The artist told fans in May last year that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Lol anyways…
Why now? Why not 20 years ago?
You either die a hero that made Dilbert or live long enough to become a racist villain.
You mean RFK Jr didn’t have any medbeds for such an influential figure? Color me surprised
Rest in piss.
Good, hope he’s sitting in hell next to Charlie Kirk
Now I have an image of Charlie Kirk in the Beetlejuice waiting room with a constantly gushing neck wound.
“You’re a real pain in the neck, know what I mean?” [guffaws]
Oh god damn it that would have been a great Halloween costume
Probably sitting on his lap 😉
I’m a little sad about it. I liked his writing in the late 90s/early 2000s. Very anti-corporate. Imperfect but fairly progressive. It seemed like he was just a hippie at heart. I wish I understood what happened to him. From the outside looking in my best guess is falling victim to his success, he began to think too highly of himself, and maybe a bit too much paying attention to Fox News. It was a wild turnaround from my perspective.
I was never heavy into Dilbert, but I remember it fondly for pointing out how bullshit capitalism is in so many relatable ways. Then, years later, seeing him in the news for far right nonsense was so jarring.
He was not anti-corporate. He was a racist piece of shit right since the beginning. He is one of those guys for whom MAGA validated his existing beliefs and emboldened him to share them more publicly.
You’re right, but Adams was such a crappy writer that he produced some decent anti-corporate messaging in spite of himself. Like, I’ve heard the “laughing at Dilbert strips when I was a kid was what led to me being an anti-capitalist adult” thing several times now (which goes alongside the “JK Rowling made me anti-fascist” thing and “Kanye West made me anti-rascist” thing in the halls of literary ironies).
Or like all the fascists that really responded to Rage songs and Queen lyrics or guys like Bovino that say Starship Troopers is their favorite movie because they think it is supportive of their fascist ideas instead of openly mocking them.
I’m also a little sad about it. I still think it is a “net positive”, and I try not let let “the perfect be the enemy of the good”. Yes, in a “perfect” world, he reformed, went into remission, and started working to remediate all the suffering and damage he had caused.
It was a wild character arc. Paraphrasing heavily…
90s “Corporations are stupid and abusive to employees”
2001 “What if we’re all just fragments of God? Why do we fight each other?”
2009 “Place bets on the people you hate most, they always seem to win.”
2023 “Black Lives Matter is a racist hate group.”
2025 “Trump will fix everything. Also please get me into a medical trial daddy.”
I was really holding out for the redemption arc but alas.
And nothing of value was lost to dick cancer turned boneitis.
Fucking finally.
The article says it’s a developing story, and to check back for updates.
Does anyone have any idea what new developments or updates are even possible? Aside from zombies, of course
Maybe Donald Trump will announce an invasion of Elbonia in Adams’ name.
See that’s the kind of thing we should be making mass AI propaganda for. You simply must invade a country of brown people to appease the bloodlust of your base? Use AI to create an entirely fake country and fake an entire invasion and brutal occupation of that country. Blame a nonexistent ethnic group for all of society’s problems. Get all the propaganda benefits of imperialist wars without all the expense and blood shed.
This is the kind of innovation we could be having right now!
Wasn’t this the plot of Wag the Dog?
Wow, I haven’t thought of that movie in… Well, apparently 29 years. I remember that it came out just before the Clinton/Lewinsky business - it was unbelievably prescient.
They might cover the various celebrations around the world.
Any new information or events happening by the cause of his death. Also any corrections
“Unfortunately, this isn’t good news,” his ex-wife Shelly Miles told Adams’ fans on YouTube. “He’s not with us … anymore.”
What part of that isn’t good and fortunate? Is there more to this story that I missed? Did he fall over a balcony when he died and land on a decent human being?
Adams died due to the anger he caused others through… a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP VINDICATION SYNDROME.
His cancer was absolutely terrible. I wish it on no one. Dude’s bones were growing daggers into his flesh and tearing him up from the inside and there’s little anyone can give to ease that kind of pain.
I mean, he’s no saint and I’m sure he’s got a nice place in hell waiting for him. But damn, that kind of cancer is the stuff nightmares are made from.
I wish it on no one.
I wouldn’t wish it on him, horrible as he was, but there are a select few I would…
I’m not sure that’s how prostate cancer works
It often metastasizes to the bones, so yeah, that’s how it works.
That’s horrible to think about, but I appreciate the information.
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I feel like you just described the perfect pathogen, a la Sebastian Junger.
