No, B.O. Plenty winning a famous car in a contest and then happening to stumble across Crop-top in the middle of recovering stolen loot— THAT is convenient. If you can buy the idea that this famous car exists in the Tracyverse and was raffled off by a comics convention, it makes perfect sense that there would be a newspaper story about it; and of course there would be a picture accompanying the article because newspapers like that kind of a snazzy visual.
I find it more unbelievable that Crop-top didn’t recognize the “Hat-mobile” when B.O. pulled up.
Which was an important plot point in “A Scandal In Bohemia.” Hah! I never guessed when I opened up “Doonesbury” this morning that I’d have an excuse to make a Sherlock Holmes reference!
Well, any time B.O. show’s his shaggy countenance you know we’re going to be veering off into High Corn Country. All you can do is buckle up, chum. Atomic Batteries to Power! Turbines to Speed!
The way I see it, since Annie’s strip was cancelled, Tracy has adopted her as a second “Daddy”. He just gave her an expanded origin story and, perhaps most importantly, helped keep her trademark active. And perhaps laid the groundwork for Annie’s next visit which hopefully will include some more time for girl stuff with Honeymoon like fighting criminals and international terrorists and stuff.
“And now I must write a scathing editorial about what latest outrage that scamp Teddy Roosevelt has committed this time…”