You have to admit, having Skull-faced Slick answer the door when you’re just a girl scout trying to sell your cookies might be a little awkward. Plus he’s got lawyers on the brain after last week.
I love the way the lawyer, already an unshaven shifty-eyed scumbag, looks over his shoulder to see if anyone’s listening in.
There’s a lot going on in this strip, believe it or not. Herkimer Herkimer III was a corrupt politician in the Lensmen series by E. E. “Doc” Smith. This is apparently his ancestor. The “lifting weights at home” is a standby of the workers’ compensation industry, used to absolve companies of responsibility for accidents. The idea of hurting your face while lifting weights makes me giggle.
I could have made another cheap joke about saving money on car insurance here, but instead I decided to make Slick’s life miserable for a few days. Note the shifty-eyed, unshaven look that is characteristic of the ambulance-chasing attorney.