IDW Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines Review

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in a long -ass time is Optimus Solo. Hello, sir.

Hello. Yeah, I just come back from the milestone

episode, so episode 300, why not bring back Optimus

Solo? Sounds good. I don't even remember the

last time I was on here. I think it was the He

-Man Origins episode, which was probably episode

14, which... Yeah, so I took a break. three,

four, five years, something like that. It is

time to grab a Pepsi Free and jump into the DeLorean

with us as we go back to the future. We're gonna

kick this spotlight off by learning all about

untold tales and alternate timelines. This is

the first story arc in the new series of Back

to the Future from IDW, so join us, won't you?

As we head back to the future. Now, obviously...

If anyone's listened to M -Wire, we're both back

to the future fans of the film franchise. I believe

this IDW got the rights to do this in 25... I

believe it's been about two years since this

came out for their comics, but I don't know.

What I love about this is they got just the initial

announcement and everything else. It's basically

Bob Gale. You know from the movie with longtime

writer editor John Barber doing the main core

of the writing and they bring in other Writers

with Bob Gale as well other IDW writers like

Eric Burnham and and people like that to Craft

these stories, and if you get the trades for

this folks Make sure you look at the opening

letters that either Bob Gale or John Barber write,

because it gives huge insight on whether this

was going to work or not. Because you look at

Back to the Future, the trilogy, that's a pretty

set thing. There are things you could do around

it, but Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis, nobody really

wanted to fool with it. Nobody really wanted

to muck it up kind of a thing. So having IDW

do this, Kind of was and kind of wasn't a big

risk. They had to do it right, and I think they

are doing it right I know you don't read comics

a lot normally because hello every three years

on the show at this point But it's one of those

things where when I suggested this to you were

you What were your initial reactions to the suggestion

and all that and actually reading the trade the

first volume here? Well when you watch 110 plus

new films every year plus the rewatches and this

that and the other there's not a lot of time

for comics so when it comes to comic books it

has to be something that really kind of is something

that's going to pull me in or something that

I know I'm going to be interested in I'm not

just going to randomly grab a Marvel or DC comic

that I don't have a you know predisposition to

like so it has to be something like Transformers

or He -Man and and I didn't know there was Back

to the Future comics so like that's a story that

is rich with being that you have time travel

involved it's rich with different areas that

you could go to it's it's there's a lot of different

ideas and options that could be explored so i'm

like okay let's see what they are going to do

with this and then just reading that first panel

in this first volume it's at the very top it

says we're in the future what the series is and

isn't and how we got here that made me even more

interested because you have somebody that was

directly involved with the making of the film

So they're going to be they have a connection

to it. They have a passion for it. They have

stakes in it, I guess you could say, because

they don't want to tarnish something that they

originally created or anything. They want to

do it justice. So from that standpoint, that

should excite you. And then in actually reading

the amount of thought that has gone into what

are they going to do. So basically, you know,

they're approached by IDW. and saying, hey, we

want to do Back to the Future comics. And now

they're left with the decision of what would

we do in that situation? How are we going to

do it? And I think there's one real specific

point that they bring out that's interesting

and that's crucial to why this is possibly going

to be a success. I haven't read all the volumes,

but I've read this first volume so far. And that

was there's going to be no updates, no reimagining,

no reboot. They have the characters already that

they're going to explore. So it's just trying

to figure out what are we going to tell about

the characters that everybody knows and loves.

So it's not just randomly like they do with a

lot of properties where you're going to introduce

a new set of characters or you're going to do

something like that where you kind of divert

from the original path and try to make it work.

So they're really working within the constraints

of the original framework of the film um so i

think that's really important yeah that's important

and that works like you don't need to update

this to update it you don't need to reboot it

to reboot it you can work within and as you already

said hello it's time travel you can do whatever

the hell you want right i mean you know notwithstanding

but it's one of those things where There's so

much in all three of the back to the future movies

But at the same time there is so much more That

I think us as fans and us as the audience back

when we were kids watching these three films

that we wanted to know and 30 because I remember

yeah, this came out in 2015 this this comic series

Yeah, 2015 because there's 30th anniversary.

I remember 30 years later. Holy shit back to

the future and you don't know what's gonna happen.

And the way that they're, I knew they were doing

this for the first couple issues. I didn't know

if they were gonna do this going forward and

I don't think they are. The first trade, volume

one as I said, Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines

is the title of it, collects issues one through

five of the series. Issues one to four. are broken

down into two, I don't want to say choose your

own adventure stories, but they're two stories

within one comic. And then issue five is one

complete. Story and then issue six next week

when we get to continue in conundrum and volume

two that goes on a whole story arc I like how

they started that with the two stories it felt

like when I was reading it that I was not having

to oh My god, I'm only on page 15 and I just

want this to be over and it's not about I'm just

saying that in general There are some comics

that leave me with that feeling this even if

it wasn't back to the future the way It's structured

did not well and it's not also and nice way to

get reacclimated with the world and the characters

that you're dealing with and and and addresses

one of the things that they were talking about

when they decided you know how are we going to

tackle this what are we going to do when i was

talking about the you know it's not going to

be a reimagining a reboot so then they're left

with okay what kind of questions did the fans

have what what kind of things were unanswered

in those films that we could explore further

and think about like um... star wars is trying

to do something similar alright with the movies

now because they're looking back at the canon

they're looking back at the original movies and

saying you know what Adventures or what stories

were left untold. That's where we got rogue one,

you know How did they get the Death Star plans

that type of thing? So back to the future these

comics are similar doing similar things like

how did these characters meet or what happened?

You know when this you know, what other little

side thing happened that we didn't get to see

on film So I think it's a real good way of Re

-acclimating us with those characters with the

universe before we get into maybe some longer

story arcs and that type of thing and again coming

from Bob Gale and the some of the people that

originally involved it's nice because you're

going to they're going to do the characters justice

it's not going to feel like a different character

or a different take on these characters it's

going to feel like you're just right back in

there learning more about the characters you

already know and love absolutely and the character

development like there's a lot of character development

specifically for Marty and Doc obviously in the

three films like the first two films are all

about Marty and you know kind of his life and

everything else the third film which Some people

dislike immensely the third film is immensely

the third film is more of like What is happening

to Marty and Doc and their friendship and that's

what I liked out of the third film I just had

a problem with the ending that's all But now

you have this comic right right it goes around

that and it doesn't go you know doesn't have

to be destroyed anyway so issue one When the

first story is when Marty met Emmet the story

was done by as we said Bob Gale script by Bob

Gale and John Barber art by Brent Schoonover

if I'm mispronouncing that I'm sorry Brent inks

by David Witt and colors are done by Kelly Fitzpatrick

and We open with great Scott Yeah. This is one

thing that I'm not familiar with because I'm

not a comic book reader or whatnot, but the device

that we're using to view these, I really like

that guided view aspect of it. Comicsology's

guided view is amazing. Yeah, and sometimes it's

even more... like amazing like you know because

a lot of times they're going either um page by

page or cell by cell like they're they're going

from one image to another but there's one part

within this first where this first little story

here where they even do something more interesting

and it's i'll get to it kind of as we go through

but it makes it even pop more so i really enjoy

the the guided view especially when they kind

of do it with not just from cell to cell but

within a cell going from one part of the cell

and one thought bubble or one aspect and then

it opens up to see what else is on that page

or what else is on that picture it's kind of

a cool way to view it we're going to eventually

have an episode here in the future of the poll

bag where we once again argue the merits between

digital and print comics have been going digital

since 2014 and I have used nothing but Comixology

and once I think it was lady wreck who does most

of the transformers stuff with me at lady wreck

on Twitter She told me about guided view and

basically told me it's like storyboard paneling

It's like you know panel to panel on a storyboard

except. It's not just the storyboards pencils.

