April 2nd, 2008
#477 – Sonic
Thanks for all the comments that came in yesterday. (If you haven’t seen it yet click here to read it first.) I actually thought that I was going to have to post some fake comments of outrage but it turns out that wasn’t necessary at all. I got some of the longest and most amazing emails from people yesterday. At one point in the morning the comic was receiving a comment every 5 seconds! So I hope everyone enjoyed the ride. It was enlightening to find out how many of you feel about such things. 
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:06 am
Heh, thats pretty good. Way to go Biff, kill your fingers!
The comments in the blocked version of yesterdays comic were hilarious, especially that fake Email that was posted.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:09 am
I think you had the most subtle April Fools joke out of all the sites out there! Good work.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:12 am
It took a cup of coffee for me to realize yesterday’s comic was a prank.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:14 am
Never the les: YAY to old Biff ^^
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:15 am
I didn’t even notice!! And it’s sad b/c reading each comic yesterday, I was sure to be “not gullible.” Apparently it’s not as much his “Biff-ness” as some readers claim…that or I’m just ridiculously blonde.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:30 am
That was awesome, Chris, and it’s great to see the eyebrows and mouth are BACK! Yeah, man…..that’s our BIFF! Wooooooooooooo!
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:31 am
Wow chris, you made a video game refrence!
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:50 am
Biff should have taken up toe cracking instead.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:52 am
I’m officially slow, it seems!
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:14 am
Ah, I see the afore mentioned refrence now. Nice. Glad the rediculous eyebrows are back.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:17 am
I get it…It wa an April Fols Day joke…good one!
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 am
I didn’t get it until Chris’s comment with the fake email. (At least I hope it was fake.)
But moderating the comments…that’s just mean. Obviously necessary, but still mean.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:59 am
You fooled me good.
I crack my knuckles constantly. There’s just something satisfying about about the feeling and the sound of that snap.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:21 am
biff should just get some new ones. or make his own.
about cramp:
nice one!
and regarding to the phony e-mail, i thought it was you just writing an example of the sort of stuff you’d been getting. aw, well, great prank Chris. keep up the good work!
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 am
Wow, you pranked both sides, VERY nice! I thought I was only like the second person to realize it was a joke. Looks like the joke was on me, too! Hats off!
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:40 am
Without his eyebrows he looked like 47!
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:55 am
Considering I live in California and the comic updates Midnight Central, It was still March when I saw the update (I think) so April Fools hadn’t even entered my mind.
Well played, sir.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:09 am
heh. I like this comic, suspiciously more-so than all the others. Probably just relief that it was all a joke and that biff’s not really changing. For how I feel, go back to the previous comic and look for my name with ctrl+f
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:12 am
All 3 of my comments from yesterday was blocked when i posted XD
And i thank all the game i play for having a april fool’s event to make me realise that yesterday was a joke, a GREAT one at that =D
And…erm…guess i should crack my knuckles less now =p
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:20 am
HEY! I get the title! Sonic & knuckles…… ahhhhhh, good times.
BTW, I can crack just about every bone in my body.
Even the tiny ones in my ears.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:25 am
It’s good to have Biff back. Steve is creepy looking.
…which is sorta odd, considering if I ever saw anyone in real life that looked like Biff, I’d probably be a little freaked out.
(also, I second what Jack Hollow said on the name. S&K was quite a fun game)
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:58 am
I feel gullible. Verdammt!
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:59 am
Wow, this may be the most overwhelmingly subtle prank I got all of yesterday.
That being said I saw through it like one sees through rice paper after a good application of fire. The picture was a bit hazy, but you knew it was there. Gave me a better laugh to see all those confused comments than it did when I got @ galllons of milk dumped on me at work.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:45 am
Oh thanks God! I realized only tonight that it was an April’s Fool joke!
Long live Chris!
Long live Biff!
Long live Eyebrows!
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:49 am
And the eyebrows and mouth are back on last comic also! Oh thanks Chris! Hey do you think you could post both images on the same page?
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:01 am
Lends a whole new meaning to “double jointed.”
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:56 am
It was only until after I posted until I figured out what day it was and ended up banging my head on the desk. XD Good one, Chris. It got me good.XD
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 am
@Fred – there’s link in my blog post under yesterdays comic to the April 1st version of the page.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:25 am
I’m glad to hear that Biff is staying in his long eyebrow’d self. If the new design was real I probably would stop reading this comic all together.
(And I agree with Jack Hollow. Sonic & Knuckles was an awesome game.)
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:25 am
Huh. This isn’t related to today’s comic, just the comic in general: What does Biff’s mouth look like when it’s open?
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:29 am
C4Pottery – there have been a few comics at this point where Biff’s mouth is open, here’s an example:
http://thebookofbiff.com/2006/12/15/151-sword/
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:05 am
Hahaha!
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:43 am
It looks like he doesn’t have any fingers and he is wearing latex gloves
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:50 am
You really pushed it, Biff!
