Mike du Jour is, according to Lester, the rare triple entendre: the main character's name, the artist's own name and an honest description of the strip. "Like the freedom of a chef designing a menu every day based on what's fresh, MDJ is whatever fresh idea I can cook up," he says.
Mike (the character) is an autobiographical composite. He's "a combination of Walter Mitty, Buster Keaton and moi. He's single, a bit of a loner and a situational counterpuncher, heavyweight division," Lester adds. Mike works in a generic office environment known as Big Bottom Line Inc., and since he and his co-workers don't have enough problems, they invent them. "Office work is boring," says Lester, "or so they tell me."
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win said, 3 months ago
I’m outta there at the table setting.
jreckard said, 3 months ago
Rabbitcadabra.
nusbickel said, 3 months ago
Technically, he could have pulled the table cloth from worse orifices.
Brisbanekid said, 3 months ago
I’m sticking around to see him pull the rabbit stew out of the black top hat.
Colonel Claus
said, 3 months ago
I thot the redhead went out with the locksmith.
J. Short
said, 3 months ago
To paraphrase Bullwinkle,“No doubt about it; we need a new restaurant.”
Regan Lester
said, 3 months ago
@Colonel Claus
The redhead is Su, she was pursued by the Locksmith, but to no avail. I think she has more than an office crush on Mike.
Colonel Claus
said, 3 months ago
@Regan Lester
Thanks for the update, that’s what I get for being anew reader. I picked the strip up with jack the lumberjack
denko said, 3 months ago
Look – the buxom babe still needs to burst through the table…
I’m hanging in here, for that!