#1566; The Roiling Storm Within

Comic Transcripts

In this Wondermark comic, SCRUNCHIN is slumped in a folding chair, while his good friend BORNDOGH looks on, clutching a cane.

S: Weird how when your MEAT feels bad, YOU feel bad. Do I have this headache BECAUSE I have indigestion? Or are my GUTS nauseous because I’m mentally stressed out?

S (gesturing to his head): The meat parts are all making EACH OTHER grumpy. It’s a vicious cycle! And it’s not JUST the meats! There’s the SPARKY BITS up here too! THEY got their OWN problems! SPARKS are interacting with FATS and I can’t make heads or tails of it!

S: And what about all the JUICES and GOOPS in there?

B: If you got too much of one goop and not enough of another, WATCH OUT.

S: My GOOPS are askew! They’re oozing and splashing and getting all in each other’s business! And somehow that is making ME, the real human boy at the center of it all, MISERABLE. What a racket!

S: I am left to conclude that I got TOO many WEIRD goops, and NOT enough GOOD goops. CLINICALLY.

B: The old folks were right all along! I guess your humours CAN get out of balance

#1566; The Roiling Storm Within 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.