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Comics made from vintage images AKA "a collaboration with the dead" ⏪ archives now go back several years! browse!! 💻 site: wondermark.com 📖 books/merch: store.wondermark.com 🔩 card game! wondermark.com/bolted

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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · last wk.

He died as he lived: hated Wondermark #1589; The Ol' Scorny Mourny

[[A man in an elaborate hat and leggings, WHIPSMARK, holding a book, speaks to a woman, BELDRA, peering through a lorgnette and holding a tiny dog.]]

WHIPSMARK: Did you just POST this about the late DINGO WOLFHEART?

WHIPSMARK: “Rest in poop to DUMBO WOLF FART. I’m glad he’s dead, but I’m sad I wasn’t there to watch it happen”
WHIPSMARK: “He will be mourned by other people who should ALSO all die soon. This is not a THREAT of any sort, simply a request to Santa Claus”

BELDRA: I have a bunch more in my drafts, if you’d care to see.
WHIPSMARK: I do NOT.

WHIPSMARK (sternly): Crass. Disrespectful. When I die, are you going to say terrible things about ME, too?

BELDRA: WELL
BELDRA (sliding into a smirking, gleeful side-eye): THAT DEPENDS

[[The dog side-eyes WHIPSMARK as well.]]

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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 2mo ago

What we consume, we digest; what is consumed, is no longer what it was. Such is how we are nourished. Wondermark #1587; And Onward One Opines

[[A woman, KYLEEN, whom attentive readers will remember from a previous comic, strolls with a man, BOYSWORTH, whom attentive readers will not remember because this is his first appearance, but who carries a cane.]]

KYLEEN: Did you catch the series finale of HEADSTABBERS UNIVERSITY?
BOYSWORTH: YEAH, I watch all that garbage.

BOYSWORTH: I don't envy their task of wrapping up so many story threads. The DEMIDUKE and the thing with the Waxwork Guillotine... bringing back the SKULL MERCHANT with a NEW DOG... I thought it was ALL RIGHT. Not great, but all right.

BOYSWORTH: Thinking back now, there was a HUGE missed opportunity. When KARLO went into SPACE... They could've done a whole "Charles Lindbergh ended up becoming a Nazi" thing! It would've RESONATED!

KYLEEN: Maybe that DID happen, but off-screen. We can IMAGINE it!

BOYSWORTH: I can't STOP imagining it! What a SMART twist that would have been! Oh well. It's OVER. Nothing to be done.

[[Kyleen joins her friend BRINDLA, whom attentive readers will also remember from her previous appearance in the series that introduced Kyleen.]]

BRINDLA: SO? Has he discovered fan fiction yet??
KYLEEN: SLOWLY! SLOWLY! His kind spook easily!

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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 2mo ago

Invention is the big ol' kid, dropped off at the pool, of necessity Wondermark #1586; In which a Deuce is Cubed

[[OTTO, this world's inveterate entrepreneur and hustler, is pitching a group of distinguished-looking people at a luncheon.]]

OTTO: ...The device is a water jet mounted INSIDE the toilet bowl.

OTTO: Using a simplified version of the same process used in metal parts fabrication... And fully submerged, to minimize SPLASHBACK... the jets SURGICALLY SLICE AND DICE all your solid waste.

OTTO: With today's low-flow, clog-prone toilet designs... This ensures ALL matter entering the toilet's narrow, winding plumbing is rendered smaller than regulation casino dice.

[[One of the listeners interjects with a comment.]]

LISTENER: To clarify, you mean the type used in...

LISTENER (eyes widening mischievously, while a companion snickers): CRAPS?

[[Otto, no longer at the luncheon, is greeted by DINGBOY, holding his usual pole.]]

DINGBOY: How'd the pitch go?
OTTO: They MOCK me, and I have to LAUGH ALONG! As if EXISTING plumbing solutions are SUFFICIENT for the gentleman of prodigious issue!!

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 2mo ago

Bolted! fulfillment update for the curious! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mal... tl;dr if you haven't filled out your address survey then I can't ship you your game!

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 3mo ago

Someone should do something! Wondermark #1585; In which a Complaint is made

[[CHANDRA, a young girl, speaks with her mom, CHANDROLDA.]]

CHANDRA: I keep hearing so much about the injustice and unfairness of the world. TIME only goes forward. KIDS have to grow up. PETS aren't immortal.
CHANDROLDA: All less than ideal.

