Comic Transcripts

#778; A Tough Day for Martin

Fat lady in fur coat: …And I suppose you’re late with the rent -again- this month?
Spineless Marvin: Yes ma’am I’m sorry something came up
Marvin: See I got this call from my mom – she needed money real bad on account of a -tooth issue-

Marvin: By which I mean an issue of -Tooth Magazine- which is rare and increasingly hard to find on the secondary market
Marvin: She stumbled upon a good-condition April ’82 and, -well-, I’m her -boy-, she raised me with certain -values-, never to pass up an opportunity and so forth

Marvin (sweating): Anyway I sent her my rent money for the month, but she promised that she would photocopy several pages of the periodical for you
Marvin: Both for you to see that it truly is a quality piece and also just for you to keep as far as general enjoyment is concerned

[[LATER, AFTER HAVING READ THE MAGAZINE IN QUESTION]]
Fat lady: You tell your mother to get me page 64 so I can finish that article on tartar or so help me you’ll be on the street
Marvin: Please, Miz Dunlap, you are yelling at the world’s most broken man

{{header: snatch up WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Tooth Magazine folded in ’89 when advertisers withdrew their support following the publishing of a controversial illustration featuring C. Everett Koop driving a bulldozer through Tianenmen Square. The caption: ‘FLUORIDE UBER ALLES’}}

#778; A Tough Day for Martin transcribed by in

#778; A Tough Day for Martin

Fat lady in fur coat: …And I suppose you’re late with the rent -again- this month?
Spineless Marvin: Yes ma’am I’m sorry something came up
Marvin: See I got this call from my mom – she needed money real bad on account of a -tooth issue-

Marvin: By which I mean an issue of -Tooth Magazine- which is rare and increasingly hard to find on the secondary market
Marvin: She stumbled upon a good-condition April ’82 and, -well-, I’m her -boy-, she raised me with certain -values-, never to pass up an opportunity and so forth

Marvin (sweating): Anyway I sent her my rent money for the month, but she promised that she would photocopy several pages of the periodical for you
Marvin: Both for you to see that it truly is a quality piece and also just for you to keep as far as general enjoyment is concerned

[[LATER, AFTER HAVING READ THE MAGAZINE IN QUESTION]]
Fat lady: You tell your mother to get me page 64 so I can finish that article on tartar or so help me you’ll be on the street
Marvin: Please, Miz Dunlap, you are yelling at the world’s most broken man

{{header: snatch up WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Tooth Magazine folded in ’89 when advertisers withdrew their support following the publishing of a controversial illustration featuring C. Everett Koop driving a bulldozer through Tianenmen Square. The caption: ‘FLUORIDE UBER ALLES’}}

#778; A Tough Day for Martin transcribed by in

#778; A Tough Day for Martin

Fat lady in fur coat: ...And I suppose you're late with the rent -again- this month?
Spineless Marvin: Yes ma'am I'm sorry something came up
Marvin: See I got this call from my mom - she needed money real bad on account of a -tooth issue-

Marvin: By which I mean an issue of -Tooth Magazine- which is rare and increasingly hard to find on the secondary market
Marvin: She stumbled upon a good-condition April '82 and, -well-, I'm her -boy-, she raised me with certain -values-, never to pass up an opportunity and so forth

Marvin (sweating): Anyway I sent her my rent money for the month, but she promised that she would photocopy several pages of the periodical for you
Marvin: Both for you to see that it truly is a quality piece and also just for you to keep as far as general enjoyment is concerned

[[LATER, AFTER HAVING READ THE MAGAZINE IN QUESTION]]
Fat lady: You tell your mother to get me page 64 so I can finish that article on tartar or so help me you'll be on the street
Marvin: Please, Miz Dunlap, you are yelling at the world's most broken man

{{header: snatch up WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Tooth Magazine folded in '89 when advertisers withdrew their support following the publishing of a controversial illustration featuring C. Everett Koop driving a bulldozer through Tianenmen Square. The caption: 'FLUORIDE UBER ALLES'}}

Tooth Magazine folded in '89 when advertisers withdrew their support following the publishing of a controversial illustration featuring C. Everett Koop driving a bulldozer through Tianenmen Square. The caption: 'FLUORIDE UBER ALLES'

Bolted! Fulfillment Update

Photo courtesy of backer Nicola!

The vast majority of Bolted! game shipments are already shipped, but I understand if you don’t have yours yet, who cares. Here’s a progress report:

Total orders | 1052
Surveys completed | 992
Fully shipped | 946

Incomplete surveys

Obviously, if I don’t have your shipping address, I can’t ship your game! Let me know if you are missing a survey link. As new responses come in, they are rapidly added to the shipping queue.

Orders containing certain add-ons

Some of the add-ons proved more popular than expected — which is lovely! But it meant I had to reprint some stickers, make all the individual comic prints, request a shipment of books from offsite storage, etc, etc. So, any orders which contain an out-of-stock item are still waiting to ship.

All that missing stuff, though, is en route to me at this very second! So those orders will be going out pretty dang soon!

Custom items

I’ve already been in touch directly with the backers who ordered custom collages! Those will be created (and sent to you) after all the other shipments are complete. I’m excited for those, they’ll be fun! My pleasant dessert after the hearty meal of all the other orders.

Anything wrong?

I’m very grateful to the few folks who’ve contacted me to report some kind of issue with their shipment! Thankfully, problems are rare, but when they do occur, I would like to solve them. Please don’t hesitate to send me an email (replying to your shipping confirmation works great) if there’s anything about your order I can correct.

Reviews & photos

On BoardGameGeek are highly appreciated!

Unless you hate the game! You are entitled to that opinion, but please send that review directly to me instead of telling anyone else, so I can eat it and bury it in the yard and watch it grow into a twisted, gnarled tree. Or whatever!


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