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A 4 panel comic featuring a bunch of friends around a table learning to play a board game. Panel 1. Close up on a man with long hair, glasses, and a beard (Programmer) reading a rule book titled "BOOTopia". The frame is titled "How to learn a Board Game" and the text "Step 1: Read the Rules" is in a swoopy ribbon label. Programmer: There are a lot of words here. We're not going to remember all of this if I just read it out. Panel 2. Labeled "Step 2: The First Game". Pull back to the whole table. Two of the players, a woman with wavy hair (Jane) and a man with messy hair (Jim) are on their phones. A woman with a ponytail (Hannah) is leaning in pensively. Programmer is putting the rule book down. Programmer: That should be enough to get started. This will probably make more sense a few turns in. Panel 3. Labeled "Step 3: Mastery". Jane is leaning intensely saying: Hannah's about to pull of a Wellington Gambit. Jim looks surprised in the background. Hannah, joyous: And there's nothing you can do to stop me! Hahahaha! Panel 4. Labeled "Step 4: Rereading the Rules". Cut to a water cooler at an office. Programmer and Hannah are chatting. Programmer: Turns out we've been playing BOOTopia subtly wrong for years. Hannah: So... the Wellington Gambit? Programmer: Not as powerful as we thought. Moisture resets between phases.
A 4 panel comic featuring a bunch of friends around a table learning to play a board game. Panel 1. Close up on a man with long hair, glasses, and a beard (Programmer) reading a rule book titled "BOOTopia". The frame is titled "How to learn a Board Game" and the text "Step 1: Read the Rules" is in a swoopy ribbon label. Programmer: There are a lot of words here. We're not going to remember all of this if I just read it out. Panel 2. Labeled "Step 2: The First Game". Pull back to the whole table. Two of the players, a woman with wavy hair (Jane) and a man with messy hair (Jim) are on their phones. A woman with a ponytail (Hannah) is leaning in pensively. Programmer is putting the rule book down. Programmer: That should be enough to get started. This will probably make more sense a few turns in. Panel 3. Labeled "Step 3: Mastery". Jane is leaning intensely saying: Hannah's about to pull of a Wellington Gambit. Jim looks surprised in the background. Hannah, joyous: And there's nothing you can do to stop me! Hahahaha! Panel 4. Labeled "Step 4: Rereading the Rules". Cut to a water cooler at an office. Programmer and Hannah are chatting. Programmer: Turns out we've been playing BOOTopia subtly wrong for years. Hannah: So... the Wellington Gambit? Programmer: Not as powerful as we thought. Moisture resets between phases. Panel 2 Panel 3 Panel 4
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June 3, 2026
111 - How to Learn a Board Game