#541; In which I thought of it First

Comic Transcripts

JOSH: I got a great idea for a product. It’s perfect, it fills a needs, solves a common problem.
TAD: But you have absolutely NO engineering knowhow, seed capital, or business acumen whatsoever!
JOSH: ABSOLUTELY none. In fact, LESS than none, considering what information I DO have is irrevocably flawed.

JOSH: So what do I DO with my idea? I mean, it is SO great!
How do I CASH IN without having to do anything HARD?
TAD: If there’s really NOTHING you can do with it yourself, you have three options.
You can TURN IT OVER to the world, to someone who CAN do something with it.
You can cling to it, and nine years from now when somebody else comes up with it independently, moan that it was your idea.
OR, you can write a letter to the President of Inventions explaining your idea, and he’ll send you a form to fill out with a check to follow.

CAPTION: NINE YEARS LATER
OFFPANEL VOICE: …have developed a way to reprocess COW METHANE into JET FUEL.
JOSH: THAT WAS MY FRIKKIN IDEA
TAD: Man, EVERYBODY picks option two.

{{Header: come up with WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Writing to the President of Inventions is like writing to Santa Claus, except that the President of Inventions is a notorious intellectual-property thief and Santa Claus is imaginary.}}

#541; In which I thought of it First transcribed by in

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!