once, when he was about seven. He stuck them on the wall right beside his bed, in a tiny cluster taking up about one square foot of the wall, as if the big bang had contained roughly the mass of a single solar system and failed to expand beyond .00001% of the actual space available in the universe. …actually, that wouldn’t be a very big bang.
Anyway, this one is a particularly good comic. I can certainly appreciate the irony of drinking plutonium as a safety precaution.
I still have my ceiling full of those stars, but I also have this small glowing dragon up there with them. I used to tell all of my secrets to it when I was younger, and I’m still so fond of it that I’ll probably take it with me when I move, even if I leave the stars behind. : P
Just got my Book of Biff book today! I now have reason to live again.
I still have some stars up on my ceiling, as well. I tried sticking some on the ceiling fan, but they would always fly off. But it was pretty cool to watch while the fan was going XD The fact I can’t see without glasses/contacts probably helped that factor.
You won’t like Biff when he’s angry.
I had a stars-and-planets ceiling as a kid, because my dad was way into astronomy and wanted to foster my interest as well. He made sure it was astronomically-correct, so he made it fairly accurate with real constellations and he was all anal-retentive about it.
I liked astronomy, but for I hated trying to sleep in rooms with glow-in-the-dark stuff. It scared the crap out of me for some reason, probably because I watched too many Scooby-Doo cartoons with glowy ghosts and stuff.
I used to have the glow in the dark stars! They were awesome… but scary when I was little. Heh, there’s still a few stuck on the ceiling.
Before reading the caption, I thought this would have something to do with the Incredible Hulk…
ahh he looks cool
My friend got some glow in the dark paint/glue stuff and painted/glued stars and planets and Star Trek ships all over his walls.