Minions #195 Strange Change

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Greetings, Capitalistic Cast-offs!

Running a little late this week.  I'm busy shooting some more cartoons using the nifty green reactor-thing from last-week's cartoon, but I hate to run the same kind of scene two weeks in a row when I can help it.  So I dipped into my rapidly shrinking inventory of stand-by cartoons, and just as I was about to post, discovered I'd ALREADY used this particular cartoon back in October!  I hate it when that happens.

So, I had to go combing through my now-thousands of Minions stock-photos and outtakes to come up with some new cartoons.  So not only do I have something new (and topical) for you today, but I have a number of new inventory cartoons standing by as well.  Like they say, when life gives you lemons...  Well, actually, I don't care what they say.  I DON'T LIKE LEMONS!  I'm just evil that way.

See you guys next week.

- Minion Master Steve

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Minions #194 - Don't Need to Know

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While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
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and

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Greetings, Unskilled and Underinformed Workers!

I plugged books last week (go back and look!) and I'm running late, so I'll keep this short and sweet: CARTOON!

See you next time,

- Minion Master Steve

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Minions #193 - Don't Quote me Bro!

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Stand by, following the usual hospitality for a tainted drink from your Minion Master!

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Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

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While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

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Greetings, "Honored" -uh- "Guests!"

It's been a while since I plugged books, and it's darned well time.  Somebody has to pay the bills around here.

First of all, I have a new anthology story out.  The anthology is called "The Trouble with Heroes," and my story is called "Boldy Reimagined."  I think serious fans of Battlestar Galactica or Joss Whedon may find this story, set in the writer's room of a new fantasy/sci-fi TV series, amusing.

Plus, hey, I hear there are actually other stories in there.  Stories by writers nearly as talented as my magnificently evil self.  That could be a considered a bonus.  You can find it in mass-market paperback in the sf/fantasy section of your favorite bookseller, or order it from Amazon HERE.

Mrs. Minion Master has been busy as well, in her alias of Christy Evans.  Her first mystery novel, "Sink Trap," featuring the crime-busting adventures of a female plumber, is out to rave reviews.  (Don't believe me?  Check the quote on her web-site, HERE.)

It's a fun read, and a great gift for anyone struggling with remodeling and home repairs.

Once again, it's out in mass-market paperback, and you can find a copy in all finer booksellers.  (If they don't have it in stock, they aren't really fine.)  Or, you can order it from Amazon.com right HERE.

Sink trap is only the first of a trilogy of books that are already complete.  The second installment, "Lead Pipe Cinch" is out in April of next year, and we just got our first look at the cover.  Here it is:

Like I said, this is out in April, so you can't buy it yet, but if you're really eager, it's available for pre-order on Amazon.  Go HERE.

So, go buy them one, or buy them all (or any of our other books) and help support Minions at Work.  Or, just send us the heck money (that's what the donation button below is for).  A dollar would be nice.  Or a trillion.  Or perhaps something in-between.  Your choice.  (The closer to a trillion, the better.)

See you guys next week.

- Your Shill-Master, Steve

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Minions #192 - Kennel Ration

Stand by, following the usual dog run for a yank on the collar from your Minion Master!

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Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

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And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, Mongrels and Litter Runts!

We're finally getting back on track around here after a month of schedule disruptions, distractions, and sickness.  I'm back to building some new sets and trying out some new props and characters, back down in the bowels of the lair where we belong!  (All that fresh air we've been getting lately has just given me a kennel cough!)  Hopefully we'll be back here, on time, and with fresh material for a while!

By the way, our Latino minion has shown up a number of times, but I'm now giving him an official designation.  Henceforth he shall be known as "Numero Cinco," (Number Five) in honor of the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo.  (Which in the U.S. is a celebration of Mexican pride, and in parts of Mexico, a celebration of the day the Mexicans kicked the French in the ass, which is pretty fun in itself.  And don't tell me they didn't have it coming!)

That's not to say that Cinco is necessarily Mexican.  It's typical gringo stupidity to assume that all Hispanics are Mexicans.  Cinco might be Cuban, or Columbian, or Salvadorian, or who-knows-what.  He might even be a red-white-and-blue Texas-born Tejano.  I'd like to keep that kind of vague, so he can stand in for all of them.

I know people have strong feelings about this, but most of the Latinos I know, citizens and visitors alike, are good, hard-working, family-folk.  Many of them take important-yet-dirty-jobs that the rest of us wouldn't touch, keep our nation running, and as thanks, often get nothing but grief and abuse.

In other words, they can proudly count themselves among the ranks of the Minions!  

Yeah, just like the rest of us.  Remember, we're all equals down here under the thumbs of our Overlord oppressors, so don't take it out on them.  Ain't no border wall high enough to keep The Man from shipping jobs out of the country.  Just saying.

See you guys next week

- Steve

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Minions #191 - REALLY Wrong Number!

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Stand by, following the usual buried punchline for a dirt clod from your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may throw your representative into the Quicksand of Death just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

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Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar!

Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, Forgotten Friends!

