Comic Transcripts

[[A thin man in black suit is speaking. In the next panel, it is revealed he is speaking to a wide man in a grid suit. They are in front of a cemetary]]
Black suit; Imagine a PERFECT manifestation of the American Dream. Everybody’s work rewards them abundantly. Any person willing to put in an HONEST DAY’S LABOR is paid well enough to live in comfort and provide for their family. Nobody need work TRIPLE SHIFTS simply to have enough to SCRAPE BY, or live in fear of being BANKRUPTED by a FREAK INJURY or ILLNESS.

Black suit; Is this a worthwhile goal? Would you consider it a good idea to work toward making this a reality?
Plaid suit; Not if ONE SINGLE PENNY of my personal earnings is CONFISCATED to help FREELOADERS. I’d rather STRUGGLE and DIE a MARTYR than contribute any benefit to ANY person that /I/ don’t feel they DESERVE.

Plaid Suit; I put in my hours DAY IN and DAY OUT. I EARN my money by the SWEAT of my brow, and the money I make is DESERVEDLY MINE. The only government /I/ want to support is one that recognizes the VALUE of my labor!
Black Suit; And what do you do?
Plaid Suit; I am the inventor of ‘Truck Nutz’

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#851; Making Good on the Dream transcribed by in

[[A thin man in black suit is speaking. In the next panel, it is revealed he is speaking to a wide man in a grid suit. They are in front of a cemetary]]
Black suit; Imagine a PERFECT manifestation of the American Dream. Everybody’s work rewards them abundantly. Any person willing to put in an HONEST DAY’S LABOR is paid well enough to live in comfort and provide for their family. Nobody need work TRIPLE SHIFTS simply to have enough to SCRAPE BY, or live in fear of being BANKRUPTED by a FREAK INJURY or ILLNESS.

Black suit; Is this a worthwhile goal? Would you consider it a good idea to work toward making this a reality?
Plaid suit; Not if ONE SINGLE PENNY of my personal earnings is CONFISCATED to help FREELOADERS. I’d rather STRUGGLE and DIE a MARTYR than contribute any benefit to ANY person that /I/ don’t feel they DESERVE.

Plaid Suit; I put in my hours DAY IN and DAY OUT. I EARN my money by the SWEAT of my brow, and the money I make is DESERVEDLY MINE. The only government /I/ want to support is one that recognizes the VALUE of my labor!
Black Suit; And what do you do?
Plaid Suit; I am the inventor of ‘Truck Nutz’

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{{alt-text: “they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit if Novelty prosthetic vehicle Genitals”}}

#851; Making Good on the Dream transcribed by in

[[A thin man in black suit is speaking. In the next panel, it is revealed he is speaking to a wide man in a grid suit. They are in front of a cemetary]]
Black suit; Imagine a PERFECT manifestation of the American Dream. Everybody's work rewards them abundantly. Any person willing to put in an HONEST DAY'S LABOR is paid well enough to live in comfort and provide for their family. Nobody need work TRIPLE SHIFTS simply to have enough to SCRAPE BY, or live in fear of being BANKRUPTED by a FREAK INJURY or ILLNESS.

Black suit; Is this a worthwhile goal? Would you consider it a good idea to work toward making this a reality?
Plaid suit; Not if ONE SINGLE PENNY of my personal earnings is CONFISCATED to help FREELOADERS. I'd rather STRUGGLE and DIE a MARTYR than contribute any benefit to ANY person that /I/ don't feel they DESERVE.

Plaid Suit; I put in my hours DAY IN and DAY OUT. I EARN my money by the SWEAT of my brow, and the money I make is DESERVEDLY MINE. The only government /I/ want to support is one that recognizes the VALUE of my labor!
Black Suit; And what do you do?
Plaid Suit; I am the inventor of 'Truck Nutz'

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''they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Novelty prosthetic vehicle Genitals''

#851; Making Good on the Dream

  — July 6th, 2012

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My newest game: Noodle Battle! At PAX!

September 2, 2026 by David Malki !

The past few weeks have been a frenzy of assembling the very laborious, very bespoke first print run of NOODLE BATTLE, the puzzle game I am releasing this weekend at PAX West in Seattle!

PAX has an event called the PNW Tabletop Game Market (Saturday night ONLY), which is a curated selection of short-run games from local designers. As I’ve mentioned in this space before, I applied for a space in this fall’s event mainly as a way to force myself to finish a new game. And here it is!

The drawings are all by Jason Poland, good pal and cartoonist of My Dad Is Dracula. Jason played an early version of this game at Alaska Robotics Comics Camp this spring, and really liked it!

So I said, “Do you want to help me make it?” And so he has! It was his idea to make all the characters fun little animals, and I think it adds a ton of charm.

Because this edition is limited-run, it has been incredibly labor-intensive to make! The boxes and cards were made by a game factory in the usual fashion, but separately. The blank tiles were made by a woodworker dude out of Connecticut. For each game, we have had to:

  • Cut a piece of plastic and install the box window
  • Paint all the tiles, hundreds at a time
  • Apply a sticker to both sides of every tile
  • Apply stickers to the box (we couldn’t get the box back printed in time, so the whole back side of the box is a sticker too)
  • Apply the “Nutrition Facts” sticker, which was a late suggestion by my kid that I just had to run with
  • Fold up the rule sheet (they come from the printer as big strips of paper)
  • Put all the components into the box and seal it all up

I knew it would be a lot of work and would require some inefficient, expensive compromises AND I WAS RIGHT. But the final product is turning out great, which is the important thing!!

I will have 50 copies with me (if all goes well) at PAX, and then between now and the holidays we will be putting together additional copies to round out this first edition.

I will announce additional copies on Patreon first, once they are available online!! And here too, naturally, before long.

You can also sign up here if you’d like me to email you once the game is available online!


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