I used to crack my knuckles to spite those who said the noise annoyed them.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
EYEBROWS BACK! YAY
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:31 am
@Yarden
Wearing latex gloves with the fingers not on all the way to the bits stick away from your fingers is kionda creepy looking.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:03 am
I only realized it was a joke at 11:00 last night when I was worrying over it.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:38 am
Chez lewez, chu scared the McJeebers outta me.
I feel like a pickled cucumber, I’ll get it next year… if I can remember.
Well now you have to help me get out of this straightjacket. Oh Joy! Tapioca laced with tranquilizer!
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
The part that got me, was when you said you had already gone and “improved” many of the old comics, and that all that work would be a waste if you didn’t upload them. It really had me scared! I thought for a minute I might have to stop reading biff. I’m so glad it was just a false alarm!
Also… I think I’ll be ordering the book.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
I can’t beleive I was dumb enough to believe other people were dumb enough.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I can only seem to crack my knuckles a few times a day or so. Makes you wonder what biff’s limit is.
To yesterday’s comic/joke: Well played. I was worrying for nothing.
The Halfcat snickered at today’s comic.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
That looks painful!
By the way, great comic yesterday!
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I crack my knuckles too but i have been trying to give it up for the past few days so this comic came at he perfect time for me. Also yestedays prank was great. It was more subtle than some of the pranks that the other webcomics made and you didnt admit it was a joke.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
ok, i’m a fool. i didn’t even pay attention to the date. mighta been neat to see a “growing back” period for his ‘brows. and i can probly crack my knuckles about once every 20 or 30 minutes, quicker if i don’t move my hands. my neck gets a good one about every hour (i’m constantly twitching my head to most onlookers, but i always feel like my neck is stuck), my wrist does it once or twice a day, and if i’m deliberately trying to make noises, i can do most all my joints audibly, save for my elbows and feet and hips. ALL my joints except those.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Yeah, going back and looking at my comments from yesterday, I feel like a doofus. Especially the things Chris was saying cus some were kinda mean and Chris doesn’t seem to be a mean guy. On top of that, that e-mail was so hilariously fake that I feel like an even bigger goober for getting worked up about it. In conclusion, thanks for not really taking Biff’s eyebrows Chris. Keep up the work that keeps me comin back.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Well I hope nobody was permanently offended by my fake ramblings yesterday
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 pm
God damn it. The only person that got me on April Fool’s. I didn’t fall for anything, except this. God damn it. This destroys my run of four consecutive years not falling for a prank on April Fool’s.
Oh well, can’t wait until next year, when I can go back to the Apple store and put virus on all the computer’s again.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Ahaha, that was a dandy April Fools joke, Chris. *thumbs up* Kudos to ya!
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
I should’ve figured yesterday’s to be an April Fool’s joke. Boy, I feel kinda stupid now.
But I must admit, the eyebrowed oddity we all know and love looks downright freakish with an actual face.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Looks like Biff and I have something in common now, we both bend our fingers way back. But unlike Biff I do it a lot. And on purpose.
Or, no wait I bend them further than that. I actually have to bend my fingers more than 90 degrees back to get them to pop/crack. An unusual skill as far as I’m aware.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:35 pm
be positive about it everyone… even if it was a joke, now chris knows how much we all love biff’s ‘brows!
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Yay, Biff and not Steve!
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I don’t pop my knuckles even everyday (makes ‘em need popping more and more, and they get weak). But I do pop most of my spine, including the coccyx I think, and a knee or two almost every day. Hips and elbows every once in awhile. The trick to elbows, I’ve found, is to tighten/flex both biceps and triceps in the upper arm as you extend it all the way.
I second the Yay.
April 18th, 2008 at 4:15 am
Is this comic named Sonic in referece to Sonic The Hedgehog? Because of the whole Knuckles thing I mean. Clever. *thumbs up*
In reference to the April fools thing… I always wait until a bit after to see if something ridiculous like that is true or not if it is on/very close to April fools day. Of course that’d be a bizzare coincidence having something like that ACTUALLY happen around the 1st of April. :p besides I know you’d never kill Biff’s eyebrows. They’re too important to his character.
If I ever did an April Fools stunt I’d do it in August. No one would see it coming.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I can actually bend my fingers about 30 degrees back from straight using their own muscles. If I press them together they go a lot farther — about 110 degrees past straight — without pain. It tends to disturb other people when I demonstrate. I’m not sure whether it has anything to do with how often I crack my knuckles.
July 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Awesome title.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:52 am
Chris… You are the master… XD You had them fooled! *shifty eyes*
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I’m sooooo creeped out when people crack their fingers, neck, back or any of that. I always thought it was the worst thing for your joints. Looks like I was right!
One of my roommates in college liked to crack other people’s joints for fun. She was always trying to find a chance to crack my toes since they are on the longer side…I had to wear shoes at all times.