#449; In which ‘Food’ is placed in Quotes

Comic Transcripts

TEDDY (peering through his spyglass): Aaggh What in blazes is this nonsense?
MR. KABOB: I’m a thirteen-dollar, rubbery-tasting KABOB representing the captive-audience retail dining industry!
TEDDY: So YOU’RE the ones at airports and sports arenas raking customers over the coals for needing to EAT!
Eight-dollar hot dogs. Twenty-dollar cheese fries. Ten-buck gallons of soda made from FOUR CENTS’ worth of syrup. SHAMELESS!

TEDDY: When Burger King straight-out DOUBLES its prices in an airport terminal, you know what it tells the consumer?
“Out there in the world, if it wasn’t for those pesky MARKET FORCES keeping us down…if only we COULD charge nine dollars for a Whopper, well, by God, we WOULD.”
MR. KABOB: BLAH BLAH BLAH BOO-HOO CRYBABY wants everything for nothing. You know how EXPENSIVE it is to rent a retail stall at a major airport? If we charged street prices we’d be BROKE in a WEEK.

TEDDY: Really? THAT’S the reason that prices are so high?
MR. KABOB: To be fair, NO. It’s the thing that you said.

{{Header: talking meat at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: inching ever closer and then WHAM smacked with a spyglass and eaten}}

#449; In which ‘Food’ is placed in Quotes transcribed by in

TEDDY: Really? THAT’S the reason that prices are so high?
MR. KABOB: To be fair, NO. It’s the thing that you said.

{{Header: talking meat at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: inching ever closer and then WHAM smacked with a spyglass and eaten}}

#449; In which ‘Food’ is placed in Quotes transcribed by in

The vast majority of Bolted! game shipments are already shipped, but I understand if you don’t have yours yet, who cares. Here’s a progress report:

Total orders | 1052
Surveys completed | 992
Fully shipped | 946

Incomplete surveys

Obviously, if I don’t have your shipping address, I can’t ship your game! Let me know if you are missing a survey link. As new responses come in, they are rapidly added to the shipping queue.

Orders containing certain add-ons

Some of the add-ons proved more popular than expected — which is lovely! But it meant I had to reprint some stickers, make all the individual comic prints, request a shipment of books from offsite storage, etc, etc. So, any orders which contain an out-of-stock item are still waiting to ship.

All that missing stuff, though, is en route to me at this very second! So those orders will be going out pretty dang soon!

Custom items

I’ve already been in touch directly with the backers who ordered custom collages! Those will be created (and sent to you) after all the other shipments are complete. I’m excited for those, they’ll be fun! My pleasant dessert after the hearty meal of all the other orders.

Anything wrong?

I’m very grateful to the few folks who’ve contacted me to report some kind of issue with their shipment! Thankfully, problems are rare, but when they do occur, I would like to solve them. Please don’t hesitate to send me an email (replying to your shipping confirmation works great) if there’s anything about your order I can correct.

Reviews & photos

On BoardGameGeek are highly appreciated!

Unless you hate the game! You are entitled to that opinion, but please send that review directly to me instead of telling anyone else, so I can eat it and bury it in the yard and watch it grow into a twisted, gnarled tree. Or whatever!