Minions #241 - Unwritten Fine Print

Click Cartoon to Escape Smallness

Stand by, following the usual middling-management for a bonus blab 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 carnivorous rafter-monkeys just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."  (Management note: We were caring, just not about you, LONG before it became CBS policy.)

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Greetings, Nets over Gross!


Listen, I got nothing this week, so I'm just going to turn this over to Minion No. 1 while I go plan some world domination, or watch CSI on the DVR or something...

Minion No. 1: Um, wha--?  Okay.  Well.  Is this thing even on?


Hey, Minion No. 1 here.  I--  Listen, I got no script here or nothin'!  What the heck am I supposed to say?  Listen, I got nothin' either, so I'm just going to turn this over to Minion Number Two.


Minion Number Two: What?  Frickin' no, way!  I'm on my frickin' break!  Jeeze. Beauty of a buzz-kill.  Hey, Number 9.  Get the heck over here!


Minion Number 9: Hey, man.  What's happening?  Hey, you seen a giant robot around here?  We just had one run amok.  I hate it when they run amok.  It's a lot easier to catch them when they just mosey amok.  Stroll amok.  That's good too.  Hey, did you notice that somebody left the typograph running?  This is all going right out on the internet.  You knew that, right?  Hey, Penguin, get over here and keep an eye on this microphone while I go try and figure out how to turn it off.


Penguin: ---

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Minions #240 - Literally Goofing Off

Click for more Shark-bait!

Stand by, following the usual commercial splashing around for a dunking 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 Robot Pool Sharks 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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Greetings, Bubble Blowers!

Click for LONGER BREAK!

Okay, I freely admit that sometimes I do this thing in a hurry, when I'm not in the most alert state of mind.  Such was the case last night when I posted the current cartoon.  Actually, what I posted was not the cartoon at the top of the post, but the one at the left.  There's a critical, one-word difference between the two versions.

It was only when I looked at it again today that I noticed that the caption I'd posted was not the caption I'd intended.

Oh, well, the original version actually works as a joke, though it's rather more Zen than the low-brow humor I was going for, so I include it for your consideration.  Call it a two-fer.

Well, we made lots of progress this week on the Minions new and improved web site!

Okay, that's a lie, but we're EVIL, damn it!  Actually, we were distracted by a bunch of other things we're working on.  But realize, not only do I have two new web sites I'm setting up.  Not only do I have -- what? --about five existing ones that I pretend to keep up.  Not only am I on Facebook, and am I myself, plus two cats and a robot on Twitter (true!), but I'm actually expected to try and write something once in a while so they don't revoke my writer card.  (Writer Card!  Don't leave home without it!)  But hopefully we will be relocated soon.  I'll keep you posted.

See ya next week!

                                                                  - Minimally Multitasking Minion Master Steve

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Minions #239 - It's a Trap!

Important news this week!  

Be sure to read the message from your Minion Master 

after the post below!

Click in Cartoon to Enlarge ! (No, it's a trap!) Shut up!  (Make me!) If you insist...  (AAAAGH)

Stand by, following the usual dubious bait for a trap sprung 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 bottomless-pit-mosquitoes 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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Greetings, Trying-to-Chew-Your-Legs-Off Folks!


Hey, some exciting news this week.  Remember a while back when I talked about dumping blogger and moving the site to WordPress, and the ComicPress template that's actually designed from the ground up for web comics?  Well, we're doing it!  Not today, but hopefully soon, and I wanted to give you some advance notice and let you know what's going on.

First of all, I've bought a NEW domain name for the Minions.  www.TheMinionsAtWork.com

Why?  Well, the problem is, we get a LOT of traffic here from a cool web-site called TVTropes, which uses our cartoons as examples for some of its TV and movie tropes.  As such, it has a zillion direct links to individual cartoons on the current site.  If I move this site, or change the software (and therefore break all the links), I lose that traffic.  So my plan is to leave this domain and site as is, except there'll be a big notice and link at the top pointing folks to our NEW site.

