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Part 3 of the story. Bill is visiting his mom’s house. He kisses her on the cheek as he removes his coat. This kiss gesture is mostly implied, I’m pretty pleased with how the compositing tells the story here. Because it’s the same body figure as the previous comic, just angled. I also gave him a scarf in the later panels, if you notice.

BILL: Hi, Mom.

MOM: Hi there, Billy. Merry Christmas.

MOM: Nicky coming to Christmas this year? have you heard from him at all?

BILL: I think he’s working. He usually works Christmas.

MOM: [tsk tsk] My WORD. A job that has you working EVERY Christmas Day. You’d think, as long as he’s been there, his boss could give him ONE Christmass off…

BILL: I think he…IS the boss? Guess I never really thought about whether there might be someone above him who likes to say in the shadows…Letting the flashy guy in the red suit get all the press. Koch brothers, something like that.

MOM: COKE BROTHERS! Oh, we used to call you that! You both did LOVE Coca-Cola…Nicky even did all those ads, do you remember!

BILL: Yeah, I’ll be this time of year he’s enjoying PLENTY of coke

#1183; Santa’s Older Brother, Part 3 (of 4) transcribed by in

Part 3 of the story. Bill is visiting his mom's house. He kisses her on the cheek as he removes his coat. This kiss gesture is mostly implied, I'm pretty pleased with how the compositing tells the story here. Because it's the same body figure as the previous comic, just angled. I also gave him a scarf in the later panels, if you notice.

BILL: Hi, Mom.

MOM: Hi there, Billy. Merry Christmas.

MOM: Nicky coming to Christmas this year? have you heard from him at all?

BILL: I think he's working. He usually works Christmas.

MOM: [tsk tsk] My WORD. A job that has you working EVERY Christmas Day. You'd think, as long as he's been there, his boss could give him ONE Christmass off...

BILL: I think he...IS the boss? Guess I never really thought about whether there might be someone above him who likes to say in the shadows...Letting the flashy guy in the red suit get all the press. Koch brothers, something like that.

MOM: COKE BROTHERS! Oh, we used to call you that! You both did LOVE Coca-Cola...Nicky even did all those ads, do you remember!

BILL: Yeah, I'll be this time of year he's enjoying PLENTY of coke

He always says his boss is ''The children'' but I can't discount the notion that it's a few SPECIFIC children, perhaps standing on each other's shoulders, perhaps in a trench coat

#1183; Santa’s Older Brother, Part 3 (of 4)

  — December 16th, 2015

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Bolted! Fulfillment Update

May 25, 2026 by David Malki !
Photo courtesy of backer Nicola!

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.

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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!


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