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Monday, February 22, 2010

Minions #209 - Mathematically Challenged.

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Stand by, following the usual unending commercial announcement for a mathematical point 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."

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and

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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, Random Numbers!

You'll probably hate today's comic, because I love it.  It makes me giggle again and again.  I just love a cartoon that's got six-kinds-of-wrong in it.  Here's an earlier example of this kind of humor.  I also just love it when I can pull off a bit of Road-runner physics in a single-panel, non-moving cartoon.

So, you're going to hate it.  That's just the way it works.

Maybe you'll like next week's better.  I'll try to come up with something I really hate.
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Oh, and by the by, we've gotten some reader donations recently.  Unfortunately, all our various blogs share the same Paypal account and I haven't figured out how to flag exactly where the donations are coming from.  So I don't know if people are donating because of "Minions at Work," or because they found a post useful over at www.YorkWriters.com, or if they want to keep the World's Worst Literary Agent, Sydney T. Cat (www.BadAgent.Me), in tuna.  But if it's you guys out there, thank-you from the bottom of our bottomless pit!

And finally, I'm working on some improvements in the site.  Under our banner, you'll now find a little menu bar with a "Home" button and a link to a page with bios of the various Minions, just to help you keep them straight.  (There's a link for "Overlords," but I haven't written those bios yet.  Maybe next week.)

Anyway, thanks, and see you guys around the lair.

                               your Minon Master,
                               Steve


Monday, February 15, 2010

Minions #208 - Dead Reckoning


Click on image for dangerously explosive enlargement!

Stand by, following the usual commercial near-miss for a narrow escape 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."

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!



Greetings, Lucky Survivors!

I'm just back from Radcon in lovely, radioactive, Pasco, Washington, where Mrs. Minion Minion Master and I had a great time, and I unexpectedly found myself on a web comic panel.  Actually, I'd EXPECTED to be scheduled to a web-comic panel, but I also expected it would be before I arrived (late on Friday due to scheduling conflicts and travel time), and so I really wasn't prepared. 

Turns out I was scheduled for a SECOND web comics panel Saturday afternoon.  So I frantically pulled up some of the older Minions files on my laptop, downloaded more from the site here, and put together a sizable slide-show of cartoons to run during the panel.  In other words, not a complete disaster.  The stupid news is, I still had a few "Evil is Just my Day Job" buttons with me, and forgot to give them out that the panel.  Oh well.

Anyway, for those who were at Radcon and may be keeping track,  it is still Monday here on the west-coast, so I'm posting on-time by my own rules.  (We talked about consistency, and how I try to get something up here every Monday, rain or shine.)

Well, I'm tired, and I want a valentine cookie.  To heck with you guys.

Next week....

                                    - Mobile Minion Master Steve

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Monday, February 08, 2010

Minions #207 - Scream Gems


 Stand by, following the usual blah, blah, blah for AN EDUCATIONAL EXPLANATION OF TODAY'S CARTOON 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!



Greetings, Highly Expendibles!

Glad you made it this far, because without a little help, I doubt half of you are going to get today's cartoon.  But this is important, damn it!  I'm adding something indispensable to your cultural literacy here, by introducing many of you to the "Wilhelm Scream!"

The "Wilhelm" screen is a commonly used sound effect that has been passed through generations of Hollywood sound editors, and is in many of the best-loved films of all time!  You've heard it dozens, if not hundreds of times, without knowing it.  But once you've heard it out of context, you won't forget it, and can have a secret laugh next time you hear it in a movie or TV show.  (I heard it as a bad-guy fell from a cable-car in last week's episode of "Human Target," for example.)

Here are a couple of fan-edited compilation videos from YouTube featuring various instances of the "Wilhelm Scream."  See how many you've seen (or heard) before!  Fun! Enjoy!




So, there you have it, the Wilhelm Scream!

See you guys back here next week!

              - Minion Master Steve


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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Minions#206 - Power to the Penguins!



Stand by, following the usual long commercial climb for a bit of wisdom 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 flesh-termites 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!



Greetings, Oppressed Avians!

Yes, we're late this week.  Back from vacation, and not used to running on a schedule yet.

Hey, we went to a taping of "The Late Late Show" with Craig Ferguson (if you aren't a fan yet, you're missing out here) which was great fun.  But one thing stood out in Minion-terms.  In his monologue, Craig explained how he wanted to "live in a volcano" with an army of "robot skeletons!"  How cool is that?  It's like he knew I was there!  But he didn't!

Anyway, I could have told him we have a volcano for sale.

The Ancient Minion is back this week, and so is the Penguin.  It's been a while since I featured our fine-feathered Minion, so it's good to have him back in action.

Anyway I'll keep this short, so it isn't posted any later than it already is.  Hopefully back on schedule next week.

                       - Missing Minion Master Steve

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