Toonbots archive - episode published 20011210
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After long and careful thought about where to take the storyline, the metacartoonist decides to toss caution to the wind and do something
new: cut off on a completely unrelated tangent. You can build your own neat cyborg names at the Brunching Shuttlecocks, of course:
here.
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The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="1200" width="700" rowformat="1"> <panel> <character name="lenin"/> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red">I ... just can't believe it.</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="mao"/> <character name="lenin" aspect="faceright"/> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="red">Hey, Fred!<br/>... What's eating you? We're in the middle<br/>of a storyline here, man, let's get to work!</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">What's the point, Mao? The whole storyline was 'Lenin's Cereal Massacree'.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="red">I'm not following you, Len.</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">So while I was distracted, Pickle Crisp Industries was acquired in a hostile takeover.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="red">Ah. By ... </caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">Yeah. By D&H Smoking Insects and Cybernetic Collective.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="red">Wow, man. I don't know what to say.</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">*sigh*</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="napoleon"/> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue" font="ocraext">Resistance is futile.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">... Excuse me? What?</caption> <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue" font="ocraext">Resistance is futile.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">That's what I thought you said. Who, exactly, are you?</caption> <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue" font="ocraext">I am NAPOLEON: Networked Artificial Person Optimized for Logical</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue" font="ocraext">Exploration Of Nullification. I have been sent to assimilate the one known as 'Lenin'.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">I think I saw him in the hallway on the left.</caption> <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue" font="ocraext">Thank you, deceased levitating extremity.</caption> <character name="napoleon" action="leaves"/> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="red">Isn't that where the wolverines have been installing their swimming pool?</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">Hey, if it worked on Osama bin Laden, it'll work on a smiley face with a hat.</caption> </panel> </cartoon> |
