Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 27, 2023

Mike’s a bit thick sometimes :D

And they are still married.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Complacently tone deaf, oblivious, self-centered and presumptuous.

Was this strip before the Age of Modern Communication?

“I don’t vant to to Hootersville.”

Any reason he can’t do the job where he is? What exactly are the boys going to contribute anyway? I suppose Mike is too decent to do a Microsoft and just steal their concept.

Same great listening skills …

You’re not listening, Mike! She doesn’t want to move.

For people in the Northwest, or for that matter anywhere west of NY, “rural Connecticut” is a contradiction.

Mike has a separate closet for his ego…

[Lloyd Christmas Voice /ON]“So… your sayin there’s a chance…?”[Lloyd Christmas Voice /OFF]

the thing about rural connecticut-the states so small you’re never far from a city-I lived there 4 years

Maybe fly east to meet with these guys rather than just planning a move based on phone calls?

She is not an extension of him.

They stayed in Seattle. Green Arrow had a talk with Mike

First Rick, now this, probably something similar the last time we saw B.D., Trudeau just doesn’t think much of husbands, does he? At least Leo sets a good example.

haha I am pretty good with change so don’t make me change is a real statement.

No way, Jose.

There is no point being subtle to the point of being passive-aggressive. Just say, “No, I won’t go.”

This is not his only option. He obviously has not exhausted opportunities in that region.

Ah, the conflict of marriage.

I wonder why would prefer to be anywhere else than the Pacific Northwest? Mike is nuts to even consider this. Rain or no rain, the PNW is heaven. It’s nice to visit back east but I sure wouldn’t want to live there, in fact anywhere east of the Rockies is o-u-t as far as I’m concerned. There are reasons that all my immediate ancestors left the eastern US and came to California and Oregon, some of them well over 100 years ago.

Worrying about JJ isn’t touching. He’s worried she’ll go even crazier if he takes Alex out of the area.

What mike isn’t considering is that, if he Does get another winner, the guys at M$ already have him in their sights.

They’d bend his new company over, just like the last one.

Communication. Nice work if you can get it.

Different volume maybe.