#682; Monkey Box and its ilk

Comic Transcripts

[[A man is reading a newspaper, and a woman is standing infront of him for no obvious reason.]]
Man: Listen to this. “The murder then fled to a hotel in Monkey Box, Florida.” MONKEY BOX FLORIDA. The NAME of the TOWN is MONKEY BOX.
Woman: You know what, though? Probably doesn’t mean anything to them. If you’ve been saying “Monkey Box” all your life, it doesn’t mean a BOX of MONKEYS. It’s just SYLLABLES.

Woman: I mean, you grew up in Riverside. Was there a RIVER in Riverside?
Man: I think there USED to be. Back before the SCARE.
Woman: Or like GREENLAND, or ST. LOUIS, or PARIS. No one thinks about what the WORDS mean anymore.

Man: What DOES Paris mean?
Woman: “More than one Pari.”
Man What is a PARI?
Woman: It’s like a BLOCK in fencing.
Man: So PARIS is named after a FENCING term?
Woman: MORE THAN ONE fencing terms.

Man: You know, this conversation was going pretty okay until you got out of your depth but didn’t stop talking.
Woman: TOUCH?. South of Paris. SUBURB.

{{header: let’s call it WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: That sound you just heard was the four diehard fencers who read Wondermark just GASPING IN DELIGHT}}

#682; Monkey Box and its ilk transcribed by in

Man: What DOES Paris mean?
Woman: “More than one Pari.”
Man What is a PARI?
Woman: It’s like a BLOCK in fencing.
Man: So PARIS is named after a FENCING term?
Woman: MORE THAN ONE fencing terms.

Man: You know, this conversation was going pretty okay until you got out of your depth but didn’t stop talking.
Woman: TOUCH?. South of Paris. SUBURB.

{{header: let’s call it WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: That sound you just heard was the four diehard fencers who read Wondermark just GASPING IN DELIGHT}}

#682; Monkey Box and its ilk 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!