Comic Transcripts

[[A man in a crumpled hat and another in a straw hat are sitting at a yard sale, selling various goods.]]
Crumple: It’s so humbling, isn’t it?
Crumple: Years of possessions, spread out for strangers to inspect and reject
Crumple: Look at that guy. He doesn’t know how amazing that book is. He doesn’t care! He’ll never know! His loss!

Crumple: Come ON, people! That candle’s only half burned down! That seed packet could probably become FOOD, after some elaborate process!
Crumple: Surely there’s still SOME valuable info in the manual for Microsoft Office 2000!

Crumple: That armoire could be refinished! Those shelves are good scrap wood! Someone could disassemble that VCR and use its gears to make a brooch to sell on Etsy!
Crumple: Don’t sniff at my chair, you snob! That huge jelly stain doesn’t affect its STABILITY as a FUNCTIONAL CHAIR!

Straw: But YOU don’t want any of it either!
Straw: Why do you think anyone ELSE would want to fill their lives with random half-useful junk if YOU won’t?
Crumple: I REFUSE to believe I have the lowest standards of anyone in this neighborhood!

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{{alt-text: I’m sure we live near SOME Mad-Max-like scavenger living his or her life desperate to wring out my cast-off possessions for some hypothetical remnant-dregs of possible usefulness – BUT WE *HAD* TO SCHEDULE OUR SALE DURING BURNING MAN}}

#1060; The Whole Nine Yard Sale transcribed by in

[[A man in a crumpled hat and another in a straw hat are sitting at a yard sale, selling various goods.]]
Crumple: It's so humbling, isn't it?
Crumple: Years of possessions, spread out for strangers to inspect and reject
Crumple: Look at that guy. He doesn't know how amazing that book is. He doesn't care! He'll never know! His loss!

Crumple: Come ON, people! That candle's only half burned down! That seed packet could probably become FOOD, after some elaborate process!
Crumple: Surely there's still SOME valuable info in the manual for Microsoft Office 2000!

Crumple: That armoire could be refinished! Those shelves are good scrap wood! Someone could disassemble that VCR and use its gears to make a brooch to sell on Etsy!
Crumple: Don't sniff at my chair, you snob! That huge jelly stain doesn't affect its STABILITY as a FUNCTIONAL CHAIR!

Straw: But YOU don't want any of it either!
Straw: Why do you think anyone ELSE would want to fill their lives with random half-useful junk if YOU won't?
Crumple: I REFUSE to believe I have the lowest standards of anyone in this neighborhood!

{{header: come see our WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I'm sure we live near SOME Mad-Max-like scavenger living his or her life desperate to wring out my cast-off possessions for some hypothetical remnant-dregs of possible usefulness - BUT WE *HAD* TO SCHEDULE OUR SALE DURING BURNING MAN}}

I'm sure we live near SOME Mad-Max-like scavenger living his or her life desperate to wring out my cast-off possessions for some hypothetical remnant-dregs of possible usefulness -- BUT WE *HAD* TO SCHEDULE OUR SALE DURING BURNING MAN

#1060; The Whole Nine Yard Sale

  — September 9th, 2014

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A note on the images that were used to make today’s comic — many came from Flickr via the Internet Archive! More info here.

Here’s more on the yard sale conundrum.

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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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