It's the whole thing and I can't read comics

without Guided View anymore. It's just so fun,

so explosive. Like you said, it highlights moments,

and then it expands on them, and it's just so

fun. Well, for example, and it's not giving anything

away with this story necessarily, but in this

first volume, there's a part of the story that

deals with Needles and McFly, and there's a,

in the Guided View, when you get to that point,

you see Marty's From basically his nose up. So

you see basically a shot of his eyes and it says

nobody calls me chicken needles on To there's

a thought bubble coming out of basically by his

left ear Or I guess it would be yours his right

ear. Excuse me So you see that part but when

you hit the next button to go to what you're

thinking is gonna be the next picture It literally

just moves right so you see the other side of

his face nobody yeah so yeah it's just a cool

way to to kind of see like it's not just going

from cell to cell it's going from half of the

picture to the other half of the picture and

it's really cool yeah it is very cool and just

so you know we do not care about spoilers here

this this trade is two years old so yeah no we

are so not uh Oh my god spoilers. I like it.

It's a spoiler. Just cuz I say I like it. It's

a spoiler anyway so yeah, we open up with Doc

and and Clara and Jules and Vern and Setting

up the the fact that a lot of these are gonna

kind of start with Doc and then give him an excuse

for a story that he's telling to his kids or

something of that nature. So that's kind of where

we're going with this one. It starts off with

Emmett and then it kind of develops into the

fact that he's going to tell the story of how

he met Marty. Yep. And we start off with a teddy

bear attached to a rocket. Uh -oh. That poor

teddy bear. Damn, Teddy Ruxpin started a fire.

Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. I love the narration.

I love how, you know, you're saying about the

panels. What I love about the Guided View Comixology

thing is they can do, like, rectangular, or they

can go to the next panel and do, like, it in

squares, and it's just such fun. So we figure

out how the Von Braun, or the Brown House, ended

up being destroyed, and he set it on fire. With

the rocket. Burned his house down. Burned his

house down. That was in 1962. Yep. So yeah, that's

kind of how it goes there. And hey, nobody got

injured. It was just the house. Not the shed

or the garage or whatever else like that. Yeah,

the outer structure, yeah. and overtime you know

he says by nineteen seventies the majority of

the property if it's sold yeah so everything's

been built up around it uh... up to that point

so on that it goes to basically nineteen eighty

two and so now we're right into where we would

be at the beginning of the first movie uh...

where we see marty et cetera just a little just

a little bit prior to where the first movie begins

So, I don't know what the exact... No, we're

three years before the first movie. That's what

I'm saying, just prior to. Oh, okay. Like, just

the years leading up to that, where the, you

know, because obviously the first movie, they

already know each other. So it's kind of just,

you know, right before that and kind of tell

the story. And that's why I like this, is we're

finding out how they actually met, even though

it's not in movie form, as you just said, by

the first film. they've already known each other

cuz you know and you know marty goes in to use

his amp and whatever else he's like oh doc Einstein

you know so it's clearly marked that they know

each other already and this finally gives us

how they met and it's all because of uh... uh...

Guitar tubes, right? I mean it starts with them

We know we know Marty is a big person with bands

and guitars and then rockin out and whatnot so

it starts with that and immediately interaction

between him and needles so we get the kind of

some of the origins of their beef not maybe the

origin origin, but you know earlier Moments that

they had that show that they don't like each

other. So Clear and then you got needles who?

blew his tube by rockin' too hard. You can read

into that however you'd like. So he needs a new

thing for his, I don't even remember what they

called it, but he needs a new piece for his guitar.

And that's where he's trying to make Marty find

it. So he's basically saying that Marty needs

to get him a new piece, because he's got a show

coming up. So that's kind of how that's going

so there's obviously these pieces to this guitar

that are very important or valuable They keep

calling them tubes, but they have a specific

name, too So yeah, it's not transistor, but that's

essentially it's it's some sort of word like

that Yeah, what I love basically go ahead good

what I love about this is as Needles and his

little band of people walk away with his guitar

You get to another panel where it's a close -up

on Marty perfect just perfect i hear michael

j fox in my head. like all the lines so far that

marty has said that are kind of reminiscent of

the movie dialogue it's like wow they nailed

it. right so nito's basically in his gang steal

marty's guitar and tell him if he wants it back

then he needs to go steal one of these tubes

for him. it's called a intero cuter tube whatever

that is Inter inter Rossiter tube, I don't know

but that sounds good. So so he tries to go buy

some But the shop doesn't have any so he's kind

of left with a conundrum of trying to figure

out how he's going to Get his guitar back and

how he's gonna get needles is in a Rossiter tube

I guess you could say. So he does, though, get

information from the salesman at the guitar shop

of where his last shipment of tubes went. And

that, of course, would be the residence of one

Doc Brown. Yeah, so that's kind of leading us

up to what's gonna be their first interaction

But you know, obviously at this point Doc Brown

is there's lots of rumors about him there's lots

of talk about his craziness and death rays and

this that and the other and nobody knows how

his house burned down and All that kind of stuff.

So there's a lot of kind of urban myths about

Doc Brown and kind of lower within the town,

I guess so Now he has to decide if he's going

to try to venture into that situation and deal

with a crazy man to try to find these interocitor

tubes. So that's kind of the setup for how they

meet. Yeah and you know Marty figures out the

whole thing of how to get into his house and

whatever and I mean Marty has like good intentions

he's not just coming in and gonna break like

but like we saw earlier like obviously needles

in his people would just break in on marty's

not that kind of a guy marty's uh... you know

timid kinda kinda guy thing at this point in

and you know he's gonna you know knock on the

door and whatever and he kind of sees that you

know climbs up on the trash can and sees the

lotto i don't ever anybody in any neighborhood

i ever lived in as a kid but a padlock on a window

on the outside Yeah, but he keeps coming up with

these kind of conundrums of you know does he

just break in does he smash windows? Does he

do that type of stuff or you know is his moral

compass a little bit more? Focused than that

so you know he keeps talking himself out of it.

