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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spyderred
said, 2 months ago
No comments? I’d looked here to see if someone understood it. Is it supposed to suggest that pizza causes flatulence? If so, how does that connect to the round, flat comment?
Radish
said, 2 months ago
@spyderred
Who knows? That’s why people don’t comment.
You say Homer and I look for a Simpsons angle, the bathroom opens into open air, notice the birds. So I guess the joke has something to do with the flat earth and the bathroom is at the edge of the earth?
Mike Lester
said, 2 months ago
@Radish
Bingo.
Mike Lester
said, 2 months ago
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I have never deleted a comment. -don’t run the site / wouldn’t know how. It is also well known I’m a free speech guy. All I ask is that posters are polite to each other.
Fidx
said, 2 months ago
The colorist got it wrong I guess. I thought the birds were flies and the brown puffs to be…well, you know.
lightenup
said, 2 months ago
@Fidx
Me too! It took me a couple of minutes and reading the comments to figure it out…
prider
said, 2 months ago
Same here.