#1061; In which a Cookie is refused

Comic Transcripts

[[A young woman offers a cookie to a man.]]
Cookie advocate: Want a cookie?
Hunter-gatherer: Nah, thanks – I don’t eat refined foods. We didn’t EVOLVE for it!

Hunter-gatherer: Our bodies aren’t OPTIMIZED for any of that stuff. I eat meat and nuts and raw veggies only!
Hunter-gatherer: AND I don’t wear shoes. They make your feet weak!
Hunter-gatherer: I barely wear clothes at ALL! Only NATURAL fibers, of course!

[[The hunter-gatherer has put on a large mask and tank.]]
Hunter-gatherer: And since we evolved to breathe clean, UNPOLLUTED air, I carry around this tank!
Hunter-gatherer: Masks weren’t around in the Pleistocene, though, so I have to constantly inflate and reinflate this SEAL BLADDER
Hunter-gatherer: I basically breathe through a bagpipe

Hunter-gatherer: I can’t wear glasses, since those were invented too late, so I stumble around a lot…
Hunter-gatherer: The TDAP vaccine’s also modern, so I have to hope I never step on a rusty nail. So far I’ve been lucky!

Hunter-gatherer: But I’m pretty happy. Got a healthy lifestyle. In touch with nature. Talk to birds a lot.
Hunter-gatherer: Tried to set up a blog, but blogs aren’t paleo… so now I drum on rocks and whittle spears. It’s a life I chose.

Cookie advocate: Are you sure you don’t want a cookie?
Hunter-gatherer: Okay LOOK I need to be clear that the issue isn’t what I WANT it’s what I ALLOW MYSELF to HAVE because I dearly need the illusion of CONTROL

{{header: just like WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: really instead of any modern devices what I’d rather have is a bevy of single-function birds and dinosaurs coexisting with me in a symbiotic flintstonian utopia}}

#1061; In which a Cookie is refused transcribed by in

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one, except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.