#593; In which Mike is Corporeal

Comic Transcripts

MIKE (not the same MIKE from the previous strip, but another MIKE, a very different MIKE indeed): Raymond, can I ask you something…personal?
About myself?
RAYMOND: Sure, Mike. SHOOT.

MIKE: Am I…
Am I a GHOST?
RAYMOND: HA HA HA!
Are you a GHOST. Why would you even ASK something like that?

MIKE: Because whenever I touch wood, or leather, or anything that used to have LIFE I feel a sharp nail of misery drive deep behind both eyes.
Because the night has started SPEAKING to me, using the voice of moonlight to whisper ancient secrets.
Because everything I remember of HAPPINESS has the fading character of a dream startled awake from.

RAYMOND: Does the sound of young laughter fill your throat with the ashy pitch of a great tree burning since the days of Noah?
MIKE: N-not REALLY.
RAYMOND: Then you’re fine. It’s probably just gas.

{{Header: run screaming to WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: Now come along, I have a hundred bottles for you to fill with luminous psychoplasma from your fingertips.}}

#593; In which Mike is Corporeal 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.