#720; Enter the Mexicans

Comic Transcripts

CARLOS: Greetings! We are visitors from the planet Mexico, many light-years away. We have come in peace to establish friendly, mutually-beneficent relations.
DEB: What? WHAT is the name of your planet?
ANDY: Is this some kind of immigration metaphor

CARLOS: Our planet’s name is Mexico. It means “fragrant flowering fruit” in our native tongue. Prior cultures have called it by other names. Guatemala. Honduras. El Salvador. Nicaragua.
ANDY: Okay, skip the cutesy alien schtick. What’s the message? Is it about the border fence?

CARLOS: We do not know of any border fence. What a strange and inhumane concept!
ANDY: Aha!
CARLOS: Our nations are kept distinct by means of impassable canyons, policed by savage animals who devour trespassers.
ANDY: WAIT

CARLOS: On Mexico, creatures are segregated by horn quality into inviolable casts that annually rotate civic duties, Right now twosies are the lawyers, threesies the bakers, and ninesies like us are the astronauts.
WENDY: We do this because the Mexican race is biologically most suited to be accountants and cobblers. But we can’t all be accountants and cobblers all of the time.
ANDU: I cannot figure out this metaphor

{{header: buenos dias from WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: We are SO TIRED of the STEREOTYPE that ALL MEXICANS are accountants and cobblers!}}

#720; Enter the Mexicans transcribed by in

{{header: buenos dias from WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: We are SO TIRED of the STEREOTYPE that ALL MEXICANS are accountants and cobblers!}}

#720; Enter the Mexicans 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!