Monday, December 31, 2007
Minions #96 - Lab Work
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"Where all our customers are satisfied, because those are the ones we allow to live!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
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A New Years message from your Minion Master
Greetings, Leap-years!
Okay, it's been a big week here, what with the unannounced invasion by our Son and his family, so we're running late, and this may not be our "A" material. LIVE WITH IT! Back to normal next year.
Have a safe and happy New Year.
-Steve
Labels:
Doctor Funkystein,
Laboratory,
Number 2,
Rookie,
Willie
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Minons #95 - Santa's Chair
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THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where all our customers are satisfied, because those are the ones we allow to live!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
Please wait for the next available Santa. No beard pulling, and one present per customer. Santa already knows if you're naughty or nice, so no belaboring the point. Remember that Santa's sleigh does not come equipped with GPS, so all letters to Santa should include a full street address, a zip code, and a day-time phone number. Santa is not responsible for lost or misplaced gifts, especially if they have a value of over five figures, or weigh over a ton. Okay, we admit it. We dropped your freaking Porsche in a snow bank, okay? The reindeer were TIRED! Next!
Greetings, Lap-warmers,
It's been a big day here at the Lair. I had just finished upgrading the evil mainframe (big, new LCD monitor, added a 300gig hard-drive, and a new DVD burner, all of which will be applied to the advancement of future evil Minions projects) when a mysterious call sent my wife Chris into her place of employment (a beachfront resort hotel here on the Oregon coast) in response to an "emergency." There, she was ambushed and forced to participate in an evil scheme, calling to tell me that there had been "flooding" at work, but she'd be home in a minute, which made no sense at all.
She showed up on the doorstep a few minutes later and shouted, "look what I found!" What she'd found was our son and his family, up from California unannounced, including the lovely grandbaby Zoe! Yikes! Our evil plans have been totally outdone! How will we top this one without crashing the Earth into the Sun? (Which is on our "to-do" list, by the way, right after "paint the evil garage.")
Anyway, our Christmas is much brighter. Drat! We had a simply grand funk coming on.
Hope you all have a safe and happy holiday, however you celebrate. Stay warm in your lairs, give your Minions an extra helping of gruel, watch out for the forces of Good, and Santa might just drop something special down the throat of your hollow volcano. Whoops, I don't think that's Santa. I think it's James Bond!
DUCK!
-See you next week!
-Steve
Monday, December 17, 2007
Minions #94 - Truth Hurts
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and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
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Please hold for a message from the next available Minion Master...
Greetings, Minimal Ones,
Here we are closing in on the end of another year of unrepentant evil, and I realize that we're rapidly coming up on Minions at Work number 100! I'd love to say I have something special planned, but to be honest, I haven't got a clue yet. Got any ideas for what Minions #100 should be about? Drop us a note or comment. I might post some of the better ones. Heck, I might even use some of your ideas! Get to it!
We're still behind on everything here after the storm. I still have wreck of a shed in the front yard that needs cleaning up, and stuff formerly stored in said shed stacked all over my house. There's the usual unrelenting string of Christmas shopping, parties, events, and visitors to take care up. I do not feel in the Christmas spirit. Perhaps I should destroy Australia. Or maybe I'll just eat some more gingerbread and brood. Probably the brooding...
- Steve
Friday, December 07, 2007
Minions #93 - Holiday Spirit
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THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where all our customers are satisfied, because those are the ones we allow to live!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
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QUIET ON THE SET! ANOTHER BULL-HORN BLAST FROM YOUR MINION MASTER:
Greetings, Extras,
Well, we've survived the Great Storm of 2007 here on the Oregon coast. (At least I hope so. Not that I doubt we survived. Just that I hope this was actually the Great Storm of 2007. If it isn't really here yet, I don't want to know about it. Well, yeah, I do, so I can move safely inland first!) See previous posts and links to my regular blog for details and pictures.
Actually, at this point, there's nothing I'd like more than to kick back and slack off for a while, but I used up the last cartoon in inventory last week. So I had to come up with something quick, and I thought, why not get the holiday season started a little early this year? Actually, I'm pretty happy this one (and it gets a big thumbs up from Chris). Now, on to thinking something up for next week.
See you then.
-Steve
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Minions #92 - Replacement Value
(Yes, I know the cartoon actually has "Minions" incorrectly spelled. I'll fix it after the storms pass!)
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THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where all our customers are satisfied, because those are the ones we allow to live!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
A Live Report From Hurricane Central from your Minion Master:
Greetings, Gale-force Friends,
Just a quick note now. Maybe I'll add more later, but we're braced for a serious storm here, and I'm expecting the power to go out any moment. Didn't have time to do a new cartoon this week, so I'm pulling the last one out of my inventory without hardly even checking to see what it is. Hope it's funny! Maybe! Hopefully I'll be back in the Minion business after this blows over (ha!) Monday afternoon. See you on the other side... (Possibly I'll update this later in the week, if I'm able, and if there's something to report...)
-Stormy Steve
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"Where all our customers are satisfied, because those are the ones we allow to live!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
A Live Report From Hurricane Central from your Minion Master:
Greetings, Gale-force Friends,
Just a quick note now. Maybe I'll add more later, but we're braced for a serious storm here, and I'm expecting the power to go out any moment. Didn't have time to do a new cartoon this week, so I'm pulling the last one out of my inventory without hardly even checking to see what it is. Hope it's funny! Maybe! Hopefully I'll be back in the Minion business after this blows over (ha!) Monday afternoon. See you on the other side... (Possibly I'll update this later in the week, if I'm able, and if there's something to report...)