You know I'm not that type of person So he's

trying to find like the right way to get in there

Finds a key so he's he's gonna try that aspect

and Eventually triggers one of Doc Brown's I

don't know what you want to call it It's a booby

trap. It's a Tom and Jerry trap. Yeah, it's a

domino effect Tom and Jerry kind of trap. Very

similar to what we see in the first movie, you

know, with the feeding of Einstein and different

things like that. So, you know, he gets inside,

hits a domino that does this, that, and the other,

and then eventually we have Marty being caught

in the net. And he uses a skateboard to escape.

Exactly. So he gets out of there by using a skateboard,

falls to the ground, and then we have the introduction

of Einstein and Doc Brown into this part of the

story. I just love this story. I just think it's

so funny. Like, everybody assumes Marty is this

slacker, you know, amateur guitar player, like,

doesn't really do that well in school kind of

a thing. Even in the first film, everybody assumes

that. And this shows that Marty is, you know,

he's not, you know, genius level, but he's not

super dumb either. Well, and it also, Doc is

letting him know that he left all these clues

for months and he's been looking for an assistant

and he's asking if Marty's here to interview

for the job or if he's here trying to apply for

the job, et cetera. So there's some type of,

I guess, at least smoke screen here on what's

going on and how Doc Brown is interpreting this

basically robbery. So that's kind of interesting.

He even he finally admits that he isn't interviewing

for a job He just wanted to see you know what

would happen if I offered Marty one So they kind

of form this this partnership, and he's going

to help run errands and procure supplies for

Doc Brown from this point forward Mm -hmm, and

then he goes and says oh The tubes I dumped the

tubes in the trash can outside So he never would

have even even needed to go inside the house

because Doc Brown just needed the box so So he

has to go back through the garbage and then pick

up the tubes and and then head his way towards

needles to To fulfill his end of the bargain

and get his guitar back Absolutely, so that was

the day he met Marty McFly yeah, and it cuts

back to Emmett Clara and the kids in 18 whatever

And the good thing about this story, because

this is kind of the end of this first story,

and like we said, we have nine different little

stories to go through, and they're of different

lengths. And one thing that's nice about that

is, especially with a lot of them being pretty

short, if it's not something you're into or you're

not finding it interesting, it's not like you

have to read forever about it. Yeah, exactly.

With this one, though, it is interesting. I mean,

it's not like it's a super deep, complex adventure

or story or anything like that, but it's an interesting

way to find out how they met. adds a little bit

of backstory, adds a little bit of character

development, and it really, like I said, is a

good way to introduce this whole IDW back to

the future thing, because it's really getting

you back in that world and getting back familiar

with the characters, and it does feel like it's

just straight out of the movie. Yeah, it really,

really does. And I mean, Marty, where he is three

years before the film, It's kind of where he

is almost when we meet You know when we meet

him in the film like three years nothing really

has changed for him between 82 and 85 when we

meet him in the movie I Mean obviously he'd been

working with Doc Brown for a long time at that

point, but at the same time The Marty at the

beginning of this story is very much the Marty

at the beginning of the Philly. He hasn't yet

learned Too much mm -hmm So yeah, I think that's

a good way to start and then from that point

we get into a story called Dr. Emmett Brown the

Wizard of Hill Valley, and then it says looking

for a few good scientists I just want to talk

real quick about the cover on this one because

the cover does a lot of things cool as far as

grabbing a whole bunch of different pieces of

the movie franchise so you have like Einstein,

you have the DeLorean, you have Doc Brown standing

there with the sports almanac in his pocket,

you know, you got a picture of the flux capacitor

on the wall, you have the clock behind him, you

know, you have a lot of stuff on that that...

Just like oozes back to the future. So absolutely

You even have like an ooh -la -la picture on

the right -hand side of it and yeah, you know

the patrol the plutonium story by Bob Gale script

by Eric Burnham art by Dan Schoening colors done

by Lewis Antonio Delgado on this one and The

art on the first story. I liked it, but it was

a little too It wasn't polished enough for me,

I'll say that. Like, I enjoy it, it's nice art,

but it's not my favorite art from this series

at this point. How did you feel on the art? I

liked the art of the first one because it reminded

me so much of the right color schemes and the

right designs for the movie. But I can see what

you're saying there with as far as like, it does

look like a... Don't know what I want to call

it like The Transformers comics and picture like

the ones the original ones that came with the

toys or the more than meets the eye original

one Yeah, like it's like that. It's just like

it's just not detailed, but it's still good.

It's like the Archie comics The reason why I

said not polished is because I didn't want to

outright call the art dirty. It's not dirty,

but that like it's not And it's not the colors.

The colors are wonderful. I absolutely love the

colors. The drawings of Emmett and Clara and

the kids. I get it. The artist was going for

trying to make them, even though they're out

of their own time. Clara and the kids aren't,

but Emmett's out of his own time in the 1800s,

obviously. But even the Marty and Needle stuff

in 82, it just doesn't look like it. I don't

know, it just bugs me a little bit. But, you

know, that's just the first story and it's not

like I'm gonna give it an F because of that.

I liked it just because it reminded me of being

back in the 80s and reading something that would

have come out then. Yeah. So this next one, this

Wizard of Hill Valley or the Looking for Scientists,

is basically... trying to tell the kind of more

backstory, more origin for Doc Brown. So we start

off at the California Institute of Technology

in 1943. So from a time timeline standpoint,

which is obviously important in the back of the

future, we're in the 1940s here. So it's a younger

version of Doc Brown. This isn't like old Doc

Brown who just visited 1940s. This is 1940s Doc

Brown without white or gray hair. You know, he's

got brown hair or brown, just blonde. And he's

a young kid kind of going through. this this

more serious scientific venture yeah he's basically

trying to get on the Manhattan Project right

is essentially the story for this one basically

yes so it deals with him talking with you know

some higher -ups and trying to impress these

guys and he tries to put on a whole show and

dance as far as him being this clean cut, well

put together, organized individual, which we

all know Doc Brown is not. It kind of deals with

that aspect a little bit and the guy is obviously

for this intelligence agency. I don't know if

they specifically say who they're with. It's,

as far as I can tell, it's military. Like one

of them is a military person. The other one,

I don't know, but it's the government essentially.

Right. And they basically see through that and

know that he's not that organized. And one of

them just happens to be J. Robert Oppenheimer.

who obviously is one of the main guys that built

the bomb, etc. Manhattan Project. So we have

a tie -in to real history here with Doc Brown

being involved with the Manhattan Project. And

that's the greatest thing about Back to the Future.

