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Comics made from vintage images AKA "a collaboration with the dead"
⏪ archives now go back several years! browse!!
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🔩 card game! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/malki/bolted?ref=644zc4
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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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November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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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!
November 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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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
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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I mean, an echo is technically a second opinion

Wondermark #1577; The Objective Oracle
Pemsbrey sits, glum and dejected, at his favorite table. Robotecca, his automaton assistant with huge naturals, stands waiting to give her sage advice. PEMSBREY: Robotecca, I ain’t feeling too good. ROBOTECCA: My programmed response is to say words that express a sympathy I can not truly feel. PEMSBREY: I get it. Ain’t too different from people in that way. PEMSBREY: Everyone’s out to shut me up or shut me down. And I mean, EVERYONE! I live the most PERSECUTED life IMAGINABLE! ROBOTECCA: This information is noted and added to memory. PEMSBREY: Why are things so HARD. Why can’t I just be HAPPY? ROBOTECCA: It’s a good question—one worthy of serious contemplation. It seems like your feelings are quite justified. ROBOTECCA: After all, everyone is out to shut you up or shut you down. Astonishing as it may sound, you live the most persecuted life imaginable. PEMSBREY (agitated): I KNEW IT!
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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A little bird told me there's a Part 2 to this storyline

Wondermark #1371; The Avian Informant (Part 2 of 2)

↩ Start from Part 1
Apronni speaks further with the little bird, who is perched on his sill. APRONNI: You’re really THE bird! The little bird who tells people things! WOW! I hear about you all the time! This is incredible! BIRD (setting a straw hat jauntily upon his little bird head): Yeah, well, I got fifty thousand more tidbits to tell people before 9PM, so… APRONNI: Is it — JUST you? ALWAYS? There isn’t a little bird corps? You’re THE little bird? BIRD: I used to have a lizard and a raccoon helping me out too, but it muddled the brand. [CUT AWAY TO: A new man, Cuthbert, addresses his coworker] CUTHBERT: ’Morning, Jerbert! A weird raccoon told me your daughter’s about to graduate from kindergarten! JERBERT: You are never to talk TO or OF my family EVER AGAIN [BACK TO SCENE] APRONNI: Sure, I can see that. APRONNI: But WHY do you go around telling people things? What’s your angle? BIRD: Right now I’m just building up a dedicated user base. I’ll probably pivot to a freemium model later
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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New pinned post! The Wondermark-themed card game I've been working on all year long, Bolted!, is coming to life on Kickstarter NOV 12.

If you missed the first pre-order round this spring, now's your first, best, only and last chance to reserve a copy!
Coming soon: Bolted! A Frankenstein-Style Game of Creative Necromancy
A 2–4 player, puzzly card game about "making friends"—out of body parts! From the creator of the comic strip Wondermark.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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New blog post on Wondermark!
HEADLINE: I made this video about a puppet that I also made TEXT: Here is a video of me making a puppet! And then performing a little with that puppet! Some of you may recognize this technique as a callback to another series of puppet videos I made, some years ago. (As demonstrated here) It’s been a fun idea to revisit, and I plan to do it some more. This is, of course, related to my Wondermark-themed card game, Bolted! Which now has final box art:
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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A little bird told me that there's a comic here for you to read!

Wondermark #1370; The Avian Informant (Part 1 of 2)
A man in an apron, aptly named Apronni, addresses his coworker: APRONNI: JULIORA! A little bird told me it was your birthday next Wednesday! Juliora comes in to reply. JULIORA: A little bird? Like, a BIRD bird? TALKED to you? APRONNI: Yeah. Came to my window last night around eight. Now we see a little pigeon perched on the sill of an open window. Apparently Apronni lives in a barn, or something like a barn? It’s not entirely clear. BIRD: Pssst. Hey buddy. [Apronni enters.] She’s been looking at ski boots on Zappos. Do what you will with this information. Back in the office now, flashback over. JULIORA: Because I’VE seen a little bird too! It let me know when a Zumba class opened up in my area! ENTREBERT (entering with his hands held a pigeon’s width apart): A little bird? About yea big? Knows a lot about when jeans go on sale? Yeah, I’ve seen ‘I’m! APRONNI: I guess it must be the same little bird visiting everyone! Cut back to the bird, still on the windowsill. Part of the flashback from earlier? It’s not entirely clear. BIRD: I’m very tired
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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More Halloween-themed Wondermark comics here! www.tumblr.com/davidmalki/7...
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Some Halloween-themed Wondermark comics from over the years!
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October 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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When the old crafts are done by hand, you can still tell the difference.