-Stormy Steve
Monday, November 26, 2007
Minions #91 - Having a Blast
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and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
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Counting down to a new message from your Fearless (more or less) Leader:
Greetings, Blast Deflectors,
Some friendly seasonal advice here: Always remember to read and follow the operating instructions. This applies to nuclear death missiles, or Christmas lights. Just sayin'.
Hey, if you haven't seen them, I posted a few photos from my Las Vegas trip last week. Find them here.
Lots to catch up on now that I'm home (including shooting some new MaW panels, so I'll keep this short. See you back here next week.
-Steve
Labels:
missile,
No. 1,
Rookie,
Silo,
Tech-Minions,
tech-support
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Live From Las Vegas
Since several of you have expressed curiosity about my Las Vegas trip, a couple pictures of your Minion Master on-site.
Here I am at a shop in Caesar's Palace, checking out the latest item in the "Minions at Work" toy line. Every rug-rat needs a Minionmobile of their very own!
And here I am at the Orleans Casino auditioning a potential new cast member...
Here I am at a shop in Caesar's Palace, checking out the latest item in the "Minions at Work" toy line. Every rug-rat needs a Minionmobile of their very own!
And here I am at the Orleans Casino auditioning a potential new cast member...
Labels:
alligator,
Casino,
dinosaur,
Las Vegas,
Minionmobile
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Minions #90 - Unscripted
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and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
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*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
An unscripted message from your Fearless Leader:
Uh, is this thing on? Hi, mom! Testing one, two, three,
Hoo needs ritters anyways? All thay doo is rite the skrips. Qualatay mooves and telavizion kums frum Gaud, 2 thu direkor, tu the aktor, two U. Thiss wuz inventad bi thu Frinch. Thay kall it thu "otter theery." Everbaudy nos thiz. Ritters R slitely les impourtant thn thee gye hoo dryves D-livers th pourtabl toylets tu tha lokation. Whoo kneads thym?
Orr az Nummer Won wood sae...
Sea U nxt weak.
-Stebe
Ha, ha! Humor! Actually, most directors are fine and wonderful folk, and their contract is coming up for renegotiation soon too. It's the management and the media corporation who are the issue here. Management. (Special note to Mr. Michael Bay. Please, please, sir, don't bring down and air-strike on my ass!)
Monday, November 12, 2007
Minions #89 - Jaws of a Dilemma
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"Where all our customers are satisfied, because those are the ones we allow to live!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
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*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
A cautionary message from your fearless leader:
Greetings, beneficiaries,
That reminds me, as (those of you in the U.S. anyway) celebrate Thanksgiving next week, remember not to bite off more than you can chew. As for your Minion Master, I'm loading up the escape pod for a quick ballistic arc over to Las Vegas, where I'll be working with my son on a new writing project. (Hey, off-season rooms are obscenely cheap, so is food, and Chris will be doing some research for a couple upcoming writing projects of her own.)
Anyway, I'll be leaving a Minions at Work cartoon set to go for you folks next week, but it may or may not go out exactly on schedule, depending on my internet access at the time.
Lets face it, a Las Vegas casino is kind of like a lair with more neon and better access to out-call escorts. Heck, it even has evil masterminds watching your every move through hidden cameras, and a plot to part the unsuspecting from their money and to get away with it Scott-free. From a villain's standpoint, you've got just got to admire the whole operation. So consider it Minions at Work research too. So, we're off.
And don't worry about Number Two folks. He's got more lives than a cockroach, and twice as much resistance to DDT. He'll be fine just as soon as they reattach his legs. And that will happen just as soon as they find them.
See you (remotely), next week.
- Steve
Labels:
dinosaur,
Doctor Coldblood,
injury,
No. 1,
Number 2,
worker's compensation
Monday, November 05, 2007
Minions #88 - Relative Beauty
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"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
A rambling greeting from your rambling leader:
Greetings, fellow-travelers,
Do me a favor! Take a moment to click on the Web Comic List icon at the top of our sidebar, create a log-on, and choose "Minions at Work" as one of your favorite web comics! If you have a mind, you can also leave a comment while you're there. Doing so will push us up their popularity list, and hopefully bring more people to check out our site. It just takes a couple minutes, so give it a try (and maybe find some other cool web comics while you're at it).
It's another one of those weeks, where I wonder if y'all will be laughing or just scratching your heads. I thought it was funny, but I'm strange. Just in case, I've whipped up a little bonus content for you, another of our famous parody Minions magazine covers. Click on the small picture for a larger version, and enjoy. (I've got to print some of these out as mini-magazines and start using them as props for future cartoons.)
To give you some background on this week's cartoon, let me just say that I live at the beach. A really beautiful beach, in my opinion, on the Oregon coast, and having lived her for many years now I just can't imagine living anywhere else. Well, at least anywhere far from waves, sand, trees, and mountains.
Yet I do leave here sometimes. I like to travel, almost as much as I like coming home. And as I've driven across the country, I've seen many beautiful things. But I've also been many places so ugly, so unplesant, that, if they were a Wookie, you'd shave their butts and make them walk backwards.
These are the kinds of places that I can't drive through fast enough, that I can't imagine voluntarily stopping at, and God-help-me if there isn't usually somebody who apparently choses to live there!
Why?
