Spyke
lemmy.world

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.

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Feydreply
programming.dev

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

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

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

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wjriireply
lemmy.world

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.

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lemmy.world

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

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BanMereply
lemmy.world

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.

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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.

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toynbeereply
lemmy.world

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

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taiyangreply
lemmy.world

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

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

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mander.xyz

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

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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.

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aussie.zone

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?!

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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."

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

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piefed.social

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.

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Bgugireply
lemmy.world

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.

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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:

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feddit.org

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

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

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Gethreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

It's making fun of Christianity. The fact you didn't get it doesn't make it not funny.

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jordanlundreply
lemmy.world

I got it, the fact it's poorly done makes it not funny.

Here's a good one:

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It's all just opinions I guess. My opinion is that the comic you posted stinks. 🤷

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Your comic isn’t funny or even trying to be funny. It’s didactic, and really boring tbh.

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