#702; The Manufacture of Anxiety

Comic Transcripts

EUGENE: What’s this I hear about you redeeming money? Redeeming it for what?
OTTO: Not in a transactional sense, but in a moral sense. [He hands HILDA a slip of paper] Thank you, here’s your receipt.

OTTO: All our money has a history. Bribes paid to politicians…hush money paid to victims…drugs and even human beings bought and sold…that money makes its way into our banks. It carries negativity with it. Someone’s starting a business, or buying toys for their baby? They don’t want Iran-Contra money. They want nice money. Money with positive energy.

EUGENE: So you’re…exchanging it for them?
OTTO: REDEEMING it. [To DAVE] Ah, yes. Looks like these dollars in your account were once used for a hooker binge on a CEO’s yacht. Right now I have Einstein’s patent office wages for a 15% commission – or JFK’s Pulitzer Prize winnings for twenty.
DAVE: Definitely give me JFK.

EUGENE: If what you’re doing was at all real, it would be called money laundering.
OTTO: Well since it isn’t, then it isn’t.

{{header: trade in for WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Peace of mind is really the only product in the world.}}

#702; The Manufacture of Anxiety 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.