#709; Cracks in the Metric

Comic Transcripts

RUDY: LISTEN! I got a bone to pick with you and your Haircut Value Index!
KEN: Yes, well, clearly something has gone shockingly awry

RUDY: Your math is all backwards! I went and got me a hundred-dollar haircut that looked great for twelve hours! H.V.I. of 200! NOW look at me!

KEN [narrating the math again]: Uh, well, you see, H.V.I. is merely a comparison metric to help you see how haircuts of different prices match up! It, uh, can’t help you find the very best value haircut in the world or anything like that! That’d be a free haircut that looks good forever. That limit goes to infinity. Zombies take over the planet and your corpse still looks great, that sort of thing. Forget it. It’s unachievable!

ARVID: THE TRACTOR OIL TURNED SENTIENT AND MY HAIR IS LOOKING MORE AMAZING BY THE MINUTE
RUDY: BOY IT LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE JUST WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING TODAY

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#709; Cracks in the Metric 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.