They can throw little things like that in and

it makes sense. That is so cool to me that they

throw a name from actual history in there And

it not feel out of place like back to the future

While it is a fantasy it also to me is very grounded

in reality not saying we're gonna create, you

know hover converted flying time -traveling DeLorean

tomorrow, but you know technically it should

have been out three years ago but you know it's

one of those things where this is a world where

you want to be as factually correct as possible

yeah as well as insert like doc brown isn't just

being inserted into this story this is his life

he is this scientist he is this person he is

at California Institute for Technology. He is

having this meeting about potentially being on

Lake. It's reality. Right. That's just what it

is. And this one's a relatively short one. I

think it's only about four or five pages long

or whatever it seems like. So just a real quick,

interesting origin information for Doc Brown

and seeing him as a younger version, because

that's something we don't get a lot. We get to

see Doc Brown in different time periods, but

we don't hardly ever see Doc Brown at a different

age. Yeah. so that was kind of an interesting

part to this and it goes very well with the next

issue it's almost like a companion piece because

we have two of them that are basically all about

doc brown one you know this um the wizard of

hill valley and then this one going into the

doc who never was which is going to be a little

bit more um about how that plays in but the cover

on this next one is fantastic as well Yep, it's

got the almanac, it's got... It's got both of

those pieces from the last one. It's got Lorraine

and George, George hanging upside down. It's

got the courthouse square exit, it's got obviously

the hover converted to Lorraine with Doc inside

and Marty kind of on top in his 50s gear with

the walkie talkie. It's got him and Jennifer,

not him and Jennifer, I'm sorry, that's him and

the ulala with the sports almanac and Biff and

all that. Very cool story most of these are gonna

be Bob Gale and John Barbara I'll note when they're

not but this one is them as well art this time

is done by Marcelo Ferreria Colors are done by

Diego Rodriguez on this one right so we start

off again back in the Old West with Doc Brown

and his kids and Like we'd see a lot of these

times, you know the last frame on this last Thought

bubble or whatever you call these on the first

page, you know, let me tell you a story So it's

Doc Brown going to be telling his his kids a

story in the story that he's telling takes place

in 1962 So we've been in a lot of different decades

so far already just in this Volume one, so we're

starting in 1962 and it's Doc Brown, you know

the older version of himself obviously and he's

Watching the the television watching 17 televisions

He's watching multiple screens before it was

even a thing. Right and this is during the time

of the Cuban Missile Crisis And he gets visited

again by a couple government top dogs, a general

and a colonel. It's the same people, actually.

Yeah, the same people. So one of them's a general,

I think, and one of them's a colonel. So they

are military. And it's interesting. So it's a

direct tie -in since it has the same people,

but goes on to tell another aspect of this. So

before we had the Manhattan Project, and now

we have the Cuban Missile Crisis. And again.

Tying into reality makes sense. He's a scientist.

He was on the Manhattan Project at this point

he They're good. They're coming to him for a

solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis obviously

time travel is not that solution, but Well, it

is the first time though Yeah, it is the first

time that we get a suggestion of time travel

and the idea that Doc Brown is building or trying

to build the time machine So it's also Gonna

show you why and give you a reason why in back

to the future the films Why he's so secretive

with his time machine stuff and that type of

thing because this is showing like the one time

I tried to interact with the government about

a time machine You know, it might not have gone

perfectly as I planned Yeah, and he uses sort

of the classic example of Einstein from the film

except with a candle and a stopwatch, right?

which is absolutely hilarious. Yeah, so it does

the whole experiment for them showing that you

can send the candle back and you're gonna see

the time difference in the amount of candle wax

left and shows that to the guys. So now they're

on to the fact that he is deciding to build this

time machine and there's gonna be a lot of possibilities

and then it leads to him to a sleepless night

where he is trying to come to terms with if it's

a good thing or not. Yeah. So is it is time travel

and as the government being involved in time

travel? Going to be something that is acceptable

or not and then what do we get? Oh? We get great

Scott Best panel of the issue the DeLorean comes

crashing in and Darth Vader arrives from the

planet Vulcan Yeah, so we got Marty in here showing

up and Speaking in Russian Mm -hmm so Interesting

that's the first so doc gets in the car with

him and then they go out and they go to 1982

yep, and it's crazy because we have gladiators

and all kinds of we have Roman know like Spartans

I don't know we got like all kinds of different

people from different time periods that are in

Hill Valley in 1982 absolutely and it's just

nightmarish because Doc Brown did give the time

machine stuff to the government in this timeline

and this is the So yeah, it talks about kind

of how it would be an arms race and then how

all this stuff would, you know, there's bombs

falling everywhere and there's different people

from different time periods, all intermixing.

So he realizes what a disaster this would be.

And then we have him waking up back in 1962 and

that was all a dream or a vision. Yeah. So it's

kind of I don't think Darth Vader from the planet

Vulcan would come back to him in real time like

that most definitely had to be a dream the reason

why I Figured it was a dream before it even happened

is because of The panel when Marty crashes in

because not only does the art style change a

bit on the on the panels like Okay, so like the

panel when he crashes in and he steps out like

that's a slightly It's the same art style, but

it's a slightly more polished part of the style.

And then we obviously get the time effects panel

where Doc Brown's there, but what we saw, what

we saw must have been a nightmare. You know,

that whole back to the future, blue, white, time

travel stuff, energy, and yeah. Does lose an

interesting thing though because we have to figure

it kind of turns the fact that why would he have

a dream about Marty Mm -hmm if he hadn't met

him yet. Yeah, that's So it kind of plays with

a little bit of is he is he retrofitting that

as the dream like is he later saying? Okay, that

must have been a dream of Marty even though at

the time he didn't know who it was or how many

times does he live this timeline it goes into

some tricky territory there so don't even think

about that too much or your head might explode

so um so basically he decides that he's not going

to give the government uh... this power yep and

the government comes back looking for the power

there's no he -man here uh... this is the right

place right but where's dr brown's house frazier

a couple of months late mister hi goldie wilson

i'm running to be your district three represent

it's good uh... nice throw in so he had escaped

to a different uh... part of the building so

that he's not there to give them the information

that they need it goes back to the old west and

he's finishing his story with clara and the kids

That's how it ends. That's how that one goes.

And then we go back to a very short next story

called Science Project. Yeah, Science Project.

Bob Gale, script by Eric Burnham, art by Chris

Madden on this one. I love this cover. I just

love the DeLorean cover. Yeah, this one's basically

just kind of about the DeLorean. Mm -hmm in a

way. I mean, there's a you know, the reference

to the DeLorean here. So it's a Marty is doing

a science project and Trying to come up with

what he's going to do, you know, he figures he's

in Doc Brown's lab He should be able to find

something there that He can use in a science

project and that kind of that's what the first

you know Two or three pages of it is going through.

