#785; In which Medicine is necessary

Comic Transcripts

BETH: How’s it going? Still feeling bad?
YURI: Can I have more Sudafed and Benadryl and anything else you got

YURI: I do not understand how human beings functioned before the invention of pharmaceuticals. The Pyramids! The Great Wall of China! Railroads crossing continents!

YURI: NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS built all that stuff without so much as an aspirin. And sometimes BEER instead of WATER! How did they manage? I get a head cold and I can’t stand up for more than five minutes!

BETH: You’d probably be more robust too if you got that much exercise.
YURI: Enslaved by a cruel monarch! Worked to death by thirty! But I bet their sinuses were clear as HELL!

{{header: take two WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Okay, FINE, I’ll try chewing on coca leaves to see if it makes me feel better. BUT ONLY FOR SCIENCE}}

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BETH: How’s it going? Still feeling bad?
YURI: Can I have more Sudafed and Benadryl and anything else you got

YURI: I do not understand how human beings functioned before the invention of pharmaceuticals. The Pyramids! The Great Wall of China! Railroads crossing continents!

BETH: You’d probably be more robust too if you got that much exercise.
YURI: Enslaved by a cruel monarch! Worked to death by thirty! But I bet their sinuses were clear as HELL!

{{header: take two WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Okay, FINE, I’ll try chewing on coca leaves to see if it makes me feel better. BUT ONLY FOR SCIENCE}}

#785; In which Medicine is necessary transcribed by in

Bolted! games have been shipping to backers over the last couple of weeks! The non-US orders are (mostly) done and some folks have been reporting receiving them already!

@davidmalki.com My game arrived today!! It looks gorgeous 🙂 Hope you are well 🙂

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— Lar deSouza (@lartist.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM

My US inventory of games is now in-country, but still being staged at the fulfillment centers. It’s being distributed to regional warehouses, so the actual shipping to backers happens more efficiently. I hope the bulk of US shipping will start next week.

These are what the cartons (and games) look like!

bolted! games BOLTED! GAMES (pounding the table) B O L T E D ! G A M E S

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— david malki ! (@davidmalki.com) April 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM

I am also waiting on the bonus cards to be finished printing! I ended up needing many more of those than I had anticipated, so I decided to have the game factory print those too, for perfect matching with the base game cards.

Most people will be receiving two separate mailings: the game itself, and “anything else” (bonus cards and/or add-ons) which will be sent by me personally.

As of today, 86% of backers have completed their surveys so far! That’s pretty good, but it’s not everyone. I know YOU PERSONALLY have already completed YOURS though, so no worries!!

We have now moved OFF of Kickstarter and ONTO BackerKit for any new orders. You can bundle a game with basically anything else I sell on that there website, it’s pretty nuts!