Thursday, April 19.
I found myself a little shocked by this cartoon. Yes, I know, it’s only a cartoon, Asok’s soul isn’t really trapped in his body, but I just found this cartoon - unsettling. It’s one thing for your employer to make this life a living hell, but the idea of your employer messing with your eternal soul? Too far.
Does this bug anyone else, or do I just have my sensitivity meter set on “Way Too High” today?
It bugs me only because I do not find it funny. Other than that, meh.
Ditto.
Didn’t bug me, but maybe that’s because I don’t believe in an eternal soul (or non-eternal ones either, for that matter).
Do you mean the employer has gone too far? Or that Adams has gone too far? Or what?
-FrL-
It bugs me because it means that Adams has scraped the bottom of the barrel so much that he’s digging into the dirt underneath it.
The employer (as the Evil HR Director) has possibly gone too far. Adams is a cartoonist - it’s his business to say controversial things (or at least, it should be).
But the employer is a cartoon. It’s his business to say what Adams writes in the balloon?
I believe in an eternal spirit, and it didn’t bother me.
Wednesday 4/18 was better…
It’s hard for me to see how this in particular, out of all the things the employer in Dilbert has done, should be thought of as “going too far.” It’s inexcuseably evil, just like everything else the corporation does.
-FrL-
Working in the corporate world is soul destroying. Oh, look at the tortured metaphor. Ha ha.
Eh. It’s not funny, but I’m not troubled by it, either. It’s simply a very poor attempt at humor.
I think his primary business is to say funny things–that is, if he hopes to mainatin the satire. But the basic premise of Dilbert is pretty much played out; variations on the “the corporate world is an absurd torture” theme. When I walk into my director’s office and see Dilbert strips pasted on the wall, I know it’s no longer relevant of funny…
And Tuesday was downright funny.
I didn’t think the “doughnut” spelling was used in the USA? Has Dilbert been internationalised?
As far as I can tell, it’s 50/50. Krispy Kreme, for example, calls their product doughnuts. I think the Donut spelling is most associated with Dunkin’.
I think the joke was supposed to be that Catbert was so evil that he’s gone beyond soul destroying into preventing Asok’s soul from being reincarnated? But by cauterizing? Adams seems to have used up not only his ideas but has run out of reader ideas.
You mean “internationalized”? 
I didn’t find any of those last trips funny. Unfortunately, that’s typical of Dilbert these days. It’s been played out for years. Occasionally, it’ll amuse me, but for the most part it’s just another comic that really should have taken a cue from Bill Watterson and called it quits.
(I do believe in a soul, BTW, and I din’t find those strips unsettling or offensive. Just lame.)
I hardly ever read Dilbert and the only time I do is when someone on a board links to it. Most of the time I do not find it funny.
But the three listed in this thread I found funny. Tuesdays and Wednesdays were funnier than today’s.
Isn’t Catbert? supposed to be an evil sumama bitch? If so then he’s being himself and the over-topped-ness I find funny.