I mean, it isn't as though there aren't plenty of better places to live, often within a few hours drive. It isn't as though there are great jobs in these places. Often I wonder what people there do at all, but when the economic base is apparent, it usually has to do with A: known carcinogens, B: horrible working conditions, C: high worker mortality, and D: low pay.
In other words, it's pretty much like being a Minion.
Is it just momentum? Are these people simply to ignorant that there's life beyond the radioactive fish-mine or the lead-paint tasting industry? No, they must see something wonderful about where they live and work. I can only figure that, as bad as their place is, they know somewhere even worse!
God help us all.
See you next week, where-ever you live,
-Steve
Monday, October 29, 2007
Minions #87 - Off Target
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"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
A message down the firing range from your fearless leader:
Greetings, bulls-eyes,
This week I have to confess that I'm at a bit of fan-boy heaven over the return of some of my favorite TV villains, the Cylons! Okay, admittedly, the Cylons have been back for a while in Ron Moore's wonderfully reimagined version of Battlestar Galactica on the SciFi Channel.
But while the new "skin jobs" played by the likes of Grace Park and Tricia Helfer are easy on the eyes, and the new CGI metal Cylons are pretty cool, I still miss the old-school chrome-plated "toasters" with their grating, mechanical voices and signature, scanning, red eye.
Not long ago, I heard rumors that the 2-hour Galactica movie, Razor, would flash back to the first Cylon war, and that this might feature the appearance of some Cylon models more familiar to us Galactica old timers. SciFi later decided to carve out these "flashback" sequences and turn them into two-minute episodes that would air as promotional spots as as webisodes, so I didn't even have to wait until the late-November premier of Razor to find out.
Well, my hopes were raised in Flashback #3, where a young William Adama fights against some decidedly retro-style Cylon raiders. The big pay-off, though is is Flashback #4, where Adama comes face to face with a Cylon pilot. Yes, it's old-school. No, it doesn't look like a guy in a suit this time. Yes, I am pleased.
Okay, I am a geek.
Okay, so I loved how the old Cylons looked and how they sounded, but lets face it, they were never a fraction of the threat that the new guys are. And thus the inspiration for this week's cartoon. See, those old Cylons could never hit the broad side of a barn. In fact, a archetypal old-Galactica scene would be to have Starbuck or Apollow (or both) encounter a group of Cylons in a corridor somewhere. The Cylons would shoot first, and despite our heroes making no effort to take cover, they would miss. In fact, the Cylons could fire any number of rounds and they would seem to hit anything but the heroes standing in plain sight. Then Starbuck (or Apollo, or both) would squeeze off a singled shot, which would explode the dead-center of the nearest Cylon's chest, and it would fall down. Wash, rinse, repeat, until you run out of Cylons to shoot.
So for years, whenever my wife and I have seen TV or movie villains (or their minions) who couldn't seem to shoot straight when it came to hitting the good-guys, we identified them as graduates of the "Cylon School of Marksmanship." Well, finally, after all these years, we get to see how the process works.
See you guys next week.
- Steve
Labels:
Battlestar Galactica,
Cylons,
Guns,
Marksmanship,
No. 1,
Number 2,
Rookie,
training
Monday, October 22, 2007
Minions #86 - One Heartbeat Away
Lots of stuff going on this week, so be sure to scroll down and check our our entire message!
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Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual commercial gruel...
While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
A message to ground-zero from your fearless leader:
Greetings, prisoners of gravity,
It's back to the dungeons this week. We only occasionally do anything like topical humor here, but I like this one, so here it is. My biggest concern, in looking back at things, is that the similar cartoon featuring Martha Stewart a month or so back is the first cartoon in a long time to get no comments from you guys. Does that mean you hated the concept, hate Martha, don't know who Martha is, or maybe just your fingers seize up that week. I just don't know. So let me know if this sort of thing amuses you or not. There's something about Number Two staring into a darkened cell that just sets my mind working.
On another note, we've got a new Star Trek the Next Generation Ebook out from Pocket Books. It's called "A Sea of Troubles," the first installment (though it stands alone) in a six-part epic that will fill in the lost year of the U.S.S. Enterprise E's history before the movie Star Trek: First Contact. It's the time of the Dominion War (as seen in the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and though she's far away from the front-lines on her shakedown cruise, even the Enterprise can't escape the deadly threat of the Dominion. Check it out on the publisher's site. It's available for immediate download for about the price of a Happy Meal at McDonalds, and it probably tastes better too!
Those of you cool people who are on our weekly reminder mailing list already know about the Minions at Work 2008 photo-calendar I've been working on. Well, it's finished! (When I originally posted this earlier today, I said that it wasn't quite ready and not to order it until I gave the word. Well, I'm giving the word! I spent the evening re-editing all the images and it should be 100% ready to go now! Oh, and it also now has a title. It's the Minions at Work - Evil in WIDESCREEN (Where Available) 2008 Calendar!) It's now available for for purchase at our Cafe Press Store! It's high-quality, spiral wire bound, printed on thick 100-pound weight, high-gloss cover stock. Decorate your faceless cubical-of-doom, or give it as the perfect holiday gift!
And with that, my regular plea to share "Minions at Work" with friends and family, and to drop us a note or, better yet, leave a comment here on the blog. Because love to hear from you.
- Steve
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Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual commercial gruel...
