Comic Transcripts

DIANE: ?baby, this is going to be your wedding, too! What do you want?
BART: You’ve been asking me that for months and I think I finally have the answer. A COURTROOM SKETCH ARTIST.

BART: Think about the weddings we’ve attended recently. Apparently everybody believes the event will be criminally under-documented. Everyone’s watching the ceremony through their camera. Might as well be watching on TV. At our wedding, we collect cameras at the door. We FRISK people.

BART: That way, the attendees can actually be present! Meanwhile, the sketch artist will sit in the corner and capture impressions of the ceremony. Later on we’ll send everybody a booklet of the drawings. Moments filtered in chalk, not razor-sharp photos of everybody’s dandruff.

DIANE: I see the appeal, but there’s a strange stilted undercurrent of being treated like criminals at our wedding.
BART: Fine, NEW idea – we dress like bank robbers and the minister is the flustered bank manager. The attendees all have to like on the floor and be very quiet NO HEROES

[[header: take it in at WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: we do it in a bank and we rob the bank]]

#665; Seconds before the Elopement transcribed by in

DIANE: ?baby, this is going to be your wedding, too! What do you want?
BART: You’ve been asking me that for months and I think I finally have the answer. A COURTROOM SKETCH ARTIST.

BART: Think about the weddings we’ve attended recently. Apparently everybody believes the event will be criminally under-documented. Everyone’s watching the ceremony through their camera. Might as well be watching on TV. At our wedding, we collect cameras at the door. We FRISK people.

BART: That way, the attendees can actually be present! Meanwhile, the sketch artist will sit in the corner and capture impressions of the ceremony. Later on we’ll send everybody a booklet of the drawings. Moments filtered in chalk, not razor-sharp photos of everybody’s dandruff.

DIANE: I see the appeal, but there’s a strange stilted undercurrent of being treated like criminals at our wedding.
BART: Fine, NEW idea – we dress like bank robbers and the minister is the flustered bank manager. The attendees all have to like on the floor and be very quiet NO HEROES

[[header: take it in at WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: we do it in a bank and we rob the bank]]

#665; Seconds before the Elopement transcribed by in

DIANE: ?baby, this is going to be your wedding, too! What do you want?
BART: You've been asking me that for months and I think I finally have the answer. A COURTROOM SKETCH ARTIST.

BART: Think about the weddings we've attended recently. Apparently everybody believes the event will be criminally under-documented. Everyone's watching the ceremony through their camera. Might as well be watching on TV. At our wedding, we collect cameras at the door. We FRISK people.

BART: That way, the attendees can actually be present! Meanwhile, the sketch artist will sit in the corner and capture impressions of the ceremony. Later on we'll send everybody a booklet of the drawings. Moments filtered in chalk, not razor-sharp photos of everybody's dandruff.

DIANE: I see the appeal, but there's a strange stilted undercurrent of being treated like criminals at our wedding.
BART: Fine, NEW idea - we dress like bank robbers and the minister is the flustered bank manager. The attendees all have to like on the floor and be very quiet NO HEROES

[[header: take it in at WONDERMARK.COM]]

[[alt-text: we do it in a bank and we rob the bank]]

we do it in a bank and we rob the bank

#665; Seconds before the Elopement

  — October 12th, 2010

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New ways to get Bolted!

July 24, 2026 by David Malki !

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.


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