Comic Transcripts

[[KIM stares off into space and muses; a friend stands nearby.]]

KIM: Sometimes I wish I were, like, stuck on a desert island with a piano.  I bet with nothing else to do, I’d eventually teach myself to play.

KIM: I’d plink around at first, and over time start to pick up a sense for it.  Without any formal training, I’d have to just FIGURE STUFF OUT. I’d probably end up inventing new chords and working in nontraditional keys.

KIM:  By the time I’d finally be rescued, I’d have created a body of compositions ENTIRELY INDEPENDENT of current musical theory.  It would be revolutionary, a NOVEL SOUND out of NOWHERE. People could like it or not.  But it would, at LEAST, be NEW.

CAPTION: Coincidentally, Kim soon finds herself in this exact scenario:

[[On the desert island, Kim stares at the piano.]]

KIM:  Actually I kinda wish you were FOOD.

{{header: some time alone with WONDERMARK.COM}}

#951; In which Kim gets her Wish transcribed by in

[[KIM stares off into space and muses; a friend stands nearby.]]

KIM: Sometimes I wish I were, like, stuck on a desert island with a piano.  I bet with nothing else to do, I’d eventually teach myself to play.

KIM: I’d plink around at first, and over time start to pick up a sense for it.  Without any formal training, I’d have to just FIGURE STUFF OUT. I’d probably end up inventing new chords and working in nontraditional keys.

KIM:  By the time I’d finally be rescued, I’d have created a body of compositions ENTIRELY INDEPENDENT of current musical theory.  It would be revolutionary, a NOVEL SOUND out of NOWHERE. People could like it or not.  But it would, at LEAST, be NEW.

CAPTION: Coincidentally, Kim soon finds herself in this exact scenario:

[[On the desert island, Kim stares at the piano.]]

KIM:  Actually I kinda wish you were FOOD.

{{header: some time alone with WONDERMARK.COM}}

#951; In which Kim gets her Wish transcribed by in

[[KIM stares off into space and muses; a friend stands nearby.]]

KIM: Sometimes I wish I were, like, stuck on a desert island with a piano.  I bet with nothing else to do, I'd eventually teach myself to play.

KIM: I'd plink around at first, and over time start to pick up a sense for it.  Without any formal training, I'd have to just FIGURE STUFF OUT. I'd probably end up inventing new chords and working in nontraditional keys.

KIM:  By the time I'd finally be rescued, I'd have created a body of compositions ENTIRELY INDEPENDENT of current musical theory.  It would be revolutionary, a NOVEL SOUND out of NOWHERE. People could like it or not.  But it would, at LEAST, be NEW.

CAPTION: Coincidentally, Kim soon finds herself in this exact scenario:

[[On the desert island, Kim stares at the piano.]]

KIM:  Actually I kinda wish you were FOOD.

{{header: some time alone with WONDERMARK.COM}}

CONCERT TONITE: Marooned For A Decade, Kimberly Collins Ate A Piano. Come Hear Her Arresting, Dissonant Belching In 7/4 Time

#951; In which Kim gets her Wish

  — July 19th, 2013

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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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