Comic Transcripts

HERVE (a deep-sea diver): Which way to the pool-
GUIDO (a bear in an ill-fitting hat): -waytothepool JINX!
HERVE: What? I’m looking for the YMCA.
GUIDO: You can’t talk! I jinxed you! Pinch poke you owe me a Coke!

HERVE: Whatever. Look, I’m supposed to be giving a safety lecture to the kids, and I’m already late-
GUIDO: You do not TALK. I have JINXED you. If you continue to talk before you are un-jinxed then I will eat you. I swear on my mother’s grave that I will eat you.

HERVE: Fine. Eat me. But just know that right now, sitting in that YMCA, there’s a kid who’s going to cure cancer someday. Except he’s NOT, because he’s going to drown tomorrow. Because I wasn’t there to give the safety lecture.
GUIDO: I have already eaten all the children at the YMCA.
HERVE: You are a horrible creature.
GUIDO: YOU DO NOT SEEM TO BE GRASPING THE POINT OF JINX

{{header: do your job at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Like so many of us, convincing himself that his job is Critically Important To The World is the only thing that gets Herve out of bed and into that stanky diving gear every morning.}}

#378; In which Children suffer transcribed by in

HERVE (a deep-sea diver): Which way to the pool-
GUIDO (a bear in an ill-fitting hat): -waytothepool JINX!
HERVE: What? I’m looking for the YMCA.
GUIDO: You can’t talk! I jinxed you! Pinch poke you owe me a Coke!

HERVE: Whatever. Look, I’m supposed to be giving a safety lecture to the kids, and I’m already late-
GUIDO: You do not TALK. I have JINXED you. If you continue to talk before you are un-jinxed then I will eat you. I swear on my mother’s grave that I will eat you.

HERVE: Fine. Eat me. But just know that right now, sitting in that YMCA, there’s a kid who’s going to cure cancer someday. Except he’s NOT, because he’s going to drown tomorrow. Because I wasn’t there to give the safety lecture.
GUIDO: I have already eaten all the children at the YMCA.
HERVE: You are a horrible creature.
GUIDO: YOU DO NOT SEEM TO BE GRASPING THE POINT OF JINX

{{header: do your job at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Like so many of us, convincing himself that his job is Critically Important To The World is the only thing that gets Herve out of bed and into that stanky diving gear every morning.}}

#378; In which Children suffer transcribed by in

HERVE (a deep-sea diver): Which way to the pool-
GUIDO (a bear in an ill-fitting hat): -waytothepool JINX!
HERVE: What? I'm looking for the YMCA.
GUIDO: You can't talk! I jinxed you! Pinch poke you owe me a Coke!

HERVE: Whatever. Look, I'm supposed to be giving a safety lecture to the kids, and I'm already late-
GUIDO: You do not TALK. I have JINXED you. If you continue to talk before you are un-jinxed then I will eat you. I swear on my mother's grave that I will eat you.

HERVE: Fine. Eat me. But just know that right now, sitting in that YMCA, there's a kid who's going to cure cancer someday. Except he's NOT, because he's going to drown tomorrow. Because I wasn't there to give the safety lecture.
GUIDO: I have already eaten all the children at the YMCA.
HERVE: You are a horrible creature.
GUIDO: YOU DO NOT SEEM TO BE GRASPING THE POINT OF JINX

{{header: do your job at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Like so many of us, convincing himself that his job is Critically Important To The World is the only thing that gets Herve out of bed and into that stanky diving gear every morning.}}

Like so many of us, convincing himself that his job is Critically Important To The World is the only thing that gets Herve out of bed and into that stanky diving gear every morning.

#378; In which Children suffer

  — June 7th, 2011

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Enjoy this Classic Wondermark, newly colored by Philip Obermarck! This comic originally ran (in black & white) on February 8, 2008.

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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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