Recurring Gags
There are many recurring gags in Herbie comics:
- Herbie speaks very little. He is terse, leaving out many words.
- Herbie is unemotional, in spite of everything around him, understating everything he says. Herbie's captions are free of exclamation points, except when his lollipops are threatened.
- Women swoon over Herbie, loving his round physique. Sometimes women who first loved Herbie eventually run off with an animal (e.g., alien bug king, gorilla, camel).
- Herbie encounters many look-alikes, most of whom he thinks are ugly.
- Although ridiculously fat, Herbie does not eat much, especially in later issues, although he sometimes sleeps while he eats. He is always sleeping, much to the dismay of his father.
- Herbie sometimes bites his adversaries, and sometimes they bite him.
- Herbie wears many disguises, most of which are absurd.
- Herbie often appears, to his embarrassment, in boxer shorts.
- Herbie sometimes happens to have just the right item for the job: marshmallows in King Arthur's time, worms to drop in Mao's mouth, a bicycle pump in his pocket, or a blowtorch in the frozen north. ("Never mind where I got it from, either.")
Herbie sometimes refers to his favorite lollipop flavors, including "hard-to-get cinnamon".
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