#821; In which Things are Not Fine

Comic Transcripts

[[Two friends meet.]]
Friend: Hey! How ya doin’?
Unfortunate: Well
Unfortunate: Not great, but let’s unpack this.

Unfortunate: The simplest thing to say is just “fine”.
Unfortunate: But my PARROT is missing. Her cage is open when I got home. I don’t know if I’ll ever see her again.
Unfortunate: So I’m WORRIED, and FRUSTRATED because I can’t remember if I latched the cage properly this morning.

Unfortunate: But YOU don’t care about my parrot. You can EMPATHIZE, but your knowing about the parrot affects YOUR life not in the least. If anything, it brings you DOWN a bit.
Unfortunate: As my friend, you may listen to my complaints for MY sake – assuming there is some value to me in venting. But as YOUR friend, I wish to spare you having to hear about something you don’t care about and cannot affect.

Unfortunate: So, to answer your question, “I am fine.”

[[The dog from the previous comic flies out of the air, hitting the unfortunate in the neck.]]

#821; In which Things are Not Fine transcribed by in

[[Two friends meet.]]
Friend: Hey! How ya doin’?
Unfortunate: Well
Unfortunate: Not great, but let’s unpack this.

Unfortunate: So, to answer your question, “I am fine.”

[[The dog from the previous comic flies out of the air, hitting the unfortunate in the neck.]]

#821; In which Things are Not Fine 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.