Comic Transcripts

[[Two travelers are riding in a wagon. It is dark.]]
Nonchalant Traveler: Getting late. Let’s stop for provisions at the next hitching post?
Concerned Traveler: The “NEXT”? Just WHATEVER place it happens to be? You’ll let PROXIMITY determine who gets our business?

Nonchalant Traveler: If a place is along our path, then yes, they will be of help to us, and so deserve our business.
Concerned Traveler: But you don’t know who those people ARE! Strangers! OPPORTUNISTIC strangers, by DEFINITION!
Concerned Traveler: I thought we were PAST this! We have the WORLD’S INFORMATION in our pocket!

Concerned Traveler: We can make informed decisions about what PRECISELY we are underwriting with our customer choices! Ignorance is no longer an acceptable justification for unethical behavior!
Concerned Traveler: You don’t know their POLITICS! You don’t know if they’ll use our money to advance REPUGNANT AIMS! How can you be so CAVALIER about PATRONIZING someone you LITERALLY DON’T KNOW EVEN EXISTS YET?

Nonchalant Traveler: Ill-informed decisions are also known as ADVENTURES!
Concerned Traveler: I refuse to participate in any adventure that I cannot Yelp first!

{{header: stock up at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: there is no occasion more wasteful than an experience that I have not, in advance, verified utterly that it will conform to my every expectation}}

#1026; In which a Stop is evaluated transcribed by in

[[Two travelers are riding in a wagon. It is dark.]]
Nonchalant Traveler: Getting late. Let's stop for provisions at the next hitching post?
Concerned Traveler: The "NEXT"? Just WHATEVER place it happens to be? You'll let PROXIMITY determine who gets our business?

Nonchalant Traveler: If a place is along our path, then yes, they will be of help to us, and so deserve our business.
Concerned Traveler: But you don't know who those people ARE! Strangers! OPPORTUNISTIC strangers, by DEFINITION!
Concerned Traveler: I thought we were PAST this! We have the WORLD'S INFORMATION in our pocket!

Concerned Traveler: We can make informed decisions about what PRECISELY we are underwriting with our customer choices! Ignorance is no longer an acceptable justification for unethical behavior!
Concerned Traveler: You don't know their POLITICS! You don't know if they'll use our money to advance REPUGNANT AIMS! How can you be so CAVALIER about PATRONIZING someone you LITERALLY DON'T KNOW EVEN EXISTS YET?

Nonchalant Traveler: Ill-informed decisions are also known as ADVENTURES!
Concerned Traveler: I refuse to participate in any adventure that I cannot Yelp first!

{{header: stock up at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: there is no occasion more wasteful than an experience that I have not, in advance, verified utterly that it will conform to my every expectation}}

there is no occasion more wasteful than an experience that I have not, in advance, verified utterly that it will conform to my every expectation

#1026; In which a Stop is evaluated

  — May 4th, 2014

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New ways to get Bolted!

July 24, 2026 by David Malki !

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.


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