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Toonbots archive: episode published 12 July, 2003

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And now ladies and gentlemen, it is the distinct pleasure of the management to present to you, the evening's star attraction. Here he is back after his exclusive five-month tour of Europe, Scandinavia and the subcontinent. Won't you welcome from his undisclosed location in an Eastern European capital, the shadowy figure known only as ... the metacartoonist.

The script used to make this toon:

<cartoon height="700" width="700" rowformat="1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2">
<panel>
  <caption location="middle" fgcolor="blue" size="18">A TOONBOTS PRIMER</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="lenin"/>
  <caption location="top middle">See Lenin.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle">See Lenin float.</caption>
  <character name="lenin" action="leaves"/>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="mao"/>
  <caption location="top middle">See Mao.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle">Oo Mao Mao.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange" size="10">Heh, heh.  I've wanted to use that for so long.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="lenin" aspect="face left"/>
  <caption location="top middle">See Lenin and Mao.</caption>
  <character name="lenin" action="leaves"/>
  <character name="mao" action="leaves"/>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="dot"/>
  <caption location="top middle">See Spot.. Uh, Dot.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="mao"/>
  <character name="lenin" aspect="face left"/>
  <caption location="top middle">See Dot and Mao and Lenin.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle">See the metacartoonist on the road to recovery.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue">NEXT: BACK?</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>