Jennifer (“as gorgeous as ever”, Gipe assures us) interrupts Marty’s car sex scene with her “How about a ride, mister?” and Marty says “Jen!  Are you ever a sight for sore eyes!  Let me look at you!”

In the movie, Jennifer says “Marty, you’re acting like you haven’t seen me in a week!” and hah hah it’s because he’s been gone for a week!  That worked out really well!

Okay Gipe, let’s mess this up for no reason!

Jennifer was somewhat taken aback by the unexpected display of emotion.  It wasn’t as if they had been separated for a long time, having seen each other only the evening before. [Editor’s note: wiiiiiiiiiiiiiink]

“Are you O.K.?” she asked.  ”You’re acting like you haven’t seen me in a year.”

As a writer, why would you do this?  Changing “week” to “year” ruins the gag of him actually not seeing her for a week and you gain nothing by it.  It’s just bad writing!  But it turns out there WAS a reason:

“I feel like I haven’t seen you for thirty years,” Marty smiled.

“That’s a long time to be deprived,” she smiled back.

Oh it’s because he travelled thirty years but it’s still stupid because from Marty’s POV has only been a week, so this thirty years thing is demonstrably a worse version of the same idea!  Once again, it’s like this book takes place in a crazy alternate universe where everything sucks just a little bit more than it needs to??

ANYWAY at this point they are kissing and OH SNAP remember when Marty got clockblocked?  This time he’s… 

DOCBLOCKED.

In contrast to that picture, Doc’s book outfit is different from the movie: rather than Future Clothes and Trademark Opaque Future Shades, he’s got all sorts of different time periods going on, which I kinda like because it hints at all sorts of different adventures we haven’t seen!

Inside sat Doc Brown, wearing a cowboy hat.  When he got out of the car, it was possible to see that he was dressed in a bizarre mixture of clothing types that included striped plastic pants, a cape and a strange variation on a Roman tunic.  

 

Then he delivers his wham line of “Marty, you’ve got to come back with me - BACK TO THE FUTURE!” (it’s the title of the story, see) but the book entirely deflates it with what comes next.  Seriously, this is right after the big dramatic “Back to the FUTURE!” line:

“Why?” [Marty said.]

“It’s important.” [Doc said.]

Haha yep there goes that momentum!  Marty whines that he doesn’t want to go (“But I’ve got Jennifer here.  I was just gonna try out my new wheels.”) and every kid who ever wanted to see the future (yes I am raising my hand here) is wanting to punch Marty for being more interested in a STUPID CAR FROM THE PRESENT when he could go drive FUTUREMOBILES.  It’s Luke Skywalker whining about power converters all over again!  (That is from a different movie called “Star Wars” and if you haven’t heard of it, he’s a dude who fights another dude, I dunno)

(Source: backtothefuturemovies)