The artist told fans in May last year that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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[–] 59 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Good, hope he’s sitting in hell next to Charlie Kirk

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    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]

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  • [–] 88 points 10 months ago

    Rest in piss.

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  • [–] 41 points 10 months ago

    Fucking finally.

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  • [–] 40 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Hey 2026 turning things around!

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    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

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe Donald Trump will announce an invasion of Elbonia in Adams' name.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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!

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    [–] 14 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not sure that's how prostate cancer works

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It often metastasizes to the bones, so yeah, that's how it works.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That’s horrible to think about, but I appreciate the information.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Oh man it's pretty bad. Heads for the hip bone first and then climbs it's way up your spinal column and into your ribs. The space between your skin and ribs basically turns into sandpaper and it just eats away at your nerve bundles within your spinal cord. All the while it'll build this extracellular material that basically acts as a wall to prevent cancer treatments and pain medication from getting in.

    And in all of this the cancer is using the damage it's causing to healthy cells to feed itself. It's really high up there in incredibly painful ways to die. Makes up less than 1% of all prostate cancers, but has to be the most shit lotto to win.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago

    "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?

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    Adams died due to the anger he caused others through... a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP VINDICATION SYNDROME.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    You mean RFK Jr didn't have any medbeds for such an influential figure? Color me surprised

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    [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Why now? Why not 20 years ago?

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    And nothing of value was lost to dick cancer turned boneitis.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Lol anyways...

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    [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It's unusual for prostate cancer to develop like this. I wonder if it was an unusually aggressive form.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Jim Davis isn't a shitty person is he? 😧

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Not that I know of. He created a bland comic for the express purpose of merchandising it and was very successful. Not really "wish he were dead" worthy!

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    He draws Garfield, which is a small-scale crime against humanity even though he's not a fascist.

    But you're right, I suppose I'm being unfair to him, he's just a guy doing his job, even though it pisses me off irrationally.

    Mea culpa. But not maxima culpa.

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