#908; The Relative Stranger

Comic Transcripts

[[Someone in a dress shows a piece of paper to someone very near her in a suit and a tall top hat.]]
Someone in a Dress: …and *this* is my great-great-uncle Barnabas. *He* owned a *sawmill*.
Someone in a Suit: Mmm

[[Close-up of the photograph: a portrait of someone older-looking in a top hat. A hand is holding the photograph.]]

[[The same arrangement as in the first panel]]
Someone in a Suit: *Fascinating*. He looks just like every *other* person I’ve never met. You could be showing me a picture of the dude who invented *chewable thalidomide*. I would have no idea.

[[The one in a suit is joined by another, one with a beard. The one in the dress is gone.]]
Someone in a Suit: I would characterize my chances for a second date as “slim”.

{{header: looks just like WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: When I challenged her to correctly identify her great-great-grandmother from a stack of family photos I jumbled together with stills I had printed out from a Dust Bowl documentary and brought with me, I finally realized that this wasn’t actually about her, it was about me}}

#908; The Relative Stranger 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.