Toonbots archive - episode published 20020421
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The metacartoonist takes a quick stock of his entire 1.5 years of output, to the immortal rhythms of Billy Joel. In so doing, he
gives a nod to the newsworthy events of the past half-year, squares his metaphorical shoulders, and goes back to bed.
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The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="1300" width="700" rowformat="1"> <panel> <character name="mao"/> <character name="me"/> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="orange">Thing is, Mao -- I didn't start the fire.</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">Let me guess.<br/>Has it been burning since the world's been turning?</caption> <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="orange">Exactly!</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">Blank panels, Boxjam blue, nonsense humor, captions too,</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Bot and Dot, election jabs, Toon-o-Matic plans.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">Al and Dubya, Seussian rhyme, floating heads, Commie time,</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Mao and Lenin, Marx and Shakespeare, blurbs by my own hands.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">Nice recap of Y2K.</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Thanks, but I didn't start the fire -- it's been burning since the Toonbot's turning.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">BoxJam cameo, real drawing as you know,</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Stick figures, iron filings, Arctic Circle treats!</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">Hick does a dancing scene, Henery is quoting Queen,</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Napster riffs, Croatian pop, all your base repeats.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">Pickle Crisp, Babelfish, SVG is doing this,</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Decent fonts, hieroglyphics, Jihad, wolverines.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">Holy Joe the wolverines, Malkovich behind the scenes,</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Dream sequence, Commiecon, Emsworth cameo.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="middle left" fgcolor="red" size="10">You missed a rhyme.</caption> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">Bear in hat, glorious thing, Scooby ending, penguin king,</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Pokey wins, musketeers, Pickle Crisp explodes.</caption> <caption location="middle right" fgcolor="orange" size="10">Shut up, Mao.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">Templatizing, Framed Escape, Mao meets Dick, what a jape,</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Osama versus wolverines, hundredth episode.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">Anthrax, Massacree, Coke truck, scanned-in me,</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">NEXT: MORE, PREVIOUS: LESS, mouse chips in some code.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">... Which brings us back to "doe?"</caption> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="orange">All I am saying, is give Bots a chance.</caption> <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue">NEXT: RESTARTING THE FIRE</caption> </panel> </cartoon> |
