#669; The Printout Read “SCALE”

Comic Transcripts

VICTOR [holding a pool cue]: Have you ever been in a situation that was just a little bit unsettling, just barely enough to get the pit of your stomach seizing up like a fist clenching but only weakly like an arthritic fist

VICTOR: But then the fist takes some supplements or something and it starts squeezing harder and harder and you realize that the situation is getting worse not better and at this rate it looks like it really might keep getting worse without ever recovering, I mean it passes that point

VICTOR: And you very seriously start to consider that THIS IS IT. This is how I am going to DIE. It was going to happen eventually, and it’s NOW. My time is just up. Because?I feel that way now.

MAURICE [holding a large eel]: Have you ever felt that way BUT THEN relayed that your good friend knows way more about having fun than you do so you should just trust him for once?
VICTOR: I’ve made lots of bad decisions, yeah

[[header: the machine reads WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: He had been to a machine that predicted his death. Receiving ‘SCALE,’ he kept himself trim and avoided shipyards and truckstops. And then, when Maurice entered the room with his large eel, his blood froze.]]

#669; The Printout Read “SCALE” transcribed by in

VICTOR [holding a?pool cue?]: Have you ever been in a situation that was just a little bit unsettling, just barely enough to get the pit of your stomach seizing up like a fist clenching but only weakly like an arthritic fist

VICTOR: And you very seriously start to consider that THIS IS IT. This is how I am going to DIE. It was going to happen eventually, and it’s NOW. My time is just up. Because?I feel that way now.

[[header: the machine reads WONDERMARK.COM]]

#669; The Printout Read “SCALE” transcribed by in

VICTOR: And you very seriously start to consider that THIS IS IT. This is how I am going to DIE. It was going to happen eventually, and it's NOW. My time is just up. Because?I feel that way now.

[[header: the machine reads WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: He had been to a machine that predicted his death. Receiving 'SCALE,' he kept himself trim and avoided shipyards and truckstops. And then, when Maurice entered the room with his large eel, his blood froze.]]

He had been to a machine that predicted his death. Receiving 'SCALE', he kept himself trim and avoided shipyards and truckstops. And then, when Maurice entered the room with the eel, he felt his blood freeze.

#669; The Printout Read “SCALE”

— October 26th, 2010

[ Tags: attack, consequences, despair ] Permalink: https://wondermark.com/c/669/

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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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#669; The Printout Read “SCALE”

— October 26th, 2010

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