The other problem is, we've got several hundred old cartoons posted here that will have to be moved into some kind of archive if I move the site.  So, if I leave this site in place, it will serve as an archive until all the old posts get moved (and as you'll see, remastered) as we go down the line.

My plan with the new site, when I get it started up, is to begin posting a new cartoon there on Mondays as always, followed by a couple of "remastered" classic Minions cartoons each week.  By remastered, it means I'll do a clean-up pass on each of our old cartoons.  Some (especially the very early ones) may be posted in higher resolution than you've seen them before.  Titles will be updated, some glitches and mistakes will be fixed, and other minor improvements made.

I hope that even long-time Minions fans will enjoy our "remastered" cartoons as well as our new ones.  Heck, looking back, I've forgotten I did a lot of these, so they'll probably look new to most of you as well!  Also, at two posts a weej, it means we'll have three posts a week on the new site for a couple YEARS without me needing to speed up production at all!  Since I'm going to be working harder to get new eyes on the site, hopefully will pay off for everyone!

Of course, there's a lot of work to be done.  I'm totally clueless with ComicPress, so it's going to be steep learning curve, and even once I do, I'll have to redesign a new site to fit the template.  If you'd like to follow my progress and make rude comments, visit me a www.TheMinionsAtWork.com any old time  (not much to see there yet, but maybe later this week).  As always, your support through donations and buying stuff through our CafePress and Amazon links is well appreciated!

Don't worry, I'll give you plenty of advance warning when we're moving!  Unless I learn a lot faster than I expect, I think it will be at least several weeks, and probably longer.  Stay tuned!

- Moving Minion Master Steve

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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. 

Minions #238 - Special Treatment

Click Cartoon for a second (LARGER) opinion!

Stand by, following the usual double-billing for some inspired quackery 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 antibiotic-resistant brain-weevils 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! 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, Preexisting Conditions!


Yes, we're late this week.  It was a fricking holiday Monday!  If they'd put the holiday on another day, we'd to the danged cartoon on Monday, BUT THEY PUT IT ON MONDAY!  DEAL!

But we are running late, so no chatter.  See you guys around about next Monday.  UNLESS THERE'S ANOTHER HOLIDAY!

                                                               - Minion Master Steve

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Minions #237 - Management Takes Action!

Click Cartoon to Pull Trigger on Largeness!

Stand by, following the usual corporate downsizing for a scary memo 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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Greetings, Corporate Liabilities!


It's the end of summer.  Distracted.  Nothing to say today.  Move along, nothing to see here!

                                                        - Minion Master Steve

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Minions #236 - I'm Not Trained for This...

Click image to increase danger

Stand by, following the usual double-teaming for an animal-attack 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 acid-squirting endo-worms 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! 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 cash directly to the lair! 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, Double-threat-half-wits!


I've been editing video this weekend.  The bad news, it has absolutely nothing at all to do with Minions at Work!  Ha!

In fact, I've been too busy on other projects to do anything major with the Minions at all, save shooting today's cartoon.  But I have been scheming a bit.  I'm thinking about putting together some Minions cartoon collections in ebook form and releasing them through the Amazon Kindle Store (and possibly other ebook platforms as well).  While the Kindle device itself is black-and-white and not very good with images, there are lots of color platforms running Kindle apps now (iPad, PC, Mac, iPhone, Android, etc.) which might make it worthwhile.

Right now, I'm figuring each book would consist of about 25 selected old cartoons, some new material, and a bunch of new supporting text.  Price to be determined, but it would be $2.99 or less.  Yes, most of this would be material already available for free on the web, but that would hardly be unprecedented in the blog/web-comic-to-book world.  Lots of people have done it, done it quite successfully, even when they're careful to point out that most of the content is free on the web.  Some people just prefer getting things in ebook form, and don't mind paying a little to get it that way.

