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Back to the Future
"Jurassic Biff"
Back to the Future #3
IDW
Story and script by Erik Burnham & Bob Gale
Art by Alan Robinson
Colors by Jose Luis Rio
Letters by Shawn Lee |
Old Biff steals the time machine in 2015 to
give himself the sports almanac...and immediately arrives during
the age of dinosaurs!
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Notes from the Back to the Future chronology
This story opens in 2015 and then goes to an unknown time in the
far distant past of Earth (likely the Cretaceous Period), when
dinosaurs roamed the planet.
Didja Know?
The title of the story borrows from the well-known 1993 film
Jurassic Park.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this story
Biff Tannen
Doc Brown
Marty McFly
Didja Notice?
On page 2 of the story, old Biff punches the time display in
the DeLorean with the fist on the end of his cane! It could
be this pounding is what causes the display to change it's
Destination Time setting spontaneously a couple times in
Back to the Future Part II.
Page 3, panel 5 of the story shows that the "Plutonium
Chamber" power gauge in the DeLorean has been changed to be
the "Mr. Fusion Chamber" power gauge.
On page 4 of the story, Biff encounters a
dinosaur he refers to as raptor, having seen "that
Spielberg movie". The movie he refers to is, of course,
Jurassic Park,
directed by Steven Spielberg, which featured Velociraptors in a primary role.
However, the Velociraptors of that film series are
much larger than that species was in real life, so the
dinosaur Biff meets is more likely the similar species
Deinonychus. Either way, Biff has actually arrived in
the Cretaceous Period 75-71 million years ago, not the
Jurassic.
Steven Spielberg was also the executive producer of
the
Back to the Future
films.
On page 6 of the story, Biff whacks the Deinonychus
on the head with the fist on his cane!
It doesn't seem likely that a whack on the head from Biff's
cane could kill or knock out an adult Deinonychus,
but somehow Biff has apparently cut off the tail of the
beast to serve as fuel for Mr. Fusion (as see on page 7) so
he can continue his mission to 1955.
On page 7 of the story, Biff brings to mind a date where he
remembers where he was so he can give himself the sports
almanac. That's why he chose November 12, 1955, because he
was already reminded of that day by the incident he
witnessed between Marty Jr. (actually teen Marty) and Griff
(as seen in
Back to the Future Part II).
Possibly, Biff's tendency to use his cane to bash things has
weakened the shaft to the point that it was relatively easy
to break when it got jammed in the door well of the DeLorean
after he returned to 2015 in
Back to the Future Part II,
so that Doc finds the broken tip in the car shortly after.
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