Comic Transcripts

MA AKCERMAN: There’s the little scamps! What have you kids been up to today?
BRITNEY: Nothing! Nothing at all! Everything’s totally fine! We haven’t even been IN the garage! We’ve just been, uh, upstairs!
SANJAY: I uh don’t think I’ve EVER been in the garage

MA AKCERMAN: Oh, dear. Do I need to look in the garage?
BRITNEY: NO! Not at all! I mean, not unless you want to see cars! The cars are still in there! We didn’t move them! Why would we have moved them? We WOULDN’T’VE!
SANJAY: Yeah I mean we’re just kids

MA AKCERMAN: I know what you’re doing.
MA AKCERMAN: You’re pretending to have done something wrong, so I’ll go look and nothing will be the matter…
MA AKCERMAN: That way, I’ll eventually grow tired of looking every time you kids act nervous, thus freeing you to cause all sorts of mischief!
BRITNEY: Wow. We did it. She’s nuts.
SANJAY: As long as she doesn’t look in the garage

{{header: one step ahead at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: once you grow up, you have to just sit around all day figuring out how your children are trying to decieve you. if you let your guard down even for a moment, all of a sudden they are seventeen years old breaking the lock on your toolshed and selling your power tools for meth money.}}

#327; In which Mom gets to the Bottom of Things transcribed by in

MA AKCERMAN: There’s the little scamps! What have you kids been up to today?
BRITNEY: Nothing! Nothing at all! Everything’s totally fine! We haven’t even been IN the garage! We’ve just been, uh, upstairs!
SANJAY: I uh don’t think I’ve EVER been in the garage

MA AKCERMAN: Oh, dear. Do I need to look in the garage?
BRITNEY: NO! Not at all! I mean, not unless you want to see cars! The cars are still in there! We didn’t move them! Why would we have moved them? We WOULDN’T’VE!
SANJAY: Yeah I mean we’re just kids

MA AKCERMAN: I know what you’re doing.
MA AKCERMAN: You’re pretending to have done something wrong, so I’ll go look and nothing will be the matter…
MA AKCERMAN: That way, I’ll eventually grow tired of looking every time you kids act nervous, thus freeing you to cause all sorts of mischief!
BRITNEY: Wow. We did it. She’s nuts.
SANJAY: As long as she doesn’t look in the garage

{{header: one step ahead at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: once you grow up, you have to just sit around all day figuring out how your children are trying to decieve you. if you let your guard down even for a moment, all of a sudden they are seventeen years old breaking the lock on your toolshed and selling your power tools for meth money.}}

#327; In which Mom gets to the Bottom of Things transcribed by in

MA AKCERMAN: There's the little scamps! What have you kids been up to today?
BRITNEY: Nothing! Nothing at all! Everything's totally fine! We haven't even been IN the garage! We've just been, uh, upstairs!
SANJAY: I uh don't think I've EVER been in the garage

MA AKCERMAN: Oh, dear. Do I need to look in the garage?
BRITNEY: NO! Not at all! I mean, not unless you want to see cars! The cars are still in there! We didn't move them! Why would we have moved them? We WOULDN'T'VE!
SANJAY: Yeah I mean we're just kids

MA AKCERMAN: I know what you're doing.
MA AKCERMAN: You're pretending to have done something wrong, so I'll go look and nothing will be the matter...
MA AKCERMAN: That way, I'll eventually grow tired of looking every time you kids act nervous, thus freeing you to cause all sorts of mischief!
BRITNEY: Wow. We did it. She's nuts.
SANJAY: As long as she doesn't look in the garage

{{header: one step ahead at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: once you grow up, you have to just sit around all day figuring out how your children are trying to decieve you. if you let your guard down even for a moment, all of a sudden they are seventeen years old breaking the lock on your toolshed and selling your power tools for meth money.}}

once you grow up, you have to just sit around all day figuring out how your children are trying to deceive you. if you let your guard down even for a moment, all of a sudden they are seventeen years old breaking the lock on your toolshed and selling all your power tools for meth money.

Applications open for Genius Northwest – an IRL gaming competition

Last year, I participated in Genius Northwest, a gaming competition inspired by the Korean gameshow The Genius and its ilk.

It’s a reality show without the cameras — a 3-day, all-inclusive weekend retreat structured around a series of challenges and puzzles, in which personalities and dealmaking matter as much as playing games.

It’s truly a remarkable thing. I came in dead last in the competition, but I still had a great time participating.

The event is held annually in the Pacific Northwest (hence the name) and applications are now open to participate in the 2026 competition!

Learn more — and apply — at GeniusNW.com.


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