MINOS UPDATE #109 CRY ME A RIVER
MINOS UPDATE #110 IF THIS WON'T WORK...
MINOS UPDATE #111 READING KILLS


From now on, Minos will start using elaborate tips he picked up from that book. We will see if he will end up having more luck this way.

In other news, we are a bit disappointed that no reader sent us a sentence with the word "samizdat". We had promised to update earlier if any of you managed a coherent sentence with it, but Boo-Hoo!!!! We had to result to a dictionary ourselves, and here are a few sentences one could've emailed:
- It would take a samizdat system for Minos to get printed!
- Are you distributing samizdat? If so, you will die!
- Sam iz DAT idiot next door!
- I don't like this samizdat thing...

So much for teaching ourselves something. Next update will be during the Night of the Hamdu Sinf Moon. Can't wait!!!I hope you have esoteric calendars.

ps. Ever since Minos impacted the evolution of knives, wearing shoes isn't recommended inside a kitchen anymore. If you wear shoes near a chef this might happen to you. :(

MINOS UPDATE #108 THE PLATYPUS ENIGMA


Hi everybody! Today's Minos strip is very special! It is brought to you by countries such as Switzerland, and animals such as the Platypus! The comic obviously didn't update yesterday, so as promised, more platypus on Special Fridays! (ok, I did not include a platypus in the comic, but there is one in the title, so promise kept.)

This month will mark 2 Years that Minos has been online! We will celebrate by marking our territory. Your screens might leak.

Switzerland is a beautiful country by the way. Cute, but lacks platypus.

Next time Minos will do something. He'll do it around 8pm EST on Wednesday! (or maybe earlier. Minos doesn't have a watch nor a calendar, nor a brain... nor a life... well he has a life but he doesn't want it...)

MINOS UPDATE #106 POOPLESS IN CRETE
MINOS UPDATE #107 HAPPY MEAL RESTORED



We have no news, but this NEVER stopped us before from filling this box, so why stop a good streak? This is a new strip. Minos manages 3 different expressions in three panels! But enough about us, how are you doing? Anything you want to share with the internet? Or should I start talking for you?

This week I bought new socks. They are not as comfy as the old ones, but that is alright, because I didn't really buy socks. I didn't take a Trip to the Alps either. So maybe I should talk about the Swiss instead. They make good chocolate. And I bet they are nice to tourists. I'm also sure they hand chocolate to everyone, so remember, if you ever visit Switzerland, stop often and ask for directions! Act foreign, and pack up the calories!

Another nice place to visit, is probably Australia. You can bungee there. True, you can also bungee in many other locations, but in Australia you have more chances to land on a wild platypus if the wire snaps. I've heard they can really cushion your fall. But I have no evidence whatsoever to back it up. If it has ever happened to you, SHARE.

Next update will be on Thursday. Unless I take a trip to Switzerland, it will update on Friday but it will feature more platypus than if I update on Thursday... This way no one loses!

Minos updated a couple of times since that April Fool's confusion, but I got swamped and didn't post the updates here until now. I have now backdated those strips in LJ (under the date the strips went online), in order to insert the 'news' blurb that accompanied the updates.
But here are the quick links to those recent strips. :)
The comic has gone bi-weekly now and I have gone frantic. Good times.


MINOS UPDATE #102 STORE IN A DRY PLACE
MINOS UPDATE #103 THE MOOD KILLER
MINOS UPDATE #104 HANDLE WITH CARE
MINOS UPDATE #105 GOLD-DIGGER FOREVER


AGAIN AN UPDATE ON TIME! Does Minos suddenly feel like the OTHER Webcomics? You know, the dedicated, successful ones? Not yet? :( Oh come on! How long will it take?

So you just read the last "chapter" of the FAMOUS Quest of Many Shames. This was all inspired by Aaron and Fes' Intervention at the Webcomic Beacon. I doubt they had this specific adventure in mind, but that is what you are getting for helping a Minotaur... Thanks again guys!
With the next update, we are back at providing Mayhem on the internet. There will still be potty humor! Child Mistreatment Humor (which we are not laughing at, we are just using our artistic power to express a reality)! Suicide Humor (which we are also not laughing at)! Why did I type all that stuff? Suddenly I feel very depressed... I guess I'll make some depression jokes too, laughter is medicine... Right? RIGHT?

Talking about Life-Lessons, we also kept our word, and installed a NEW voting Incentive. So VOTE! ... ... It's your Democratic right. Do it Daily before the Fascists take over (all 4 remaining of them). After you took the FIBER CHALLENGE for 14 days, why not take the VOTE-FOR-MINOS 14 DAYS IN A ROW CHALLENGE? It is hard to do, and you feel GREAT at the end of the day! PLUS it gives you something to talk about at the water-cooler! Oh the things we do to improve your social interactions...

Next update should be in an hour or so, if my Magic Eight Ball knows what it's talking about...

MINOS UPDATE #104 HANDLE WITH CARE



Can you believe this? Dumb Bum was true to his word, not like that filthy Gollum! The comic updated on time! Don't forget: YOU owe ME!

