June 19th, 2008
#533 - Plunge
It’s easy to get lost when you are a kid. I learned my way around the neighborhood just fine but outside of that it was a mystery. I think part of it was whenever I went more than a few blocks from my house I was accompanied by an adult. I didn’t actually have to know where we were going. Someone else was handling that. I actually remember one time when my dad was driving me somewhere, I asked him “How do you know where to go?” He laughed. “You’ll figure it out eventually. And he was right.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Was he on one of those blended-wing-body aircraft no one seems to want to build? Or, being Biff, did he manage to get lost in a one-lane airplane?
June 19th, 2008 at 12:03 am
That is *seriously* lost - He’s even lost sight of which way is up or down…
June 19th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Haha, whee!
Anything to draw more of your awesome clouds…
June 19th, 2008 at 12:39 am
embarrassed as I am asking questions, what’s he holding? A plane door handle? a red stick with a small saucepan with a bug in it? other than that… ugh my head hurts. School doesn’t help relax your brain.
June 19th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Imagine if biff was wearing his saturn gravity boots…or was it jupiter gravity?
June 19th, 2008 at 1:35 am
it took me a minute to figure out what the comic was about…partly because i’m tired, and partly because it looks like he’s holding a toothbrush with a eyebrow stuck in it. if it wasn’t for Torg I still don’t think i could have gotten it…
June 19th, 2008 at 2:44 am
I’m flying soon and I’m going to think of this every time I see an emergency exit.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Biff needs one of those new fangled GPS things.
June 19th, 2008 at 7:07 am
@Just Ryan: You’re welcome.
June 19th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Wow, when Biff gets lost, he REALLY knows how to get lost.
June 19th, 2008 at 7:18 am
@Shanchan - Drawing clouds is fun
June 19th, 2008 at 8:21 am
I haven’t flown in a while, so I may be out of date, but I think the bathroom door is the one WITHOUT a giant “EMERGENCY ONLY” sign…
Go Biff.
June 19th, 2008 at 8:35 am
This strip was the COOLEST THING EVER until I realized that Biff was not, in fact, falling out of the sky holding a toothbrush with Biffbrows.
sorrysorry
June 19th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Aw, poor Biff. Hope a Giant Squid saves him!
June 19th, 2008 at 10:25 am
@Gato: Someone else has heard of Lemon Demon? Wow.
Great comic Chris, have you thought of doing song-inspired-week?
June 19th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
This is NOT possible…!
June 19th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I finally decided that the thing in Biff’s hand was a door handle, but it’s nice to know I wasn’t the only who thought it was a toothbrush.
June 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
starseedjenny: I was also hoping he was holding a toothbrush with Biff eye brows. That would have been amazing.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I just finished reading the archives, hilarious strip.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Great strip, thanks!
Btw, Biff isn’t the only one with a problem now! The plane is in troubles too! Could you imagine what happens with the cabin pressure when someone opens a door? That will be the right time to remind yourself to the words of the crew before departing: “In case of loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will be automatically released above your seat. Pull down the nearest mask, place it over mouth and nose and secure it with the elastic band.”…
June 19th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
@GuyD — Knowing Biff, the plane belongs to him, operates completely automatically, runs on ‘rainbows and unicorn farts’, and has no wings. It’s also roughly the size of Australia, and yet with Biff and all the stuff he takes with him on flights (like his Biffbrow’d toothbrush!) it’s a pretty tight fit in there.
So, no other passengers to worry about. =D
June 19th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
@Eleanor: I know of them as well! They’re actually relatively well known as far as I have seen. They’re awesome as well.
@Gato: XD I thought of that too.
Very nice one today, Chris!
June 19th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
@everyone who knows lemon demon: they’re pretty cool, but i didn’t know they were so well known.
@starseedjennny: if there aren’t any other passengers, how would biff ask for directions? oh wait - he probly has some kind of automated, voice-recognizing mapping system, which he’d probly need if the thing was the size of australia. oh and the plane would probly be fueled by something he grows (like skunk melon, since he can’t seem to sell it) (unless he breeds unicorns and rainbows on the side…).
well that was longer than usual and probly too much overanalysis. but whatever. it’s a great comic.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
it won’t post the longer comment i typed… not sure why
June 19th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
nvm - not sure why it didn’t show up the last several times i loaded the page. chris, if you’ve got a way of deleting comments, feel free to exercise it on this one and the two before it.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:11 am
“I didn’t actually have to know where we were going. Someone else was handling that.”
I feel the same way about my GPS Nav.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:17 am
@Rick V: How old are the planes you fly on? All the new ones have EMERGENCY ONLY painted on the bathroom doors and EXIT ONLY on the exit.