Comic Transcripts

JEFF: Let me ask you something, Lester. There is a BEAST that visits me in the darkest part of my dreams.
She lurks at the corners of vision, always circling, always prowling. She does not let herself be seen.
She FOLLOWS me.

JEFF: I might be dreaming of home, or of loves long lost, or of chocolate or ice cream or kangaroos or ANYTHING–and she is always there, and the dream is always from that point TAINTED.
The ice cream turns to soot, or my old bedroom to a FURNACE…
Everything takes on a MISERABLE shape as the shadow of the beast passes over.
And then she HOWLS as I kick in my bed.

JEFF: If only I could speak the NAME of the beast, I might REBUKE her. But its alien syllables slither past my tongue like a soapy worm.
Yet I TRY–Oh, I WAKE myself with the SCREECHING.
LESTER: So what’s the question?
JEFF: Why do I only seem to attract WEIRD chicks?

{{Header: shout out WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: She wants to keep her last name after we get married; I want freedom from this everlasting torment. All good relationships are built on compromise.}}

#619; In which the Night holds Challenges transcribed by in

JEFF: Let me ask you something, Lester. There is a BEAST that visits me in the darkest part of my dreams.
She lurks at the corners of vision, always circling, always prowling. She does not let herself be seen.
She FOLLOWS me.

JEFF: I might be dreaming of home, or of loves long lost, or of chocolate or ice cream or kangaroos or ANYTHING–and she is always there, and the dream is always from that point TAINTED.
The ice cream turns to soot, or my old bedroom to a FURNACE…
Everything takes on a MISERABLE shape as the shadow of the beast passes over.
And then she HOWLS as I kick in my bed.

JEFF: If only I could speak the NAME of the beast, I might REBUKE her. But its alien syllables slither past my tongue like a soapy worm.
Yet I TRY–Oh, I WAKE myself with the SCREECHING.
LESTER: So what’s the question?
JEFF: Why do I only seem to attract WEIRD chicks?

{{Header: shout out WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: She wants to keep her last name after we get married; I want freedom from this everlasting torment. All good relationships are built on compromise.}}

#619; In which the Night holds Challenges transcribed by in

JEFF: Let me ask you something, Lester. There is a BEAST that visits me in the darkest part of my dreams.
She lurks at the corners of vision, always circling, always prowling. She does not let herself be seen.
She FOLLOWS me.

JEFF: I might be dreaming of home, or of loves long lost, or of chocolate or ice cream or kangaroos or ANYTHING--and she is always there, and the dream is always from that point TAINTED.
The ice cream turns to soot, or my old bedroom to a FURNACE...
Everything takes on a MISERABLE shape as the shadow of the beast passes over.
And then she HOWLS as I kick in my bed.

JEFF: If only I could speak the NAME of the beast, I might REBUKE her. But its alien syllables slither past my tongue like a soapy worm.
Yet I TRY--Oh, I WAKE myself with the SCREECHING.
LESTER: So what's the question?
JEFF: Why do I only seem to attract WEIRD chicks?

{{Header: shout out WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: She wants to keep her last name after we get married; I want freedom from this everlasting torment. All good relationships are built on compromise.}}

She wants to keep her last name after we get married; I want freedom from this everlasting torment. All good relationships are built on compromise

#619; In which the Night holds Challenges

  — May 4th, 2010

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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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