Yeah and what I love about this part of the story

is what doc labels all his stuff like not radioactive

probably miscellaneous yeah it's also interesting

seeing all the different crazy gadgets that he

has like he has an alarm clock with literally

spikes on the top so you wouldn't be able to

hit it without cutting yourself and there's there's

all kinds of interesting little knickknacks that

you see so i like that aspect it gives you more

Into the inventor side of Doc and all it wasn't

just about the time machine and the DeLorean

It's all these other little gadgets and magnets

and different things like that. So Yeah, and

and it ends pretty much with the DeLorean, you

know in the newspaper when he had circled Right,

right. So he finally finds the pieces that he's

going to be going off to do his little science

project and then we see Doc Brown seeing the

the classified ad for a used DeLorean That's

pretty cool a little cool reference thrown in

at the end there What I'm loving so far even

though these have been long and short stories

Is how much they've delved into both of the main

characters and how much they delve into each

of their lives like having Doc Clara and the

kids book and these first two issues kind of

And then you know when we get to the next one

we get back to Marty and his whole Timeline and

family and everything that's I just love how

not necessarily back and forth, but how it keeps

going between the two of them and seeing how

their lives kind of intersect with each other

or play off of each other right so we've been

through you know the first four short stories

so we have basically five left i will preface

this uh... not spoiler alert for the comic book

spoiler for my opinion we are getting into my

least favorite two stories here in the middle

so really yeah in search of calvin marty clinton's

coming up next and then we have to ask that those

are going to be the two that i'd like all the

jurors of the event was funny come on i think

that a little bit it's the first one for the

first one is uh... it's calvin marty cline and

we have a cover that definition us that this

is mainly going to be about possibly the Old

West. We have, you know, most of the people are

in their Old West garb, but we do have a Biff

Tanner futuristic, like, casino thing, and we

do have the DeLorean involved in a hovercraft.

So there's a little bit of the future, but it

seems like we're going to get a mainly Back in

the West story. Yeah. Writing is done by Barbara

and Gail again Art on this one is done by Corrin

Howell. I love her stuff She's an amazing amazing

artist colors done by Jose Luis Rio Yeah, we

open up with you know doc working on the time

train Yep, so he's working on that and then of

course as he does in a lot of these He's got

a story that this reminds him of so he's gonna

tell the kids another story and then we immediately

Oh my god, dude what Doc Brown is cup. Oh Lord,

yes Doesn't this remind you of anything cup?

So then we jumped to November 1958. So again,

another decade heard from us. Now we're into

the fifties and he's working on, um, the temporal

field capacitor. And we have a dog young Copernicus

Copernicus, not Einstein Copernicus. Um, who's

his, his assistant, I guess in this, and then

he, uh, runs into somebody. George McFly and

George McFly is looking for Calvin Marty Klein

So clearly we know Like this is a direct reference

to the movie where Marty had to pass off as Calvin

Marty Klein So now George is looking for him

and can't find him clearly because he doesn't

exist in this time period anymore He went back

to the future. Yes, so it's interesting because

We have a situation where doc has to try to console

George McFly and figure out how he's going to

Get him away from this one -track mind of trying

to find Calvin Marty Clint, you know Marty basically

yeah essentially Marty and he goes and looks

for various things and well in the other big

aspect about this one is that We're right back

with the problem and Doc is realizing this that

there's there's problems for George and Lorraine

Yeah, and he has to figure out how to solve this

because of Georgian learning don't happen Marty

doesn't happen etc. Exactly So it's it's rehashing

a little bit of the same problem. We got from

the movie A little bit, but it doesn't yeah,

it doesn't okay. So one of my notes for this

one was basically You're right. It does kind

of rehash the movie, but it's basically like

they're still not really having the same problem

but they're having like this is them in college

now instead of Instead of in high school. So

So he's trying to solve that solution and he's

doing something that he's gonna gonna try to

work on George and then of course Lorraine shows

up so And he she's also looking for Marty Yes,

because you know she used to have a thing for

her son. Yeah, so we're going right back to that

creepiness So yeah, so now Doc's got Lorraine

in one area George in another area and He's got

to figure out what the hell he's gonna do with

this situation We see a very needing in work

of DeLorean as he talks to George Yeah, basically,

so he's seeing that and they're trying to talk

about things and It's it's almost like he made

him too too aggressive in a way Yeah, so he went

for me and push over to being too aggressive

And he's acting like kind of like a jerk and

he thinks that Lorraine doesn't like him not

giving him the attention etc etc etc so It's

just I don't know. It's a long back and forth

between Doc and George and Doc and Lorraine and

Lorraine at one point is overseeing some of this

and sees that you know he's in there with somebody

else so now she wants to know what's going on

so George is like oh so you know he's in there

with who and stop being coy and of course we

you know There is an interesting panel where

we get like eight different headshots It goes

Lorraine doc George Lorraine doc George Copernicus

and George So that's kind of a cool little thing

there The best panel with George is hey you get

your damn hands off like obviously again Let's

face it folks George McFly's famous line is that

line there like There's not a lot of other George

McFly lines that are that famous so now he thinks

Doc's trying to get with Lorraine So that's great.

And then of course he ends up sitting in a static

chair. Which is my least favorite part of this.

Static -o -matic electric hair chair, which gives

him a perm. Hey, at least their hair matches

now. So Lorraine sees him and is attracted to

him and... They have a funny little laugh. And

that's the reason I don't like this one is because

of how it ended. Like you had this cool setup

where it's like, OK, what are we going to do

in this situation? You got both of them. You

need to course correct again. And then we just

ended by having him sit in a static electric

chair and his hair goes crazy and then they fall

back in love. That's the only issue I had a little

bit with this one. It seemed a little bit of

a simple solution. Yeah, I was looking for a

little bit different I don't think you could

have gotten away with anything, but a simple

solution because oh you didn't really have time

we split that and you only essentially this is

the This is essentially the car scene from the

first film all over again except they're in Doc's

off Doc's Work, you know laboratory and it's

Doc instead of Biff I mean it's the same damn

thing like George not realizing what at least

in this sense Doc is like Doc isn't out to you

know rape Lorraine like Biff was in the movie

but it's like he jumps to that conclusion and

I think this story it's not as great as the other

ones have been it still gives you a life lesson

of don't always jump to the worst conclusion

well and also it deals with you know as we go

back to the West and deal with Claire and the

kids you know a kind of a moral lesson of letting

things take their own course and not trying to

interfere because you can screw things up and

one of the kids says you know it just goes to

prove nothing's perfect not even time And then,

of course, it reminds Doc of another story, but

he says, but that's another story. That's another

story. We get to the best one out of all of this.

Jurassic Biff, story done by Eric Burnham and

Bob Gale. You know just from the cover that this

is not going to be the best one. We have a fucking...

