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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My newest game: Noodle Battle! At PAX!

September 2, 2026 by David Malki !

The past few weeks have been a frenzy of assembling the very laborious, very bespoke first print run of NOODLE BATTLE, the puzzle game I am releasing this weekend at PAX West in Seattle!

PAX has an event called the PNW Tabletop Game Market (Saturday night ONLY), which is a curated selection of short-run games from local designers. As I’ve mentioned in this space before, I applied for a space in this fall’s event mainly as a way to force myself to finish a new game. And here it is!

The drawings are all by Jason Poland, good pal and cartoonist of My Dad Is Dracula. Jason played an early version of this game at Alaska Robotics Comics Camp this spring, and really liked it!

So I said, “Do you want to help me make it?” And so he has! It was his idea to make all the characters fun little animals, and I think it adds a ton of charm.

Because this edition is limited-run, it has been incredibly labor-intensive to make! The boxes and cards were made by a game factory in the usual fashion, but separately. The blank tiles were made by a woodworker dude out of Connecticut. For each game, we have had to:

  • Cut a piece of plastic and install the box window
  • Paint all the tiles, hundreds at a time
  • Apply a sticker to both sides of every tile
  • Apply stickers to the box (we couldn’t get the box back printed in time, so the whole back side of the box is a sticker too)
  • Apply the “Nutrition Facts” sticker, which was a late suggestion by my kid that I just had to run with
  • Fold up the rule sheet (they come from the printer as big strips of paper)
  • Put all the components into the box and seal it all up

I knew it would be a lot of work and would require some inefficient, expensive compromises AND I WAS RIGHT. But the final product is turning out great, which is the important thing!!

I will have 50 copies with me (if all goes well) at PAX, and then between now and the holidays we will be putting together additional copies to round out this first edition.

I will announce additional copies on Patreon first, once they are available online!! And here too, naturally, before long.

You can also sign up here if you’d like me to email you once the game is available online!


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