2007 the Pointy-Haired Boss announced that Asok died while on a test of a moon shuttle prototype. (Co-piloted by The Grim Reaper, the only person willing to work for free) Asok had planned to reincarnate into his clone; unfortunately Carol had reused the jar containing his DNA as a candy jar. On Saturday, December 8, Asok was reincarnated into a part human, part Snickers bar - the result of Asok's DNA being mixed in with candy. On Monday, December 10, Asok's clone was informed by Dilbert that Asok had been killed, and that he had been reincarnated into a half man, half snack. Asok used his advanced shape shifting and guided reincarnation skills (learned at the Indian Institute of Technology) to change his form into that of a regular, peanut and chocolate-free, intern. It appears that Asok has been returned to normal as far as the Dilbert strip is concerned. In fact, the January 16, 2008 episode saw Asok tell the Boss that he was going to send his report to the Board of Directors, but the Boss said that he couldn't speak to the Board because he was an intern. On September 16, 2010, Asok indicated that he had written a book based entirely on the dumb things that the pointy-haired boss has said. Asok claims that this was legal because "under the law" only intellectual property is protected. On October 29, 2010, the pointy-haired boss promoted Asok from intern to "limbo", the state "between the living and the damned". Sexual orientation On February 7, 2014, Dogbert declared that Asok was gay, in protest of an Indian Supreme Court decision upholding a British era law that indulging in homosexual activity is a crime. Dogbert then concluded with, "Okay, we're done here," to which Asok replied, "Good, because I have a lot of gay stuff to do." Earlier, on September 28, 2013, the marketing department was replaced with an evil genius who proposed using optogenetic technology to neurally rewire customers' preferences. A demonstration intended to make Asok "like gray" instead caused him to "like to be gay." References Dilbert characters Fictional immigrants to the United States Fictional Indian people Comics characters introduced in 1996 Male characters in animation Male characters in comics LGBT characters in comics