I’m pretty sure this is referencing the early 60s cartoon except that instead of Tracy sending Joe Jitsu or Hemlock Holmes & The Retouchables to answer the call, he’s going himself.
I thought it was an apostrophe and I went to the comments to ask why it was “ ‘Hubbard.” Now, I don’t know whether to be relieved it was only an improperly used comma.
The stickiness comes from baby goo, a substance that children exude from their fingers and palms from the moment they stand until around the age of eight. There was no other logical explanation.
Not that I’m saying Jimmy did not draw today’s strip, but for those familiar with the man’s art style doesn’t the waiter in the second panel look as if it was drawn by Christopher Eliopoulos? (See, for example, the “Ordinary People Change the World” written by Brad Meltzer for which Eliopoulos provides illustrations.)
I’m pretty sure this is referencing the early 60s cartoon except that instead of Tracy sending Joe Jitsu or Hemlock Holmes & The Retouchables to answer the call, he’s going himself.