Of course, it would be another way for you guys to possibly support our evil enterprises at the lair and conveniently show "Minions at Work" to your friends.  But I'm also thinking we might reach a new audience who aren't the web-comic type.

Anyway, as always, your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions are valued and ignored (or, if we like them, stolen), so enter a comment if you have any thoughts.

                                                                                           - Minion Master Steve

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Minions #235 - Because SOMEONE had to do it!

Click to enlarge.  Or breed more tribbles.  We forget which.

Stand by, following the usual overpopulated commercial spiel for a cold, Klingon coffee 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 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, Invasive Species!


Yes, the post is running a few hours late this week.  We had some unreliable power problems here at the lair this afternoon.  As usual, I blame the forces of Good!  I mean, this has been happening for the last month on an irregular basis!  You can't convince me there isn't some sort of conspiracy involved.  This whole line the power company is giving us about "the fog" causing "salt-buildup" on the wires in "a way we've never seen before."  I'm supposed to believe this?  It's either a bad SyFy channel movie, or meddling by the forces of Good.  I choose the latter.

But I'll keep it short!  See you all next week.

                                             - Super-unpowered Steve

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Minions #234 - At Last We Have a Plan!

Click to Study More Closely

Stand by, following the usual misguided mapping a new misdirection 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 blood-sucking parking-lot beetles just before they can answer your call. It's just one more way of saying, "we care, just not about you."


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, Lost Luggage!


Yet another busy week working on secret plans here at the lair, so I'll keep this short.  New cartoon!


By the way, if you want clues as to our plans for universal conquest, pay a visit to a new on-line publisher called Tsunami Ridge Publishing.  Or just wait till next year, when we're (yes, there's a "we!") gonna start rocking several worlds!


Snicker.


                          - Your Resident Master of Mayhem, Steve

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Minions #233 - Bird is the Word

Stand by, following the usual nest of lies for a good egg 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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Greetings, Bird Brains!


It's been a busy week, and I wish I could let you in on all my secret evil plans...  BUT THEN THEY WOULDN'T BE SECRET, WOULD THEY!  DUH!

All I'm gonna say is, check this place out:
www.TsunamiRidge.com

See you guys back here next week...

                            - Minion Master Steve

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Minions #232 - Taking it in the Seat

Stab Cartoon with Mouse Arrow to Enlarge!

Stand by, following the usual coach-class accommodations for a business-class upgrade 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."

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, Seat Swappers!


Well, it's post-Comicon, and we're exhausted!  Actually, we didn't go this year, but it's STILL exhausting, just keeping up with all the posts on news sites.  This year's stabbing (such as it is) reminds us why we stopped going, despite all the cool stuff that goes on there.  Yes, it's amazing.  Yes, you should go (at least once).  Yes, you should hurry up and do it while you're young enough and indestructible enough to enjoy it.

But nobody really goes to Comicon any more.  It's too crowded.

We've had a devil of a time getting this week's cartoon posted.  Out power has been blipping out for just a second at a time.  Trouble is, it's been doing it for three days, and sometimes as often as every 20 minutes.  Every time it goes, my desktop computer goes down as well, and that's where I do all my Minions work.

You say, "Steve, don't you have a UPS on that thing?"  Well, I was going to say that I do, but it doesn't work.  The local power grid chews them up and spits them out in about three months.  But do I really need to explain?  I mean, what evil lair has EVER had working emergency equipment?  No, it's pretty much twist a large, colorful, clearly labeled dial and the whole thing blows up.  It's some kind of law of the universe.

Anyway,  the power company is sympathetic, but they're reporting mysterious "salt build-ups" on the wires that have "never happened before," and "suddenly started happening this week, and we don't know why."  Also, they say it has something to do with a "fog from the ocean."

Now, I'm I wrong here, or is this the first act of of a SyFy original movie?

