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The searing use of frame-blending humor only adds the effectiveness of this episode, in which the metacartoonist explores the myriad
ramifications of the incidental mapping of international terrorism onto international Communism, and the entire conglomeration is seen
as through a glass, darkly.
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The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="600" width="800" rowformat="1-2-2-2-2-2"> <panel> <caption location="middle" fgcolor="blue" size="40">MAO RECOUNTS</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">(You forgot about Mao's flashback, didn't you?)</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="blue">AT COMMIE-CON:</caption> <character name="mao"/> <character name="fidel"/> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">So, which booths have you checked out?</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue">The Armed Insurrection: Do's and Don'ts had a nice presentation, no es asi?</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red" size="12">The propaganda poster session was good, too, but --</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="osama" aspect="post-wolverine"/> <caption location="top right">By Allah most merciful, there are wild beasts loose! Please, I beg of you, help me!</caption> <character name="osama" action="leaves"/> </panel> <panel> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue">That looked like Osama bin Laden.</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">Except for the beard.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue">He seems to have found some of the wolverines.</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">Yep.</caption> </panel> </cartoon> |
