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Toonbots archive: episode published 14 July, 2003

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As previously noted in this venue, the utter poise with which the metacartoonist interweaves current commentary with timeless plot-structure motifs is always a breathtaking adventure in the extension of the core minimalist canon.

The script used to make this toon:

<cartoon height="700" width="700" rowformat="2">
<panel>
  <character name="will"/>
  <caption location="top middle">See Will.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle">See Will rhyme.</caption>
  <character name="will" action="leaves"/>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="me"/>
  <character name="dot"/>
  <caption location="top middle">See me.  See Dot.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle">See Dot and me break the fourth wall with metalevel plot wrangling.</caption>
  <character name="me" action="leaves"/>
  <character name="dot" action="leaves"/>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="dubya" aspect="2"/>
  <caption location="top middle">See Dubya.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="dubya" aspect="darngood"/>
  <caption location="top middle">See Dubya sweat.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="blue">Well, Mister Cheney TOLD me our intelligence is darn good...</caption>
  <character name="dubya" action="leaves"/>
</panel>
<panel>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="orange">I swear, I can't make up stuff this good.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue">NEXT: MORE!  REALLY!</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>