>>151080859
Alright, it deliberately discards his negative characteristics then.
Don't get me wrong, the comic itself does a lot of that too; Mike is constantly catching flak, mostly from Lucy and/or Paulo, and it's usually random bullying. The instances where Mike gets impatient and spiteful usually end with whoever he's talking to sadly backing down, and are only held against him later. And whenever other characters talk about Mike, they say "Mike is such a nice guy, he's really patient and kind", without appending "except for that time I said he looked like he needed a nap and he told me I was terrible and lazy".
But that's the case with every character in this godforsaken comic; no-one has problems because *they're* an asshole, they have problems because everyone *else* is assholes. The moral seems to be that if only Mike/Lucy/Daisy/Paulo were more openly selfish and didn't care about being polite, they'd be happy. It's both infuriating, and on a meta level, somewhat worrying.