Shameless plug? The way I see it, Dilbert's world is coming through another dimension and straight into reality. Don't know if it's original, but I thought it was very clever. Of course, almost everything in Dilbert is hauntingly real if you've worked in just about any company.
Of course Dilbert's not going to get fired! At least, not for long. Characters have DIED in Dilbert comic's before and come back. It was just a punchline, and a good one at that. Us Brits DO tend to hate product plugging like that, but I thought Americans loved it. Guess I was wrong about that. :-p
This is an epic comic - Is it not documenting how the Dilbert comic was started in the first place?
Momentous and earth-shaking I'd say. Let's all hope Scott Adams doesn't decide to wrap it up with this one.
Much as I know people will rank down this comment I'm going to support Scott on this one:
1. This particular cartoon is actually quite funny, with or without the referance to dilbertfiles, although I am prepared to conceed that the first one was substandard.
2. It's a very good marketing strategy. I hadn't noticed the ads to the right untill the start of this whole thing.
3. There's always the possibility that Scott wrote the cartoon without mentioning dilbertfiles, showed it to a business colleague before publically releasing it, and was advised there that it would be a good idea to mention the website.
4. I'm the sort of person who'll argue the losing side for a challenge and I have too much free time.
5. None of you know for a fact that he isn't paying to have this strip put in the papers, or at least letting them have it for free.