It’s always a bad sign when someone behind you stops every time you stop and continues every time you continue. It seems like someone wants to stop her from setting up a new office, but why?
It’s not necessary to know who she is. Someone is shooting at her and she will explain why she thinks that is happening (and likely “who she is”). She could have been any random shooting victim and the story would have been just as good (or bad). What matters is not who she is, but who the shooter is.
In my records, I call that a “reference,” rather than an actual appearance, but it counts — and it’s an interesting bit of trivia that the digits are just transposed.
No, it’s fine. We do over-analyze everything here. I’ve been scanning through various recent Dick Tracy strips to automatically detect any with two different versions. I have a found a few in the last three or so years, but every one of them was noticed already by the eagle eyes of this group. Even tiny details like the copyright date do not escape notice.
She probably knows it and doesn’t care. That makeup doesn’t apply itself!