#804; A Cosmology of Malice

Comic Transcripts

Man: I’m an atheist.
Woman: I’m a maltheist!
Man: I don’t believe that God exists.
Woman: I believe that God exists, and that he hates us.

Man: I believe in a natural explanation for everything that happens in the world.
Woman: I believe that everything bad is caused by a deity who wishes only to cause us pain, and everything good is either luck or our own doing.

Man: I believe that life is fundamentally cruel and unfair, and we’d better learn to live with it.
Woman: I believe that life is cruel and unfair on purpose, and so it’s our duty to fight and make things better for ourselves and for others.

Bishop: I believe that God loves us and wants us to be happy. And that evil in the world is attributable to the Devil.
Woman: Well in MY thing there’s no guarantee that the Devil loses at the end, so we better get to work.

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{{alt-text: Maltheists believe that the Bible is both literally true AND a mean-spirited prank.}}

#804; A Cosmology of Malice 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.