Actually, I'd suspect some kind of evil plan against us, EXCEPT WE PRETTY MUCH ARE AN EVIL PLAN!"  I suspect the forces of Good.  Damn, those guys are getting sneaky...

                                                         - Minion Master Steve

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Minions #231 - Shortcomings Exposed

Click for Male Enhancement

Stand by, following the usual big sell for a short message 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 South American Underwear Trantulas 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.

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.)

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Greetings, Short Shorts!


I'm back to shooting new material, and hoping to build up some substantial inventory again.


I'm still considering the details of moving this site to ComicPress.  Pretty sure I'll do it, but the when is still up in the air.  I suspect that when I do, I'll keep this site live while I gradually repost our inventory of archived comics to the new site as "Minions Classic."  There are a LOT of new projects going on here at the Lair-of-ideas, of which Minions is only a part.  Hopefully you'll be hearing about some other cool stuff we're up to in coming months.

Thanks to those of you who have recently donated to the site.  I'm taking that as a "yes" on the idea of the platform move, and it's really helping me make up my mind.

- Minion Master Steve

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Minions #228/#229/#230 - Three Heads Better than One

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Stand by, following the usual Triple-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 Robotic Skull-munchers 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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Greetings, Hoard of Ignored!


Yes, I totally blew-off posting Minions last week.  So shoot me.  I've haven't done that too often in the years I've been doing this comic, so I feel like I had a freebie coming.  Besides, to make up for it, I posted an inventory-clearing TRIPLE FEATURE this week, based on the always-popular theme of "heads."

Actually, it was just the cartoon I intended to post last week, and a couple of dusty toons that have been at the bottom of the inventory forever.  Don't tell.  Heck, for all I know, these are the three funniest Minions at Work cartoons ever!  (But probably not.)

Anyway, it's been a week of it here.  Lots of behind-the-scenes stuff happening here at the Lair, some of it good, some of it Not Good.  Nothing I'm going to go into here.  Just distractions.  Also, shaking fist at one-eyed-yellow-Tylenol-Minions-Come-Lately!  Take that, you and your bazillions of dollars!

I'm also doing a lot of soul-searching about doing a major Site remodel, dumping our current Blogger Platform, and going to Wordpress with a nifty-looking web-comic-designed theme called CartoonPress.  Take a look here to see what I'm talking about.  It would look much more professional and be much easier to navigate (especially when looking through the archives).

On the down side, I've have to migrate 200+ old cartoons and a lot of other content over, do a lot of set-up and design work, and it would add monthly hosting fees (plus the suggested donation for the theme, which I'd feel-honor bound to pay).  I'd also have the issue about what to do with the old site.  Leave it up on blogger? Try and buy a new domain for the new site?  And since a lot of our traffic comes in from TVTropes.org where they have tons of direct links to cartoons.  All of these would be broken if I put the new site at www.MinionsAtWork.com.

So I'll probably do it, but how and when remain to be seen.  If you think it's a good idea, let me know.  You can also help keep the lights (and pay our hosting fees) by making a small contribution using the button below, shopping on Amazon using our links, or buying swag from one of our stores (and thanks to those of you already doing that).  One thing I'd REALLY like to tone down would be to eliminate the weekly pan-handling here and replace them with some discrete buttons, banners, and menu options.  So the move would all-around be good for you guys.

Let me know what you think.

                                                                            - Minion Master Steve

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Minions #227 - Vacations of the Rich and Famous

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 pool piranha 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!

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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, Weekenders and Summer People!


Yeah, one rental car, one-missed-TV show, one graduation, many hundreds of road miles, one traffic-accident, and one penthouse suite later, we're home.  Unfortunately, seems like at least one minion went AWOL while we were gone, and of course, you know who it had to be: that rascal Number Two!

 Okay, it's a rare day I get to take the Minions outdoors for shooting the Minions, and this was a first: Minions and water.  Fun!

Running late, so I'll cut it short.  See you next week!

            - Minion Master Steve

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