The next update will conclude the QUEST OF MANY SHAMES, and it will be quite shameful! This story started with nasty potty humor, and it ends the same way. The fans asked for it! OK, if it wasn't you, look around, it was probably one of the other ones... So the next comic will be posted WEDNESDAY. THIS Wednesday :) It will be DOUBLE-DIRTY DAY because we will also give you a NEW INCENTIVE with letter "D".

Also, we have changed the Classic-Look of our main page. DUMBBUM.NET is somewhat functional. Check it out! (It is only one page, it won't take you long).

MINOS UPDATE #103 THE MOOD KILLER


Before ANYTHING is said, I'll say something first:
THE NEXT UPDATE will be on Saturday! THIS Saturday. Minos will get a quicker update schedule starting right now!!!

Now I'll tackle the tough questions: Why didn't this comic update earlier? What took so long?
Remember a while ago when we announced that Dumb Bum Comics was in trouble, due to the International Economic Crisis, and that we applied for Governmental Bail Out Funds? We were 1.6 Billion Under what we needed to make ends meet. We FINALLY got an answer: NO.

That hurt. It also forced us to find other ways to cover our expenses, so we reverted to an easy Baking Class! We made some cookies, and sold them to people we didn't know for 65 cents a cookie. That is very reasonable because they were VERY large, and filled with chocolate. The sale went FANTASTIC! We raised 216 000$ in our first week of operation! With our aggressive marketing, the girl Scouts raised NOTHING that week! Hurray for us :)

Then came week 2 and it did not live up to expectations. It turns out everyone who ate our cookies got sick, and we were fined BIG TIME! Hoping to pay our legal bills, we reverted to Lemonade selling. But the weather didn't help, and we just ended up drinking the whole thing ourselves...

Then the Government called us back, claiming fraud, and that is when we realized: Dumb Bum Comics has NO EXPENSES! It was a math mistake all along. That is what we told our lawyer, and I sure hope it stands up in court...

So we went back to comic making for free. Like we used to. Minos was never about making money. It was about pride and dignity, and of course achieving HIGH Social Standards. We were aiming at that Nobel Prize all along! Vote for us this year, ok?

MINOS UPDATE #102 STORE IN A DRY PLACE


We are no longer friends with Stephen King, therefore we withdraw all the good things we said about him. We also decided to re-write the strip he did for us. If he refuses to dedicate his next novel to us, why should we promote him on our GLORIOUS site? It wouldn't be fair, and that is all we are about!

Did Gordy go too far? Stopping potential death risks for Minos is somewhat acceptable, it will only extend this comic's lifespan. But when you mess with Minos' business, it's BUSINESS! ok that doesn't mean anything, but Gordy should be careful, he really got his hands dirty there!

By the way, the word EXCRETA was provided by Orvan Ox, who gladly showed us the way to a thesaurus! He truly is the FINEST OF THE FINE OF THE BOVINE KIND! This strip is dedicated to you! (I hope you're not embarrassed. Nobody should be embarrassed here. Not even the Dumb bum crew!)

The NEW INCENTIVE is now available, if you vote at TWC. Letter "C" is Minos' worst lesson yet! But with plenty of alphabet to go, he will do worst I promise.

New Comic Today::
MINOS UPDATE #102 R2D2 WAS SPARTACUS


This is an AMAZING STRIP! You can't tell at first glance, but it was written by Stephen King! It sounds incredible! But Stephen is actually the half brother of the man who previously owned my father's first house! Stephen is a very cool person, very accommodating and open to collaborations! I hope to be his ghostwriter some day, to pay back the honor.

To be honest, this is not his best work, not that I'm complaining, but he probably was not that familiar with the characters. He did swear that he has read MINOS THE MINOTAUR entirely, but now I'm not so sure... Maybe he wanted to spook things a bit. But who am I to whine? STEPHEN KING GUEST WROTE FOR US!!!!

VOTE INCENTIVE:
The NEW INCENTIVE is now available, if you vote at TWC. Letter "C" is Minos' worst lesson yet! But with plenty of alphabet to go, he will do worst I promise.

This is last week's comic update:

MINOS UPDATE #101 ALIEN BUTT EXPOSED


And the mandatory "news" that came along, fulfilling my need to ramble:
First thing, The Dumb Bum Crew is ECSTATIC with the feedback we received about our 100th strip! It boosted our confidence enough, for us to do at LEAST 5 more strips! Thank you to ourselves for writing those letters of encouragement and admiration...

Did you ever fancy some green alien rear? And I'm not talking about the sort you find at comic conventions, I'm talking authentic! Not me, I'm not into that kind of stuff, but maybe YOU are, so enjoy panel 1! This is it for Cthulhu... for now. There are still some strips to go, before the ARC wraps up.

The month of March commemorated the 72nd year that Earth lives without H.P. Lovecraft, the father and nurturer of The Cthulhu Mythos. After debating, we are positive he is satisfied with our use of his creation, the same way we would be IF someone glorified Minos after our death... I hope he is happy (and not waiting for me in the afterlife with a copyrights violation proof), for if he is not happy: I am terrified of ghosts... Casper made my Saturday mornings very damp. Why is his head so big? :(

There will be a new incentive this week, maybe letter "C"... If Minos knows his alphabet correctly. Also, the CAST PAGE has been updated with profiles for Cthulhu and Procrustes!

Cheers! :)