Comic Transcripts

MARIO: The secret to avoiding parking tickets is to look like you already have a parking ticket. [[He gestures to an envelope marked VIOLATION on his windshield.]] With an envelope already under your wiper, you can park anywhere you want!

AMBROSE: But won’t the officer making the rounds know whether he’s given you one? Won’t he check the date and time of the existing citation?
MARIO: Let him! He’ll find a citation with today’s date for this exact point on the street. Photoshop lets me customize it for anywhere I park.

AMBROSE: So you plan out where you’re going to illegally park and print fake citations ahead of time? Or do you just print a dozen citations every morning for whatever times you think you might need?
MARIO: Yeah, I’ve got a macro. It’s actually not that much trouble once you make it a habit.

AMBROSE: ?you realize you’re probably spending more on paper and ink and time than the actual citations would cost.
MARIO: Ah, but ruining one’s own life by choice is the very definition of liberty.

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{{alt-text: ‘Can you believe Mario carries around a box of pre-printed tickets everywhere he goes?’ ‘I know, what a moron! I just keep a color printer plugged into the cigarette lighter.’}}

#664; Spite is the Father of Invention transcribed by in

MARIO: The secret to avoiding parking tickets is to look like you already have a parking ticket. [[He gestures to an envelope marked VIOLATION on his windshield.]] With an envelope already under your wiper, you can park anywhere you want!

AMBROSE: But won’t the officer making the rounds know whether he’s given you one? Won’t he check the date and time of the existing citation?
MARIO: Let him! He’ll find a citation with today’s date for this exact point on the street. Photoshop lets me customize it for anywhere I park.

AMBROSE: So you plan out where you’re going to illegally park and print fake citations ahead of time? Or do you just print a dozen citations every morning for whatever times you think you might need?
MARIO: Yeah, I’ve got a macro. It’s actually not that much trouble once you make it a habit.

AMBROSE: ?you realize you’re probably spending more on paper and ink and time than the actual citations would cost.
MARIO: Ah, but ruining one’s own life by choice is the very definition of liberty.

{{header: take time for WONDERMARK.COM}}

{{alt-text: ‘Can you believe Mario carries around a box of pre-printed tickets everywhere he goes?’ ‘I know, what a moron! I just keep a color printer plugged into the cigarette lighter.’}}

#664; Spite is the Father of Invention transcribed by in

MARIO: The secret to avoiding parking tickets is to look like you already have a parking ticket. [[He gestures to an envelope marked VIOLATION on his windshield.]] With an envelope already under your wiper, you can park anywhere you want!

AMBROSE: But won't the officer making the rounds know whether he's given you one? Won't he check the date and time of the existing citation?
MARIO: Let him! He'll find a citation with today's date for this exact point on the street. Photoshop lets me customize it for anywhere I park.

AMBROSE: So you plan out where you're going to illegally park and print fake citations ahead of time? Or do you just print a dozen citations every morning for whatever times you think you might need?
MARIO: Yeah, I've got a macro. It's actually not that much trouble once you make it a habit.

AMBROSE: ?you realize you're probably spending more on paper and ink and time than the actual citations would cost.
MARIO: Ah, but ruining one's own life by choice is the very definition of liberty.

{{header: take time for WONDERMARK.COM}}

{{alt-text: 'Can you believe Mario carries around a box of pre-printed tickets everywhere he goes?' 'I know, what a moron! I just keep a color printer plugged into the cigarette lighter.'}}

'Can you believe Mario carries around a file box of pre-printed tickets everywhere he goes?' 'I know, what a moron! I just keep a color printer plugged into the cigarette lighter'

#664; Spite is the Father of Invention

  — October 8th, 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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