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Monday, August 27, 2007

Minions #78 - Rude Reception




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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!)

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

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Minions #77 - Great 80s Hero




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!)

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

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Minions #76 - Authority Figure




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!)

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

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!