While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
A message to ground-zero from your fearless leader:
Greetings, prisoners of gravity,
It's back to the dungeons this week. We only occasionally do anything like topical humor here, but I like this one, so here it is. My biggest concern, in looking back at things, is that the similar cartoon featuring Martha Stewart a month or so back is the first cartoon in a long time to get no comments from you guys. Does that mean you hated the concept, hate Martha, don't know who Martha is, or maybe just your fingers seize up that week. I just don't know. So let me know if this sort of thing amuses you or not. There's something about Number Two staring into a darkened cell that just sets my mind working.
On another note, we've got a new Star Trek the Next Generation Ebook out from Pocket Books. It's called "A Sea of Troubles," the first installment (though it stands alone) in a six-part epic that will fill in the lost year of the U.S.S. Enterprise E's history before the movie Star Trek: First Contact. It's the time of the Dominion War (as seen in the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and though she's far away from the front-lines on her shakedown cruise, even the Enterprise can't escape the deadly threat of the Dominion. Check it out on the publisher's site. It's available for immediate download for about the price of a Happy Meal at McDonalds, and it probably tastes better too!
Those of you cool people who are on our weekly reminder mailing list already know about the Minions at Work 2008 photo-calendar I've been working on. Well, it's finished! (When I originally posted this earlier today, I said that it wasn't quite ready and not to order it until I gave the word. Well, I'm giving the word! I spent the evening re-editing all the images and it should be 100% ready to go now! Oh, and it also now has a title. It's the Minions at Work - Evil in WIDESCREEN (Where Available) 2008 Calendar!) It's now available for for purchase at our Cafe Press Store! It's high-quality, spiral wire bound, printed on thick 100-pound weight, high-gloss cover stock. Decorate your faceless cubical-of-doom, or give it as the perfect holiday gift!
And with that, my regular plea to share "Minions at Work" with friends and family, and to drop us a note or, better yet, leave a comment here on the blog. Because love to hear from you.
- Steve
Monday, October 15, 2007
Minions #85 - Job Insecurity
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"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
A message to ground-zero from your fearless leader:
Greetings, collateral damage,
We have a slogan here at Minions Central: "It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it!" Which is why, whenever possible, we pass the buck to a low-paid, expendable flunky.
Basically, there are two kinds of people in the world. The people who make up these stupid slogans, and the people who get stuck with the crap-ass jobs. We know what kind of person we want to be. How about you?
Hey, have you checked our sidebar lately? I'm always tinkering with it, updating the Evil List of Good Names for Rock Bands and the The Incomplete List of Evil Overlords and Super-villains, passing along new messages from our characters, and updating links. So check it out. You may be missing fun stuff.
Speaking of, maybe you've wondered who gets on The Incomplete List of Evil Overlords and Super-villains. Surely, there's no shortage of candidates, but in truth, you'll not find many real terrorists or murderers, or violent criminals there. Instead, I skim the current news for people, companies, agencies, or very occasionally, things that (in my evil opinion) annoy or offend on a grand scale, the sort of pervasive but low-level evil that rarely gets acknowledged as such. I usually don't explain who (or what) they are, or why they're on the list. I leave it to you to go do a little searching (Google's News Search is always a good place to start).
Know somebody you think should be on the list? Drop me a note. If I agree, I'll put them up.
And with that, my regular plea to share "Minions at Work" with friends and family, and to drop us a note or, better yet, leave a comment here on the blog. Because love to hear from you.
- Steve
Labels:
Driving,
explosion.,
Management,
missile,
No. 1,
Number 2,
warhead
Monday, October 08, 2007
Minions #84 - Big Cheese
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Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual annoying noise...
While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
A message about milk - it does a baddie good:
Greetings, Swiss Army Knaves,
"Dinosaur Milk." It makes me laugh to say it. I makes me laugh to type it. Same with "Dinosaur Cheese."
"Dinosaur Cheese." There. I did it again.
And with that, my regular plea to share "Minions at Work" with friends and family, and to drop us a note or, better yet, leave a comment here on the blog. We love to hear from you.
See you next week.
-Steve
Monday, October 01, 2007
Minions #83 - Guarding Martha
Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual annoying noise...
While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
An now a lovely idea for making a festive fall wreath out of human bones, courtesy of your Minion Master.
Greetings, Jail Birds,
I'm running late again this week. Life gets in the way sometimes. But at least I'm not sporting the latest "in" celebrity accessory that everyone is wearing, the ankle bracelet. (And I'm not talking about a lovely gold number with a penguin charm either!) Thank goodness that our law enforcement system is busy keeping us safe from a woman who can bake a Thanksgiving turkey covered in decorative puff-pastry! That's evil, man!
Actually, Martha would make a great Evil Overlord. She has an evil empire. She has a lair (with an evil herb garden out back, an evil craft lab, and an evil China-closet the size of a blimp-hangar), and she has a plan to rule the world. Also, if you pay close attention, I'll just bet that most of the heavy lifting around Casa-Martha is done by a legion of Minions.
And has jail ended her evil ways? No way! Before jail, you could find Martha Stewart products in K-Mart. Now, post-jail, you can find them in Macy's! You go girl! Just remember to look us up for all your Minion needs! (Quick, guys! Stock up on puff-pastry!)
Till next week...
-Steve.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Minions #82 - Working for Scale
Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual annoying noise...
While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
An now some dire direction from your Minion Foreman.
Greetings, Mazer Mice,
We're back working on that darned maze this week. Sure but this would be a lot easier if they'd just use corn-stalks and pumpkins, but it's just not their way.
Lots of life-stuff going on this week, so I'm going to keep it short and sweet.
See you back here at the lair next Monday. Bring your friends!
