#1022; The Counsel of the Expert (Part 2)

Comic Transcripts

[[Two businesspeople are talking.]]
Darren: How’s the horse racing biz?
Otto: GREAT! I read some books. Talked with some gurus. Really got down and dirty in the trenches.

Darren: So you race horses now?
Otto: I’m a fractional owner of a leveraged derivatives partnership which holds some racehorses as assets, yes.
Otto: The fund also holds partial variable stakes in horse racing as an overall market cap both here and abroad

Otto: Currently most of my holdings are focused on DUBAI but I have an algorithm that automatically speed-trades my equity depending on a gamut of aggregate indices
Otto: Pretty standard stuff

Darren: Is it… working?
Otto: So far I’ve managed a steady adjusted 0.05% daily reinvested dividend for my consortium of silent partners and venture backers!

Darren: But no actual, uh… horse racing
Otto: Oh GOD no. FILTHY creatures.

{{header: capitalize on WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: You got me!! Where do I invest!!!!!!! wait — in the alley behind the broken-down WHAT now?}}

#1022; The Counsel of the Expert (Part 2) 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!