Comic Transcripts

DRIVER: Mister Charles. You must get up.
Everybody is waiting.
CHARLES (still in bed, but also wearing a monocle): Don’t wanna.
Go away.

DRIVER: Your mother, she is here. Your papa, he is here.
The children have practiced a song. The doves are weeping for freedom.
PLEASE.
CHARLES: No I’m comfy womfy.

DRIVER: You asked me to wake you at six-thirty.
It is now past eleven. You KNOW you MUST get up.
Do not stay in bed simply to SPITE me!
CHARLES: If I DO get up
IT’S NOT GONNA BE BECAUSE YOU MADE ME.

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{{Alt-text: The color guard is nervously tittering. The brass band has fainted from exertion. The mayor is beginning to check his pocketwatch and fidget with his sash.}}

#513; In which Fatigue defies Reason transcribed by in

DRIVER: Mister Charles. You must get up.
Everybody is waiting.
CHARLES (still in bed, but also wearing a monocle): Don’t wanna.
Go away.

DRIVER: Your mother, she is here. Your papa, he is here.
The children have practiced a song. The doves are weeping for freedom.
PLEASE.
CHARLES: No I’m comfy womfy.

DRIVER: You asked me to wake you at six-thirty.
It is now past eleven. You KNOW you MUST get up.
Do not stay in bed simply to SPITE me!
CHARLES: If I DO get up
IT’S NOT GONNA BE BECAUSE YOU MADE ME.

{{Header: insist on WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: The color guard is nervously tittering. The brass band has fainted from exertion. The mayor is beginning to check his pocketwatch and fidget with his sash.}}

#513; In which Fatigue defies Reason transcribed by in

DRIVER: Mister Charles. You must get up.
Everybody is waiting.
CHARLES (still in bed, but also wearing a monocle): Don't wanna.
Go away.

DRIVER: Your mother, she is here. Your papa, he is here.
The children have practiced a song. The doves are weeping for freedom.
PLEASE.
CHARLES: No I'm comfy womfy.

DRIVER: You asked me to wake you at six-thirty.
It is now past eleven. You KNOW you MUST get up.
Do not stay in bed simply to SPITE me!
CHARLES: If I DO get up
IT'S NOT GONNA BE BECAUSE YOU MADE ME.

{{Header: insist on WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: The color guard is nervously tittering. The brass band has fainted from exertion. The mayor is beginning to check his pocketwatch and fidget with his sash.}}

The color guard is nervously tittering. The brass band has fainted from exertion. The mayor is beginning to check his pocketwatch and fidget with his sash.

#513; In which Fatigue defies Reason

  — May 8th, 2009

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Applications open for Genius Northwest – an IRL gaming competition

May 8, 2026 by David Malki !

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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