#720; Enter the Mexicans

Comic Transcripts

CARLOS: Greetings! We are visitors from the planet Mexico, many light-years away. We have come in peace to establish friendly, mutually-beneficent relations.
DEB: What? WHAT is the name of your planet?
ANDY: Is this some kind of immigration metaphor

CARLOS: Our planet’s name is Mexico. It means “fragrant flowering fruit” in our native tongue. Prior cultures have called it by other names. Guatemala. Honduras. El Salvador. Nicaragua.
ANDY: Okay, skip the cutesy alien schtick. What’s the message? Is it about the border fence?

CARLOS: We do not know of any border fence. What a strange and inhumane concept!
ANDY: Aha!
CARLOS: Our nations are kept distinct by means of impassable canyons, policed by savage animals who devour trespassers.
ANDY: WAIT

CARLOS: On Mexico, creatures are segregated by horn quality into inviolable casts that annually rotate civic duties, Right now twosies are the lawyers, threesies the bakers, and ninesies like us are the astronauts.
WENDY: We do this because the Mexican race is biologically most suited to be accountants and cobblers. But we can’t all be accountants and cobblers all of the time.
ANDU: I cannot figure out this metaphor

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{{header: buenos dias from WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: We are SO TIRED of the STEREOTYPE that ALL MEXICANS are accountants and cobblers!}}

#720; Enter the Mexicans transcribed by in

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.