#1578; In which Trees are a Lot

Comic Transcripts

[[Two men, LENID and RINNY, are browsing a Christmas tree lot. Lenid looks admiringly at a big bushy tree.]]

LENID: What do you think of this one?
RINNY: Yeah! Looks great. I’ll get in line to pay.

LENID: Don’t you want to look at any others?
RINNY: WHY? This one’s fine! Good choice! Let’s get it and be done!
LENID: We JUST GOT here!
RINNY: And now we can MINIMIZE our time here to go enjoy the REST of our life!

LENID: Just take one walk around. See if there are any other contenders.
RINNY (rolling his eyes): Fine

[[Rinny walks among the other trees, dismissing each handily.]]

RINNY: No. No. No. Inferior. Inferior. Inferior… Actually, THIS one’s pretty. Let me see the one you chose again?

LENID: SEE? Aren’t you GLAD I made you look?
RINNY: I’m SORRY, trees! You all seem perfectly nice! But we INSIST on making all but ONE of you into LOSERS we have to ACTIVELY REJECT! We could have ben TEN BLOCKS AWAY by now but INSTEAD we’re gonna make you ALL feel bad!

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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!