#801; All Doughplanes, All the Time

Comic Transcripts

[[Customer approaches the counter next to a display case of doughplanes, addressing the Head Baker]]
Customer: Excuse me, do you guys sell donuts still? Or just… what do you call them? Doughplanes?

[[Head Baker approaches the counter]]
Head Baker: You want doughplanes? We GOT doughplanes! We got all kinds! We’re working on a real beauty in the back right now.
Head Baker: Totally accurate (within the bounds of donut physics) scale model of a Beechcraft King Air. We call it a DOUGHCRAFT KING DOUGH.
Customer: I just want a normal donut

[[Head baker raises his hand]]
Head Baker: Well, just get a doughplane! Get one of the smaller ones. They don’t have NEARLY the aeronautical detail of the king dough, but they’re JUST as tasty and ONLY a dollar.
Customer: Regular cake donuts used to be fifty cents.

Customer: I just want a donut. A REGULAR donut. I don’t want to pay extra for WINGS. It doesn’t need to fly. I plan to EAT it IMMEDIATELY.
[[Head Baker angrily points toward the door]]
Head Baker: GET OUT OF MY SHOP YOU PHILISTINE

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#801; All Doughplanes, All the Time transcribed by in

[[Customer approaches the counter next to a display case of doughplanes, addressing the Head Baker]]
Customer: Excuse me, do you guys sell donuts still? Or just… what do you call them? Doughplanes?

{{header: come and get WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: We will cultivate a discerning patron pool by actively selecting only for customers who APPRECIATE what we are DOING here}}

#801; All Doughplanes, All the Time transcribed by in

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.

You can also sign up here if you’d like me to email you once the game is available online!