Comic Transcripts

[[CARL stands behind his brother, WILBER, in a living room.  Wilber points a hatbox at an egg sitting unassumingly in a corner of the room.]]

CARL: If only Papa could see the two of us now.

WILBER: Of course he can’t SEE us, he’s in the egg!

CARL: I KNOW he’s in the egg!  I’m just saying HYPOTHETICALLY.

CARL: I know this comes a bit LATE, but I’m having second thoughts about trapping our father in an egg.

WILBER:  The old man had it coming!  After what he did?  The egg is lettin’ him off EASY!  You SAID as much!

CARL:  Yes, we DID come to a rather HASTY agreement on that point before we began, didn’t we.

CARL: I just thing that of all the ways we COULD address our VERY VALID grievances about matters relating to our upbringing…

CARL: Using an enchanted hatbox to trap the man inside an egg is rather a less…EFFICACIOUS solution than we MIGHT have attempted had we NOT discovered an enchanted hatbox at a fortuitously coincidental time, eh?

WILBER: Sounds like the rambling of a man fixin’ to get hisself HATBOXED into an EGG.

CARL: Now you KNOW we only have TWO wishes left and I’ve already called dibs on ONE for the never-ending OMELET.

WILBER: An inexhaustible frittata AIN’T gonna solve your problems, CARL, and if we splurge WISH DEUCE on ANOTHER egg item IT’S GONNA START LOOKIN’ WEIRD.

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#1230; Trial in Ovo transcribed by in

[[CARL stands behind his brother, WILBER, in a living room.  Wilber points a hatbox at an egg sitting unassumingly in a corner of the room.]]

CARL: If only Papa could see the two of us now.

WILBER: Of course he can't SEE us, he's in the egg!

CARL: I KNOW he's in the egg!  I'm just saying HYPOTHETICALLY.

CARL: I know this comes a bit LATE, but I'm having second thoughts about trapping our father in an egg.

WILBER:  The old man had it coming!  After what he did?  The egg is lettin' him off EASY!  You SAID as much!

CARL:  Yes, we DID come to a rather HASTY agreement on that point before we began, didn't we.

CARL: I just thing that of all the ways we COULD address our VERY VALID grievances about matters relating to our upbringing...

CARL: Using an enchanted hatbox to trap the man inside an egg is rather a less...EFFICACIOUS solution than we MIGHT have attempted had we NOT discovered an enchanted hatbox at a fortuitously coincidental time, eh?

WILBER: Sounds like the rambling of a man fixin' to get hisself HATBOXED into an EGG.

CARL: Now you KNOW we only have TWO wishes left and I've already called dibs on ONE for the never-ending OMELET.

WILBER: An inexhaustible frittata AIN'T gonna solve your problems, CARL, and if we splurge WISH DEUCE on ANOTHER egg item IT'S GONNA START LOOKIN' WEIRD.

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Enchanted hatboxes and the perilous uses to which they may be put have a way of coming between brothers.

#1230; Trial in Ovo

  — June 14th, 2016

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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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