Toonbots archive - episode published 20010918


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In which the metacartoonist demonstrates that when somebody else tries to script Toonbots, the result is even more confusing than usual.

The order is going Framed!!!, then Toonbots (above), then Boarders and Sister.

The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="1400" width="800" rowformat="1">
<panel>
  <character name="toonistmob"/>
  <character name="bot"/>
  <character name="damonk"/>
  <character name="mel_inish"/>
  <caption location="top left" fgcolor="blue">STILL AT KEEN CENTRAL:</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" font="_nahkt" size="10">My God, will all this exposition never end?
And who let the wolverines out, anyway?  Awww.  Otu's so kyoot!</caption>
  <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue">So odd as it all may seem, you are all a part of the<br/>
Framed!!! universe and thus exactly as fictional as<br/>
Damonk himself!</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
 <caption location="top left">
GASP!!!!  BUT I DOAN WANNA<br/>
LOSE MY                       NOSE!!!<br/>
And besides,                  most of us<br/>
aren't even                   Canadian!<br/>
We're not like Damonk at all!</caption>
 <caption location="bottom middle" font="_nahkt" size="10">And goodness, how Alaric has grown!</caption>
 <character name="toonistmob" action="leaves"/>
</panel>
<panel>
 <character name="damonk" aspect="2 faceright"/>
 <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="green">Whoa, whoa, time out.  You're saying I'm not REAL?  But I DRAW all this!  I'm GOD!  ...   right?</caption>
 <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="blue" size="14">Eh, heh, heh.  No.  You defined the rules, but you're bound by them.  It's like throwing people on a stage.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
 <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="green">But, but... What about things like the wish machine?  The talking sign?!?  DICK?!!!!11?</caption>
 <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="blue">Special effects, hired help.  Just think!  All the world's but a stage!  Shakespeare said it!</caption>
  <character name="bot" action="leaves"/>
  <character name="damonk" action="leaves"/>
  <character name="mel_inish" action="leaves"/>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="will"/>
  <character name="bot"/>
  <character name="damonk" aspect="1 faceleft"/>
  <character name="mel_inish"/>
  <caption location="top left" fgcolor="blue" font="itcedscr" size="24">Forsooth, yet 'twas naught but the spirits speaking.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" font="_nahkt" size="10">...  Well, even if your universe has ghosts, same thing applies.</caption>
  <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue">...  Well, even if your universe has<br/>ghosts, same thing applies.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top left" fgcolor="blue" font="itcedscr" size="24">Nay, I spake but of the spirit of the grape.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" font="_nahkt" size="10">...  Well, a universe with ghostly fruit is kind of odd, but ...</caption>
  <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue">...  Well, a universe with ghostly fruit is kind of odd, but ...</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="damonk" aspect="2 faceleft"/>
  <caption location="top left" fgcolor="blue" font="itcedscr" size="32">I was drunk out of me blarsted gourd, thou pinwitted mechanical churl!</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" font="_nahkt" size="10">Oh.</caption>
  <character name="will" action="leaves"/>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="damonk" aspect="2 faceright"/>
  <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue">Eh, heh, heh.  I think our exposition needs<br/>to be moving on now, don't you?<br/>Don't forget to continue at Boarders and Sister!</caption>
  <caption location="bottom left" font="ocraext" size="20">Oh, jeez.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="blue">Um, Mel?  Who are you talking to?</caption>
  <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue">Oops.</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>






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