Comic Transcripts

EFFIE (taking a bath): Riddle me this: how is it that a hotel with gourmet coffee and 400-thread-count sheets can’t provide a bar of soap that doesn’t make you feel like you’ve rolled around in a basket of fleas for an hour? Isn’t humanity past that point in soap technology?
HAL (watching her do so): Well, you never use up a full bar of soap during your stay, do you?

EFFIE: Of course not. I don’t think that’s even possible.
HAL: No one does. But they’re not going to just throw those partial bars away. They melt ’em down to make new bars. Sometimes hundreds of times. It’s inevitable that contaminants will occasionally enter the process.

[[In the soap processing plant, the contaminants become clear: molten soap is being poured through a gleeful man’s crack on its way to becoming new bars]]

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#388; In which Soap fails transcribed by in

EFFIE (taking a bath): Riddle me this: how is it that a hotel with gourmet coffee and 400-thread-count sheets can't provide a bar of soap that doesn't make you feel like you've rolled around in a basket of fleas for an hour? Isn't humanity past that point in soap technology?
HAL (watching her do so): Well, you never use up a full bar of soap during your stay, do you?

EFFIE: Of course not. I don't think that's even possible.
HAL: No one does. But they're not going to just throw those partial bars away. They melt 'em down to make new bars. Sometimes hundreds of times. It's inevitable that contaminants will occasionally enter the process.

[[In the soap processing plant, the contaminants become clear: molten soap is being poured through a gleeful man's crack on its way to becoming new bars]]

{{header: lather it up at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: now we can claim it has 'organic ingredients'}}

now we can claim it has 'organic ingredients'

#388; In which Soap fails

  — March 7th, 2008

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Bolted! Fulfillment Update

May 25, 2026 by David Malki !
Photo courtesy of backer Nicola!

The vast majority of Bolted! game shipments are already shipped, but I understand if you don’t have yours yet, who cares. Here’s a progress report:

Total orders | 1052
Surveys completed | 992
Fully shipped | 946

Incomplete surveys

Obviously, if I don’t have your shipping address, I can’t ship your game! Let me know if you are missing a survey link. As new responses come in, they are rapidly added to the shipping queue.

Orders containing certain add-ons

Some of the add-ons proved more popular than expected — which is lovely! But it meant I had to reprint some stickers, make all the individual comic prints, request a shipment of books from offsite storage, etc, etc. So, any orders which contain an out-of-stock item are still waiting to ship.

All that missing stuff, though, is en route to me at this very second! So those orders will be going out pretty dang soon!

Custom items

I’ve already been in touch directly with the backers who ordered custom collages! Those will be created (and sent to you) after all the other shipments are complete. I’m excited for those, they’ll be fun! My pleasant dessert after the hearty meal of all the other orders.

Anything wrong?

I’m very grateful to the few folks who’ve contacted me to report some kind of issue with their shipment! Thankfully, problems are rare, but when they do occur, I would like to solve them. Please don’t hesitate to send me an email (replying to your shipping confirmation works great) if there’s anything about your order I can correct.

Reviews & photos

On BoardGameGeek are highly appreciated!

Unless you hate the game! You are entitled to that opinion, but please send that review directly to me instead of telling anyone else, so I can eat it and bury it in the yard and watch it grow into a twisted, gnarled tree. Or whatever!


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