Adult animation sucks

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Brickleberry rocked! Too bad it only lasted three seasons. Its follow-up, Paradise PD, was nowhere near as funny.

F Is For Family I also like. It's not that funny but it is brutal in its honest depiction of a dysfunctional 70's family.

South Park I used to like, but now that I know the creators of that show lean to the right, I can see through their politics and the series just isn't funny anymore.

Mr. Pickles is pretty good. The grandpa is my favourite character.

Bordertown only lasted one season but I thought it had potential. Oh well.

Archer. That is all.

I remember the 'Dilbert' cartoon some years ago and thought it was appealing and could it expect it to be 'adult animation' whilst not losing it's attempts to be meaningful by commenting on corporate culture. Honestly, given the current state of the newspaper publication industry I am somewhat surprised by how there are not as many animated adaptations of newspaper comics, I remember 'For better or for worse' which I thought was dull at the time but in hindsight I think I would like.

I am not sure how many 'feminist points' I lose for liking something with the involvement of someone who has a history of sexual assault--recently I have found 'Mike Tyson mysteries' effective, short and helping me out of mental funks.

Also, I think putting them up as examples of adult animation would reinforce the notion that adult animation does suck.

A Scanner Darkly based off of Phillip K. Dick's novel of the same name and directed by Richard Linklater is a terrific movie in its own right and IMO, a faithful adaptation of the book.

Maybe it's just because I'm getting old, but I find nearly all animation has sucked or just hasn't been worth my time since the early 2000's, no matter what its target audience's age is. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw MLP: FiM, though.

From the best adult comedy ever.

how about some real animation for grownups? anomalisa has been mentioned, also waltz with bashir. I'd like to add miyazaki's the wind rises and princess mononoke, as well as belladonna of sadness. also persepolis.

most american animation, nay, make that movies in general, for adults, is really children's films with added sex and violence. But problems are often black and white, there are simple solutions, and of course, bad guys who are so bad it's okay to kill them, and good guys who are so good, it doesn't taint their characters in the slightest when they kill bad guys.