#447; The Wrong Way to Ask for $700 Billion

Comic Transcripts

[[HENRY and his father. The father is wearing some kind of military uniform.]]
HENRY: Dad, I need cookies.
DAD: No. You’re in trouble for flooding the basement with your homemade waterslide.
HENRY: You don’t GET it! I NEED cookies. It’s not a passing desire. It’s a legitimate pressing NEED.
When I broke the water main, I awoke a FEARSOME HYDRO-DRAGON who intends to DEVOUR us all unless I bring him a GIANT STACK OF COOKIES.

DAD: Oh? Well, let’s go take a LOOK at this dragon.
HENRY: NO! You can’t see him! He’s an…INVISIBLE hydro-dragon!
SUPER-dangerous. TRUST ME!
DAD: Henry…
When someone with YOUR track record wants THAT many cookies, THIS is how to ask:

DAD: “I KNOW this sounds bad. I KNOW I’ve been wrong before. But right now, the danger we face is SO great that I ask you to look past ME to the FACTS of the situation, as presented by an impartial third party.
“Hopefully, for the moment if nothing more, we can SET ASIDE our differences and COOPERATE for the good of us all.”
HENRY: DAD YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND I NEED YOU TO GIVE ME A MILLION COOKIES RIGHT NOW OR THE INVISIBLE DRAGON IS GOING TO DEVOUR YOU AND ME AND MOM AND EVERYONE AND THE STREETS WILL RUN RED WITH OUR LIQUEFIED ORGAAAAANS

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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.