#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

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.