#719; The Background Check

Comic Transcripts

BONNIE: You gonna say hi to the new kid?
GLEN: Nah. He’s got nothing to offer.
BONNIE: What makes you think so?
Glen: Well?

GLEN: First I googled the slogan from that crazy patch on his brother’s backpack. It’s some obscure band with only like a hundred Facebook fans. Found his brother there, and of course he’s friends with his brother.
GLEN: Now I got the correct spelling of his name: Guenters Kreiberscht. Googling that reveals an old Myspace blog.

GLEN: His Myspace username “Guent-To-The-Choppa” also shows up on an old Yu-Gi-Oh forum. That isn’t online anymore, but the Internet Archive has a cached version.
GLEN: His posts there inform me about a new username: “Krei-Me-A-Riva,” which has a Livejournal – and that has a link to a newish Tumblr.

GLEN: None of it gave me the sense that Yu-Gi-Oh McGee over there is anyone worth bothering with. I don’t need friends who’re less cool than I am.
BONNIE: ?I guess I should feel flattered?
GLEN: Well I mean
GLEN: You were grandfathered in

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#719; The Background Check transcribed by in

BONNIE: You gonna say hi to the new kid?
GLEN: Nah. He’s got nothing to offer.
BONNIE: What makes you think so?
Glen: Well?

{{header: check out WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: i.e. your grandfather is WAY COOLER than me, and I like spending time with him!}}

#719; The Background Check transcribed by in

The vast majority of Bolted! game shipments are already shipped, but I understand if you don’t have yours yet, who cares. Here’s a progress report:

Total orders | 1052
Surveys completed | 992
Fully shipped | 946

Incomplete surveys

Obviously, if I don’t have your shipping address, I can’t ship your game! Let me know if you are missing a survey link. As new responses come in, they are rapidly added to the shipping queue.

Orders containing certain add-ons

Some of the add-ons proved more popular than expected — which is lovely! But it meant I had to reprint some stickers, make all the individual comic prints, request a shipment of books from offsite storage, etc, etc. So, any orders which contain an out-of-stock item are still waiting to ship.

All that missing stuff, though, is en route to me at this very second! So those orders will be going out pretty dang soon!

Custom items

I’ve already been in touch directly with the backers who ordered custom collages! Those will be created (and sent to you) after all the other shipments are complete. I’m excited for those, they’ll be fun! My pleasant dessert after the hearty meal of all the other orders.

Anything wrong?

I’m very grateful to the few folks who’ve contacted me to report some kind of issue with their shipment! Thankfully, problems are rare, but when they do occur, I would like to solve them. Please don’t hesitate to send me an email (replying to your shipping confirmation works great) if there’s anything about your order I can correct.

Reviews & photos

On BoardGameGeek are highly appreciated!

Unless you hate the game! You are entitled to that opinion, but please send that review directly to me instead of telling anyone else, so I can eat it and bury it in the yard and watch it grow into a twisted, gnarled tree. Or whatever!