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Toonbots archive: episode published 26 May, 2001

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The metacartoonist outdoes himself again with an all-star extravaganza strongly reminiscent of the best of Broadway, chorus line and all. Neatly sidestepping any actual view of actual wolverines, he manages to keep the storyline afloat for the third episode in a row.

The script used to make this toon:

<cartoon height="600" width="800" rowformat="3-2-1">
<panel>
<character name="al" aspect="2 faceright"/>
<character name="dubya" aspect="2 faceleft"/>
<caption location="top left" size="14" fgcolor="blue">Hey Dubya!  How's the Presidency?</caption>
<caption location="bottom right" size="14" fgcolor="red">I find it makes my face all wincy.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
<character name="dubya" aspect="1 faceleft"/>
<caption location="top left" size="14" fgcolor="blue">That rhyme<br/>was stupid.</caption>
<caption location="top right" size="16" fgcolor="red">No it's not!</caption>
<caption location="bottom right" size="14" fgcolor="blue">I think it made me sounding hot.</caption>
<character name="dubya" action="leaves"/>
</panel>
<panel>
<character name="al" aspect="1"/>
<caption location="top left" size="14" fgcolor="blue">Dubya's grammar's not the best</caption>
<caption locationn="bottom left" size="14" fgcolor="blue">But Florida spoke, and so we're blessed.</caption>
<character name="al" action="leaves"/>
</panel>
<panel>
<character name="dot"/>
<caption location="top left" size="14" fgcolor="blue">At the risk of causing schism<br/>I do not like this Seuss-oid rhythm.<br/>The Toon-o-Matic's breaking lines!<br/>That means it's fixed, so why the rhymes?!?</caption>
<caption location="bottom right" size="10" fgcolor="green">Methinks this Dot is too astute<br/>I need to find some other route     <br/>To hide the fact I can't yet draw<br/>The Jihad waiting in the hall.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
<caption location="top middle" size="14" fgcolor="blue">Besides, you twit, these gag-filled scenes<br/>Distract us from the wolverines!</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
<character name="mao"/>
<character name="will"/>
<character name="dubya" aspect="1"/>
<character name="al" aspect="2 faceright"/>
<caption location="top middle" size="16" fgcolor="red">Ay, yi, yi, the wolverines!</caption>
<caption location="bottom middle" size="16" fgcolor="red">The Jihad and their wolverines!</caption>
<caption location="bottom right" size="12" fgcolor="blue">Holy Joe, what are those things?<br/>They're eating the supporting beams!  </caption>
</panel>
<panel>
<caption location="top middle" size="20" fgcolor="red">Holy Joe, the wolverines!</caption>
<caption location="bottom middle" size="16" fgcolor="red">They're eating the supporting beams!</caption>
<caption location="bottom right" size="12" fgcolor="blue">Uh-oh.</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>