Comic Transcripts

{{Special hand-drawn strip for April Fool’s Day.}}
TITLE: MAALKIES!
[[An airship swings wildly from its gas bag.]]
VOICE: Whoa-oa!
VOICE 2: Hold ‘er steady!
NOTE (below panel): With apologies and respect to Tony Millionaire

CAPTAIN: There’s nothin’ I can do! Somethin’s fouling up my controls!

[[A BEAR IN AN ILL-FITTING HAT stalks away angrily.]]
BEAR: That rotten Maalki! is up to no good!

[[The BEAR sees the problem.]]
MAALKI!: My beard’s in the sprockets again

[[There’s also a bottom strip, just like MAAKIES.]]
TITLE: The Day I Met Tony Millionaire

[[Birds fly over waves.]]

[[MALKI! shows a strip to TONY MILLIONAIRE.]]
MALKI!: Here is a sample of “Wondermark!”

[[Birds fly over waves.]]

[[MILLIONAIRE examines the strip thoughtfully.]]
MILLIONAIRE: Hmmmm

[[The waves are in a bathtub. The birds are apparently painted on the wall.]]

[[MILLIONAIRE continues to study the strip as MALKI! waits nervously.]]
MILLIONAIRE (thinking): What is this garbage?

{{Header: dook dook dook at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: To be fair, I don’t know that he was thinking that EXACTLY.}}

#503; In which a Crow drinks off-panel transcribed by in

{{Special hand-drawn strip for April Fool's Day.}}
TITLE: MAALKIES!
[[An airship swings wildly from its gas bag.]]
VOICE: Whoa-oa!
VOICE 2: Hold 'er steady!
NOTE (below panel): With apologies and respect to Tony Millionaire

CAPTAIN: There's nothin' I can do! Somethin's fouling up my controls!

[[A BEAR IN AN ILL-FITTING HAT stalks away angrily.]]
BEAR: That rotten Maalki! is up to no good!

[[The BEAR sees the problem.]]
MAALKI!: My beard's in the sprockets again

[[There's also a bottom strip, just like MAAKIES.]]
TITLE: The Day I Met Tony Millionaire

[[Birds fly over waves.]]

[[MALKI! shows a strip to TONY MILLIONAIRE.]]
MALKI!: Here is a sample of "Wondermark!"

[[Birds fly over waves.]]

[[MILLIONAIRE examines the strip thoughtfully.]]
MILLIONAIRE: Hmmmm

[[The waves are in a bathtub. The birds are apparently painted on the wall.]]

[[MILLIONAIRE continues to study the strip as MALKI! waits nervously.]]
MILLIONAIRE (thinking): What is this garbage?

{{Header: dook dook dook at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: To be fair, I don't know that he was thinking that EXACTLY.}}

To be fair, I don't know that he was thinking that EXACTLY.

#503; In which a Crow drinks off-panel

  — April 1st, 2009

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(Apologies to the great Tony Millionaire)

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New ways to get Bolted!

July 24, 2026 by David Malki !

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.


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