Dilbert - C or D?

It's just what happens when your entire comic strip m.o. becomes polemical butthurt.

"it rhymes with gunkyard" is pretty rough stuff there

That's wordplay

seems to have no idea how to write a coherent joke any more

Because his early stuff was taken from situations he encountered in his last cubicle job, and then the mid period stuff is cribbing from situations his fans have emailed him about that they've experienced.

he’s at least two levels of detached from anyone who is actually working a mundane job and had the brain capacity to find humor in corporate jargon or the nuances of everyday life

true but he also just doesn't have any interest in writing actual humor anymore, I mean look at this shit

https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-09-08

I still crack up at this one: https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-09-10

... which I actually quoted on this thread as my first post to it 17 years ago, wow

If you want a real flavour of the man Adams, he has uploaded thousands of videos of him drinking coffee and talking absolute shit, tried watching one and got about 20 seconds in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCfpnY5NnBl

Oh youtube embed code, here to save us from Adams

Single again! 😁😁😁 pic.twitter.com/30c3SyjN5x

— Kristina Basham (@Kristina_Basham) March 10, 2022

That’s a shame

good for her

Has the tweet been deleted?

guess so. funniest part about this is her kids from a previous relationship are still living with him, which is exactly the sort of thing that would've happened to Dilbert

the funniest part is her explaining that the age difference became a problem

Yeah I guess she got too old for him

someone got the screenshot

I remember hearing the idiot Dilbert guy had a young Instagram model wife and thought "this is one relationship that's gonna last". Oh well you can't always be right about everything. pic.twitter.com/SxHKXiSwhZ

— Spurt Magoo (@spurtmagoo) March 10, 2022

It is breast cancer but with the radiation and chemo They should be kept intact 👍🏽

— Kristina Basham (@Kristina_Basham) March 11, 2022

hope she’s doing ok, and wtf at contemplating the fact she’s both got cancer and weathering a divorce. is SA the guy who divorces a cancer patient? maybe!

he probably tried to convince her that she could cure her cancer by writing "I will be cancer free" on a piece of paper 15 times a day

is SA the guy who divorces a cancer patient? maybe!

He is terrible. How can someone divorce their spouse during cancer?

— Kollywoodfan (@Deplora26124312) March 11, 2022

Not sure how. But I guess he was really angry or something

— Kristina Basham (@Kristina_Basham) March 11, 2022

The Scott Adams / Newt Gingrich Venn diagram intersection grows.

what the fuck is this bullshit. can you really not fucking do better than this

https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-04-03

Number of times a real gun has been pointed at my head: 5

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 17, 2022

The Scott Adams / Newt Gingrich Venn diagram intersection grows.

perfect tweet

DANNY OCEAN: Alright guys here’s the score. There’s $50,000 in unmarked bills at scott adams house. you know the drill we’ve already done this like 5-7 times

— aLec robBins (@alecrobbins) April 18, 2022

“You can’t shoot me in the head! I created Dilbert!” - Scott Adams on five separate occasions in his life

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) April 18, 2022

https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-05-02

I know it's just yet another variation of the one joke conservatives have, but apparently most newspapers printed Dave as a white character, which accidentally makes this the funniest Dilbert strip in years

god the comments section beneath every Dilbert cartoon really is just a right-wing cesspool, huh?

(i realize this is true of basically every comments section beneath basically everything)

Jesus Christ, that's painfully unfunny.

we gotta pump those numbers up

whats amazing about this is Scott Adams was called out for not having any minority characters in his comic besides the intern and he responded by insisting that Dilbert had no black characters he was so anti-racist that he could not bear to make fun of a black guy. so he finally introduces a black character after 33 years and this is the first joke he can think of. not only that but he's such a piss poor artist that you can't even tell he's supposed to be black in the print version. just incredible all around

one of his funniest bits is when he responds to criticism by twisting himself into a logic pretzel, just this insecure guy thing where he strongly believes he's always right but just spouts gibberish

or, I guess, more accurately he doesn't believe he can ever admit to being wrong or mistaken

I'm not gonna read his 90s books again but I was way into them as a kid and what I remember was that his whole shtick was basically about how to bullshit your way through life. but he at least had some sense of self-awareness, like when writing the Dilbert Future he said the whole point was to make all these outlandish predictions and then get hailed as a genius if one of them actually came true

if nothing else this dude is a good case study in how money & fame can permanently fuck up a person

Quite honestly one of the most divorced people I’ve ever seen

one of the chosen people to have divorced man mindset before he was ever married, many years ago, and each divorce has only melted his mind further

this guy could have never married and he’d still be incredibly divorced.

you know, i was just thinking of hank ketcham the other day

Dave will be featured all week, so if this one doesn't get me cancelled, more chances to come.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 2, 2022

guessing it's too late to "fix" the print versions where Dave ends up looking like Steven Seagal so we may be about to witness the funniest Dilberts ever

Davebert

what if... Dave's first line had been "Actually, I identify as Dilbert"

why is this guy so fucking tedious

he's a 64 year old rich white american who would wake up at 4am to draw Dilbert before he finally quit his former day job

this was, supposedly, after several years of waking at that hour every day to brainstorm a business venture and he came up with this comic strip

note that this is according to his own retelling of how dilbert came to be, and it sounds like 90% bullshit

Quite honestly one of the most divorced people I’ve ever seen

― gyac, Monday, May 2, 2022 12:46 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

every time people seem astonished that this guy became such a MAGA tool I think about this blog he posted in 2007...this shit would make even Trump blush

https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/06/my_best_story.html

I was going to make a joke to the effect of "That man's boss? Donald Trump" but there's a 0% chance of that

absolutely loving 'divorced' as a personality trait

hm

Another banger pic.twitter.com/bkC6zXekur

— Critter Jams (@CritterJams) May 3, 2022