What's Michael? Well, he's a cat who seems to live all his nine lives simultaneously in alternate dimensions, where six pages at a time he is:
(a) owned by a variety of people and usually acts like a regular cat,
(b) sometimes thinks and dances a la Garfield and ~~shudder ~~ Cats,
(c) part of an ensemble cast of cats acting entirely like people as they satirize topics like professional wrestling,
(d) a side character in a running parody of "The Fugitive."

So he's multifaceted, let's say. And pretty reliably funny throughout the 500 pages compiled here from six volumes of adventures -- a hefty helping of humor.

I read some of these back in the 1980s when they first came to America, and I must say they hold up a hell of a lot better than the contemporary strips in the Complete Garfield volumes I read a few months back. ( )