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Toonbots archive: episode published 11 October, 2004

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As it is a truism that obscurity reflects perspicacity and innovation, the metacartoonist demonstrates that his new obscurity technique is unstoppable: as the Taino petroglyph is a relatively fresh icon in the Internet's memetic context, and yet simultaneously arrives with a thousand years of iconographic association unknown to the median ursine (irregardless of hattedness), it bears an unescapable parallelism to the metacartooning framework itself; the use, then, of such an icon of unbridled obscurity can only serve to enlighten the careful devotee of the Metacartooning Tao.

Note: this storyline is continued from 20011123. Note to self: design linking and indexing system for the archive, which is unwieldy.

The script used to make this toon:

<cartoon height="900" width="700" rowformat="1">
<panel>
<caption location="top left" fgcolor="blue">MEANWHILE, BACK AT (A) STORY LINE:</caption>
<caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red">As I was saying, we drove back to the Kremlin, had a
Defenestration Day breakfast that couldn't be beat, went to bed and didn't get up till the very next day, when...</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
<character name="fidel"/>
<character name="mao"/>
<caption location="top left" fgcolor="red" size="10">Sacre bleu, Mao, it feels as though we slept for three years!</caption>
<caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="red" size="10">I'm just looking forward to seeing who'll be Officer --      </caption>
</panel>
<panel>
<character name="birdguy"/>
<caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">... when we got a phone call (represented iconically by physical presence)
from Officer Obie.  He said:</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
<caption location="top right" fgcolor="green">Kid, we found your name on a Siberian hamster at the bottom of half a ton
of Web cartoonists, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
</panel>
<panel>
<caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">Is ... is that a bird on your head?</caption>
<caption location="top right" fgcolor="green">Well, duh.</caption>
<caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue">NEXT: MORE CONTINUITY!</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>