Toonbots archive - episode published 20040829


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The introduction of a force of nature as a typically whimsically implemented Toonbots character in juxtaposition with a force of history as the same is a brilliant ploy by the metacartoonist to recapture the faded glory of bygone days of minimalist cartooning, comprising, as it were, a sort of retrospective nostalgia for earlier phases of the metacartooning endeavor, all while remaining within the defined and delineated metanarrative framework; this, of course, is the ineluctible expression of wind as the sine qua non of the human spirit and Marxist notions of historical inevitability, leading the careful reader to the meticulously planned conclusion that the most random of natural occurrences is imbued with a strange and eldritch significance, the forces of Nature and History being nothing in comparison with the Ancient Ones who shall awaken from their eons-old slumber and once again walk the face of the Earth, the works of Man being crushed beneath their feet without so much as a moment's notice.

The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="800" width="700" rowformat="1">
<panel>
  <character name="mao"/>
  <caption location="bottom left" size="12" fgcolor="red">Hey, Fred!</caption>
  <character name="frances"/>
  <caption location="bottom right" size="12" fgcolor="green">Frances.</caption>
</panel>
<panel></panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="bottom left" size="12" fgcolor="red">You mean ... HURRICANE Frances?</caption>
  <caption location="bottom right" size="12" fgcolor="green">Yeah!  I'm currently moving westwards towards the Caribbean at 8mph.   </caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="bottom right" size="12" fgcolor="green">I may get to see sunny San Juan on Wednesday.   </caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="bottom left" size="12" fgcolor="red">That's nice.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom right" size="12" fgcolor="green">I'm looking forward to some time on the beach, maybe visiting a casino.    </font>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="bottom middle" size="12" fgcolor="green">I wanted to try some rum, but they say I'm underage.</caption>
  <caption location="bottom right" size="16" fgcolor="blue">NEXT!</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>
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