Dizzy fingers

[Bettle Bailey, January 3, 2020. Click for a larger view.]

Yes, I read Beetle Bailey. And now I have to read it more closely. Because the number of fingers on its characters’ hands varies, from person to person, from panel to panel. This panel from today’s strip is just one example.

A cartoonist’s joke? Mere sloppiness? Hard to say.

Those symbols, by the way, are called grawlixes, a Mort Walker coinage.

[Post title with apologies to Zez Confrey.]