What are you looking at, Butt -Head? Yeah, an

old cane -like, you know, the old decrepit version

of Biff saying what are you looking at, Butt

-Head, as he's staring up at a T -Rex that's

spitting all over him. Okay, but just imagine

this if that was Grimlock instead of a regular

t -rex that would be awesome come on now back

to the future Transformers crossover Luckily,

this is a short one yeah But I could have dealt

without this one and my main problem here is

because Biff I believe in this is depicted as

smarter than he is In the movie. This is the

one time where I feel like we get a character

that's diverting a little bit from the character

we know Yeah, so it all is centered around you

know when Biff in the movie is getting the almanac

and It basically adds a little wrinkle that at

first he doesn't know how to use the DeLorean

So he ends up in a different time period and

we don't see that in the movie instead We see

where he eventually ends up So it's just kind

of talking about his adventures in the DeLorean

as he was trying to figure out how to work it

For the most part. Again this this to me. Yeah,

you're right I don't think this shows him to

be smarter than he is in the movie. This shows

the adventure he went on that we never got to

su - like, yes, we saw him take the - take the,

uh, almanac and go back to 55 and give it to

his younger self. That's obviously the plot of

the movie and things like that, but this shows

us kind of what happened with him not knowing

how to work it, and the fact that he knows, like

- Don't think is is putting more brain power

on him You know where he says and I need fuel

for mr. Fusion. It says mr. Fusion chamber right

there, and it's a fuel gauge I mean most 10 year

olds could see that that's a fuel gauge. You

know so I Don't know if you take Biff and you

drop him back in the Jurassic world. He doesn't

live Probably not, but you know. He did see that

Spielberg movie. Yeah, with the Spielberg reference.

He talks about seeing Jurassic Park and knowing

how to deal with these dinosaurs. So that's interesting.

So basically, yeah, he gets in the time machine.

He doesn't know how to work it. He hits it with

his cane. He ends up back in the dinosaur era

and directly dealing with a raptor. Kind of looks

like Dinobot. Yeah, and the raptor is trying

to eat the almanac and Biff's literally to fight

with a raptor. So he gets in the car, he tries

to hit him, he hits the raptor in the head with

his cane, gets the almanac back, and then puts

some fuel into his tank and tries to get back

to the future. I thought it was a fun, like I

don't expect a lot out of Biff -centric stories

where it's just Biff on and on. I thought it

was a nice little vignette story. Yeah. Luckily

though we go from Jurassic Biff to an issue called

peer pressure and This is one of my favorites

out of the whole thing. So It you know, again,

let me guess this reminds you of a story Perfect

ending this could have easily been in the movie

somehow like this could have been a deleted scene

from the movie It feels on this one. Yeah, it

does Art on this one is Ryan Brown colors by

Jay photos It sounds like it looks like it looks

like that's how you would say. Yeah, obviously

again, we start with Doc and Clara and Dealing

with his building of this train and Trying to

get it to the point, you know, he has got like

the little flux capacitor going in there And

he's talking to his kids and getting ready to

do that. And of course everything reminds him

of a story. So we jump to 1984 So November, I

believe, 1984. Yeah, November 26th, 1984. So

this is, I was three years and three days old

at this point, so. I was four years and an X

number of months, and God, I'm old. So three

days after my birthday, we get Marty in high

school dealing with high school things, including

needles and jenny. Yep. Jennifer, get it right.

So Needles is trying to hit on Jennifer, Marty's

trying to defend her honor, but Marty can't drive,

and Needles can, so that makes Needles cool.

Yeah, except Jennifer isn't really into it, and

hell, even Needles' girl is like, the girl that's

with Needles is like, um, hey, hello. Right,

she even smacks him So we've had that kind of

as a setup and then of course we follow Marty

to the workshop where he's working with Doc Brown

And of course, there's a vehicle there So we

have the idea that hey Marty doesn't have a car

Is he gonna steal the DeLorean to be cool and

get his friends to you know, like him etc etc

or what's gonna happen? What's he gonna do with

this conundrum? Cuz it's you know, it's high

school teenage years and it's all drama. So it's

It's all about Jennifer right now and the he

can't lose her So it's that type of trying to

fit in and be cool type thing Yeah, and he spent

the next school day avoiding this Jennifer girl

and playing wild gunman So he's playing wild

gunman the arcade game and Yeah, that's I like

that aspect of the kind of threw that in there

because that is 80s for sure Yeah, and then we

got needles coming in and being a jerk and throwing

chips at the at the clerk and Hitting on Jennifer

and pissing Marty off Yeah So that's classic.

Um So then we have him back in the workshop by

himself at night crawls through the window there

doc brown leaves in his van with the dog and

um... so now we have him again in one of these

moral conundrums like is he gonna steal the delorean

or is his moral compass gonna direct him in the

right way and needles ends up you know crashing

the party yeah after he decides that he's not

gonna steal the delorean so he makes the right

choice but now we have needles in doc's workshop

so that's not good so they get in a fight Needles

punches Marty right in the face and Doc Brown

shows backup. I Don't know why Doc Brown showed

back up, but he shows back up He knew something

was happening apparently and then we have another

one of Doc Brown's domino tricks Yeah, we have

the domino trick which basically gives him makes

needles Be dunked in red Kool -Aid or whatever

that goop is I don't know they don't specifically

oh well he painted these the girl says ah the

the town painted you so I guess it's red paint

Mark and dotty have a mark and dot wow mark and

Doc have a few moments here and You know it goes

back to him and Jennifer and they Kind of go

on their first date Yeah I mean it's also the

introduction like he asked he asked Doc about

is that a flying car type thing and then they

they go see Clint Eastwood and and Sergio Leone

movies or whatever they saw I don't know what

which film they saw there but yeah so it's it's

it's definitely interesting because another I

think that could have fit in because you know

it's just like that other one where he was gonna

if you put this one and the first one where they

meet like those easily could have been in the

movie or deleted scenes where you have Doc trying

or you have Marty meeting Doc Deciding if he's

gonna steal from him and then he doesn't you

have again him deciding if he's gonna try to

steal the car or not I just like these because

it adds a lot to Marty's Being the the person

that wants to do the right thing Absolutely.

Yeah. Yeah, I absolutely love this. I think the

art is well done. The writing is so good Like

this like I've read through this trade now twice

When I first got it because how I usually do

comics now is I hold off until I'm ready to do

episodes on them so I can actually read I'm reading

and I'm enjoying them but I don't just read them

for enjoyment I read them to give the content

to the listeners and all this and all that so

it's like oh Read through this and then I'm like,

hey, do you want to do this? And you're like

sure whatever and I'm reading through it again

And it's still fresh in my mind, right, you know

as we go along the next story we get into Emmett

Brown visits the future Bob Gale Eric Burnham

Art is done by Eric evinson colors by Jose Luis

Rio again Yeah Action Comics number one appears

a courtesy of DC Comics very cool. Yes. Yes,

so we start here in With Doc and Marty in the

in the present I guess this is it doesn't give

a year like it normally does but you kind of

consider that it's In the yeah, I would say it's

right after It's basically It's in the 80s. It's

gotta be in the 80s. Yeah, it's the end of the

first film. Like, when... Okay, so imagine if

Back to the Future 1 was the only film. There

was no 2, there was no 3. How it ended on that

cliffhanger of, you know, oh... you know where

i'm going we don't need roads or whatever you

know kind of a thing where it drops marty off

and then flies away that's essentially what this

is is a continuation of the end of the first

film and destination time period is going to

is two thousand fifteen when this comic came

out so he shows up in two thousand fifteen we

have people running around in uh... t -minus

turtle outfits ghostbuster outfits uh... all

kinds of fun stuff you know IDW has the licenses

right so and there's a 1980s car expo going on

in Hill Valley and he's like this can't be 2015

what's going on here and then he does see that

there's flying cars yeah a floating and stuff

and he wins a prize for hover conversion it's

super expensive 995 or whatever it is right,

right. So he does realize that he is in 2015.

