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Adam Ellis (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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Original post : https://bsky.app/profile/adamtots.bsky.social/post/3m5xbwflvjk2m

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 124 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Wow, quite wild to see some Lemmings get wooshed this hard by an Adam Ellis comic. Though I guess it's mostly aimed at his audience on Bluesky or Reddit. I follow him on the former. He's been experimenting a lot ever since he left Buzzfeed.

Anyway, look at the exaggerated arch in his back. Look at the barbie-font Jesus poster. Acknowledge Ellis' work is often very LGBT (when it's not horror, lol). He's poking fun at hypocrite religious folks, or maybe he's making fun of how very gay it is to get on your knees for Jesus. Or maybe however you interpret it... I mostly just giggled at that fucking ARCH of a back.

Basically, Christianity is so gay, lol.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As someone unfamiliar this was definitely a Poe's law type of post

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Agreed. It's way easier to get in context from his bluesky, he doesn't call his comics Christian Comix lol.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Hold up... But everything you said was immediately obvious to me. Surely the point isn't that easy to miss?

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I mean there's not a big huge punchline, but this was clearly a bit of a general send-up, and also prodding at a very specific "Tim Tebow" type of muscular Christianity.

That type of Christian man is big and strong, but also extremely manicured and soft-spoken (even while saying the usual heinous shit) and "effeminate" by certain heteronormative standards. The look and vibe lends itself to fairly easy jokes about men who are closeted or so naive they don't realize they're closeted, which will needle some and maybe give others food for thought. Anybody who's spent time in the Bible Belt will have met the dude in this comic, and maybe his wife.

[–] Caffeinated_Sloth@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It also helps to be familiar with evangelical worship music. Strong Jesus-is-my-boyfriend vibes in many of those lyrics.

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

South Park did it.

[–] Caffeinated_Sloth@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Oh that’s right! Great episode.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Some of us have had the dude in this comic, in the garage while his wife was asleep in the house. Personally I won't do these types but they're a favorite among some of my friends.

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Don't stick your dick in crazy.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

As someone familiar with Adam Ellis, I read this and kept looking for more panels where he would take the joke from subtle to obvious.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

For once, my aspie ass could understand the joke behind it.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Does an exaggerated arch suggest fellatio? I think I get the premise, but I'm not 100% confident.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think so. It's also really feminine which is counter to the alpha male thing.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I see; thank you for the response.

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

So saith the Lord (Lord is short for lordosis).

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The exaggerated arch suggests getting in position to be taken from behind. The man’s a bottom.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone is being wooshed. It's very on the nose. It's also lazy homophobic humor.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Looks like you're completely wooshed.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 66 points 4 months ago

He's got that superheroine spine lmao.

[–] glorkon@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago

I always suspected Christians were secretly into homosexuality.

After all, they're the ones down on their knees hoping for a man to come for the second time.

[–] NaibofTabr 21 points 4 months ago

Do you have the love of Jesus inside you?

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This comic is fucking disgusting. Please take it down. We don't need children exposed to such sickening depictions of reality.

First of all, who the fuck goes to bed at 7pm? Second of all, why is sexy Jesus on the wall, and not on the ceiling (so we can pray, even when our eyes are half-lidded), and finally, how is the moonlight so bright when its a waning crescent?!

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

I don't think it's a waning crescent, it looks like there's a hole in the moon.

[–] saturn57@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

He has to go to bed at 7pm to wake up at 3am and do a 6 hour "morning routine" because he is an "alpha male."

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

[–] spykee@lemmings.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Damnnn....
Forgive me Lord, for what I'm about to do...

[–] WinGirl99@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago

nice booty pal

[–] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 6 points 4 months ago

I feel like the older I get, the more attracted to men I become. Idk, must be all that microplastic lol

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Supplicating yourself before a god? Sounds kinda BETA to me.

[–] Swaus01@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I won't object to someone doing this as long as they shut up about it, don't boast to me about it, and basically don't say any of that stuff in the speech bubbles under any circumstances. I find that these kinds of people are unbearable and eat other Christians alive rather than nurturing a community.

[–] Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Almost thought this was a Mango Pablo ("I did it... I saved the town" guy) post...

[–] Actionschnils@feddit.org -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I dont get it ... Or is it just homophobic?

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 107 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It's a gay comic by a gay man about how gay it is to get on your knees and beg for a man (or two guys and their enby buddy) to give you what you want.

[–] garth@sh.itjust.works 52 points 4 months ago

two guys and their enby buddy

I love it. The woke Holy Trinity.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Gotta get down on my knees & please Jesus.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

two guys and their enby buddy

Thank you, I will exclusively refer to the Holy Spirit as "enby buddy" now.

Oh and this is how I imagine they look like:

[–] Actionschnils@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I got that. But I was looking for some kind of punchline(?)... Probably its just not my sense of humor

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 6 points 4 months ago

The punchline is the homophobic theist being gay for their religious daddy.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 43 points 4 months ago

I’m pretty sure the joke is a gay thirst trap