Five chapters, five background stories were added to the legendary movie series with interesting and funny details, mainly about Dr. Emmett Brown.
All the stories are told by Dr. Emmett Brown to his children, in his workroom, during making mechanics, in the past. The first is about how they had met with Marty in the future… When and where the movies started they were good friends already, so it’s interesting how this eccentric scientific and the loser guy met with each other. In a nutshell: Marty was blackmailed by a big guy, so he has to ask Dr. Brown giving him some piece of a guitar amplifier. Marty went in, and despite of the doctor’s house was full of traps, Marty was able to get out of them, so Dr. Brown asked him to be his assistant.
The second story played in a previous historical period: in 1943 Dr. Brown was hired by the US State to work on the Manhattan Project. After a while, in 1962 was asked to develop a time machine… But after he saw a terrible dream about nuclear wars, he decided that such a dangerous machine never should become a property of the state…
In the third Emmett tried to help to George and Lorraine (Marty’s parents) in 1984, when both asked him to help with the other one…
There’s an untold adventure of Biff with the time machine: for the first attempt he configured the time machine wrong, and after he arrived to a forest, his lunch and his copybook was almost eaten by a dinosaur…
The next is about the meeting of Marty and Jennifer: Marty is such a loser here, and in the latest story Dr. Brown goes to the future, and we will know how he made the DeLorean a flying car… Additionally we can know better Clara, Emmett’s wife too – she wanted to know the future all her life…
It’s great in these stories that they make the movies more complete and understandable, and they are funny too, the same style as the movies were. It’s interesting for all the movie-fans who want to return with them to the past or the future…
Bob Gale, John Barber, Erik Burnham: Back To The Future – Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines
Diamond Book Distributors/IDW Publishing, 2016.
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