CHANDRA: I'm not sure what EXACTLY I can do to help, but I've started by writing a sternly worded letter.
CHANDROLDA: Oh?

CHANDROLDA: To whom?
CHANDRA: Well, the only one I KNOW reads his mail is SANTA. So I sent it to him and asked him to forward it internally

Prof. Nycteris, Whimsician @nycteris.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Huzzah! My copy of @wondermark.com ‘s BOLTED has arrived!

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 4mo ago

It's true!!!

Mary Branscombe@marypcbuk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@davidmalki.com is adding transcripts (web alt text!) to all the Wondermark cartoons; there are about 500 that he doesn't already have it for and there's a form if anyone wants to go help type some in

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 4mo ago

As a wise person once said, all eaten potatoes become mashed potatoes Wondermark #1584; In which a Potato is compacted

"[[BLORNSWORTH slumps exhausted against a chair while CRANDIBLE lounges with his feet up.]]

BLORNSWORTH: Whoooffff. I just ate an entire jumbo bag of chips and I do NOT feel good about it
CRANDIBLE: Let me know if THIS makes you feel any better...

CRANDIBLE: Imagine all the loose chips from that jumbo bag.
CRANDIBLE: Now imagine them all mashed up into a SOLID LUMP of salt and carbs.

CRANDIBLE: How BIG would that lump be? ALL the chips in one giant mass?
CRANDIBLE: That's INSIDE you now. That's in your GUTS. That's what YOU put in there.

BLORNSWORTH (despairingly): That does NOT, in fact, make me feel better.
CRANDIBLE: I didn't think it would!

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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 4mo ago

A classic Wondermark from 20 (or 2000????) years ago Wondermark #176; In which Satan enjoys Matzoh

[[Jesus Christ, Lord of all humanity, speaks with the beautifully demonic fallen angel Lucifer, Prince of the Air, the one known as Satan, in the cavern-like bowels of Hell.]]

SATAN: Hey, Josh! Long time no see. What're you doing in this neck of the woods?
JESUS: Ah, you know, I got crucified last night.

SATAN: Bummer! Well, come in, the kids'll be thrilled to see their god-dad.
JESUS: Thanks, but I can't. I have to defeat you and return to life to save the souls of the world.

SATAN: Okay, well, make it quick, we're just sitting down to Passover seder.
JESUS: I'll swing wide, you just sell it.

{{header: break bread at WONDERMARK.COM}}

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 4mo ago

Adulthood is a hard case to make to someone who's not already bought in. Wondermark #1583; Groan Up

[[A woman, GERTRUDO, sits at the dinner table table with a young girl, TIFFANORIA, who is seated in a chair]]

GERTRUDO: Can you finish your veggies? Veggies help us grow up big and strong!
TIFFANORIA: GROW UP? Why would I want to do THAT? I'm good now!

GERTRUDO: I've got everything I need! I have YOUTUBE and my ROOM and all my STUFF... I get BOSSED AROUND a little, but that's not a bad tradeoff

GERTRUDO: You can do all kinds of things when you grow up! You can drive!
TIFFANORIA: I don't want to GO anywhere!
GERTRUDO: You can get a job and earn money!
TIFFANORIA: A JOB? That thing you HATE?
GERTRUDO: You can BECOME ANYTHING you want to be!
TIFFANORIA: I want to be ME, right NOW, right HERE!

TIFFANORIA: If you're contemplating DEPRIVING me of something to PUNISH me, I would consider that CRUEL.
GERTRUDO: I'm trying to figure out how to INSPIRE you to CARE about bettering yourself.
TIFFANORIA: I CAN'T "better" myself! I'm already GREAT!

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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 6mo ago

They're still out there. The goofs and spoofs. If we can only find them. Wondermark #1582; Limit Your Scream Time

A smartphone is on an end table. It's balancing up on end, and speaking, so maybe it's animate? This is unclear.

SMARTPHONE: Hey! HEY!

The phone is speaking to PORDLEY, who is trying to practice the piano. He looks up at the phone which is addressing him on its own.

SMARTPHONE: I can't help but notice you've been holding me less. I MISS you. I miss your nimble TAPS and SWIPES.

PORDLEY: It's because you're a PORTAL to HORRORS! Nothing personal. It's just...you ARE a PORTAL. And there are SO VERY MANY horrors.

