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{{Special hand-drawn strip for April Fool’s Day.}}
TITLE: MAALKIES!
[[An airship swings wildly from its gas bag.]]
VOICE: Whoa-oa!
VOICE 2: Hold ‘er steady!
NOTE (below panel): With apologies and respect to Tony Millionaire

CAPTAIN: There’s nothin’ I can do! Somethin’s fouling up my controls!

[[A BEAR IN AN ILL-FITTING HAT stalks away angrily.]]
BEAR: That rotten Maalki! is up to no good!

[[The BEAR sees the problem.]]
MAALKI!: My beard’s in the sprockets again

[[There’s also a bottom strip, just like MAAKIES.]]
TITLE: The Day I Met Tony Millionaire

[[Birds fly over waves.]]

[[MALKI! shows a strip to TONY MILLIONAIRE.]]
MALKI!: Here is a sample of “Wondermark!”

[[Birds fly over waves.]]

[[MILLIONAIRE examines the strip thoughtfully.]]
MILLIONAIRE: Hmmmm

[[The waves are in a bathtub. The birds are apparently painted on the wall.]]

[[MILLIONAIRE continues to study the strip as MALKI! waits nervously.]]
MILLIONAIRE (thinking): What is this garbage?

{{Header: dook dook dook at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: To be fair, I don’t know that he was thinking that EXACTLY.}}

#503; In which a Crow drinks off-panel transcribed by in

{{Special hand-drawn strip for April Fool's Day.}}
TITLE: MAALKIES!
[[An airship swings wildly from its gas bag.]]
VOICE: Whoa-oa!
VOICE 2: Hold 'er steady!
NOTE (below panel): With apologies and respect to Tony Millionaire

CAPTAIN: There's nothin' I can do! Somethin's fouling up my controls!

[[A BEAR IN AN ILL-FITTING HAT stalks away angrily.]]
BEAR: That rotten Maalki! is up to no good!

[[The BEAR sees the problem.]]
MAALKI!: My beard's in the sprockets again

[[There's also a bottom strip, just like MAAKIES.]]
TITLE: The Day I Met Tony Millionaire

[[Birds fly over waves.]]

[[MALKI! shows a strip to TONY MILLIONAIRE.]]
MALKI!: Here is a sample of "Wondermark!"

[[Birds fly over waves.]]

[[MILLIONAIRE examines the strip thoughtfully.]]
MILLIONAIRE: Hmmmm

[[The waves are in a bathtub. The birds are apparently painted on the wall.]]

[[MILLIONAIRE continues to study the strip as MALKI! waits nervously.]]
MILLIONAIRE (thinking): What is this garbage?

{{Header: dook dook dook at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: To be fair, I don't know that he was thinking that EXACTLY.}}

To be fair, I don't know that he was thinking that EXACTLY.

#503; In which a Crow drinks off-panel

  — April 1st, 2009

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(Apologies to the great Tony Millionaire)

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Bolted! Shipping is UNDERWAY

April 4, 2026 by David Malki !

Bolted! games have been shipping to backers over the last couple of weeks! The non-US orders are (mostly) done and some folks have been reporting receiving them already!

@davidmalki.com My game arrived today!! It looks gorgeous 🙂 Hope you are well 🙂

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— Lar deSouza (@lartist.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM

My US inventory of games is now in-country, but still being staged at the fulfillment centers. It’s being distributed to regional warehouses, so the actual shipping to backers happens more efficiently. I hope the bulk of US shipping will start next week.

These are what the cartons (and games) look like!

bolted! games BOLTED! GAMES (pounding the table) B O L T E D ! G A M E S

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— david malki ! (@davidmalki.com) April 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM

I am also waiting on the bonus cards to be finished printing! I ended up needing many more of those than I had anticipated, so I decided to have the game factory print those too, for perfect matching with the base game cards.

Most people will be receiving two separate mailings: the game itself, and “anything else” (bonus cards and/or add-ons) which will be sent by me personally.

As of today, 86% of backers have completed their surveys so far! That’s pretty good, but it’s not everyone. I know YOU PERSONALLY have already completed YOURS though, so no worries!!

We have now moved OFF of Kickstarter and ONTO BackerKit for any new orders. You can bundle a game with basically anything else I sell on that there website, it’s pretty nuts!


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