#1048; Looking Forward to Looking Back

Comic Transcripts

[[A man is leaning against his window, complaining at a bystander outside.]]
Complainer: ARGH! I HATE the modern world!
Complainer: I feel like I was born in the wrong era!

Bystander: You were born too late? Or too early?
Complainer: I wish I had been born 100 YEARS FROM NOW!

Bystander: So you could experience the future!
Complainer: So I could LOOK BACK to TODAY with the rose-tinted vision of nostalgia!
Complainer: If I’m to be STUCK here, I want to figure out how to consider it a GOLDEN AGE.

Bystander: So you’d rather live in a future you’d be DISSATISFIED WITH ENOUGH to look back at NOW and say
Bystander: “Everything was better, back when I wished I lived in what is now the present”
Complainer: Sure, you put enough knots in that logic, it’ll fly a sail

{{header: remembering at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I want to live during a golden age of SOMETHING. Even if it’s just a golden age of labeling eras as golden ages.}}

#1048; Looking Forward to Looking Back transcribed by in

[[A man is leaning against his window, complaining at a bystander outside.]]
Complainer: ARGH! I HATE the modern world!
Complainer: I feel like I was born in the wrong era!

Bystander: You were born too late? Or too early?
Complainer: I wish I had been born 100 YEARS FROM NOW!

{{header: remembering at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I want to live during a golden age of SOMETHING. Even if it’s just a golden age of labeling eras as golden ages.}}

#1048; Looking Forward to Looking Back 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!