It was just kind of a Almost like a comic -con

type of convention going on there. Yeah The courthouse

has become a shopping center We have commercials

that are 3d video billboards And obviously everybody's

rude and he sees different things like mr. Fusion

power converter Which would solve his problems,

but it's eighty eight thousand two hundred dollars

Yeah, and he also and hello. Mr. Fusion would

be that much like So it needs eight thousand

two hundred for the mr. Fusion. He needs thirty

six thousand for the hover conversion on the

DeLorean Plus the California sales tax so he

needs a lot of money But it did bring a few silver

dollars with him So it didn't really work out

goes and tries to pawn them off But then he decides

to go back and this is where we get the Situation

where he's he's seeing what stuff is worth from

the past So he sees like what a what a computers

worth what a VCR is worth What a cell phone is

worth you have a nice throw in there where you

have a He -Man doll and a Teddy Ruxman doll That

he sees you got a poster that says George Bush

1984 Michael Jackson thriller, so we got a lot

of references to the the 80s etc So he's trying

to do some searches and figure out you know what

he can go back in the past get that's gonna be

worth money April 18th 1938 and then for me the

best panel out of this story is the foolish with

the door It's a cool -looking one. That's for

sure Amazing so he goes back to 1938 leaves the

car behind a billboard for a Studebaker Walks

to Hill Valley and uses his dollar to buy something.

Mike, you want to tell what he buys? Basically,

he buys a lot of Action Comics number one. The

debut of Superman, folks. And, you know, that

old man was clueless, no idea what he had. Some

people are just dumb. Yeah, so he gets that first

edition of the Action Comics, goes back to the

future, and sells it. for uh... millions of dollars

yes so if we could all be so lucky like seriously

action comics number one amazing fantasy number

fifteen uh... all of the debut very firsts mint

condition just released original comics from

marvel and like oh my god can you imagine Like,

we could, you know, actually get Donald Trump

out of office because we'd be richer than he

is. So that's the Emmet Brown, This is the Future,

a fairly short thing, but I thought it was pretty

decent. Like, it was so good. Oh, yeah, like

I like that. And even though, you know, it's

not necessarily too vital to the overall story

that we're telling, it was still a neat little

i mean it's vital for him to be doing the research

compared to what we see like this story to me

is Prelude to when he comes back to get Marty.

It's like you know Marty. It's your kids Marty

your your kids are screwing things up You know

and back to the future too that to me is a prelude

to back to the future too for that because he's

doing his research of What things cost what money

he needs right and everything else so I? Really

really dug it yeah, and then that leads us to

the final story Clara story Which I do want to

say real quick before we get into that this has

been something that we been getting in little

snippets through the other eight stories as we

see any of them that start with Marty back in

the West with Clara and the kids like he's always

been working towards this and now we finally

get the story that's going along with all those

little snippets so it's a nice way to tie everything

back together absolutely it is and this is where

the dual stories the two not necessarily two

different stories but the the two -story format

kind of stops because this is one story issue

five of the series is just one story it's all

Clara's story and I again how many times have

we watched Back to the Future 3 and thought man

I would love to get more information on Clara

well Besides what we see in the film, obviously.

Well, we have it here now. Yeah. So, Clara's

story? I don't know if you wanna go over who

did the art and everything. Uh, yeah. The, um...

Writing and all that is done by John Barber and

Bob Gale. Script by Barber and Eric Burnham.

Art is done by Marcelo Fiera and colors by Diego

Rodriguez. We obviously start back in the West

where most of this is going to take place we

have Doc Brown and He's finally getting the point

where he's gonna have this time machine ready,

and they're all ready to go on this trip You

know Claire has been looking forward to this

the kids are in the train. They're they're going

down the tracks But no luck this first round

So the first round it does not work So we have

some frustration there it then kind of flashes

back to take a moment to explain in order to

explain her feelings at the moment we have to

go back to Clara's origin origin so 1855 yeah

and giving her an or like okay obviously as a

character all characters have origins but What

I love about this story is we get more insight

to her besides how we saw her with Emmett in

the film, but before this, she was just a joke

in the movie. Oh, that's just Clayton Ravine.

Some teacher in the 1800s went careening off

the ravine and it's been named that forever.

You know, Claire is more than that. This story...

proves that and tells us what she is all about

and It's by far some of the best character development

in this franchise. Yeah. So it shows that she's

born in New Jersey to Martha and Daniel Clayton.

And it goes kind of to her youth where she's

a rambunctious person that's always looking for

more stuff. She's a very inquisitive child. She's

got the telescope that she's searching, you know,

the stars for. So she has a fascination with

space and things like that. She reads a ton.

So everything that she can do to get more information,

she falls in love with Jules Verne and his books

and his ideas. So she's an outcast right from

the get -go. She doesn't fit in with the kids

that are playing because she's looking through

a telescope. She doesn't fit in with the people

that are going out on dates because she's reading

Jules Verne. So she's constantly looking for

something to fill that curiosity. Even when she's

on dates with guys, she's more concerned with

the book than the guy. Yeah, so it leads her

to the only profession that would fit somebody

like that which is a school teacher Where you're

by yourself doing your own thing and you can

be crazy and all that type of stuff So I remember

about nine years ago or so some guy wanting to

be on a podcast with me who was a school teacher

Then it goes to where her father dies and then

her mother dies and then she's basically just

the lonely schoolteacher That's reading her books

and dreaming about Other things and it eventually

takes her out West Where she runs into Doc Brown

So runs into her hero and we have Not necessarily

a recreation, but essentially a sort of recreation

of Doc on the hoverboard. Not coming in and swooping

her off her feet, but basically that. And it,

you know, she goes into more narration about

Doc's profession and everything else about the

inventing and the time travel and all that. I'm

wondering what she would be like if she had lived

in his time period instead of Hill Valley back

in the 1800s. Yeah, and you know, they they basically

are developing this family and they're content

with it. They're happy You know, they they have

the kids and all this other stuff. So It's it's

a situation where Neither one of them can see

what the other person's really feeling because

you have two people that are happily in love

and building a family But deep down they both

want to be out you know, in the stars, time traveling,

and being adventurous, but neither one of them

is telling that to the other person. Yeah, it's

kind of like they're keeping the same secret.

