Comic Transcripts

[[Two businesspeople are talking.]]
Otto: I can’t wait to be an EXPERT.
Otto: You know? Really MASTER my field.
Otto: Identify my NICHE and EXCEL at it.

Otto: Get so good that I know lots of superficial stuff about it.
Otto: Have a handful of anecdotal experiences that give me the authority to generalize.

Otto: Develop a talk for corporate events. Write a HOW-TO BOOK using a larger-than-average font and lots of space taken up by inspirational quotes.
Otto: Photo of me on the cover in a suit, all SMILING like the reader and I are PALS in on a PRIVATE JOKE…
Otto: Teaching classes! Holding seminars! OOH! OOH! Holding WEBINARS!!
Otto: THOSE you can do from a hotel room in the Caymans!

[[Darren seems skeptical.]]
Darren: “Make way for Otto! World-renowned…”
Darren: World-renowned what?
Otto: I dunno. Horse racer?
Otto: That bit doesn’t really matter

{{header: learn about WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: follow your dreams. chase your hallucinations. run after your made-up head stuff. seek a life where every absurd capricious delusion is realized without heed. pursue the things that you know to be false.}}

#1021; The Counsel of the Expert (Part 1) transcribed by in

[[Two businesspeople are talking.]]
Otto: I can't wait to be an EXPERT.
Otto: You know? Really MASTER my field.
Otto: Identify my NICHE and EXCEL at it.

Otto: Get so good that I know lots of superficial stuff about it.
Otto: Have a handful of anecdotal experiences that give me the authority to generalize.

Otto: Develop a talk for corporate events. Write a HOW-TO BOOK using a larger-than-average font and lots of space taken up by inspirational quotes.
Otto: Photo of me on the cover in a suit, all SMILING like the reader and I are PALS in on a PRIVATE JOKE...
Otto: Teaching classes! Holding seminars! OOH! OOH! Holding WEBINARS!!
Otto: THOSE you can do from a hotel room in the Caymans!

[[Darren seems skeptical.]]
Darren: "Make way for Otto! World-renowned..."
Darren: World-renowned what?
Otto: I dunno. Horse racer?
Otto: That bit doesn't really matter

{{header: learn about WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: follow your dreams. chase your hallucinations. run after your made-up head stuff. seek a life where every absurd capricious delusion is realized without heed. pursue the things that you know to be false.}}

follow your dreams. chase your hallucinations. run after your made-up head stuff. seek a life where every absurd capricious delusion is realized without heed. pursue the things that you know to be false.

We have seen Otto and his schemes before.

Bolted! Fulfillment Update

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.

Reviews & photos

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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