Almost to the end? But what about Mr. Bigglesworth? The tree climbing terror from above!

I am sure you could do something with svg and a plugin, for people to write their own punchlines.

Pepper and Carrot https://www.peppercarrot.com/ artist used to draw in Krita and do the text in Inkscape (a vector drawing program) because he (and his audience) would translate the comic into hundreds of languages.