#722; The Reputation of the Mexican

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[[Two aliens with long spiky feathers crowning their bird-style feathered heads address a middle-aged woman with her hair pulled back severely, dressed in a long-sleeved dark dress with an apron. She is holding a round serving tray in her right hand, angled against her body, and has her left arm akimbo. She responds to them in a matter-of-fact yet kindly manner.]]
Mexican alien #1: We are ALONE. Refugees on this planet!
Mexican alien #2: Since much of our matter-energy was expended on the journey to earth, and our cruiser’s engines run only on Mexican matter…we are STUCK HERE until we can grow some more mass!
Woman: You know, I know someone you might get along with!

[[Woman at left; Gax, dressed in a suit, at right, with 19th-century industrial-age residential buildings faintly visible in the in background.]]
Woman: Hey Gax, do you know the MEXICANS? Kinda funny-looking alien fellows?
Gax: The Mexicans! Of course! Known throughout the universe for their bravery, loyalty, and work ethic!

[[Woman at left, behind Gax, looks on disapprovingly,eyebrows slightly raised, her eyes fixed on the aliens as she hears his reaction. Gax, just left of center, holding his walking stick in his right hand like Moses’ rod, does not appear any too enthused to see the aliens. On the right, the two aliens, with bodies like plucked uncooked chickens except with armlike appendages instead of wings, ending in two grotesque long curled fingers, stare fixedly up at Gax as he makes his pronouncement. The bulging eyes of one show dismay; the other looks shocked or startled.]]
Gax: Oh, THESE Mexicans.

#722; The Reputation of the Mexican transcribed by in

[[Two aliens with long spiky feathers crowning their bird-style feathered heads address a middle-aged woman with her hair pulled back severely, dressed in a long-sleeved dark dress with an apron. She is holding a round serving tray in her right hand, angled against her body, and has her left arm akimbo. She responds to them in a matter-of-fact yet kindly manner.]]
Mexican alien #1: We are ALONE. Refugees on this planet!
Mexican alien #2: Since much of our matter-energy was expended on the journey to earth, and our cruiser's engines run only on Mexican matter...we are STUCK HERE until we can grow some more mass!
Woman: You know, I know someone you might get along with!

[[Woman at left, behind Gax, looks on disapprovingly,eyebrows slightly raised, her eyes fixed on the aliens as she hears his reaction. Gax, just left of center, holding his walking stick in his right hand like Moses' rod, does not appear any too enthused to see the aliens. On the right, the two aliens, with bodies like plucked uncooked chickens except with armlike appendages instead of wings, ending in two grotesque long curled fingers, stare fixedly up at Gax as he makes his pronouncement. The bulging eyes of one show dismay; the other looks shocked or startled.]]
Gax: Oh, THESE Mexicans.

These guys are just a bunch of accountants and cobblers!

#722; The Reputation of the Mexican

— April 21st, 2011

[ Tags: gaxians, mexicans, race ] Permalink: https://wondermark.com/c/722/

(Continued from Enter the Mexicans)

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The past few weeks have been a frenzy of assembling the very laborious, very bespoke first print run of NOODLE BATTLE, the puzzle game I am releasing this weekend at PAX West in Seattle!

PAX has an event called the PNW Tabletop Game Market (Saturday night ONLY), which is a curated selection of short-run games from local designers. As I’ve mentioned in this space before, I applied for a space in this fall’s event mainly as a way to force myself to finish a new game. And here it is!

The drawings are all by Jason Poland, good pal and cartoonist of My Dad Is Dracula. Jason played an early version of this game at Alaska Robotics Comics Camp this spring, and really liked it!

So I said, “Do you want to help me make it?” And so he has! It was his idea to make all the characters fun little animals, and I think it adds a ton of charm.

Because this edition is limited-run, it has been incredibly labor-intensive to make! The boxes and cards were made by a game factory in the usual fashion, but separately. The blank tiles were made by a woodworker dude out of Connecticut. For each game, we have had to:

Cut a piece of plastic and install the box window
Paint all the tiles, hundreds at a time
Apply a sticker to both sides of every tile
Apply stickers to the box (we couldn’t get the box back printed in time, so the whole back side of the box is a sticker too)
Apply the “Nutrition Facts” sticker, which was a late suggestion by my kid that I just had to run with
Fold up the rule sheet (they come from the printer as big strips of paper)
Put all the components into the box and seal it all up

I knew it would be a lot of work and would require some inefficient, expensive compromises AND I WAS RIGHT. But the final product is turning out great, which is the important thing!!

I will have 50 copies with me (if all goes well) at PAX, and then between now and the holidays we will be putting together additional copies to round out this first edition.

I will announce additional copies on Patreon first, once they are available online!! And here too, naturally, before long.

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#722; The Reputation of the Mexican

— April 21st, 2011

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