Comic Transcripts

[[SYLVIA from strip #529, SAMANTHA and SIDNEY on a train.]]
SAMANTHA: I can’t believe Grandpa asked you to burn some box he’d hidden.
What do you think’s in it?
SIDNEY: It’s prob’ly something senile. Like toothpicks. Or clams.

SAMANTHA: I bet it’s saucy letters from his first true love, before he met Nana.
Or spy documents he was never able to deliver to his true masters in North Korea.

SYLVIA: Maybe it’s packed with an incense he picked up somewhere on his travels.
Lost in limbo after his death, he will seek out its fragrant smoke as it rises through the clouds as a pathway to follow toward Heaven.

[[Later, they open the box.]]
CAPTION: Alas:
SYLVIA: Dangit.
CLAMS.

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#530; Sylvia honors the Aforementioned transcribed by in

[[SYLVIA from strip #529, SAMANTHA and SIDNEY on a train.]]
SAMANTHA: I can't believe Grandpa asked you to burn some box he'd hidden.
What do you think's in it?
SIDNEY: It's prob'ly something senile. Like toothpicks. Or clams.

SAMANTHA: I bet it's saucy letters from his first true love, before he met Nana.
Or spy documents he was never able to deliver to his true masters in North Korea.

SYLVIA: Maybe it's packed with an incense he picked up somewhere on his travels.
Lost in limbo after his death, he will seek out its fragrant smoke as it rises through the clouds as a pathway to follow toward Heaven.

[[Later, they open the box.]]
CAPTION: Alas:
SYLVIA: Dangit.
CLAMS.

{{Header: take a peek at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-Text: I KNEW it}}

I KNEW it

#530; Sylvia honors the Aforementioned

  — July 3rd, 2009

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(Continued, of course, from In which Sylvia finds a Project)

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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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