Hagar would merely plunder the wabbit's gold

Gearhead Gertie, 3/21/24

Gearhead Gertie is another new strip I've been reading. It's about Gertie, an old lady who's monomaniacally hyperfocused on NASCAR and auto racing to the extent that she's alienated her friends and family. "But Josh," you're probably saying, "As a coastal elitist, how am I supposed to appreciate all the jokes about the minutiae of NASCAR, a sport I definitely don't follow?" Well, good news: each strip gives you all the information you need to appreciate the punchline. For instance, you might not understand why Gertie would call up some guy and ask for his glove because she wants an aerodynamic advantage in traffic, but fortunately, you can quickly see that said guy is named Logano (because his chair is labeled with his name) and that he recently used his webbed gloved to gain an aerodynamic advantage (because he appears to have just moments ago been reading about himself in the newspaper), presumably (you can be pretty sure from the context, which is a comic strip about auto racing) in an auto race of some kind. This saves you the trouble of reading the "Controversy" section of Logano's Wikipedia article, though you might still want to do some research to learn, say, what his first name is (I myself did not bother).

Gil Thorp, 3/21/24