Comic Transcripts

– Went by Hot Topic the other day. They had a pretty rad Ninja Turtles t-shirt. – Hot Topic? Geez, man!
– I know! I know!

– I really do not want to give in to their crass and obvious pandering to my demographic. / But yet I really want a Ninja Turtles t-shirt. I have been agonizing over this.

– Well, I guess you could somehow convince yourself that shopping for t-shirts at Hot Topic is ironic in itself.
– I will inhabit any fantasy world that will put Shredder on my body.

{{header: suck it up at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: note for international readers: hot topic is a store found in suburban shopping malls. they sell a bizarre combination of naughty novelties, goth gear like corsets and boots, and trendy logo shirts with ‘clever’ sayings and nintendo characters and the emblems of punk rock bands that were big a decade before the average customer was born. it is the dictionary definition of over-the-counter counterculture.}}

#268; A Moral Dilemma transcribed by in

– Went by Hot Topic the other day. They had a pretty rad Ninja Turtles t-shirt. – Hot Topic? Geez, man!
– I know! I know!

– I really do not want to give in to their crass and obvious pandering to my demographic. / But yet I really want a Ninja Turtles t-shirt. I have been agonizing over this.

– Well, I guess you could somehow convince yourself that shopping for t-shirts at Hot Topic is ironic in itself.
– I will inhabit any fantasy world that will put Shredder on my body.

{{header: suck it up at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: note for international readers: hot topic is a store found in suburban shopping malls. they sell a bizarre combination of naughty novelties, goth gear like corsets and boots, and trendy logo shirts with ‘clever’ sayings and nintendo characters and the emblems of punk rock bands that were big a decade before the average customer was born. it is the dictionary definition of over-the-counter counterculture.}}

#268; A Moral Dilemma transcribed by in

- Went by Hot Topic the other day. They had a pretty rad Ninja Turtles t-shirt. - Hot Topic? Geez, man!
- I know! I know!

- I really do not want to give in to their crass and obvious pandering to my demographic. / But yet I really want a Ninja Turtles t-shirt. I have been agonizing over this.

- Well, I guess you could somehow convince yourself that shopping for t-shirts at Hot Topic is ironic in itself.
- I will inhabit any fantasy world that will put Shredder on my body.

{{header: suck it up at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: note for international readers: hot topic is a store found in suburban shopping malls. they sell a bizarre combination of naughty novelties, goth gear like corsets and boots, and trendy logo shirts with 'clever' sayings and nintendo characters and the emblems of punk rock bands that were big a decade before the average customer was born. it is the dictionary definition of over-the-counter counterculture.}}

note for international readers: hot topic is a store found in suburban shopping malls. they sell a bizarre combination of naughty novelties, goth gear like corsets and boots, and trendy logo shirts with 'clever' sayings or nintendo characters or the emblems of punk rock bands that were big a decade before the average customer was born. it is the dictionary definition of over-the-counter counterculture.

#268; A Moral Dilemma

  — January 23rd, 2007

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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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