#675; In which a Conversation is ended

Comic Transcripts

[[A mother accosts a couple who is doing something else.]]
Mother: We’re here with my son! He’s learning to skate and needed a certain type of kneepad. It’s only sold in five stores in this part of the state and the one here was the only one that carried it in extra-small!

Mother: We found the pads but by then it was so late in the day that we decided to stay in a hotel instead of driving back home. At first Taylor didn’t want to stay but I said “You can skate more tomorrow” and he said “Hotel please!”
Man: Do not care
Man: Who are you

Mother: He takes so much after his father, you know, he’s always–
Man: GENETIC INHERITANCE! A tricky subject! The transmission disequillibrium test is one way to measure the over-transmission of an allele from heterozygous parents to affected offspring!
Man: DO YOU KNOW YOUR SON’S HAPLOTYPE?

Woman: I will never make fun of you for memorizing Wikipedia again.
Man: I can bore ANYBODY.

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#675; In which a Conversation is ended transcribed by in

Woman: I will never make fun of you for memorizing Wikipedia again.
Man: I can bore ANYBODY.

{{Header: #675; In which a Conversation is ended at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I have been a misanthrope a LONG time. I have this DOWN.}}

#675; In which a Conversation is ended transcribed by in

The past few weeks have been a frenzy of assembling the very laborious, very bespoke first print run of NOODLE BATTLE, the puzzle game I am releasing this weekend at PAX West in Seattle!

PAX has an event called the PNW Tabletop Game Market (Saturday night ONLY), which is a curated selection of short-run games from local designers. As I’ve mentioned in this space before, I applied for a space in this fall’s event mainly as a way to force myself to finish a new game. And here it is!

The drawings are all by Jason Poland, good pal and cartoonist of My Dad Is Dracula. Jason played an early version of this game at Alaska Robotics Comics Camp this spring, and really liked it!

So I said, “Do you want to help me make it?” And so he has! It was his idea to make all the characters fun little animals, and I think it adds a ton of charm.

Because this edition is limited-run, it has been incredibly labor-intensive to make! The boxes and cards were made by a game factory in the usual fashion, but separately. The blank tiles were made by a woodworker dude out of Connecticut. For each game, we have had to:

Cut a piece of plastic and install the box window
Paint all the tiles, hundreds at a time
Apply a sticker to both sides of every tile
Apply stickers to the box (we couldn’t get the box back printed in time, so the whole back side of the box is a sticker too)
Apply the “Nutrition Facts” sticker, which was a late suggestion by my kid that I just had to run with
Fold up the rule sheet (they come from the printer as big strips of paper)
Put all the components into the box and seal it all up

I knew it would be a lot of work and would require some inefficient, expensive compromises AND I WAS RIGHT. But the final product is turning out great, which is the important thing!!

I will have 50 copies with me (if all goes well) at PAX, and then between now and the holidays we will be putting together additional copies to round out this first edition.

I will announce additional copies on Patreon first, once they are available online!! And here too, naturally, before long.

You can also sign up here if you’d like me to email you once the game is available online!