#490; In which Parenthood is fraught

Comic Transcripts

HARRY: HEY! Turn off that TV! What did I say about contemporary children’s media?

HARRY: WHAT did Daddy SAY.
HARRY JR: It’s bad for my brain.
HARRY: That’s RIGHT. If you wanna watch TV, you can watch DVDs of 1980s Sesame Street, before it got all PC.
If you’re good, we’ll play a little SUPER MARIO ALL-STARS on the Super Nintendo.

JENNIFER: Oh, HARRY. Still trying to give your son your own childhood?
HARRY: I sure don’t trust TODAY’S culture not to mess him up!
I don’t want him becoming some texting-crazed exhibitionist Facebook-urchin with a narcissistic sense of entitlement!
I have to feed him SAFE cultural artifacts from MY childhood–the stuff that made ME into the decent person I am today.

JENNIFER: I thought your parents tried to raise you on Howdy Doody and Bosco drink.
HARRY: Ooh yeah and I HATED it!

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{{Alt-text: Harry quickly hides his iPhone. ‘Now, the Internet won’t exist until you’re in high school,’ he says, ‘but here’s a JCPenney catalog that came with the Sunday paper.’}}

#490; In which Parenthood is fraught 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.