SMARTPHONE: I'm a portal to EVERYTHING. Don't you want to see GOOFS AND SPOOFS? You LOVE goofs and spoofs!

PORDLEY: I DO love goofs and spoofs.

SMARTPHONE: I've got SO MANY goofs and spoofs.

Pordley, convinced, reaches tentatively for the phone...

HORRORS ERUPT FROM THE PHONE. Of course! Of course!!!

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 6mo ago

...How it's going: Wondermark #1581; The Longest, Most Fruitless Search (continued from part 1)

It has been 23 years since we have last seen these characters.

ARGREENO now has a long white beard. He is bringing a basket to a large tree. A familiar voice replies from up the tree.

ARGREENO: Got some chicken tacos tonight.
PICKET (from up in the tree): Thanks, man. I’ll have those spreadsheets back to you later this week. My wifi’s been spotty.
ARGREENO: You want me to move the router closer?
PICKET: Nah, I think I just need to restart.

Suddenly, Argreeno sees something approaching from the left.

ARGREENO: Whoop — Code Papa.
PICKET: Copy that

It’s PICKET SR., still flying around, his hairline a little higher, more wrinkles around his eyes. But looking fit otherwise.

PICKET SR.: PLEASE… My son is STILL missing…*
PICKET SR.: Would you please look around ONE MORE time?

(*A footnote advises us to see Part 1, Wondermark #024, which was published 23 years ago)

ARGREENO: You come by every year! I HAVEN’T SEEN your dang SON! It’s been DECADES!
PICKET SR.: I KNOW, but…that SO looks like the flying machine he absconded on. That’s why I keep retuning.

Behind the tree is something that looks a whole lot like the bottom half of a pedal-copter.

ARGREENO: As I’ve told you MANY times, that’s just our hummingbird feeder. You want me to look around again? FINE. Doot doot doo, I don’t see him.

MRS ARGREENO now enters, carrying her typical pickax.

MRS ARGREENO: What’s the commotion?
ARGREENO: THIS flying deadbeat thinks we’ve been sheltering his missing son and feeding him chicken tacos in return for him doing the bookkeeping for our Christmas tree farm.

ARGREENO: It’s absurd.
PICKET SR.: It’s just…the thing is… I KNOW that NO hummingbird would be attracted to such dull colors.
ARGREENO: YEAH! We friggin’ HATE hummingbirds! Because they remind us of YOU!

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 6mo ago

How it started: Wondermark #024; In which factors Public Health

Here comes PICKET on his little pedal-copter! He pedals up to ARGREENO, who is carrying a pine tree, as is his wont.

PICKET: Quick! Don't ask questions, just hide me!

Argreeno hides Picket behind the tree. But now here comes PICKET SR., flying up, a contraption on his back holding him aloft.

PICKET SR.: You there! Have you seen my son go by? He's infected by a terrible virus that will kill one-third of the earth's population, making five-eights of those remaining lactose intolerant while granting amazing super-powers to a quarter of the remainder!

PICKET SR.: Well, come on, then, either you've seen him or you haven't.
ARGREENO: Wait, no, start over. I was always bad at math.

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 7mo ago

Sometimes it's impossible to do anything, sometimes it's impossible to NOT do anything. Wondermark #1580; What’s Undone is Undead

JERMETHY is back at the ol' workshop, tinkering with a device that resembles a jar with a bunch of valves and an enormous protruding wheel. He's got his glasses up on his forehead as he concentrates on the task.

LORLA pokes her head in. She’s wearing a long knit sweater and a cozy-looking scarf. This isn’t relevant to the story but I want to call it out.

LORLA: Are you STILL tinkering with that? You said you were giving it up.
JERMETHY: I had a new idea for it.

LORLA: You told me “I don’t care if this can somehow be made to work, it’s not worth the effort.” You said “I’m going to give it up, SPECIFICALLY as PRACTICE in giving up. Deciding it’s DONE and putting it on a shelf.” YOUR words were “It’s about FOCUS and PRIORITIES and practicing CONTROL over my impulses.”
JERMETHY: I did say all that.

JERMETHY: But IT was not LISTENING. A new idea came to me, just to SPITE me

JERMETHY (scowling): And I’ll be DAMNED if I let it TAUNT me!
LORLA: What you KEPT REPEATING was “Discipline!”
JERMETHY: Oh, I’m gonna discipline this naughty thing all right.

