Minions #176 - Seventy-Five Percent Off

Stand by, following the usual double-dealing for a bitter betrayal by 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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and

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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, Overstocks and Factory Seconds!

Running on the raw edge of being late again this week (Pacific time zone, sticklers!). Blame it on the holiday. I've got to get some more cartoons in the can in preparation for our trip to California and San Diego Comicon in a few weeks.

The joke in the title is pretty obscure, so I'll explain it to you. The Saturn V model used in this shoot is big, but it's only 1/48th scale. The Minions action-figures are 1/6th scale. So to actually be in scale with them, the rocket should be four times larger. The Saturn V was pretty big.

Yes, that's an 8-foot-tall model of the Saturn V moon rocket that I built recently to display at a 40th anniversary party for my wife's place of work. Since the anniversary of the resort coincided closely with the anniversary of the first moon landing, it became a major theme of the party.

Didn't know about the anniversary (of the moon landing, not the resort!)? Yup, July 20th. The moon landing is a pretty important milestone in my life, and I'm hoping I live long enough to see us get back there. We've diddled around and gotten side-tracked long enough. It's time to get back out there and spread our evil to the universe! Because, where evil goes, Minions must follow, that that means the rest of us will still have jobs.

Hey, remember to support our "Buy the Minions a Camera" campaign by buying through our Amazon store, by buying our tee-shirts and cool stuff, and by buying our books, starting with my story in the new DAW anthology "Swordplay," and in these other fine anthologies, still available...





And if you order them through Amazon, we get a cut AND potential royalties down the road.

As I said, it's like stealing, only legal, and how can you not like that?

- Your Pledge Drive Master, Steve

(Speaking of stealing, if you are or know an writer or aspiring writer, may we direct you to our "Bad Agent Sydney" Cafe Press store full of shirts and other items that are great for your next writer's workshop or conference. They also make great writer gifts. To understand the backstory of how my pet cat became a Really Bad Literary Agent, read the posts here and here.)

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