Toonbots archive - episode published 20020118
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The metacartoonist interrupts his minimal hiatus with a masterful demolishment of the tacitly assumed set of frames exposed in the storyline
to date -- if the metacartoonist is in the toon, then who is the metacartoonist scripting the metacartoonist? No, now wait,
that doesn't even make sense ... mouse steps
into the fray, ears unbattened, in a desperate ploy to regain control over the comic, rapidly spinning out of control in the absence even of
such sanity that the metacartoonist manages to provide. But just wait a minute, you can't be mouse, because mouse didn't script this,
right? yeah? prove it, blurb boy -- i'm just as much mouse as you are! Yes, but that's not the issue. Is this a hiatus or isn't it?
well, it is but it isn't. That's not even an answer! yes it is. NO, IT'S NOT! I CAN'T TAKE THIS! step over here and say that! I THINK
I WILL! biff! BOFF! parry! THRUST! touche! AVAST THEREOIUSDF)*&@#&SD;fjh927ra;sldijfaw89ern 974r +++ NO CARRIER
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The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="1800" width="700" rowformat="1"> <panel> <character name="lenin" aspect="faceright"/> <character name="mao"/> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">Hey Mao!</caption> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="red">Yeah, Len?</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">Do you feel a hot wind on your shoulder?</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top center" fgcolor="red">Now that you mention it? Yeah. And the touch of a world that is older.</caption> <caption location="bottom center" fgcolor="red">Exactly! Turn the switch and check the number!</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="will"/> <caption location="top center" fgcolor="red">Leave it on when in bed we slumber! Hear the talking of the DJ? Can't understand JUST</caption> <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue" font="itcedscr" size="24">What doth he say?</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="me" rel-h="60"/> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="orange">I'm on a Mexican - radio</caption> <caption location="bottom center" fgcolor="red" size="24">Radio, oh, oh, oh, oh</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="mouse"/> <caption location="top center" size="32">I'm on a Mexican, whoa-oh, radi ----</caption> <caption location="center" size="30">scrrcrcrdrrrcrrrrrrrrrrtttt!!</caption> </panel> <panel/> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">Bye.</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">Bye.</caption> <caption location="bottom center" fgcolor="blue" font="itcedscr" size="24">I'truth, farewell.</caption> <character name="lenin" action="leaves"/> <character name="mao" action="leaves"/> <character name="will" action="leaves"/> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="orange">Eh, heh...</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="orange">Hi, mouse. I'm sorry I didn't get around to getting your third guest episode up, but that first panel has an awful lot of text in it and would surely do all kinds of horrible wrapping and so I was thinking about variant panel layouts but then I thought that really it'd be keen to modify the Toon-o-Matic so that it could do varying heights of panel rows and that led to my actual desire to get into speech balloons instead of these stupid captions and then I got caught up in some real-life work stuff and then hey, Len got me started on this Mexican radio takeoff and even though you were nice enough to think of a story bridge to get the Lenin's Cereal Massacree back on track, I was just completely overloaded and I love this song anyway and....</caption> </panel> <panel/> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="orange">Are you going to say anything?</caption> <caption location="bottom center" fgcolor="blue">i was trying to work through all these meta-levels in my head. i'm sorry, i can't work under these conditions.</caption> <character name="mouse" action="leaves"/> </panel> <panel/> <panel> <caption location="top center" fgcolor="orange">... I can't figure this one out, either.</caption> <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue">NEXT: MORE MOUSE! AND THEN SOME TIRDUN!</caption> </panel> </cartoon> |
