Of all the movies I obsessed over in my youth, I don't think that any of them had a character as thoroughly wretched as Biff Tannen. As the primary villain of the Back to the Future trilogy, he exists to ruin multiple generations of the McFly family, with horrible schemes that are responsible for breaking the timestream itself. I mean, it's one thing to cheat to win, but to use time travel to cheat so much that it winds up turning his hometown into a nightmare dystopia? That's honestly the least of what Makes Biff such a horrible person.
Now, though, we're getting a few more details about the fall, rise, fall, rise, and fall of Hill Valley's least favorite son in the form of IDW's newest Back to the Future series, Biff to the Future, from BTTF screenwriter Bob Gale, Derek Fridolfs, and Alan Robinson.
If your Luke Cage binge has ended, there’s only one thing left to do. Okay, eleven things, if you feel compelled to watch ten more times, but we’re talking about the easter egg hunt. There’s plenty overt ones a bit of Iron Fist foreshadowing, but did you know a newspaper clipping puts Back to the Future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Remember a couple of weeks ago when everyone was excited about Back to the Future, because we finally got to the second movie's promised future of hoverboards and Jaws XIX? Well, for some of us --- dare I say, a lot of us --- that excitement never goes away. We're just stoked about Marty McFly and Doc Brown literally all the time, and fortunately, IDW is giving us a very good reason to stay that way.
For instance, ask yourself just what you know about Doc Brown. In all likelihood, you know that he's really into DeLoreans, that he fell off the toilet this one time, that he's really into cowboy times, that he has a doctorate in something, and that his best friend is an 80s teen, but that's probably about it. Fortunately for us, we're about to learn a whole lot more about Doc Brown's past in IDW's Back to the Future #2, by Bob Gale, John Barber, Erik Burnham, Marcelo Ferriera, Chris Madden, and Dan Schoening. Check out a preview!