Wondermark #767; The Old Farmer’s Lament
A farmer stands in front of a worker who is tending to a fruit tree. The farmer speaks to us, the viewer. FARMER: Halloween has gotten too corporate! Big Candy pushes its sugar-laden garbage as the only sensible choice compared to razor-bladed apples! Another example of big business using its marketing muscle to destroy the small entrepreneur! Well, guess what, Nestle? We only use genuine U.S. steel in our razor blades! Each blade is lovingly tied to an emerging springtime blossom so that the apple grows around the blade seamlessly! Some things are still done by hand! [He takes a bite of the apple, which CRUNCHES.] Ow! Aah!! [Blood is now running down his chin.] Delicious!
October 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Wondermark's List of S-Tier Halloween Costumes

Wondermark #1073; In which it's Hard to Judge
Gary stands ready with an enormous 6-foot bow (I think? it's not clear). GARY: All right, ha ha, settle down! It's time to award the costume prize. Once again, the nominees are: Each person he mentions is dressed exactly as he describes. GARY: Jeredith as "Sexy Shoe". Love the skull bra, Jeredith. JEREDITH: Thank SHOE GARY: Trindy as "Sexy Chess" TRINDY: CheckMATE GARY: Blindora as "Sexy Dynamite" BLINDORA: Bang! Bang! GARY: And of course Grichelle as "Sexy Tuba" and Blazinda as "Sexy Toothpaste" BLAZINDA: Twice a day, honeybunch GRICHELLE: Same with tubas GARY: Plabecca really shines as "Sexy Complete Works of Dickens" PLABECCA: She's a BLEAK...HOUSE GARY: Spachel keeps the theme going with "Sexy Giant Cursed Skulls" SPACHEL: "Sexy" is redundant in that sentence GARY: And...who IS that as "Sexy Globe"? GLOBE: It's FRABLINDA! (Voice from off): GARY! (Voice): Are you locked up in there with your DOLLS again? Putting them through ELABORATE SCENARIOS? GARY (flop sweating): Mom do NOT come in here
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Different approaches, same goal. Except for the other team. Their goal is usually on the opposite side

Wondermark #1576; In which the Audience participates (Part 3 of 3)

↩ Start from Part 1
Amberspatch and Bellowton are once again riding different steeds. Amberspatch is on a small hippo. Bellowton is sidesaddle on a very normal quadrupedal giant chicken. They continue their conversation about sports. AMBERSPATCH: I'm interested in your...RITUALS related to sports, so I talked to another fan. HE said the reason your team lost WASN'T related to the socks anyone wore, OR whether he watched on TV or listened to the radio AMBERSPATCH: According to THIS guy, the main factor was the decision to PITCH to the other team's best hitter, rather than walk him; since first base was open, it would have set up the force out for a double play. And doing so after having pulled the starting pitcher in the FIRST place, in favor of a weaker pitcher from the bullpen AMBERSPATCH: Which, in HIS view, points the finger at managerial malpractice. All made WORSE by ownership's lack of willingness to pony up for better hitters from the bottom of the lineup. BELLOWTON: SURE. Insufferable after-the-fact armchair coaches like that are a dime a dozen. AMBERSPATCH: But YOU prefer to focus on wearing the right socks and so on. BELLOWTON: Look, if the bus might be headed off the cliff anyway, I prefer having a toy steering wheel to keep my hands busy
October 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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The key is to keep everything exactly the same. Even a minor difference could throw everything off.