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 8mo ago

Ah, the peaceful sounds of the season. So soothing Wondermark #1579; In which Music is enjoyed

[Two people sit on chairs in a home, a music playing device of some sort visible behind them.]

JORELLE: Jorban, can you turn on some soft Christmas music?
JORBAN: Sure, I can find a streaming channel

[The soft sounds of 'O Holy Night' fill the air.]

JORELLE: Ahhh...that's nice and relaxing.

[The music gives way to a commercial at top volume, bowling them both out of their seats]

RING IN THE NEW YEAR DOWN AND DIRTY WITH TOPLESS VODKA'S FULL-BREASTED FRIDAYS! COMING TO A SPORTS BAR NEAR YOU! SIX POINT NINE PIECES OF CHICKEN AND A WET T-SHIRT CONTEST FOR TEN COLD HARD SMACKEROONIES. CLICK THIS AD OR VISIT TOPLESS VODKA DOT BOOB FOR TOUR DATES! please drink responsibly

[The two peek out from behind the furniture as the channel resumes the music with 'Away in a Manger']

JORBAN: Just have the free plan.
JORELLE: I gathered

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 8mo ago

BONUS COMIC: When Bolted! first launched, I made this comic for the places where links are throttled or difficult -- a customized version for Instagram (here), Facebook, and GoComics. Bluesky never saw it, because you can link readily on Bluesky! All I have to do is post a link like this. Easy

A monstrous, bolted-together creature speaks with a soldier.

SOLDIER: WELL! Aren't YOU looking all hale and vimful! Wait, does that mean bad? I mean bad. You look real bad.

CREATURE: I have no idea how I look because I cannot move my neck and I am terrified of mirrors. But I FEEL awful!

CREATURE: I got three main problems going on. One: SPLITTING headache. Migraine would be a MERCY.

CREATURE: Two: A MAD SCIENTIST of some sort seems to have ASSEMBLED me using cast-off body parts and miscellaneous junkyard finds. I do NOT remember going to bed like this.

CREATURE: And three: I SOMEHOW have to explain that there's a new Wondermark card game crowdfunding RIGHT NOW! In which players race to build weird characters like me!

SOLDIER (sotto): You're not WEIRD. You're SAD and it makes you FEEL weird

CREATURE (indicating a huge sandwich board): But how am I gonna DO it? You can't link out on IG! I gotta do 'link in bio,' UGH! I brought this big QR CODE sign, but I got NO clue if THAT'S gonna work in this context

SOLDIER: Don't forget, I think you're supposed to end with some kind of joke or punchline.

SOLDIER: ARRGHH!!! Now I got FOUR problems!

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 8mo ago

The game...she groans in the first stirrings of life...the lightning crackles, the thunder roars! The time is drawing near! What rough, bolted thing slouches toward Bethlehem, &c...!

david malki !@davidmalki.com · 8mo ago

Round numbers, once again. 100 minutes to go! When they start counting in minutes, you know things are getting good. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mal...

The Bolted! kickstarter page showing there's 100 minutes to go

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 8mo ago

Sometimes you just gotta zig when everyone else thinks you'll zag. Wondermark #779; The Breakthrough

[[two men are singing outside, caroling]]
left man: Jingle bells!
right man: Jingle bells!
both: Jingle them halfway!

left man: Oh what fun--
right man: What's wrong?

[[right man looks concerned]]
right man: Listen, man. I've been thinking. I know this is crazy, but hear me out.
right man: What if we -- this is gonna sound stupid--

right man: What if we jingled
right man: ALL the way?

[[LATER]]
[[both men are now nesltled among many large bags labeled with dollar signs]]
right man: Wooooo

{{header: oh what fun at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: The future is written by the ones who follow the craziest ideas.}}

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 8mo ago

Here's a Designer Diary about Bolted!'s development! Even though it spotlights my more doofus choices and missteps, I trust that some readers may take heart at how a polished outcome can be the result of a long, winding, and setback-filled process... Bolted Design Diary Longread

Bolted! Designer Diary Longread | David Malki !

Get more from David Malki ! on Patreon

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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 8mo ago

This comic was created as part of a "Secret Santa" comics exchange. These characters are Tiff and Eve, and this strip was written by Fran Sundblad, the author of the comic Tiff 🏳️‍⚧️ & Eve, and rendered in Wondermark style by me. 🔗 Original Reddit post cc: @tiffandevecomics.bsky.social

Here's Fran's original script, verbatim:

(Tiff is wrapping gifts, Eve enters)
Eve: "Is that your white elephant gift for the party?"

