#1078; In which a Meal is bartered

Comic Transcripts

[[A man in a top hat and another with mutton chops are at a restaurant. The waiter approaches.]]
Waiter: Ready for the bill?
Tophat: Actually, in the interest of hyperlocal community interplay, we would like to propose a barter system.
Tophat: Rather than BUYING these burgers, we would like to simply BORROW them and bring you back two burgers later this week.

Tophat: Alternately, we could bake you a birthday cake.
Waiter: That is not going to work.
Tophat: You’re right! MY cake is worth at least FOUR burgers. You would end up owing us EXTRA BURGERS.

Waiter: Five minutes ago you both ate time-release burger bombs. If I don’t deactivate them, you are not going to survive the drive home.
Chops: Actually we’re WALKING home, so no worries
Tophat: We’ll be back later with the cake.

[[The waiter pursues the fleeing pair in a car. Tophat’s top hat has fallen off; he is sweating.]]
Tophat: THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE MICROECONOMY

{{header: dine out at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Pshaw, like the birthday cake WOULDN’T have been full of time-release burger bombs}}

#1078; In which a Meal is bartered transcribed by in

Tophat: Alternately, we could bake you a birthday cake.
Waiter: That is not going to work.
Tophat: You’re right! MY cake is worth at least FOUR burgers. You would end up owing us EXTRA BURGERS.

[[The waiter pursues the fleeing pair in a car. Tophat’s top hat has fallen off; he is sweating.]]
Tophat: THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE MICROECONOMY

{{header: dine out at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Pshaw, like the birthday cake WOULDN’T have been full of time-release burger bombs}}

#1078; In which a Meal is bartered transcribed by in

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.