-Steve
Monday, September 17, 2007
Minions #81 - Urban Legend
Click on cartoon for full-sized version.
Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual annoying noise...
While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
This message actually happened to my best friend's cousin:
Greetings, Microwave Poodles,
I really don't think there's much to say about this week's panel except that there are two sides to every story. Sometimes more.
I'm still working to build up an inventory of Minions goodies for you here, to insure that you get new content every week come hell or high water. In fact, I've just put together the biggest Minions set ever. Uh, now I just need some jokes to go with it. But they're coming, honest!
I really feel much better when I've got a month or two of panels saved up here. It gives me flexibility when life throws things my way (like a recent family illness, fortunately with a happen ending, that just kept me distracted for a couple weeks, the pesky virus that had the Minions Mainframe coughing up blood for most of a week). Having an inventory of cartoons also lets me put together bigger and more elaborate sets and props without the worry of having to meet a weekly schedule. Good for me. Good for you.
Well, that's all for now. See you back here at the lair next Monday.
- Big Steve, Minion Master
Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual annoying noise...
While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
This message actually happened to my best friend's cousin:
Greetings, Microwave Poodles,
I really don't think there's much to say about this week's panel except that there are two sides to every story. Sometimes more.
I'm still working to build up an inventory of Minions goodies for you here, to insure that you get new content every week come hell or high water. In fact, I've just put together the biggest Minions set ever. Uh, now I just need some jokes to go with it. But they're coming, honest!
I really feel much better when I've got a month or two of panels saved up here. It gives me flexibility when life throws things my way (like a recent family illness, fortunately with a happen ending, that just kept me distracted for a couple weeks, the pesky virus that had the Minions Mainframe coughing up blood for most of a week). Having an inventory of cartoons also lets me put together bigger and more elaborate sets and props without the worry of having to meet a weekly schedule. Good for me. Good for you.
Well, that's all for now. See you back here at the lair next Monday.
- Big Steve, Minion Master
Labels:
break-time,
No. 1,
Number 10,
Number 2,
Rookie,
Urban Legend
Friday, September 07, 2007
Minions #80 - Head in a Maze
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Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual annoying noise...
While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
Please proceed left-right-left-left-right-left-right-right-right-left-right to our weekly message:
Greetings, Misdirections,
Yes, summer is officially over. School has started again, and your Evil-Overlords have reclaimed your bodies, if not your minds, from your summer vacation. But now we're approaching the time of harvest, when our thoughts naturally turn to old-fashioned corn mazes filled with trip-wire laser-cannon, electrified walls, and alligator pits. Ah, nostalgia!
Speaking of working hard or hardly working, just based on our piddly Minions Reminder List numbers, I'm still not seeing the traffic around here that I'd like to. That means that you've been shluffing off. Of course, I really shouldn't expect any more than that from my Minions, and yet I do. Please do your part and share a favorite "Minions at Work" cartoon with a friend, message group, or mailing list, today! Me and all the guys and gals in their tightie-whities here surely appreciate it!
- Steve
Labels:
construction,
Maze,
No. 1,
Number 2,
Number 9,
plans,
Rookie,
Tech-Minions
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Minons #79 - Appointment with Evil
Click on cartoon for full-sized version.
Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual annoying noise...
While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send Minion Number Two and he's just going to bruise the little tyke's face with his gas-mask. This, however, is still better than being kissed by the candidate.)
Your call is important to us:
Greetings, music-on-hold,
We have our virus situation under control, however life has gotten complicated here in other ways I won't go into. Serve it to say, I don't really like to throw the exact same set (and pretty much the same setup) at you two weeks in a row, but that's how it worked this week.
Anyway, technically, if I was going to throw a Harry Potter tribute at you, I should have done it when book #7 came out, or when the most recent movie was released. But as it happens, I've finally been reading the books for the first time in a grand Potter marathon (I'm currently about 2/3 of the way through Order of the Phoenix) and so I've had Potter-on-the-brain recently. And when I was thinking, "what else could I do with this front-desk set," this just came to mind. Hope you enjoy...
-Steve
Labels:
appointment,
harry potter,
Number 2,
phone,
reception
Monday, August 27, 2007
Minions #78 - Rude Reception
Click on cartoon for full-sized version.
Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual annoying noise...
While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send the Penguin in a red-white-and-blue tie. We don't have the heart to tell him that he finished last in the Iowa straw poll. (Do you? Man, you ARE evil!)
Your call is important to us:
Greetings, music-on-hold,
Our Minion Mainframe is suffering from virus problems this week (I blame the forces of Good) so I'm going to keep this short. Never let it be said that we don't work through adversity, so long as there's a triple-time adversity-bonus.
If our battle against good (and adware) prevails, we'll see you next week.
-Steve
Labels:
customer service,
Number 2,
phone,
reception
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Minions #77 - Great 80s Hero
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Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual annoying noise...
While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send the Penguin in a red-white-and-blue tie. We don't have the heart to tell him that he finished last in the Iowa straw poll. (Do you? Man, you ARE evil!)
Yet another knock from the great fist of leadership:
Greetings, Door-to-door Voyeurs,
Sometimes you just know a cartoon is going to work. Sometimes you don't, especially when knowledge of the punch-line may depend on knowledge of some pop-culture reference best known to persons of a - eehum - certain age. So just in case you're too young (or maybe just not American enough) to understand...