Tiff: "Yup! I just finished wrapping it."
Eve: "Oh, I haven't done that yet. Mine's trickier to package."

Tiff: "Bring it in and I can help you."
Tiff: "The key is finding the right edges and having the paper fold with them."

Tiff: "what'd you get anyways?"
Eve (yanking reins into panel with a large white trunk and tusks appearing.)

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 8mo ago

do you gotta personify the dead trees in the vacant lot too. they're having a hard enough time without you imagining they have an opinion about what's happening Wondermark #1578; In which Trees are a Lot

Two men, LENID and RINNY, are browsing a Christmas tree lot. Lenid looks admiringly at a big bushy tree.

LENID: What do you think of this one?
RINNY: Yeah! Looks great. I'll get in line to pay.

LENID: Don't you want to look at any others?
RINNY: WHY? This one's fine! Good choice! Let's get it and be done!
LENID: We JUST GOT here!
RINNY: And now we can MINIMIZE our time here to go enjoy the REST of our life!

LENID: Just take one walk around. See if there are any other contenders.
RINNY (rolling his eyes): Fine

Rinny walks among the other trees, dismissing each handily.

RINNY: No. No. No. Inferior. Inferior. Inferior... Actually, THIS one's pretty. Let me see the one you chose again?

LENID: SEE? Aren't you GLAD I made you look?
RINNY: I'm SORRY, trees! You all seem perfectly nice! But we INSIST on making all but ONE of you into LOSERS we have to ACTIVELY REJECT! We could have ben TEN BLOCKS AWAY by now but INSTEAD we're gonna make you ALL feel bad!

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 8mo ago

Here's a blog post all about the 3 different bonus cards you can get with Bolted! wondermark.com/here-is-a-vi...

Here is a video of a collage I made. Plus: Bolted! bonus cards

The Kickstarter campaign for my card game Bolted! is chugging along nicely! We were recently named a Kickstarter "Project We Love," which is lovely. Thank you, Kickstarter, for loving this project. Th...

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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 8mo ago

terrifying if true! Wondermark #1020; The Unknown Knowns

A guy with a Napoleon III mustache is consulting a newspaper and speaking with a fellow sporting epaulets.

FAUXPOLEON: I heard — and I don’t know if it’s true — that DOGS are just genetically modified HUMAN INFANTS. Isn’t that OUTRAGEOUS? Who DID that? What ELSE don’t we know about dogs??

E’PAUL: That is not true.

FAUXPOLEON: I don’t KNOW if it’s true or not. But just think of what it MEANS! People EXPERIMENTING on BABIES!

E’PAUL: Indeed. Good thing it’s not true!

FAUXPOLEON: You gotta ADMIT that it’s SCARY to think about!

E’PAUL: As a thought experiment? Okay. As a falsehood examined AS a falsehood on its face? Okay.

E’PAUL: As a valid piece of actual real information worth debating as if it WERE true when it is demonstrably NOT? No.

FAUXPOLEON: It MIGHT be true!

E’PAUL: It is not.

FAUXPOLEON: It might be SOMEDAY.

E’PAUL: Okay.

FAUXPOLEON: What should we DO about it?

E’PAUL: Nothing.

FAUXPOLEON: You’re so PASSIVE. You never want to take a STAND.

E’PAUL: For… for DOGS BEING INFANTS? This is the hill you want to die on, huh

david malki !@davidmalki.com · 8mo ago

HOLY HECK this is a DOOZY of a week for Bolted! livestreams! Just look at this list!! LATER TODAY: Christopher Hastings @drhastings.bsky.social Carly Monardo @whirringblender.bsky.social Branson Reese @bransonreese.bsky.social Previous sessions & live calendar links are on the Kickstarter page

