#1082; The Lingering Icebergs, Part 2 (of 3)

Comic Transcripts

[[The characters from the previous comic have returned.]]
Dilettante: You claim to be followed by ‘icebergs’ – old projects that never got finished, and hound you like terrible ghosts.
Tophat: So cold. So forbidding!
Dilettante: What if the metaphor is what’s making it so bad?

Dilettante: Icebergs sink ships. Icebergs hide their size. Getting rid of icebergs is something a Captain Planet villain would want to do.
Tophat: That blue-skinned boy scout

Dilettante: So reframe it! What if old projects are actually coal cars?
Dilettante: Tow around too many of them and their weight adds up – but with a little sweat, you can shovel that coal into your engine and you get a huge boost of power to move forward!

Dilettante: Now old projects are sources of latent strength that can be tapped – IF you choose to pick up a shovel and do the work. OR, simply pull the pin that I’ve seen in movies, and leave them behind on the track.
Tophat: YES! Of COURSE!

Tophat: And then… burning all that COAL will MELT the ICEBERGS!
Dilettante: Well… on a long enough timeline and on a global scale, I suppose that’s kind of true

{{header: fire up some WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: at this point, the fate of the world is a sacrifice I’m willing to make}}

#1082; The Lingering Icebergs, Part 2 (of 3) 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.