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The metacartoonist evokes the essential accretionary hilarity of Chicken Little in this Zen-like continuation of the hiatal storyline, playfully skirting the edge of irrelevance and incoherence in an ultimately Hegelian quest for resolution of the question. The subtle jabs at contemporary icons inherent in his use of Shakespeare, the spirit of Communism contrasted with the actual individual Communists, and even the appearance of N.A.P.O.L.E.O.N. as representative of corporate monolithicity (itself a droll comment on the current occupation of the concrete, as opposed to the ideal, Napoleon), all these accentuate the ineluctible forward progress of the opus.

The script used to make this toon:
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  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="blue">HIATUS OR NOT HIATUS: THAT IS THE QUESTION.</caption>
  <caption location="middle" fgcolor="blue">An episode in several acts</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="blue" size="10">In which our intrepid protagonists accrete the entire cast of Toonbots characters</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="mao"/>
  <character name="bot"/>
  <character name="lenin" aspect="faceright"/>
  <character name="al" aspect="2 faceright"/>
  <character name="dot"/>
  <character name="chick"/>
  <character name="osama"/>
  <character name="tirdun"/>
  <character name="dubya" aspect="2 faceleft"/>
  <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">So, IS the metacartoonist still on hiatus?</caption>
  <character name="mouse"/>
  <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue">i don't know, but this is pretty entertaining if you ask me.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="will"/>
  <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue" size="24" font="itcedscr">Indeed, 'tis a good question!</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="ilya" aspect="hatted faceleft"/>
  <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="red">Am being stymied by entire situation.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="emsworth"/>
  <character name="ilya" aspect="hatted faceright"/>
  <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue">What ho!  Sadly, I am not privy to the publishing schedules of our metacartoonist.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="napoleon"/>
  <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue">Resistance was futile.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue">The metacartoonist was assimilated into the collective that is D&amp;Q Rolled Insects.</caption>
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