Once upon a time, back in the early 80s, there was a cult-favorite TV show in the United States called the Greatest American Hero. It told the ongoing story of Ralph, a good-hearted dweeb of a school-teacher who was abducted by a UFO and given a magic set of space jammies which granted the wearer super-powers. The trouble being, Ralph lost the instruction book that came with it, and so had to figure out how the suit worked pretty much by trial and error.
For example, he discovered pretty early that the suit would allow him to fly, but during the entire course of the series, he only partially mastered it. In fact, his first flying lesson came from a little boy who, watching him unsuccessfully try to take off, explained that he had to put his arms up, take a couple steps, and jump. Unfortunately, the kid didn't explain how to land, and so for much of the show's run, this usually consisted of crashing into a wall or some garbage cans. At first his powers seemed to closely resemble those of Superman, but perhaps because DC Comics' lawyers complained, he developed other non-Kryptonian powers like invisibility.
It was actually a great little show, as Ralph (with the help of his lawyer girlfriend and a right-wing, paranoid, possibly loony, FBI agent bumbled his way through righting wrongs, fighting crime, and eventually, saving the world.
But my-God, that suit, and that perm!
So, like Ralph, I stumbled on this suit, and it just screamed "Greatest American Hero" to me. In no time, I'd found a doll head with bad hair, popped it onto an action figure, added some moon-boots for a little extra retro-kitsch, and the rest is history (or maybe, infamy, if you didn't think it was funny).
So now, if you didn't before, you understand the punch line. But I am all too aware, if you have to explain it, it ain't funny.
Tell me it's at least evil...
- Steve
Labels:
80s,
door-buster,
Great Hero,
No. 1,
Number 9,
surrender
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Minions #76 - Authority Figure
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Don't miss the latest ravings of a lunatic madman, your Minion Master, following the usual annoying noise...
While waiting for your impending doom, shop:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"If you're not 100% satisfied, then the beatings will begin!"
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send the Penguin in a red-white-and-blue tie. We don't have the heart to tell him that he finished last in the Iowa straw poll. (Do you? Man, you ARE evil!)
Just another command from your Admiral of Anarchy:
Greetings, Ye Loose Nuts Behind the Wheel,
Let's give a big hand for our latest Overlord, Cap'n Rehab. Sure, he's been mentioned, and we've been tooling around under the sea in his sub for the last month, but I couldn't move on without bringing him on-stage for an appearance. I like his look. Let me know what you think...
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, maybe I can swap out the Submarine set for something else and put a little variety back in the Minion's lives.
I'm also going to be introducing a new Minion soon, and and guess what? You get to name him! Yeah, in an upcoming Minions at Work poll, you will get to name our new character. Stand by for details soon.
Till next week...
- Steve
Labels:
authority,
Cap'n Rehab,
command,
Fish-sticks,
Number 9,
Submarine
Monday, August 06, 2007
Minions #75 - On the Rocks
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Stay tuned for a missive of world-shaking importance (okay, not so much) from your Minion Master, following the usual blah-blah-blah.
Check the sidebar to your right for our video trailer! A cool way to introduce your friends to the Minions! Send them here, or link directly to it on YouTube at the following URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDpDiP_LB20&eurl=&v3
Visit:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where 'service' is our middle name according to our false-ID."
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send the Penguin in a red-white-and-blue tie. We don't have the heart to tell him, that as a citizen of Antarctica, he isn't eligible to run. (Do you? Man, you ARE evil!)
Just another when-have-I-ever-steered-you-wrong from your Minion Cruise Director:
Greetings, Supercargo!
It was a crunch to get this week's Minions to you. Not only am I still wiped after Comicon and the trip to California and back, but I came home to an empty Minions inventory and a submarine set somewhat in shambles. Add to this, the one cartoon idea I had required me to come up with a ship's wheel, so I also had to fire up the prop-shop. It's one of the drawbacks to doing a photo-cartoon vs. drawing one. You can't just do anything you can imagine. Most of it you've either got to find or build. The ship's wheel is a little bit of both, but I like how it came out.
Hey, It's getting a little quiet here! We live on your comments (the food-stamps ran out), so let us know you're out there!
- Steve
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Back from Comicon - Missing cartoon uploaded
We're back from the San Diego Comicon, and I've just uploaded last week's missing cartoon. Find it here.
Sadly, Chris didn't win the Scribe award, but we did have a good time, see some old friends, and meet some cool new ones. We also gave out about 700 "Evil is Just My Day Job" buttons, which is a drop in the 12,000 attendee Comicon bucket, but it was an experiment to see if we get any new traffic here. So if you found out about us at Comicon, please speak up!
Labels:
buttons,
Christina F. York,
comicon,
Conventions,
Scribe Awards
Monday, July 30, 2007
Minions #74 - Darwin Fishsticks
(No, you aren't imagining things. You're looking at the Minions cartoon for next week. In preloading the minions posts for July before leaving for Comicon, I somehow neglected to upload the cartoon into this week's post. So if you look at the post before this, you'll find more annoying details (but no toon). I'll post the regularly scheduled toon when I get back. Dang I knew I should never have given the Minions the week off...)
Click on cartoon for full-sized version.
Stay tuned for an important (okay, not so much) message from your Minion Master, following the usual crass commercialism.
Check the sidebar to your right for our video trailer! A cool way to introduce your friends to the Minions! Send them here, or link directly to it on YouTube at the following URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDpDiP_LB20&eurl=&v3
Visit:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where 'service' is our middle name according to our false-ID."
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send the Penguin in a red-white-and-blue tie. We don't have the heart to tell him, that as a citizen of Antarctica, he isn't eligible to run. (Do you? Man, you ARE evil!)
