#674 – Kabob
Posted on January 9, 2009 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
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.
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No wonder he hit the planet, there are no windows on his ship!
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
Where’s a traffic cop when you need one?
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Is this Biff’s version of an “earth-shattering kaboom..?”
I’m sorry…my mind went STRAIGHT to the gutter when I saw this.
@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!
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’.
I call Rocket Ship Week!
Nah, at the current time, there has NEVER been another living being in the comics =p
Whoever is the pilot of that space ship has the brain of a peacock.
There was the reccurring squid, isn’t it considered a living being?
@speearr
we could use the term “xenocide”, the destruction of an entire sentient species.
Wow. I don’t know if I should feel sorry for Biff or the aliens. Love this comic.
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!
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.
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!
@ teh n00b – Props for knowing Xenocide
@Speakerblast: Glad I could be of service.
@teh n00b and starseedjenny: Is that a real word or did Orson Scott Card create it?
biff seems to be getting more and more suggestive these days
Whoops. Insurance is so not going to cover this one.
More like “There goes the neighborhood”.
Did Biff hit the rest stop?
I think it might be universe week? Or alien week? Or space week?
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.
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
I wonder how much its going to cost for Biff to repair damage to an entire planet.
Yeah, Micah, I though just about the same thing when I saw this.
Hmmm, I wonder if biff has had is eyes checked lately.
The planet should’ve posted a sign saying, “if you see this sign then you are too close.” 😉
@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.
@ Micah – Both. 😉 It’s a word that was coined by Orson Scott Card.
…so THAT’S what happened to Krypton.
WELL. If there WAS life on that planet, there ain’t anymore!
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.
Biff makes my brain hurt.
Those aliens are gonna be pissed.
The ones that didn’t die, I mean.