Comic Transcripts

FELIX [[wearing a jetpack]]: Check it out! I just finished the upgrade to my Starpincher! Put in a double-chamber preboiler and a hundred-torque turnvalve. Zero to forty-five in a click point seven. HAH!
DAN: It looks nice.

FELIX: How ’bout you? What about that old Mark-Five you were working on?
DAN: Yeah. ‘s coming along.
FELIX: You been saying that an awful long time.
DAN: What’s THAT mean?

FELIX: Nuthin’

FELIX: Say, you wanna RACE?

[[SO:]]
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FELIX: Did you finish the upgrades?
DAN [[now also wearing a jetpack]]: Yeah

FELIX: Looks like you just slapped a bunch of stickers on the old one.
DAN: LET US SIMPLY GET ON WITH THE RACE

FELIX: Three

FELIX: Two

FELIX: One

FELIX: GO!

[[FELIX takes off]]
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DAN: pppptttbbb

DAN: pppptttbbb
DAN: Space Command this is Astro Five

DAN: Come in, Space Command?yes, I’ll make another orbit. Heading across the lunar horizon now.
DAN: pppptttbbb

FELIX [[landing]]: WHEW! Made it to Fourth Avenue and back in eighteen seconds!
DAN: Whereas I have been to the MOON

{{header: take off for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: And the stickers were VERY HELPFUL THANK YOU}}

#770; Race to the Top transcribed by in

FELIX [[wearing a jetpack]]: Check it out! I just finished the upgrade to my Starpincher! Put in a double-chamber preboiler and a hundred-torque turnvalve. Zero to forty-five in a click point seven. HAH!
DAN: It looks nice.

FELIX: How ’bout you? What about that old Mark-Five you were working on?
DAN: Yeah. ‘s coming along.
FELIX: You been saying that an awful long time.
DAN: What’s THAT mean?

FELIX: Nuthin’

FELIX: Say, you wanna RACE?

[[SO:]]
<>

<>

FELIX: Did you finish the upgrades?
DAN [[now also wearing a jetpack]]: Yeah

FELIX: Looks like you just slapped a bunch of stickers on the old one.
DAN: LET US SIMPLY GET ON WITH THE RACE

FELIX: Three

FELIX: Two

FELIX: One

FELIX: GO!

[[FELIX takes off]]
<>
DAN: pppptttbbb

DAN: pppptttbbb
DAN: Space Command this is Astro Five

DAN: Come in, Space Command?yes, I’ll make another orbit. Heading across the lunar horizon now.
DAN: pppptttbbb

FELIX [[landing]]: WHEW! Made it to Fourth Avenue and back in eighteen seconds!
DAN: Whereas I have been to the MOON

{{header: take off for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: And the stickers were VERY HELPFUL THANK YOU}}

#770; Race to the Top transcribed by in

FELIX [[wearing a jetpack]]: Check it out! I just finished the upgrade to my Starpincher! Put in a double-chamber preboiler and a hundred-torque turnvalve. Zero to forty-five in a click point seven. HAH!
DAN: It looks nice.

FELIX: How 'bout you? What about that old Mark-Five you were working on?
DAN: Yeah. 's coming along.
FELIX: You been saying that an awful long time.
DAN: What's THAT mean?

FELIX: Nuthin'

FELIX: Say, you wanna RACE?

[[SO:]]
<>

<>

FELIX: Did you finish the upgrades?
DAN [[now also wearing a jetpack]]: Yeah

FELIX: Looks like you just slapped a bunch of stickers on the old one.
DAN: LET US SIMPLY GET ON WITH THE RACE

FELIX: Three

FELIX: Two

FELIX: One

FELIX: GO!

[[FELIX takes off]]
<>
DAN: pppptttbbb

DAN: pppptttbbb
DAN: Space Command this is Astro Five

DAN: Come in, Space Command?yes, I'll make another orbit. Heading across the lunar horizon now.
DAN: pppptttbbb

FELIX [[landing]]: WHEW! Made it to Fourth Avenue and back in eighteen seconds!
DAN: Whereas I have been to the MOON

{{header: take off for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: And the stickers were VERY HELPFUL THANK YOU}}

And the stickers were VERY HELPFUL THANK YOU

#770; Race to the Top

  — November 11th, 2011

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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).

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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.)

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