Wondermark #1575; In which the Audience participates (Part 2)

↩ Start from Part 1
Amberspatch & Bellowton continue their ride across the plain. Amberspatch is now on a giant raccoon. Bellowton is on a camel, but the saddle is on the camel's neck. Seems possibly uncomfortable for the camel. AMBERSPATCH: So if the game goes WELL, you need to do everything exactly the same for the next one. Down to where you watch, what you wear, the snacks, everything. BELLOWTON: Well, yeah. That alchemy WORKED. It's obviously an inexact science, so the SAFEST thing to do is LIMIT the variables however possible. AMBERSPATCH: Clearly, whatever your fans did, made the team win. Meaning, whatever THEIR fans did, made them LOSE. So, won't they be trying a bunch of DIFFERENT things on their side? AMBERSPATCH: That's introducing all KINDS of new variables. BELLOWTON: PROBABLY! Why do you think we HATE THEM so much!!
October 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Good luck to all teams, but mainly mine, and not yours

Wondermark #1574; In which the Audience participates (Part 1)
Two men are having a conversation while riding on horseback, as you sometimes do. AMBERSPATCH: Sorry your team had a rough night yesterday. BELLOWTON: My own fault. BELLOWTON: I watched the game on TV. When they won the day before, I was listening on the radio. Lesson learned! Radio ONLY tonight. AMBERSPATCH: I know these superstitions are...CRUCIAL. But wouldn't it be NICER to watch it on TV? BELLOWTON: "SUPERSTITIONS"? BELLOWTON: Was it ME, one person, watching the game on TV from miles away, that CAUSED the wild pitch that let their runner score? Of COURSE not. That's silly. BELLOWTON (now leaning in extremely closely): It was ALL OF US, COLLECTIVELY, doing NOT ENOUGH things right. I am going to DO MY PART so I don't have to LIVE with the GUILT! AMBERSPATCH: Okay! BELLOWTON: Does ONE VOTE swing an election? You still VOTE, DON'T YOU?! AMBERSPATCH: OKAY!!
October 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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It's October 1 again!! Break out the spiders an' skeletons!!

// Wondermark #1259; Let’s Be Deadly Serious Here
Two men look at skulls with spooky candles. One rants: "Psshh!! October again? Everyone goes a bit daft with the SKULLS an' GHOULIES an' all that rot! We spend every OTHER minute makin' sure people buckle their seatsies an' wear a helmet to work. Eat your greens an' take a bloody vitamin. "But come first of OCTOBER, haul out the coffins an' the stage blood an' the horrors of the grave! It's PERVERSE! Celebrating DEATH an' MISERY an' shoving SPIDERS at CHILDREN! People work HARD to stay ALIVE! Doctors work their FINGERS to NUBS keeping people breathing! A cause you'd like to think NO ONE could object to! "Yet here YOU are, flaunting skeletons, spitting on first responders and COMPLETELY IGNORING how DEATH IS BAD and LIVING IS GOOD! How can you STAND it?" A woman answers: "Honestly, I don't think it's worse than the CONTORTIONIST STRAIN required to deliberately ignore context to justify a complaint based on some overly literal interpretation." "Oh yeah! When is ALIVE PEOPLE MONTH?!"
October 1, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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I'm sure no one at all will find this relatable

Wondermark #1573; The Threat of Doing
INT. SITTING ROOM - DAY JENKEN (be-piped) and PRONCHIE (her hand on his chair back) are reviewing important documents when the longsuffering LEMMETHA comes in and leans on a doorframe. LEMMETHA: I got tired of waiting, so I started fixing the chair by myself. Where do you keep the chair putty? Should I go buy some? JENKEN (alarmed): CHAIR putty? HOLD ON, hold on… INT. WORKSHOP - MOMENTS LATER Jenken is now hard at work chiseling a chair, which is being held in a vise. JENKEN: All we really have to do is adjust the back like this… In the box of IKEA LEFTOVERS there’s probably one of the right brackets… Pronchie watches the whole thing with veiled amusement. PRONCHIE: You realize, the whole “fixing it myself” bit was a ruse to get YOU to finally fix it. PRONCHIE: She’s figured out how to hack your motivation circuit, dude! JENKEN: Honestly, I’m glad SOMEONE has! I can be the owner OR the operator of this brain, but not both at the same time
September 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Longtime readers will remember, seven years ago, when I posted several Wondermark strips in a row that all seemed to be variations on the same joke. Starting here.
August 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Get yourself a friend who will NOT let things hurt you EVEN if they do not exist

