This chapter focuses on how minicomics are stapled by hand, and how this manifests the self-preserving and self-thwarting aspects of making minicomics. It is self-preserving because the minicomic bears the trace of its maker and the history of its own construction in its staples, inviting readers to make their own minicomics by copying the processes whose memory is embedded in the physical object. It is self-thwarting because, when staplers (or other pieces of office equipment) break, minicomic-makers are faced with their dependency on objects and the limits of their agency, which I discuss in relation to thing theory. A further characteristic of minicomic-making considered in this chapter is the monotony of producing hundreds or thousands of copies of minicomics, a process which—approaching as it does the rote operation of the mechanized assembly line—threatens to turn humans assembling minicomics into unthinking automatons.