Comic Transcripts

[[Kris, an old man with a pegleg and a portable organ around his neck, extends his hat to a young girl.]]

Kris: Spare a few pennies, miss? You look like one for the “Nice” list.
Girl: Sure, I think I’ve — Santa?! Is that you?

Kris: Oh, yes. That’s what they used to call me. Before the Proletariat Revolution. Before Elvengrad. Before the camps.

Kris: Please if you can get a message to Rudolph tell him–
[An apparatchik appears.]
Apparatchik: Komrade Kringle! Perheps I tink ve should do more of de party fundraising and less of de party line, da?

Kris: Yes. Um. Thank you for the pennies, miss. Merry Christmas. God bless you.
Apparatchik: There vill be no mention of God!

{{header: unionize at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: pretend that dude in the last panel is st. patrick and this comic becomes much more timely}}

#167; In which Communism overtakes the Arctic transcribed by in

[[Kris, an old man with a pegleg and a portable organ around his neck, extends his hat to a young girl.]]

Kris: Spare a few pennies, miss? You look like one for the "Nice" list.
Girl: Sure, I think I've -- Santa?! Is that you?

Kris: Oh, yes. That's what they used to call me. Before the Proletariat Revolution. Before Elvengrad. Before the camps.

Kris: Please if you can get a message to Rudolph tell him--
[An apparatchik appears.]
Apparatchik: Komrade Kringle! Perheps I tink ve should do more of de party fundraising and less of de party line, da?

Kris: Yes. Um. Thank you for the pennies, miss. Merry Christmas. God bless you.
Apparatchik: There vill be no mention of God!

{{header: unionize at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: pretend that dude in the last panel is st. patrick and this comic becomes much more timely}}

or vould you like to be collecting pennies vis TWO of the stumpings, all hobbling around, eh?

#167; In which Communism overtakes the Arctic

  — March 17th, 2006

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New ways to get Bolted!

July 24, 2026 by David Malki !

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.


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