Comic Transcripts

[[Two young people discuss a recent television show. One is clearly upset.]]
Knowledgeable Viewer: Can you BELIEVE what happened on Headstabbers last night??
Knowledgeable Viewer: When Duke Gristleton popped out of that birthday cake with a halberd —
Aggravated Viewer: AAHHH! SPOILERS!! I haven’t seen it yet!

Knowledgeable Viewer: SORRY. But, you know, the BOOKS the show is based on have been out for OVER SIX YEARS.
Aggravated Viewer: I haven’t READ the books! The show is still new to me, if I’m ALLOWED to enjoy it!

Knowledgeable Viewer: The books are a loose dramatization of the Franco-Prussian War, anyway. So there aren’t a lot of surprises.
Aggravated Viewer: I don’t know anything about that war! All I know about PRUSSIA is that it sounds like Russia but looks like Germany!

Knowledgeable Viewer: Well, even the Franco-Prussian War, like any troop conflict of the cavalry era, was a rehash (with variations) of every pre-mechanized conflict going back to the Peloponnesian War of 400 B.C.
Aggravated Viewer: You know that stuff’s all Greek to me!!
Knowledgeable Viewer: Really, ANY clash of forces has its roots in the second law of thermodynamics.

[[The aggravated viewer is now so panicked that he appears to be upside down at a 45 degree angle.]]
Aggravated Viewer: I never had a science class! And I only watched Cosmos with the sound off!
Knowledgeable Viewer: It just means that in a closed system, chaos tends to increase.
Aggravated Viewer: C’MON, dude! SPOILERS!!!

{{header: catch up with WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: The second season of HEADSTABBERS actually departed from the books in the key scene where Juliys Byl’y’gaen used a cutlass, rather than a rapier, to thread the eye sockets of the Erl of Raemaerael’y}}

#1126; In which Stabbing is spoiled transcribed by in

[[Two young people discuss a recent television show. One is clearly upset.]]
Knowledgeable Viewer: Can you BELIEVE what happened on Headstabbers last night??
Knowledgeable Viewer: When Duke Gristleton popped out of that birthday cake with a halberd --
Aggravated Viewer: AAHHH! SPOILERS!! I haven't seen it yet!

Knowledgeable Viewer: SORRY. But, you know, the BOOKS the show is based on have been out for OVER SIX YEARS.
Aggravated Viewer: I haven't READ the books! The show is still new to me, if I'm ALLOWED to enjoy it!

Knowledgeable Viewer: The books are a loose dramatization of the Franco-Prussian War, anyway. So there aren't a lot of surprises.
Aggravated Viewer: I don't know anything about that war! All I know about PRUSSIA is that it sounds like Russia but looks like Germany!

Knowledgeable Viewer: Well, even the Franco-Prussian War, like any troop conflict of the cavalry era, was a rehash (with variations) of every pre-mechanized conflict going back to the Peloponnesian War of 400 B.C.
Aggravated Viewer: You know that stuff's all Greek to me!!
Knowledgeable Viewer: Really, ANY clash of forces has its roots in the second law of thermodynamics.

[[The aggravated viewer is now so panicked that he appears to be upside down at a 45 degree angle.]]
Aggravated Viewer: I never had a science class! And I only watched Cosmos with the sound off!
Knowledgeable Viewer: It just means that in a closed system, chaos tends to increase.
Aggravated Viewer: C'MON, dude! SPOILERS!!!

{{header: catch up with WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: The second season of HEADSTABBERS actually departed from the books in the key scene where Juliys Byl'y'gaen used a cutlass, rather than a rapier, to thread the eye sockets of the Erl of Raemaerael'y}}

The second season of HEADSTABBERS actually departed from the books in the key scene where Juliys Byl'y'gaen used a cutlass, rather than a rapier, to thread the eye sockets of the Erl of Raemaerael'y

#1126; In which Stabbing is spoiled

  — May 19th, 2015

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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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