Comic Transcripts

[[JEFF and EMMY are now in their respective beds, but Jeff continues telling his horse horror story, his voice going through a vent and emerging in Emmy’s room, where she cowers under her covers.]]

JEFF: Now…when humans discovered they could EAT horse eggs…

JEFF: They started to keep horses away from them.

[[A horse watches as a puritan man peers into a pumpkin he’s cracked like an egg. He extracts a seahorse-like horse embryo and discards it, where it lands on a pile of other embryos. The horse gasps in shock and bucks in fury.]]

[[Puritans gluttonously devour pumpkins, eating them like apples. A shadow is cast over a puritan woman and she turns. She is bloodily stomped by the hooves of the horse, crazed, a whole herd of angry equines backing it up.]]

[[The puritans fight back, killing the herd with rifles.]]

JEFF: The spirits of the horses descended into the earth and told their mother, Night, what they saw.

JEFF: And Night got so mad that she CAME BACK.

[[NIGHT, a black mare, trots up to a house and sees a pair of jack-o-lanterns sitting on the porch. She gasps in outrage at the mutilated horse eggs. She rears up.]]

NIGHT: NEEEIIIIIGGHH

[[A little naif child walks around obliviously. They turn when a shadow falls across them.]]

CHILD: Well, hello there, Horsey! How are you?

[[Night glares at the child in anger and hatred. The child looks up in wide-eyed terror, matching Emmy’s expression in her bed.]]

JEFF: Every Halloween, she comes to terrorize the living.

JEFF: And there’s only one way to scare her away.

[[Emmy’s jack-o-lantern, now with a dripping grimace, sits on the table downstairs.]]

CAPTION: To be concluded!

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: “Emmy & the Eggs”, Part 2 transcribed by in

[[JEFF and EMMY are now in their respective beds, but Jeff continues telling his horse horror story, his voice going through a vent and emerging in Emmy's room, where she cowers under her covers.]]

JEFF: Now...when humans discovered they could EAT horse eggs...

JEFF: They started to keep horses away from them.

[[A horse watches as a puritan man peers into a pumpkin he's cracked like an egg. He extracts a seahorse-like horse embryo and discards it, where it lands on a pile of other embryos. The horse gasps in shock and bucks in fury.]]

[[Puritans gluttonously devour pumpkins, eating them like apples. A shadow is cast over a puritan woman and she turns. She is bloodily stomped by the hooves of the horse, crazed, a whole herd of angry equines backing it up.]]

[[The puritans fight back, killing the herd with rifles.]]

JEFF: The spirits of the horses descended into the earth and told their mother, Night, what they saw.

JEFF: And Night got so mad that she CAME BACK.

[[NIGHT, a black mare, trots up to a house and sees a pair of jack-o-lanterns sitting on the porch. She gasps in outrage at the mutilated horse eggs. She rears up.]]

NIGHT: NEEEIIIIIGGHH

[[A little naif child walks around obliviously. They turn when a shadow falls across them.]]

CHILD: Well, hello there, Horsey! How are you?

[[Night glares at the child in anger and hatred. The child looks up in wide-eyed terror, matching Emmy's expression in her bed.]]

JEFF: Every Halloween, she comes to terrorize the living.

JEFF: And there's only one way to scare her away.

[[Emmy's jack-o-lantern, now with a dripping grimace, sits on the table downstairs.]]

CAPTION: To be concluded!

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: “Emmy & the Eggs”, Part 2

  — October 29th, 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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