#701; The Karma of Currency

Comic Transcripts

OTTO: Since money in a credit-based economy is essentially fictional anyway…and there is no way to track individual discrete dollars as they move through the system…it follows that wholly invented backstories for every dollar are completely valid by virtue of being impossible to disprove.

OTTO: So, earlier, when I swiped my debit card in the cab, I transferred to the driver part of Henry Ford’s profit from the sale of the first Model T. Later, I bought a bag of fun-size Snickers with the same dollar Thomas Jefferson used to buy point-oh-seven square miles of Louisiana!
EUGENE: NO!

EUGENE: The dollars in Jefferson’s and Ford’s times were on the GOLD STANDARD! They corresponded to specific lumps of metal in Fort Knox! Your arrogant attempt to place yourself at the crossroads of history must begin in 1933 at the earliest!
OTTO: Then you won’t mind in the least if I pay you back for the lunch with TAINTED 1919 BLACK SOX DOLLARS…?
EUGENE: W-well let’s not be rash

{{header: remake a buck at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: every george washington wears a little striped jersey}}

#701; The Karma of Currency transcribed by in

Bolted! games have been shipping to backers over the last couple of weeks! The non-US orders are (mostly) done and some folks have been reporting receiving them already!

@davidmalki.com My game arrived today!! It looks gorgeous 🙂 Hope you are well 🙂

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— Lar deSouza (@lartist.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM

My US inventory of games is now in-country, but still being staged at the fulfillment centers. It’s being distributed to regional warehouses, so the actual shipping to backers happens more efficiently. I hope the bulk of US shipping will start next week.

These are what the cartons (and games) look like!

bolted! games BOLTED! GAMES (pounding the table) B O L T E D ! G A M E S

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— david malki ! (@davidmalki.com) April 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM

I am also waiting on the bonus cards to be finished printing! I ended up needing many more of those than I had anticipated, so I decided to have the game factory print those too, for perfect matching with the base game cards.

Most people will be receiving two separate mailings: the game itself, and “anything else” (bonus cards and/or add-ons) which will be sent by me personally.

As of today, 86% of backers have completed their surveys so far! That’s pretty good, but it’s not everyone. I know YOU PERSONALLY have already completed YOURS though, so no worries!!

We have now moved OFF of Kickstarter and ONTO BackerKit for any new orders. You can bundle a game with basically anything else I sell on that there website, it’s pretty nuts!