Comic Transcripts

[[Three men sit around a folding table in the middle of a village of thatched huts.]]
BERNIE: This is shaping up to be a LEGENDARY national election!
STIG: Oh, man! If Obama wins the Presidency…TALK about HISTORIC!
After ALL these years, a President with a surname BOTH BEGINNING AND ENDING in a VOWEL!
THINK of it! AND the first Presidential surname with MORE VOWELS THAN CONSONANTS!
For years it seemed like nobody could beat FIFTY PERCENT–Coolidge, Pierce, Eisenhower, Reagan, you know all those tired old names–but Obama’s poised to SHATTER that record!

BERNIE: With only forty-three Presidents, it’s not terribly hard fo any one of them to be the first at something obscure. Clinton was the first BABY BOOMER President. George W. was the first to visit ALBANIA.
If Obama wins, it’ll PROBABLY be historic for reasons OTHER than his being the fourteenth (after Carter, Nixon, Jefferson, Cleveland, both Johnsons, Tyler, Hayes, Jackson, Madison, Grant, Wilson and arguably Taylor) to feature PALINDROMIC VOWEL-CONSONANT DISPERSION.
STIG: GUHHHHH I have to change my pants.

{{Header: make headlines at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: McCain calls himself a ‘maverick,’ but McKinley beat him to the patronymic particle by over 100 years.}}

#441; In which Politics exhilarate transcribed by in

[[Three men sit around a folding table in the middle of a village of thatched huts.]]
BERNIE: This is shaping up to be a LEGENDARY national election!
STIG: Oh, man! If Obama wins the Presidency…TALK about HISTORIC!
After ALL these years, a President with a surname BOTH BEGINNING AND ENDING in a VOWEL!
THINK of it! AND the first Presidential surname with MORE VOWELS THAN CONSONANTS!
For years it seemed like nobody could beat FIFTY PERCENT–Coolidge, Pierce, Eisenhower, Reagan, you know all those tired old names–but Obama’s poised to SHATTER that record!

BERNIE: With only forty-three Presidents, it’s not terribly hard fo any one of them to be the first at something obscure. Clinton was the first BABY BOOMER President. George W. was the first to visit ALBANIA.
If Obama wins, it’ll PROBABLY be historic for reasons OTHER than his being the fourteenth (after Carter, Nixon, Jefferson, Cleveland, both Johnsons, Tyler, Hayes, Jackson, Madison, Grant, Wilson and arguably Taylor) to feature PALINDROMIC VOWEL-CONSONANT DISPERSION.
STIG: GUHHHHH I have to change my pants.

{{Header: make headlines at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: McCain calls himself a ‘maverick,’ but McKinley beat him to the patronymic particle by over 100 years.}}

#441; In which Politics exhilarate transcribed by in

[[Three men sit around a folding table in the middle of a village of thatched huts.]]
BERNIE: This is shaping up to be a LEGENDARY national election!
STIG: Oh, man! If Obama wins the Presidency...TALK about HISTORIC!
After ALL these years, a President with a surname BOTH BEGINNING AND ENDING in a VOWEL!
THINK of it! AND the first Presidential surname with MORE VOWELS THAN CONSONANTS!
For years it seemed like nobody could beat FIFTY PERCENT--Coolidge, Pierce, Eisenhower, Reagan, you know all those tired old names--but Obama's poised to SHATTER that record!

BERNIE: With only forty-three Presidents, it's not terribly hard fo any one of them to be the first at something obscure. Clinton was the first BABY BOOMER President. George W. was the first to visit ALBANIA.
If Obama wins, it'll PROBABLY be historic for reasons OTHER than his being the fourteenth (after Carter, Nixon, Jefferson, Cleveland, both Johnsons, Tyler, Hayes, Jackson, Madison, Grant, Wilson and arguably Taylor) to feature PALINDROMIC VOWEL-CONSONANT DISPERSION.
STIG: GUHHHHH I have to change my pants.

{{Header: make headlines at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: McCain calls himself a 'maverick,' but McKinley beat him to the patronymic particle by over 100 years.}}

McCain calls himself a 'maverick', but McKinley beat him to the medial-capital patronymic particle by over 100 years.

#441; In which Politics exhilarate

  — September 9th, 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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