January 9th, 2009
#674 – Kabob
I had a reoccurring dream when I was a kid that I had some sort of telescopic vision. I would go outside at night and look up into the stars searching for alien spacecraft. When I would find them they looked like little white triangles like in the game asteroids. I was always sad when I would think about it during the day and realize that it was just a dream.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:08 am
No wonder he hit the planet, there are no windows on his ship!
January 9th, 2009 at 12:24 am
or doors, or fueling ports or lights, that thing is a deathtrap!
that planet must be pretty soft, traveling at two-thousand miles an hour and hitting anything would be a little bit jarring
January 9th, 2009 at 12:30 am
Where’s a traffic cop when you need one?
- and –
Is this Biff’s version of an “earth-shattering kaboom..?”
January 9th, 2009 at 12:47 am
I’m sorry…my mind went STRAIGHT to the gutter when I saw this.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:21 am
@Micah
thanks a lot… I had a nice wholesome comment prepared and now I forgot it.
@Everyone- vote for Biff, we can climb out of the basement of the standings here!
January 9th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Does this count as genocide? Or is there another term when an entire planet’s population is involved…?
Biff will enter history books!!! Not the small green planet’s ones, though…. There’s noone left there to write nothin’.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:05 am
I call Rocket Ship Week!
January 9th, 2009 at 3:50 am
Nah, at the current time, there has NEVER been another living being in the comics =p
January 9th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Whoever is the pilot of that space ship has the brain of a peacock.
January 9th, 2009 at 5:03 am
There was the reccurring squid, isn’t it considered a living being?
January 9th, 2009 at 6:24 am
@speearr
we could use the term “xenocide”, the destruction of an entire sentient species.
January 9th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Wow. I don’t know if I should feel sorry for Biff or the aliens. Love this comic.
January 9th, 2009 at 6:58 am
He probably climbs in through the rocket at the bottom…
You know, that planet doesn’t really look large enough to have life, so we’re probably safe there.
But my mind went straight to Hitchhiker’s Guide, and the alien invasion army that came to Earth with a million ships that got swallowed by a small dog, due to an error in scale. Those errors in scale can be quite annoying!
January 9th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Interesting story about the telescopic-vision dream. When I was younger I used to believe that I could see molecules if I looked closely enough. I would stare very hard at my thumbnail and delude myself into thinking that my efforts had been rewarded with a glimpse of the microscopic world. Fortunately, now that my eyes have fully developed I am able to see even quarks.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I can just imagine Biff coming around and all the tiny aliens coming up and looking just like mini-Biffs.
Mini-Biff: The great destroyer has returned!
January 9th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
@ teh n00b – Props for knowing Xenocide
January 9th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
@Speakerblast: Glad I could be of service.
@teh n00b and starseedjenny: Is that a real word or did Orson Scott Card create it?
January 9th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
biff seems to be getting more and more suggestive these days
January 9th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Whoops. Insurance is so not going to cover this one.
January 9th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
More like “There goes the neighborhood”.
January 9th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Did Biff hit the rest stop?
January 9th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
I think it might be universe week? Or alien week? Or space week?
January 10th, 2009 at 2:16 am
Xeno means stranger doesn’t it? So that would be the destruction of something or someone that is different or something along those lines. I couldn’t find it on dictionary.com but wiktionary and Urban Dictionary had something similar to teh noob’s definition.
January 10th, 2009 at 3:48 am
I had dreams where if it was windy enough I could get lifted off the ground with enough concentration.
I still think one of those instances was real, given the hurricanes we got often
January 10th, 2009 at 4:55 am
I wonder how much its going to cost for Biff to repair damage to an entire planet.
January 10th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Yeah, Micah, I though just about the same thing when I saw this.
January 10th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Hmmm, I wonder if biff has had is eyes checked lately.
January 10th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
The planet should’ve posted a sign saying, “if you see this sign then you are too close.”
January 11th, 2009 at 1:02 am
@Micah;
Scott Orson Card was apparently the first to use ‘Xenocide,’ but the constructio is correct and so it is indeed a real word, albeit a fairly new one. It means basicaly “stranger killing” or “foriegner killing” with a connotation of ‘complete annihilation of a tribe or people not my own.’ ‘Democide’ would be another possible choice, but that’s more aimed at what we more commonly call ‘ethnic cleansing,’ especially as part of government policy.
January 11th, 2009 at 8:36 am
@ Micah – Both.
It’s a word that was coined by Orson Scott Card.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:10 am
…so THAT’S what happened to Krypton.
January 11th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
WELL. If there WAS life on that planet, there ain’t anymore!
January 13th, 2009 at 1:19 am
Could this be a followup to #290?
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2007/07/16/290-gas/
Biff, while distracted by the gas cap, crashes into a nearby planet.
January 31st, 2009 at 9:21 am
Biff makes my brain hurt.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Those aliens are gonna be pissed.
The ones that didn’t die, I mean.