• Mon Dec 8 • 3:15pm Pacific • Very Rude Block 🥷 Christopher Hastings (Rude Tales of Magic, Dr. McNinja) 🎨 Carly Monardo (Rude Tales of Magic, Birdgirl) 🦢 Branson Reese (Rude Tales of Magic, Swan Boy) 
• Tue Dec 9 • 6pm Pacific • Audio Heroes Block 🪕 Molly Lewis (Mollylele) 🎹 Seth Boyer (Skulltenders) 🎤 Jordan Morris (Jordan Jesse Go, Youth Group) 
• Wed Dec 10 • Time TBD • Atlantic Coast Block  🤖 Jeph Jacques (Questsionable Content) 🦒 Colleen AF Venable (Kiss Number 8, Katie the Catsitter) 🐐 Jon Rosenberg (Goats, Scenes From a Multiverse) 
• Thu Dec 11 • 12:15pm Pacific • Super Stylish Block 👑 Dylan Meconis (Queen of the Sea) 👻 Kaylee Rowena (Haunts) 🏞️ Kendra P. (Fairmeadow) 
• Fri Dec 12 • 1:15pm Pacific • Rad Artists Block 🤼 Scott C. (Great Showdowns, Cabin Head and Tree Head) 🪓 Shing Yin Khor (The Legend of Auntie Po) 🐻 Cat Farris (My Boyfriend is a Bear) 
• Sun Dec 14 • 4:15pm Pacific • Autodidact Block 🥣 Zach Weinersmith (SMBC) 🦾 Senna Diaz (Dresden Codak) 🦜 Kevin McShane (Kevin Comics, Buzzfeed) 
• Mon Dec 15 • 2pm Pacific • Creator Plays Solo Mode 🎩 David Malki ! (The creator of this game) Assisted & observed by 🐾 Sam Logan (Sam & Fuzzy)

Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

For no reason whatsoever thinking about this @davidmalki.com Wondermark comic again

Four panel comic using old newspaper illustrations of dogs as a political parable- a dog on the “Dog Council” proclaims it is anti-bone, but not *really;* it only claims to be so because it’s voters elected it to do so, but states that it’s views will be so extreme no one will agree. Thus, it will maintain a support base w/o actually doing anything harmful. By the end the “strategy” has fully backfired & the dog is doubling down on even worse measures to vote on while they keep getting passed

david malki !@davidmalki.com · 8mo ago

Deimos is from Wondermark #115 I have a multi-part Deimos followup scripted just waiting for the right time

DAD (to girl sitting on the ground): How's the homework coming?

DAD: Jamie? How's the otter report?

DAD: Jamie?
[The girl suddenly turns into a bat-headed creature] GRAARRR!

DAD: Oh, hey, Deimos. Thought you were Jamie.
DEIMOS: She's in the family room.

david malki !@davidmalki.com · 8mo ago

OMG it's Deimos

Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago

Bat Friday

drawings of lots of bats,
bats as desirable citizens

Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 8mo ago

here are a bunch of Thanksgiving-themed Wondermark comics: www.tumblr.com/davidmalki/8...

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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Here are some Thanksgiving-themed Wondermark comics from over the years!

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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 8mo ago

there's one in every friend group Wondermark #1360; Set the Calendar to Shuffle

ABATHA opens the front door to great GLENGIS, who is dressed in a Roman centurion helmet and what appears to be a bird beak mask. He also has huge sideburns/dundrearies but I think those are just his vibe.

ABATHA: Hey, it’s Glengis! Glad you could make it to Thanksgiving!
GLENGIS: Trick or treat!

ABATHA: Go on.
GLENGIS: I’m treating our culture’s MADE-UP RITUALS as interchangeable. We’ve inherited an astonishing agreed-upon symbology and it only ever gets put to the SAME OLD USES! It’s like learning the alphabet and then ONLY using it to sing variations on the alphabet song!

GLENGIS: So I’m trying to spell NEW WORDS with it all. From now on, I eat turkey on Flag Day, shoot fireworks on Valentine’s Day, and drink green beer for eight WILD AN’ CRAZY nights!

ABATHA: Cool. And what about the people you interact with in social settings, who are just going to assume you’re deranged?
GLENGIS: Well THEY might end up finding rotten eggs in their stockings come Fourth of July!

david malki !@davidmalki.com · 8mo ago

Today's Bolted! livestream is the GOOD AS HELL BLOCK! Join us at 5:15 pm Pacific / 8:15 pm Eastern for a game with: SARA McHENRY! @saramchenry.bsky.social TOM McHENRY! @tommchenry.bsky.social JESS FINK! @jessfink.bsky.social ERIC COLOSSAL! @ericcolossal.bsky.social • Stream • Get the game!

A beautiful photo of a Bolted! composite creature who is lovely and perfect