#1130; In which an Era departs

Comic Transcripts

[[This comic is displayed through photographs. A pilot in some sort of raincoat sits in an early airplane, apparently from the early 1900s. Text is displayed in the style of A Softer World.]]
Narrator: If you love something

[[Zooming in a bit on the pilot, who is smiling.]]
Narrator: let it go.

[[A view of the plane itself.]]
Narrator: Let it climb

[[Children point at the airplane, which is now aloft, in the distance.]]
Narrator: to its own heights

[[Zoom on one of the children.]]
Narrator: Let it navigate by the stars it finds.

[[Zoom on the other children.]]
Narrator: Its smell in your clothes
Narrator: is yours to keep.

{{header: as soft as WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: When the wind is in your face, you’re either moving or being blown at.}}

#1130; In which an Era departs transcribed by in

[[Zooming in a bit on the pilot, who is smiling.]]
Narrator: let it go.

[[A view of the plane itself.]]
Narrator: Let it climb

[[Children point at the airplane, which is now aloft, in the distance.]]
Narrator: to its own heights

[[Zoom on one of the children.]]
Narrator: Let it navigate by the stars it finds.

[[Zoom on the other children.]]
Narrator: Its smell in your clothes
Narrator: is yours to keep.

{{header: as soft as WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: When the wind is in your face, you’re either moving or being blown at.}}

#1130; In which an Era departs transcribed by in

[[Zooming in a bit on the pilot, who is smiling.]]
Narrator: let it go.

[[A view of the plane itself.]]
Narrator: Let it climb

[[Children point at the airplane, which is now aloft, in the distance.]]
Narrator: to its own heights

[[Zoom on one of the children.]]
Narrator: Let it navigate by the stars it finds.

[[Zoom on the other children.]]
Narrator: Its smell in your clothes
Narrator: is yours to keep.

{{header: as soft as WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: When the wind is in your face, you're either moving or being blown at.}}

When the wind is in your face, you're either moving or being blown at.

#1130; In which an Era departs

— June 2nd, 2015

[ Tags: aviation, guest comics, nostalgia ] Permalink: https://wondermark.com/c/1130/

The great webcomic A Softer World posted its final strip yesterday. Joey & Emily started their comic in February 2003, just two months before I started Wondermark. When I first happened across their strip, I felt a certain kinship just because it was someone else making comics without laboriously drawing everything (like a sucker). I think too few creative people develop the discipline to end things when they’re ready to end them.

If you haven’t read A Softer World before, you have a treat waiting for you. The melancholy is greatly flavored if you picture Joey’s wolfish grin as you read.

Buy a Print

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.

Comic Transcripts

#1130; In which an Era departs

— June 2nd, 2015

Event alert!

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