Comic Transcripts

[[All panels are letterboxed, as if on a movie or TV screen.]]
DONNY: It turns out that the global economic recession was caused by EVIL ALIEN ROBOTS!

FRANK: You know what we have to do.
DONNY (off camera): NO! It’s TOO DANGEROUS!

FRANK: There’s only ONE WAY to SAVE THE WORLD.
Let’s go PUNCH ‘EM.
UNTIL THEY BLOW UP.

[[Title card appears.]]
TITLE: The foolproof solution to all of life’s problems
PUNCHING STUFF UNTIL IT BLOWS UP
R/Restricted

{{Header: let’s get ’em at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: The smoke clears. The economy is saved! ROLL CREDITS}}

#520; In which it’s Time to Act transcribed by in

[[All panels are letterboxed, as if on a movie or TV screen.]]
DONNY: It turns out that the global economic recession was caused by EVIL ALIEN ROBOTS!

FRANK: You know what we have to do.
DONNY (off camera): NO! It’s TOO DANGEROUS!

FRANK: There’s only ONE WAY to SAVE THE WORLD.
Let’s go PUNCH ‘EM.
UNTIL THEY BLOW UP.

[[Title card appears.]]
TITLE: The foolproof solution to all of life’s problems
PUNCHING STUFF UNTIL IT BLOWS UP
R/Restricted

{{Header: let’s get ’em at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: The smoke clears. The economy is saved! ROLL CREDITS}}

#520; In which it’s Time to Act transcribed by in

[[All panels are letterboxed, as if on a movie or TV screen.]]
DONNY: It turns out that the global economic recession was caused by EVIL ALIEN ROBOTS!

FRANK: You know what we have to do.
DONNY (off camera): NO! It's TOO DANGEROUS!

FRANK: There's only ONE WAY to SAVE THE WORLD.
Let's go PUNCH 'EM.
UNTIL THEY BLOW UP.

[[Title card appears.]]
TITLE: The foolproof solution to all of life's problems
PUNCHING STUFF UNTIL IT BLOWS UP
R/Restricted

{{Header: let's get 'em at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: The smoke clears. The economy is saved! ROLL CREDITS}}

The smoke clears. The economy is saved! ROLL CREDITS

#520; In which it’s Time to Act

  — May 26th, 2009

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20 years ago (in photocomic form)

June 9, 2026 by David Malki !
A young David Malki !, Steve Carey, and Ryan North, June 2006.

The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.

It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.

I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!

Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]


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