Wondermark #1572; In which a Joke is disowned
Two men are chatting in an office. The first man, CHILTRED, dressed in an elaborate military uniform, is twirling his moustache, and continues to do so throughout the exchange, without pause. CHILTRED: I heard this great joke earlier. What WAS it? AARRGH!! I can't remember! Something about dogs and ducks. DANGIT!! It was really funny. Now it's GONE. PERMBLEY (the other man, seated): Is the distress you're feeling now greater than the joy the joke gave you originally? CHILTRED: Oh, enormously. PERMBLEY: So the EXISTENCE of this joke has been a NET LOSS for you! Don't REGRET its disappearance! RUE that it ever appeared! CURSE ITS MEMORY!! CHILTRED: I don't HAVE its memory! PERMBLEY: It has inflicted a joke-shaped SCAR on your psyche! FIE ON YOU, sinister dog joke! NEVER AGAIN dare to darken my dear friend's skull! CHILTRED: WAIT. I remembered it. PERMBLEY: NOPE! Don't you DARE!! CHILTRED: It's not the JOKE'S fault I forgot it! It's innocent! PERMBLEY: I will never be able to separate it from the trauma it has inflicted! CHILTRED: That starts to sound like a YOU problem. PERMBLEY: Wow. WOW. After I DEFENDED you. CHILTRED: I did not INTEND to spend an APPARENTLY-CONDITIONAL friend defense on a JOKE about DOGS and DUCKS
August 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Those stickers are paying for your hand soap, kiddo!!

Wondermark #1571; Of Integrity and Youth, Part 2

↩️ Part 1 here
CHARLEK, one of the kids from the previous comic in which kids were talking about how adults always try to change them, is now speaking with his MOM. MOM: Please wash your hands for dinner! CHARLEK: I'm perfectly self-actualized just as I am, thank you. MOM: Honey, when we give you instructions like "Wash your hands", we're not trying to make you into SOMEONE ELSE. We're trying to help you become the BEST version OF you, using knowledge and perspective that you don't have yet. Such as the germ theory of disease. MOM: So when we ask you to do things, it's in what WE believe to be YOUR best interest. Do you TRUST us? CHARLEK: I mean, I GUESS CHARLEK: But what about when you make me assembled sticker packs for your Etsy store? Is THAT in my best interest? MOM: THAT'S because Mama's got a bunch of BACKORDERS! Come on, let's HURRY UP with that DINNER!!
July 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Let's get our messaging straight, as parents

Wondermark #1570; Of Integrity and Youth
Two kids, ALFY and BARBO, are chatting. Barbo is standing on a set of stilts. This is not relevant. ALFY: You ever get this from your parents? "Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with you, you're perfectly normal..." ALFY: I KNOW I am! Why are YOU bringing it up? What secret intel do YOU have about how I'm SUPPOSED to be feeling? ALFY: Because I feel GREAT! Check your EXPECTATIONS! BARBO: Grown-ups LIE to us, dude. Every other word my mom says is: "You're great" - "We love you JUST the way you are" - "You're the BEST YOU that you can be" - and so on. BARBO: So I told her, "The person that I AM DOESN'T wear jackets, DOESN'T brush their teeth, and NEVER has to go to bed!" A third child, CHARLEK, appears, holding a ball, which is also not relevant. CHARLEK: Just last week, I was sick. My mom tried to give me MEDICINE. So I'm all "What was that BIG TALK about not wanting to CHANGE me?!" BARBO: EXACTLY, dude!!
July 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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It's nice to have friends over who share your hobbies.