Right, if they would have just told each other,

it would have solved a lot. And we get to a giant

panel of the future where Doc says in narration,

when I built the time machine, it was to witness

not only where mankind had been, but where we

were going to help understand the greatest of

unknowns, to see the future. Only thing I can

think of is that shark still looks fake. Hey,

it still does. This kind of goes into where he

saw, you know, Marty and his kids and the problems

and all that type of stuff, so that it was not...

And he kind of learned the dangers of... of how

it could create this post -apocalyptic BIF world,

Trump world. Yeah, it essentially, it's a Trump

world. Yeah, it essentially, and I don't dislike

this issue for this fact, but it. this issue

to me outside of the cl - this part of this issue

is not for us diehards because we know all of

this at the like by the time he gets to the point

of of of saying that big panel that I mentioned

you know where we see the the clock tower and

all that and he gets to the paper and and you

know seeing Marty and Jennifer and all that like

by the time we get to the Biff casino thing that

is for any new readers that have somehow been

living under a rock for the last 30 something

years and not seen back to the future too. Right.

Like that's the way I look at this. This is for

new readers. This is not for like, I don't mind

this because it's a retelling of the film without

really retreading it. Right. It's just, you know,

not, I don't know. I didn't mind it at all. Yeah,

but it's just kind of the retelling of how Biff

came to power that Emmet's been committed and

and all this other things so And this is where

it veers This is why I don't mind it because

he finds out he's been committed and then he

tries and goes and see himself which technically

he shouldn't do because the time paradox and

all that but like they lobotomize this doc brown

so it's not like the time paradox would really

be that big of a thing because mental patient

doc brown is lobotomized yeah It just hurts my

head just seeing that. Yeah, so you're kind of

dealing with all of that and yeah learning the

dangers of time travel and destruction and chaos

and that type of stuff and how it eventually

brought him back to the Old West. Getting a second

chance in a nicer environment so that's kind

of why he hasn't ventured back there because

he kind of scared himself away from it for the

most part and then they had the kids Jules and

Vern obviously and just kind of got accustomed

to the family life absolutely so but again he's

still been building that train and now she's

kind of lets in that that's something she wants

she wants to be part of that adventure she wants

to do this so they go ahead and give it another

try Yep, and it's something that they want to

do together as not only as a husband and wife

but as a family and You know Love conquers all

yay without needing a single tier Yeah Because

we know how much you love those And so then it's

kind of talking about You know their struggles

because the train still doesn't work and then

he sees somebody riding a car and you know 18

miles an hour And they're talking about the future.

And when they'll eventually be able to hit the

right speed so that they can get out of their

time period. And then it just goes into a whole

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this more for you than the actual listening audience.

When Back to the Future number one came out in

2015, there were, I believe I counted them, I

would have to go to my website source, comicvine

.com, to double check this, but there were 35

covers for number one. Alone. Various covers,

just... Just love all these different covers.

I really do My favorite one one of my favorite

ones is probably the limited edition flux flakes

Free sports almanac seat back box seat back a

box for details. I like that one. I love the

The one where it's Maximum speed 88 miles per

hour. I think that one's great The Sports Almanac

one's okay. Did you have a favorite out of all

these bonus covers here? The alternate covers?

There's some pretty cool ones with the DeLoreans.

Most of the ones that have DeLorean and Lightning

that are more like a little bit more realistic

or a little bit less kid -like are pretty cool

looking. but i like those a lot better than the

ones that are showing them like as a younger

children yeah stuff like that uh... i think i

still have this image it probably will be in

this post the very low and the second to last

is this came out around valentine's day uh...

saturday night dance under the sea there's a

valid that i did you do this whole valentine's

day thing with all the comics in in that year

there's one right before that which is the main

cover of this trade but it's All of the five

issues put together in a giant mural. I found

that online and I will put it in the post. So

it's issue one with Marty, Doc, and Jennifer,

and Needles, and all that, and Biff. And it's

cool because you could see that as you were going

through. When it showed covers, you could see

that there was more off to the left or more off

to the right. So that kind of shows the whole

picture. Yeah, exactly. And I have the full image,

so I will be putting it in the post just so people

can see it. Back to the future, Untold Tales.

timelines volume one trade for the series I I

know you have a little bit of a grumble with

it because of Jurassic Biff but overall very

much enjoyed it. Oh yeah, I enjoyed it overall.

And like I said, what it has is it gives you

nine stories of various lengths. So if there's

one that you don't like, it's not gonna be very

long and you're onto another one. And I'm not

saying that there's one that you necessarily

don't like, but you're gonna be more interested

in some than the others. And you do get a lot

of character development, a lot of little snippets

of what else was happening in this time period,

what happened before this, what happened after

this. So if you're a fan of the films, you're

gonna be a fan of this. Can't see I can't see

somebody that really loves the films not enjoying

at least parts of this if not the whole thing

Yeah, absolutely I love all of the writing between

John Eric And Bob I love everything they're doing

with the stories the fact that we have in depth

You know back to the future Stuff that is outside,

but also inside the films like just that's amazing

to me that we have that now and the series is

still going on they have Over 25 issues I believe

at this point like the the volume five trade

is just is just now on pre -order I believe And

just it's such good storytelling If you folks

haven't picked this series up yet, please do

yourself a favor and do so. And we're not making

any money off of that. We're just telling you

that it's good, so go read it. Well, I've been

reading IDW stuff for the longest time, so, you

know, I mean, come on. Gotta endorse them. Right.

You know, hey, you know what? Maybe if, you know,

I send this to the right people, we may be able

to get an interview with Bob Gale. That would

be friggin' cool. Yeah, that would be cool. I

mean, I know his letters and things, like, we'll

see them as the Back to the Future coverage here

and the pullback continues with volumes two and

three and possibly the Citizen Brown and Biff

to the Future thing, but the letters that he

writes or that John writes in the beginning or

the ending of the trades, like, I get it, that's

the, that they wrote up that insight, but just

to be able to talk to somebody that worked with

Zemeckis and Michael J. Fox and... Christopher,

oh. Yes. A lot of fun stuff, so. What would you,

on the GCR and Universal Rating Scale 0 to 5,

what would you give Volume 1 Untold Tales and

alternate timelines for Back to the Future? I'd

probably be somewhere between a 4 and a 5. I'm

right there with you. I'm like four and a half

There's a little few things with the art that

I don't really care for but the rest of it is

absolutely amazing Yeah, but it does make me

antsy to get like a longer told story as well

We're gonna get that next week in episode 301

of the pull bag where we talk about Volume two

of back to the future with continuum conundrum

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