In defense of Adam Ellis
Whoa. I know, stay with me. Hear, hear me out: I donât think Adam Ellis is that bad, at least not nearly as bad as say, Tim Buckley. Can he be a bit of a dick sometimes? Yeah, definitely, but hey, weâre all human, weâve all said and done stupid shit. What matters is that we learn from those mistakes, acknowledge and apologize from them, and move on. Â
Adam, like many comic-strip artists, suffers from being stuck in the repetitive, soulless, unfunny âcontentâ creating machine that is Buzzfeed. Itâs the system thatâs the problem, Ellis is just a byproduct of it.Â
And letâs be fair, I know that alot of the âhateâ he gets here or on, I dunno, other platforms like the Bad Webcomics Wiki, are mostly tongue-in-cheek, lighthearted memes, but just to reiterate, Ellis hasnât published anything that is inflammatory, bigoted, or offensive. Aside from like, one specific, really tone-deaf comic, Ellis at his very worst is just really unfunny, trite, and formulaic. Occasionally heâll churn out something that is actually kinda funny and isnât just âlemayo ecks dee look at how relatabull i am u guiiizzzz1!!1!â, and despite these occurrences being rare, it does show that to some degree, Ellis actually has a sense of humor.Â
I dunno. I donât really care for Ellisâ work, like most of the shit from Buzzfeed heâs just incredibly mediocre âcontentâ thatâs aimed to grab my attention by any means necessary and at this point in my life Iâve seen so much bad corporate media that Iâve grown immune to their shittyness.Â
I guess I just wanted to.....prevent, any sort of unwarranted hate for a guy who, at the end of the day, just makes really unfunny comics.