I know, I know, the Minions and I have been missing in action.  I came off the two-week writer's workshop I was involved with tired and brain-dead, and immediately got a stomach flu that pretty well knocked me out for a week.  So now I'm terminally behind on EVERYTHING, and Minions just couldn't be at the top of the priority list (you should buy more tee-shirts!).  Sorry!

While I was moaning in my death-bed, a big box arrived for me from the nice folks at www.MattyCollector.com, Mattel's fan-direct collector web-site.  It was a couple days before I even had the strength to open it, but what was inside was a beautiful thing to behold, possibly the most wonderful 12" collectable action figure in history of the world, the 12" Ray Stantz Ghostbusters figure with incredibly detailed, light-up Proton Pack and spring-loaded ghost-trap!

Okay, maybe not the most wonderful, but certainly the most wonderful I've actually talked myself into ordering it.  Anything worthy of being called better, IMHO, has sold for well upwards of $100.  At $60, this wasn't cheap, but in the current market, that's a very good value for a figure of this type.

Mattel has done a fine job on this.  The uniform is very detailed and accurate to the film version with all the pockets and flaps represented, and tiny metal zipper pulls carefully sewn on.  They've engineered a whole new 12" body for this line, and it's got a really solid, sturdy, feel with lots of articulation, including unique joints that allow the shoulders to be hunched towards each other in the front (hug yourself, or assume a two-handed shooting stance to see what I'm talking about).  The Dan Ackroyd head sculpt is a little cartoonish and the weakest part of the figure, but it's not bad.

But what makes this figure attractive are the accessories, and they're wonderful.  Start with the Photon Pack and wand.  I watched the film again the other night, and every detail is there.  Every tiny wire, part, terminal, and warning label.  Even the transparent tip of the probe deploys and retracts like the ones in the movie.  It includes a light circuit that flashes four red LED lights on the "unlicensed nuclear accelerator," a bit of business seen in a couple scenes of the film.  There's also a detailed ghost-trap with operating, spring-loaded doors, and an attached, moving, foot-peddle.  Completing the figure are a walkie-talkie, night-vision goggles, and a switchable pair of ungloved hands for the figure.

Production on these is limited, and they're sold only through the www.MattyCollector.com site.  If Ray is sold out, there are also 6" figures, and a 12" Egon that's supposed to be available December 15th.  Get them while you can!

See you guys next week, hopefully back in the grove, and hopefully on-time.

-Retch-master Steve

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Minions #190 - Stupor Power

Stand by, following the usual music on hold for a quick transfer t0 your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the crab parasites just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

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We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:

THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE

"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY

(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar!

Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, hold-overs!

This week has been busy with a writing workshop in town that I'm helping out with, the release of Mrs. Minion Master's new mystery "Sink Trap," and family-obligations, so I haven't shot anything new.  I'm digging pretty near the bottom of the inventory barrel here, so you'll have to take what you get.  Hopefully it's funny, but how the frick would I know?  I hope to be back in the Minion Studios last week shooting all new material.

- Minion Master Steve

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Minions #189 - My Number's Not Up Yet

Stand by, following the usual eulogy for a shallow burial from your Minion Master!

Your interminable wait is important to us. To serve you better, a supervisor may feed the representative assigned to serve you to the crab parasites just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."

SUPPORT THE FORCES OF EVIL, WITHOUT WHOM YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME BORING UTOPIA OR SOMETHING! HELP FINANCE "MINIONS AT WORK" BY BUYING STUFF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ANYWAY! IT'S LIKE STEALING, ONLY LEGAL!
We're now Amazon.com affiliates, which means that if you click on the Amazon link in our sidebar and make purchases from Amazon, a tiny little sliver of what you spend goes to support these fine (maybe even near-mint!) cartoons!

Or visit our Amazon Lair Gift Shop for Minions-recommended merchandise featuring villainy from across pop-culture!

Minions at work is inadequately supported during this financial crisis by your purchases from our web stores and our advertisers. Feed the economy and help us bleed green just a little more slowly by purchasing tee-shirts, buttons, calendars, hats, undies (we kid not!), and other fine Minions at Work items at one of the following stores.

While waiting for your impending doom, pick up a Minions at Work tee-shirt or other great souvenir of your visit to the Lair:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Satisfaction guaranteed or we'll make make you buy something else!"

and

NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(For very small values of naughty.)

Or just click on our "Donate" button and send us cash add to our "Buy the Minions a Camera Fund!" 100% of your contribution goes to allow starving orphans to buy blankets for kittens.

Nah, not really, it all goes to ME, in order to further the cause of EVIL, and the photography thereof.

Join the Minions Reminder Email List. It's free, it's easy, and you'll never miss a Minions at Work cartoon (or if you do, it won't be our fault!) Or become one of our followers. See the follower box in our Mighty Sidebar!

Or join our "Minions at Work" group on Facebook.

And yes, I'm finally on Twitter. Follow me. I'm JSteveYork there (clicking on the previous link will take you straight to my profile page.) Eventually I'm getting No. 1 his own account for Minions-related-business, but one thing at a time.

Still: We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

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Greetings, Recently Departed!

Busy this week (and next) because I'm in instructor at a writer's workshop, so this will be brief.

Told ya.

See you (briefly) next week!

-Steve

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