Wondermark #108; In which a Briefing occurs
A very old Wondermark 3-panel comic. Two men in military uniforms stand near a woman who does not appear to notice them. One man is pointing toward the woman's head. GENERAL: ...Out on the flanks as we are, the FRONT can't see us, but you still need to watch out for THESE bits on the SIDES. THEY can detect SOUNDS. CAPTAIN: Omnidirectionally?! GENERAL: I BELIEVE so, yes. CAPTAIN: So those "side-bits" MIGHT be hearing us RIGHT NOW? We need to ENCODE our intelligence! WOMAN: Oh, don't worry. I'm NOT AT ALL concerned about your supposed "intelligence." CAPTAIN: ACCGGKK!! A DEVASTATING SALVO of PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE! GENERAL: Ignore ALL messages we intercept! They are PROPAGANDA designed to DEMORALIZE us! WOMAN: Hey! G.I. Joe! Your WIFE is at HOME! She wants to know what we should do about dinner!
July 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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tell me all the businesses that inexplicably survived or inexplicably failed in your neighborhood

Wondermark #1569; The Foldery has Folded
A couple walks down the street, the man in a turban, the woman in a very high-collared fur coat. This is ASHWAY and BERTREX A: You know that origami flower shop we keep talking about maybe one day wandering through? A: I finally had an occasion for which I would have liked some paper flowers. But they’ve closed! B: That’s a shame, they just opened like five years ago! B: I wonder how much of our community is powered by people imprudently opening wildly unprofitable businesses, pouring their time and savings into them for the period of exactly one commercial lease, then letting them close. B: Like, it didn’t turn out to be sustainable, but for a while, you offered some cool origami classes for kids, and some people in the neighborhood have some paper flowers in their homes now? I assume? B: Sorry it didn’t make you a millionaire, but you shoved the big stone wheel back uphill a few turns, and that helped us all. A: And, in this metaphor, the big stone wheel is... B: The thing that’ll smash us all into dust with its uncaring inertia if we don’t hold it at bay with our collective effort, yeah A: Okay, cool. And our collective effort, in this context, means buying forty-dollar paper flowers? B: Is THAT how much they cost? B: I kept meaning to look in the store window when I walked by, but I never managed to tear my eyes away from my phone.
June 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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has there ever been a worse harbinger of doom than the phrase "not a question, more of a comment..."

Wondermark #1393; In which the Floor is Open
At a panel discussion at a convention. The moderator, Alegg, speaks into a microphone: ALEGG: ...All right, now we'll do some Q+A. Anyone have a question for Herr Doktor? (Sitting next to him is Wondermark's supervillain character, Herr Doktor.) An audience member, Auddy, takes the mic to address the panel. AUDDY: Not a question, more of a COMMENT... Your discussion about apples reminded me of the time I attended a CIDER-BATHING CAMP in-- DOKTOR (cutting him off): WAIT wait wait wait wait wait wait wait HOLD up DOKTOR: THIS is time during which there are to be QUESTIONS and those questions are to be ANSWERED. If YOU wish to make a statement, then I, ze other party in this exchange, must provide ze QUESTION! These are ze RULES! DOKTOR: HERE IS MY QUESTION FOR YOU! You heard Alegg announce "Now is ze time for questions" and interpreted that to MEAN "This is my chance to waste everyone's time by sharing my irrelevant opinion"! WHAT IS WRONG with you that you MADE that decision and then ACTED on it? AUDDY: Now, I don't think you're being fair to the spirit of-- DOKTOR: ANSWER ZE QUESTION
June 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Spring time is party time! Just be careful out there!

Wondermark #1568; In which there's a Hot Time Tonight
A couple, BLAISCHE and YON, are chatting on the couch at a house party. Each holds a mug and saucer. BLAISCHE: You ready to bail on this party? If you can call it that? YON: Hold on, I'm gonna refill my coffee one more time. BLAISCHE: The coffee is gross. YON: Yeah, but it's free. BLAISCHE: It's free, but it's GROSS. YON: It's gross, but it's FREE. BLAISCHE: Our standards are apparently different. YON: Says the person whose idea it was to come to this housewarming in the first place. BLAISCHE: A "housewarming" is a NORMAL thing for a party to be! I didn't think they meant it literally! FROM OFF-PANEL: Break time's over, my toasty-woasties! The SNUGGLE PILE is re-forming!
June 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I've got my Saturday afternoon free, how long could it possibly take?

Wondermark #649; In which Joanne has Big Plans
May 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM