#727; In which Friendship is pined for

Comic Transcripts

” You know who THAT is? That’s Bobby Pflugelblager”
“I don’t know who that is ”

“Bobby Pflugelblager is RAD. He’s SUPER active on the cracked.com fan forums, PLUS Drew Carey re-tweeted one of his twitpics like a year ago.”
“WHOA”
“He’s got a music-review tumblr full of SICK MP3s, AND he self-published a Kindle book of paranormal post-apocalyptic erotica.”

“I follow him on Twitter AND once got an @ reply when I found a typo on one of his zazzle shirts”
“That kid is INCREDIBLE! ”
“But what can you say to him, you know? ” I’ve been stalking you online, your last.fm is amazing and I think we would get along well together?””

“NO. We’re kept at arm’s length by the Kabuki of politeness. We have to ROLEPLAY as people who AREN’T invisible connected, pretending we ACTUALLY don’t know everything we know. And for WHAT? So we can talk about the WEATHER with someone we deeply admire?”
“Maybe just stand next to him and say real loudly to someone else “My favourite sexual position is with a werewolf in a crater.””

{{header: gaze softly at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: if you make a habit of saying this loudly whenever you enter a crowd, the right kinds of friends will seek YOU out}}

#727; In which Friendship is pined for transcribed by in

Bolted! games have been shipping to backers over the last couple of weeks! The non-US orders are (mostly) done and some folks have been reporting receiving them already!

@davidmalki.com My game arrived today!! It looks gorgeous 🙂 Hope you are well 🙂

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— Lar deSouza (@lartist.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM

My US inventory of games is now in-country, but still being staged at the fulfillment centers. It’s being distributed to regional warehouses, so the actual shipping to backers happens more efficiently. I hope the bulk of US shipping will start next week.

These are what the cartons (and games) look like!

bolted! games BOLTED! GAMES (pounding the table) B O L T E D ! G A M E S

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— david malki ! (@davidmalki.com) April 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM

I am also waiting on the bonus cards to be finished printing! I ended up needing many more of those than I had anticipated, so I decided to have the game factory print those too, for perfect matching with the base game cards.

Most people will be receiving two separate mailings: the game itself, and “anything else” (bonus cards and/or add-ons) which will be sent by me personally.

As of today, 86% of backers have completed their surveys so far! That’s pretty good, but it’s not everyone. I know YOU PERSONALLY have already completed YOURS though, so no worries!!

We have now moved OFF of Kickstarter and ONTO BackerKit for any new orders. You can bundle a game with basically anything else I sell on that there website, it’s pretty nuts!