Well, it was inevitable that Biff wouldn’t be able to keep up with Snuka’s pace, as far as escalation is concerned – carrying the Death Star on your back is pretty hard to beat in that regard.

But escalate he must…and at first, the night-vision gear displayed in panel three was supposed to be the endpoint of that. It does make a lot of sense, after all, if you’re thinking along the lines of a power escalation in the realm of eye-wear. Plus, it kinda looks cool. But still, I wasn’t really satisfied with that, and kept looking for some alternative eye-wear that could be considered more powerful…giving up on the concept of “making sense” in the process. (Which wasn’t painful, since I do it so frequently.)

I was considering an eye patch, which is known to be highly empowering for pirates as well as Wotan/Odin. Even if a loss of depth perception should actually count as being disempowering, I guess…
Another candidate were shades. Really cool shades, of course. But it didn’t take a lot of research to find out that they don’t exist. And probably never actually existed in the past. My youthful conviction that there is something like cool shades was, obviously, just me being dumber back then. >_>

So then I went with the third candidate, Sir Elton’s glasses…you can dispute whether they’re fashionable, but their power can hardly be denied, seeing how far they got the guy. And I guess Biff might enjoy seeing the world through rose-colored glasses for a while? After all, the world he’s currently facing isn’t that great to look at, so a slight tint might be a marked improvement. It might also make up, in part, for Biff’s loos of naivete that came with his intellectual upgrade…

More on Monday.