Comic Transcripts

[[A radio program plays over a gramophone-like device.]]
Radio: One other tip for a more frugal wedding? Perhaps SKIP the recent trend of dropping thousands of wedding photo leaflets from an airplane, blanketing the entire city.
Radio: Wedding expert Maggie Jane says, “To save some money, consider dropping ONLY a FEW HUNDRED leaflets, concentrating on the neighborhoods you frequent most. And don’t overlook the cost benefits of printing your leaflets in black and white!”

[[A severe-looking woman and a man with a thick beard and glasses listen to the show.]]
Leaflet Advocate: This is an INSULT. A real slap in the face to the whole wedding-leaflet industry! Hundreds of leaflet droppers will be hurt by this shallow, attention-grabbing advice!
Pilot: EXACTLY! I always say, drop as many leaflets as is in your budget. You don’t have to go nuts. A thousand is fine!

Leaflet Advocate: RIGHT? It’s the couple’s special day. Who’s to say how many leaflets they should or shouldn’t drop?
Leaflet Advocate: Some chick on the RADIO?
Pilot: I have a commercial pilot’s license, a sheet-fed offset printing press, and a basket with a hook on it. I have been doing leaflet dropping for over THIRTEEN MONTHS.

Pilot: I am a PROFESSIONAL. Let me do my job!!
Leaflet Advocate: EXACTLY!
Pilot: EXACTLY!!

[[A banner at the top of the panel reads: “LATER”. Two men are strolling along, one with a bowler hat, the other with a top hat. Hundreds of leaflets are falling from the sky, blanketing the air and ground.]]
Tophat: I hate wedding season

{{header: the modern WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Please be patient, everyone… it will take us a few minutes to recite our vows because we can only read as fast as the skywriting plane can write}}

#1051; In which a Tradition is threatened transcribed by in

[[A radio program plays over a gramophone-like device.]]
Radio: One other tip for a more frugal wedding? Perhaps SKIP the recent trend of dropping thousands of wedding photo leaflets from an airplane, blanketing the entire city.
Radio: Wedding expert Maggie Jane says, “To save some money, consider dropping ONLY a FEW HUNDRED leaflets, concentrating on the neighborhoods you frequent most. And don’t overlook the cost benefits of printing your leaflets in black and white!”

[[A severe-looking woman and a man with a thick beard and glasses listen to the show.]]
Leaflet Advocate: This is an INSULT. A real slap in the face to the whole wedding-leaflet industry! Hundreds of leaflet droppers will be hurt by this shallow, attention-grabbing advice!
Pilot: EXACTLY! I always say, drop as many leaflets as is in your budget. You don’t have to go nuts. A thousand is fine!

Leaflet Advocate: RIGHT? It’s the couple’s special day. Who’s to say how many leaflets they should or shouldn’t drop?
Leaflet Advocate: Some chick on the RADIO?
Pilot: I have a commercial pilot’s license, a sheet-fed offset printing press, and a basket with a hook on it. I have been doing leaflet dropping for over THIRTEEN MONTHS.

Pilot: I am a PROFESSIONAL. Let me do my job!!
Leaflet Advocate: EXACTLY!
Pilot: EXACTLY!!

[[A banner at the top of the panel reads: “LATER”. Two men are strolling along, one with a bowler hat, the other with a top hat. Hundreds of leaflets are falling from the sky, blanketing the air and ground.]]
Tophat: I hate wedding season

{{header: the modern WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Please be patient, everyone… it will take us a few minutes to recite our vows because we can only read as fast as the skywriting plane can write}}

#1051; In which a Tradition is threatened transcribed by in

[[A radio program plays over a gramophone-like device.]]
Radio: One other tip for a more frugal wedding? Perhaps SKIP the recent trend of dropping thousands of wedding photo leaflets from an airplane, blanketing the entire city.
Radio: Wedding expert Maggie Jane says, "To save some money, consider dropping ONLY a FEW HUNDRED leaflets, concentrating on the neighborhoods you frequent most. And don't overlook the cost benefits of printing your leaflets in black and white!"

[[A severe-looking woman and a man with a thick beard and glasses listen to the show.]]
Leaflet Advocate: This is an INSULT. A real slap in the face to the whole wedding-leaflet industry! Hundreds of leaflet droppers will be hurt by this shallow, attention-grabbing advice!
Pilot: EXACTLY! I always say, drop as many leaflets as is in your budget. You don't have to go nuts. A thousand is fine!

Leaflet Advocate: RIGHT? It's the couple's special day. Who's to say how many leaflets they should or shouldn't drop?
Leaflet Advocate: Some chick on the RADIO?
Pilot: I have a commercial pilot's license, a sheet-fed offset printing press, and a basket with a hook on it. I have been doing leaflet dropping for over THIRTEEN MONTHS.

Pilot: I am a PROFESSIONAL. Let me do my job!!
Leaflet Advocate: EXACTLY!
Pilot: EXACTLY!!

[[A banner at the top of the panel reads: "LATER". Two men are strolling along, one with a bowler hat, the other with a top hat. Hundreds of leaflets are falling from the sky, blanketing the air and ground.]]
Tophat: I hate wedding season

{{header: the modern WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Please be patient, everyone... it will take us a few minutes to recite our vows because we can only read as fast as the skywriting plane can write}}

Please be patient, everyone...it will take us a few minutes to recite our vows because we can only read as fast as the skywriting plane can write

#1051; In which a Tradition is threatened

  — August 5th, 2014

[ Tags: , , ]       Permalink: https://wondermark.com/c/1051/

More comics about weddings:
#665; Seconds before the Elopement
#667; The Delight is in finding Reasons
#270; In which Giddiness is annoying
#412; In which Everyone Else just sits quietly
#759; And the Guests Never Notice

Buy a Print

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.


Recent blog posts