September 10th, 2008
#587 - Speedy
When I was a kid and got a new toy I would want to take it with me to bed and play with it as I fell asleep at night. Depending on the toy it’s usually not such a great idea. I woke up a few times with small plastic items embedded in my face. I would peel them off and look in the mirror at the little indentations they left behind. One morning I woke up from a nightmare that I was stabbed in the back. Turns out I was sleeping on a little metal car.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:28 am
On the other hand, it would make a GREAT alarm clock, if he could just work out the timing details.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Imagine if you slept through THAT alarm clock… o.0
September 10th, 2008 at 12:44 am
Such an alarm clock would really leave you alert when you woke up. You’d wake up fast if you found yourself doing corkscrews above the ground at 500 miles per hour.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:54 am
I loved jet packs when I was a kid, I thought it would be so cool to have one and be able to zip around anywhere I wanted. It was how I could be like Superman.
Of course the reality of jet packs is so pathetic it’s actually kind of sad.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Is this the first Biffless Biff?
September 10th, 2008 at 12:58 am
No, it’s not.
Also, I like the idea of jet packs more for higher and longer lasting jumps then just flying.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:59 am
No, Drakey, I think there are some. I just can’t think of any. Like…technically 582 is one because all you can see is his arm and hand.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Then he was invisible in 580. (Sorry for the double post.)
September 10th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Also, if there were jet packs, I wonder what would happen if you were holding someone else using their jet pack upside down while you were using yours…
September 10th, 2008 at 1:08 am
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2006/10/25/129-crayon/
September 10th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Biif looks like he’s headed straight for the moon there!
September 10th, 2008 at 1:48 am
I laughed out loud when i saw the caption and picture =D
Reality: Jetpack would probably burn your legs off XD
September 10th, 2008 at 1:49 am
This one made me chuckle. Ah, jetpacks… If only they were as awesome in real life as they are in the cartoons…
The Duck Has Spoken.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:46 am
There is good reason to look into a jet pack, but using high powered fans to move air through instead of fire… Jet Engines, if they have fire shooting out of them, it’s usually a bad thing.
In addition, the bringing a toy to bed thing, I was apparently violent in my sleep, I would go to bed with the toy, and then sometimes wake up at the sound of the Bang! of my toy hitting the wall when I had thrown it across the room in my sleep… lucky I didn’t break my window, but my teddy bear hit my piggy bank and destroyed it.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:11 am
I’d really like it if jet packs just gave you powerful periodic bursts of flight. Why this would be good? 1. When jumping up high buildings, you reduce the chance of burning your lower half of (which would be really bad if you’re planning to have children) and hitting any flying objects overhead. 2. You can use it to dash long distances with as little effort as possible. 3. It’s a great way to get a head start from your angry girlfriend.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:16 am
But shouldn’t the glass be outside instead of all over the bed? Lol….
September 10th, 2008 at 8:19 am
I figured some of the glass would be blown in from the jet exhaust.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Technically Biff is in this comic, he’s just REALLY small.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:03 am
I apparantly can’t take anything other than stuffed animals to bed. My mom said as a baby she’d put me to bed with a bottle, and a little while after she’d hear a “THUMP” on the floor, I always threw my bottle out of the crib when I was done.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:33 am
LOL Nice alarm…
Forgot to think up an alternate caption before reading the original. Tomorrow…?
September 10th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I thought Biff was moving, spiraling, when I first saw this. That would be awesome. Could you do animation for a comic, Chris. Maybe #1000? lol.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Another Biffless one:
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2007/06/29/279-wind/
September 10th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
well they have jet packs or rocket packs however you want to call them but they do not stay in the air for very long and they have the exhaust nozzles away from the body on the end of two arm like things
September 10th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
So real life jet packs are like what I wanted ferom a jet pack?
September 10th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
WHAT IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT??? BIFF IS RIGHT THERE.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Jet packs and rocket packs are two slightly different things that actually exist. Rocket packs provide more thrust, but they only last for a few seconds (maybe thirty, tops) so you can’t go very far with them. And then you have to replace the rockets, which is kinda inconvenient. Jet packs use jet fuel in a jet engine. They last longer, and can be refuled, if you happen to land near a convenient source of jet fuel.
The army tested both and decided that they really wern’t worth the expense or the risk.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I simply CANNOT believe that everyone missed this, so far:
“Biff is fast asleep.”
:p
September 15th, 2008 at 3:06 am
lost for count how many times this has happened to me.
October 30th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
There was a show on when I was little, something along the lines of Cyber Samurai… I don’t remember much more than a few bits and pieces… but I definitely remember my favorite toy was the ultimate dragon something or other. Staying over a friends house one night, I kept waking up with terrible stabbing pains in my back and sides. I would up crying and and then we’d go wake up her mother to tell her I was hurting. Strangely, these pains were quick to fade each of the three times I ended up getting everyone up.
In the morning, with the lights on, I discovered it to be the middle portion of the dragon with all it’s fins curled up in the blankets with me. It was a long time before I figured out why nobody else was amused by this.