Comic Transcripts

[[A woman, SNAMANTHICA, gestures urgently at a large mechanical device with a baby inside while speaking to a man, SIMON.]]

SNAMANTHICA: Oh! Simon! Those people left their baby in some sort of HYDRAULIC DEATH-SCREW! It winds itself closer to the small, soft body by the second!

SNAMANTHICA: I should SAY something!
SIMON: Leave it alone! It’s none of your business!

SIMON: You don’t KNOW that it’s a DEATH-SCREW! Do you want to be one of those meddling people who lectures others on how to parent?

SIMON: They’re raising THEIR kid THEIR WAY! Do you want someone second-guessing all YOUR parenting decisions?
SNAMANTHICA: I HAVE to say something. Each turn of the screw more certainly augurs a grisly end for the babe

[[Snamanthica departs, presumably to confront the parents in charge of the device. After a moment, she returns.]]

SIMON: Well?
SNAMANTHICA: They wearily explained that the baby has a medical condition requiring his skull to be lanced hourly
SNAMANTHICA: And furthermore, their insurance would only pay for the most terrifying possible device, as a way to obliquely punish them for being of humble means.
SNAMANTHICA: But still. I’m glad I said something

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[[A woman, SNAMANTHICA, gestures urgently at a large mechanical device with a baby inside while speaking to a man, SIMON.]]

SNAMANTHICA: Oh! Simon! Those people left their baby in some sort of HYDRAULIC DEATH-SCREW! It winds itself closer to the small, soft body by the second!

SNAMANTHICA: I should SAY something!
SIMON: Leave it alone! It’s none of your business!

SIMON: You don’t KNOW that it’s a DEATH-SCREW! Do you want to be one of those meddling people who lectures others on how to parent?

SIMON: They’re raising THEIR kid THEIR WAY! Do you want someone second-guessing all YOUR parenting decisions?
SNAMANTHICA: I HAVE to say something. Each turn of the screw more certainly augurs a grisly end for the babe

[[Snamanthica departs, presumably to confront the parents in charge of the device. After a moment, she returns.]]

SIMON: Well?
SNAMANTHICA: They wearily explained that the baby has a medical condition requiring his skull to be lanced hourly
SNAMANTHICA: And furthermore, their insurance would only pay for the most terrifying possible device, as a way to obliquely punish them for being of humble means.
SNAMANTHICA: But still. I’m glad I said something

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#1152; In which a Baby is imperiled transcribed by in

[[A woman, SNAMANTHICA, gestures urgently at a large mechanical device with a baby inside while speaking to a man, SIMON.]]

SNAMANTHICA: Oh! Simon! Those people left their baby in some sort of HYDRAULIC DEATH-SCREW! It winds itself closer to the small, soft body by the second!

SNAMANTHICA: I should SAY something!
SIMON: Leave it alone! It's none of your business!

SIMON: You don't KNOW that it's a DEATH-SCREW! Do you want to be one of those meddling people who lectures others on how to parent?

SIMON: They're raising THEIR kid THEIR WAY! Do you want someone second-guessing all YOUR parenting decisions?
SNAMANTHICA: I HAVE to say something. Each turn of the screw more certainly augurs a grisly end for the babe

[[Snamanthica departs, presumably to confront the parents in charge of the device. After a moment, she returns.]]

SIMON: Well?
SNAMANTHICA: They wearily explained that the baby has a medical condition requiring his skull to be lanced hourly
SNAMANTHICA: And furthermore, their insurance would only pay for the most terrifying possible device, as a way to obliquely punish them for being of humble means.
SNAMANTHICA: But still. I'm glad I said something

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the fact that the death-screw in use prompts strangers to comment on it daily is actually part of the punishment

#1152; In which a Baby is imperiled

  — August 21st, 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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