A ship-wide announcement from your Minion Cruise Director:
Greetings, Relaxibots!
"Minions Under the Sea" month continues. We're off to California and the San Diego Comicon, and running our evil schemes by remote-control, so forgive any irregularities. However, all of July's Minion entertainment is lined up and ready to go, so there should be no interruption of service, just possible irregularities in scheduling.
If we get time, we'll post some pictures and reports from the field. You might also want to keep an eye on my writing blog or Chris's blog for stuff of that sort.
By the way, before leaving town, I finally finished adding tags to all the old posts. That means that if you take a fancy to a character or are looking for cartoons on a particular theme, just click on the appropriate tag after a post and see, for instance, all the cartoons with the Penguin in them, or all cartoons in the bar, or all concerning lunch. Just another way for you and your friends to browse and enjoy our ever-growing back-stock of cartoons...
Back at headquarters next week.
- Steve
Click on cartoon for full-sized version.
Stay tuned for an important (okay, not so much) message from your Minion Master, following the usual crass commercialism.
Check the sidebar to your right for our video trailer! A cool way to introduce your friends to the Minions! Send them here, or link directly to it on YouTube at the following URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDpDiP_LB20&eurl=&v3
Visit:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where 'service' is our middle name according to our false-ID."
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send the Penguin in a red-white-and-blue tie. We don't have the heart to tell him, that as a citizen of Antarctica, he isn't eligible to run. (Do you? Man, you ARE evil!)
A ship-wide announcement from your Minion Cruise Director:
Greetings, Relaxibots!
"Minions Under the Sea" month continues. We're off to California and the San Diego Comicon, and running our evil schemes by remote-control, so forgive any irregularities. However, all of July's Minion entertainment is lined up and ready to go, so there should be no interruption of service, just possible irregularities in scheduling.
If we get time, we'll post some pictures and reports from the field. You might also want to keep an eye on my writing blog or Chris's blog for stuff of that sort.
By the way, before leaving town, I finally finished adding tags to all the old posts. That means that if you take a fancy to a character or are looking for cartoons on a particular theme, just click on the appropriate tag after a post and see, for instance, all the cartoons with the Penguin in them, or all cartoons in the bar, or all concerning lunch. Just another way for you and your friends to browse and enjoy our ever-growing back-stock of cartoons...
Back at headquarters next week.
- Steve
Labels:
Cap'n Rehab,
Christina F. York,
comicon,
Fish-sticks,
Food,
Lunch,
No. 1,
Number 9,
Penguin
Monday, July 23, 2007
Minions #73 - The Safety Is On
(08/01/07 - Uploaded the missing cartoon. Enjoy!)
(This has since been obviously fixed... - Steve) Okay, this is Steve from the road. I have royally screwed up. Somehow in prepping this message, I managed to do everything EXCEPT upload the actual picture. Since I wasn't smart enough to bring a disk of the current stuff with me, this week's Minions cartoon will be delayed. What I'm going to do is release NEXT week's cartoon instead. I'll upload this week's toon next week instead. Okay, it was Comicon. Something had to go wrong...
Click on cartoon for full-sized version.
Stay tuned for an important (okay, not so much) message from your Minion Master, following the usual crass commercialism.
Check the sidebar to your right for our video trailer! A cool way to introduce your friends to the Minions! Send them here, or link directly to it on YouTube at the following URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDpDiP_LB20&eurl=&v3
Visit:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where 'service' is our middle name according to our false-ID."
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send the Penguin in a red-white-and-blue tie. We don't have the heart to tell him, that as a citizen of Antarctica, he isn't eligible to run. (Do you? Man, you ARE evil!)
Just a shot-in-the-dark from the Minion Master:
Greetings, Moving Targets!
"Minions Under the Sea" month continues. Okay, this one just happens to happen under the sea, but you need weapons for the inevitable beach-assault on the forces of Good. Actually, this panel came to mind after watching "Live Free or Die Hard," a movie in which the bag-guys could shoot Bruce Willis' jock strap off him with six million assault rifle rounds (okay, I put that picture in your head, but I'm evil dang it!)and he'd get no more than a photogenic flesh-wound that bothers him less than most people are by a mosquito bite.
Around here, we call this the "Cylon School of Marksmanship," which refers to the original 70s TV show, not Ron Moore's "reimagining." In those shows, there was always this scene where our heroes (Apollo, Starbuck, or both, back before they were -- to our knowledge -- swapping bodily fluids) would encounter a bunch of Cylon centurions in a hallway or corridor or cave. So the Cylons would shoot about fifteen rounds and hit all around our heroes, who would just stand there. And after the Cylons missed, our hero would squeeze off one laser bolt and hit the Cylon cleanly in the middle of the chest for a kill. Every time!
So we figure that at the Cylon School of Marksmanship, they have a firing range where they take points off if you hit the target! Yes, with Cylons, a "prefect pattern" means a circle...
We'll be back at the lair soon. Later...
-Steve
(This has since been obviously fixed... - Steve) Okay, this is Steve from the road. I have royally screwed up. Somehow in prepping this message, I managed to do everything EXCEPT upload the actual picture. Since I wasn't smart enough to bring a disk of the current stuff with me, this week's Minions cartoon will be delayed. What I'm going to do is release NEXT week's cartoon instead. I'll upload this week's toon next week instead. Okay, it was Comicon. Something had to go wrong...
Click on cartoon for full-sized version.
