#1082; The Lingering Icebergs, Part 2 (of 3)

Comic Transcripts

[[The characters from the previous comic have returned.]]
Dilettante: You claim to be followed by ‘icebergs’ – old projects that never got finished, and hound you like terrible ghosts.
Tophat: So cold. So forbidding!
Dilettante: What if the metaphor is what’s making it so bad?

Dilettante: Icebergs sink ships. Icebergs hide their size. Getting rid of icebergs is something a Captain Planet villain would want to do.
Tophat: That blue-skinned boy scout

Dilettante: So reframe it! What if old projects are actually coal cars?
Dilettante: Tow around too many of them and their weight adds up – but with a little sweat, you can shovel that coal into your engine and you get a huge boost of power to move forward!

Dilettante: Now old projects are sources of latent strength that can be tapped – IF you choose to pick up a shovel and do the work. OR, simply pull the pin that I’ve seen in movies, and leave them behind on the track.
Tophat: YES! Of COURSE!

Tophat: And then… burning all that COAL will MELT the ICEBERGS!
Dilettante: Well… on a long enough timeline and on a global scale, I suppose that’s kind of true

{{header: fire up some WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: at this point, the fate of the world is a sacrifice I’m willing to make}}

#1082; The Lingering Icebergs, Part 2 (of 3) 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!