#776; In which Toothpaste is made

Comic Transcripts

MARY: Are you still squeezing on that toothpaste tube? Give up! It’s empty!
KARL: Little-known fact: toothpaste tubes do not contain toothpaste. They CREATE toothpaste.

KARL: When you squeeze the tube, you generate energy. This powers a chemical reaction that results in the formation of a semi-solid mass. Which plops out the end. Theoretically it’s unlimited! But because of the half-life of the chemical catalysts, each reaction requires twice as much energy as the one before.

KARL: So the first draw – when the tube seems “full” – requires 0.0001 units of squeezing force. The second, 0.0002 units, etc. It’s easy at first, but that doubling gets serious after a while. Eventually it takes TRILLIONS of units of force! QUADRILLIONS!

KARL: Most people give up when it gets too tough. But I’ve got a vise and a torque wrench.
MARY: JUST GET A NEW TUBE OF TOOTHPASTE

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{{alt-text: If we can just get this crinkled mess into the Large Hadron Collider WE WILL NEVER HAVE TO BUY TOOTHPASTE AGAIN}}

#776; In which Toothpaste is made transcribed by in

MARY: Are you still squeezing on that toothpaste tube? Give up! It’s empty!
KARL: Little-known fact: toothpaste tubes do not contain toothpaste. They CREATE toothpaste.

KARL: Most people give up when it gets too tough. But I’ve got a vise and a torque wrench.
MARY: JUST GET A NEW TUBE OF TOOTHPASTE

{{header: clamp down on WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: If we can just get this crinkled mess into the Large Hadron Collider WE WILL NEVER HAVE TO BUY TOOTHPASTE AGAIN}}

#776; In which Toothpaste is made 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.