#1059; In which Produce is productive

Comic Transcripts

[[A young woman, staring out the window, is talking to another who is reclining on a chair, reading.]]
Hobbyist: Ooh, wouldn’t it be nice to have some fruit trees?
Hobbyist: Grow whatever we want… eat fresh from the land…
Critic: Fertilizer! Pesticides! I bet it’s so difficult that you wouldn’t save any money at all.

Hobbyist: Lots of people garden as a hobby. Not everything has to make a profit.
Critic: I already have *plenty* of hobbies! I’d rather pay the store for convenience.

Hobbyist: *What* hobbies do you have?
Critic: Going to the store to buy fruit, for one!

Hobbyist: That’s not a *hobby*.
Critic: Just because it’s not *your* hobby doesn’t mean it’s *no one’s*.
Critic: Just because you don’t *consider* it a hobby doesn’t mean there isn’t probably a Tumblr community *dedicated* to it!

[[The critic smiles in a sort of twisted satisfaction.]]
Critic: Made up of people who love *buying store fruit* more than you or I will *ever* love *anything* for the *rest of our lives*
Critic: Making GIF sets of bananas…
Critic: Shipping apples and oranges…
Critic: Getting *so much* satisfaction from their *community* and their *fandom* and their *togetherness*
Hobbyist: *This is what I wanted from gardening*

{{header: plant some WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I WANTED TO HAVE MEETUPS THAT WERE ALSO FRUIT SALAD POTLUCKS}}

#1059; In which Produce is productive transcribed by in

Hobbyist: Lots of people garden as a hobby. Not everything has to make a profit.
Critic: I already have *plenty* of hobbies! I’d rather pay the store for convenience.

Hobbyist: *What* hobbies do you have?
Critic: Going to the store to buy fruit, for one!

{{header: plant some WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I WANTED TO HAVE MEETUPS THAT WERE ALSO FRUIT SALAD POTLUCKS}}

#1059; In which Produce is productive transcribed by in

[[A young woman, staring out the window, is talking to another who is reclining on a chair, reading.]]
Hobbyist: Ooh, wouldn't it be nice to have some fruit trees?
Hobbyist: Grow whatever we want... eat fresh from the land...
Critic: Fertilizer! Pesticides! I bet it's so difficult that you wouldn't save any money at all.

Hobbyist: Lots of people garden as a hobby. Not everything has to make a profit.
Critic: I already have *plenty* of hobbies! I'd rather pay the store for convenience.

Hobbyist: *What* hobbies do you have?
Critic: Going to the store to buy fruit, for one!

Hobbyist: That's not a *hobby*.
Critic: Just because it's not *your* hobby doesn't mean it's *no one's*.
Critic: Just because you don't *consider* it a hobby doesn't mean there isn't probably a Tumblr community *dedicated* to it!

[[The critic smiles in a sort of twisted satisfaction.]]
Critic: Made up of people who love *buying store fruit* more than you or I will *ever* love *anything* for the *rest of our lives*
Critic: Making GIF sets of bananas...
Critic: Shipping apples and oranges...
Critic: Getting *so much* satisfaction from their *community* and their *fandom* and their *togetherness*
Hobbyist: *This is what I wanted from gardening*

{{header: plant some WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I WANTED TO HAVE MEETUPS THAT WERE ALSO FRUIT SALAD POTLUCKS}}

I WANTED TO HAVE MEETUPS THAT WERE ALSO FRUIT SALAD POTLUCKS

#1059; In which Produce is productive

— September 5th, 2014

[ Tags: botanicals, internet, the culture ] Permalink: https://wondermark.com/c/1059/

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The past few weeks have been a frenzy of assembling the very laborious, very bespoke first print run of NOODLE BATTLE, the puzzle game I am releasing this weekend at PAX West in Seattle!

PAX has an event called the PNW Tabletop Game Market (Saturday night ONLY), which is a curated selection of short-run games from local designers. As I’ve mentioned in this space before, I applied for a space in this fall’s event mainly as a way to force myself to finish a new game. And here it is!

The drawings are all by Jason Poland, good pal and cartoonist of My Dad Is Dracula. Jason played an early version of this game at Alaska Robotics Comics Camp this spring, and really liked it!

So I said, “Do you want to help me make it?” And so he has! It was his idea to make all the characters fun little animals, and I think it adds a ton of charm.

Because this edition is limited-run, it has been incredibly labor-intensive to make! The boxes and cards were made by a game factory in the usual fashion, but separately. The blank tiles were made by a woodworker dude out of Connecticut. For each game, we have had to:

Cut a piece of plastic and install the box window
Paint all the tiles, hundreds at a time
Apply a sticker to both sides of every tile
Apply stickers to the box (we couldn’t get the box back printed in time, so the whole back side of the box is a sticker too)
Apply the “Nutrition Facts” sticker, which was a late suggestion by my kid that I just had to run with
Fold up the rule sheet (they come from the printer as big strips of paper)
Put all the components into the box and seal it all up

I knew it would be a lot of work and would require some inefficient, expensive compromises AND I WAS RIGHT. But the final product is turning out great, which is the important thing!!

I will have 50 copies with me (if all goes well) at PAX, and then between now and the holidays we will be putting together additional copies to round out this first edition.

I will announce additional copies on Patreon first, once they are available online!! And here too, naturally, before long.

You can also sign up here if you’d like me to email you once the game is available online!

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#1059; In which Produce is productive

— September 5th, 2014

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