Stay tuned for an important (okay, not so much) message from your Minion Master, following the usual crass commercialism.
Check the sidebar to your right for our video trailer! A cool way to introduce your friends to the Minions! Send them here, or link directly to it on YouTube at the following URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDpDiP_LB20&eurl=&v3
Visit:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where 'service' is our middle name according to our false-ID."
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send the Penguin in a red-white-and-blue tie. We don't have the heart to tell him, that as a citizen of Antarctica, he isn't eligible to run. (Do you? Man, you ARE evil!)
Just a shot-in-the-dark from the Minion Master:
Greetings, Moving Targets!
"Minions Under the Sea" month continues. Okay, this one just happens to happen under the sea, but you need weapons for the inevitable beach-assault on the forces of Good. Actually, this panel came to mind after watching "Live Free or Die Hard," a movie in which the bag-guys could shoot Bruce Willis' jock strap off him with six million assault rifle rounds (okay, I put that picture in your head, but I'm evil dang it!)and he'd get no more than a photogenic flesh-wound that bothers him less than most people are by a mosquito bite.
Around here, we call this the "Cylon School of Marksmanship," which refers to the original 70s TV show, not Ron Moore's "reimagining." In those shows, there was always this scene where our heroes (Apollo, Starbuck, or both, back before they were -- to our knowledge -- swapping bodily fluids) would encounter a bunch of Cylon centurions in a hallway or corridor or cave. So the Cylons would shoot about fifteen rounds and hit all around our heroes, who would just stand there. And after the Cylons missed, our hero would squeeze off one laser bolt and hit the Cylon cleanly in the middle of the chest for a kill. Every time!
So we figure that at the Cylon School of Marksmanship, they have a firing range where they take points off if you hit the target! Yes, with Cylons, a "prefect pattern" means a circle...
We'll be back at the lair soon. Later...
-Steve
Monday, July 16, 2007
Minions #72 - Down Time
Click on cartoon for full-sized version.
Stay tuned for an important (okay, not so much) message from your Minion Master, following the usual crass commercialism.
Check the sidebar to your right for our video trailer! A cool way to introduce your friends to the Minions! Send them here, or link directly to it on YouTube at the following URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDpDiP_LB20&eurl=&v3
Visit:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where 'service' is our middle name according to our false-ID."
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send the Penguin in a red-white-and-blue tie. We don't have the heart to tell him, that as a citizen of Antarctica, he isn't eligible to run. (Do you? Man, you ARE evil!)
A ship-wide announcement from your Minion Cruise Director:
Greetings, Relaxibots!
"Minions Under the Sea" month continues. Speaking of Vacations, in a couple of days we're off to California and the San Diego Comicon, and running our evil schemes by remote-control, so forgive any irregularities. If we get time, we'll post some pictures and reports from the field.
Until then, we did have visitors at the Minions HQ this weekend. It was my birthday Saturday, and we had friends come from near and far for a barbecue. I had a great time, but somehow forgot to take any pictures. Later on, however, our friends Rob Vagle and Ximena Clearley came in and had their pictures taken with some resident celebrities. By which, I of course don't mean Chris and I.
Actually, Rob and Ximena are engaged, and they first hooked up a few years back helping us hang sheet-rock at what is now the Minions studio, so this is a very cool thing.
While we were sitting around talking, they were witness to the creation of the Next Minion. No, you can't see them. The next Minion doesn't have a name yet. So (this was my friend Sean Prescott's idea) we're going to have a poll that lets YOU name the Minion! Details after I get back from my trip.
Also, Sean and I are in the early stages of cooking up some new interactive Minions madness, and we need your help for that as well. Got a question for one of our characters? Send it to them care of me at j-steven-york@sff.net.
Anyway, off to San Diego. Back as we can be next week.
- Steve
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Minions #71 - It's Only a Flesh Wound
Click on cartoon for full-sized version.
Stay tuned for an important (okay, not so much) message from your Minion Master, following the usual crass commercialism.
Check the sidebar to your right for our video trailer! A cool way to introduce your friends to the Minions! Send them here, or link directly to it on YouTube at the following URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDpDiP_LB20&eurl=&v3
Visit:
THE MINION'S LAIR OF MERCHANDISE
"Where 'service' is our middle name according to our false-ID."
and
NUMBER TWO'S HOUSE OF NAUGHTY
(Oh, come on. You know you want to be naughty!)
Join the Minions reminder email list or we will send a presidential candidate to kiss all your babies!* 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!)
*Actually, we're just going to send the Penguin in a red-white-and-blue tie. We don't have the heart to tell him, that as a citizen of Antarctica, he isn't eligible to run. (Do you? Man, you ARE evil!)
Just a little Trickle-down from the Minion Master:
Greetings, Wet-footed Ones!
"Minions Under the Sea" month continues. Okay, I confess, I love this one. Funniest one ever!
You'll probably hate it. Isn't that the way it works? Post a comment and let me know.
I try, whenever I can, to avoid heavy photo-manipulation effects in Minions at Work, but sometimes when you have giant locations, or huge props, or fire, or lasers, or explosions, or (as in this case) running water, there's just no choice. But if I have to resort to it, I like it to look good, and I think this looks good.
Remember in about a week we're off to California and the San Diego Comicon through the last part of the month. Don't worry, your Minions entertainment is all lined up and waiting. But the schedule might be a little disrupted, especially on the reminder list. So check yourself in here every Monday, and if you don't see a new toon, check back again in a day or two and it should be there.
-Steve
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