#1130; In which an Era departs

Comic Transcripts

[[This comic is displayed through photographs. A pilot in some sort of raincoat sits in an early airplane, apparently from the early 1900s. Text is displayed in the style of A Softer World.]]
Narrator: If you love something

[[Zooming in a bit on the pilot, who is smiling.]]
Narrator: let it go.

[[A view of the plane itself.]]
Narrator: Let it climb

[[Children point at the airplane, which is now aloft, in the distance.]]
Narrator: to its own heights

[[Zoom on one of the children.]]
Narrator: Let it navigate by the stars it finds.

[[Zoom on the other children.]]
Narrator: Its smell in your clothes
Narrator: is yours to keep.

{{header: as soft as WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: When the wind is in your face, you’re either moving or being blown at.}}

#1130; In which an Era departs transcribed by in

[[Zooming in a bit on the pilot, who is smiling.]]
Narrator: let it go.

[[A view of the plane itself.]]
Narrator: Let it climb

[[Children point at the airplane, which is now aloft, in the distance.]]
Narrator: to its own heights

[[Zoom on one of the children.]]
Narrator: Let it navigate by the stars it finds.

[[Zoom on the other children.]]
Narrator: Its smell in your clothes
Narrator: is yours to keep.

{{header: as soft as WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: When the wind is in your face, you’re either moving or being blown at.}}

#1130; In which an Era departs transcribed by in

[[Zooming in a bit on the pilot, who is smiling.]]
Narrator: let it go.

[[A view of the plane itself.]]
Narrator: Let it climb

[[Children point at the airplane, which is now aloft, in the distance.]]
Narrator: to its own heights

[[Zoom on one of the children.]]
Narrator: Let it navigate by the stars it finds.

[[Zoom on the other children.]]
Narrator: Its smell in your clothes
Narrator: is yours to keep.

{{header: as soft as WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: When the wind is in your face, you're either moving or being blown at.}}

When the wind is in your face, you're either moving or being blown at.

#1130; In which an Era departs

— June 2nd, 2015

[ Tags: aviation, guest comics, nostalgia ] Permalink: https://wondermark.com/c/1130/

The great webcomic A Softer World posted its final strip yesterday. Joey & Emily started their comic in February 2003, just two months before I started Wondermark. When I first happened across their strip, I felt a certain kinship just because it was someone else making comics without laboriously drawing everything (like a sucker). I think too few creative people develop the discipline to end things when they’re ready to end them.

If you haven’t read A Softer World before, you have a treat waiting for you. The melancholy is greatly flavored if you picture Joey’s wolfish grin as you read.

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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!

Comic Transcripts

#1130; In which an Era departs

— June 2nd, 2015

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