Eltingville Club¹

Height and Build: Jerry is the tallest member of the Eltingville Club (except in the pilot, where Josh is shown as the tallest). He is lanky.
Hair. Thin, somewhat unkempt blond hair, styled in the same style as Bill Dickey's.
Eyes: Often depicted closed or as simple slits, although some comics have exceptions. Clothing: The typical outfit is a green striped long-sleeved sweater and jeans, but other variations are also seen.
The epilogue shows an adult Jerry with longer hair and a short beard, wearing a sports jacket. Mild demeanor. Jerry is depicted as having a mild disposition.
Attitudes of other characters. Due to his differing interests or weaker personality, he often becomes the target of bullying and ridicule from other club members, especially Bill. Attempts to act as a "voice of reason." Despite his involvement in the club's chaotic antics, Jerry sometimes tries to act rationally, though this is usually ineffective.
Hobbies: He is deeply interested in fantasy worlds and role-playing games, as well as anime and manga.
Fear of confrontation. Because of this, Jerry tends to be accommodating and tries to please people.
Attitude towards friends. He doesn't like how seriously the other club members take the fandom, but he doesn't want to lose friends. According to Evan Dorkin, if he had to write a detailed character biography, he would describe Jerry as neurodivergent.
Jerry's musical tastes include game soundtracks, 8-bit chiptune material, prog rock, and J-pop. He also enjoys Vocaloid songs and has a crush on Megurine Luka. In some panels of the comic, Jerry is depicted as two-faced, but it's unclear whether this was intentional or simply an inconsistency.
In the comic's epilogue, Jerry has a more prosperous life than the other characters.

Josh lives with his parents, but his mother takes strong medication and has a history of heart attacks. He is Jewish. According to Evan Dorkin, Josh may be bisexual. His musical tastes include movie soundtracks, classical music (influenced by his parents), and "lousy" rock and pop bands.

Josh is depicted as an overweight teenager with a round chin and noticeable acne. He wears square-framed glasses and wears his long, chocolate-brown hair in a ponytail. His attire typically includes:
a graphic t-shirt with images or names of your favorite sci-fi media;
windowpane print blazer;
jeans or chinos;
High-top sneakers reminiscent of Converse All-Stars. The color scheme may vary from episode to episode (for example, in one episode, he wears a brown blazer, a black T-shirt, khaki pants, and gray sneakers). As Josh becomes an adult, his appearance changes slightly—he grows a little taller and develops a sparse beard.
Josh is characterized by a passionate, often aggressive obsession with science fiction media, particularly cult franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek. Boastfulness and a short temper. Josh often boasts about his knowledge and hobbies, but he also loses his temper easily. When angry, he can resort to violence. Selfishness and paranoid tendencies. He tends to suspect that other club members and even people outside the club are plotting against him. Inability to complete collections. Despite his love of collecting merchandise, Josh is usually unable to complete his collections, which becomes a constant source of frustration. Negative feelings towards his clubmates. He frequently has nightmares about other club members pinning him down and beating him. A passion for fan fiction. When Josh isn't interacting with the Eltingville club, he writes fan fiction and posts it online, where he faces cyberbullying from internet trolls, particularly Bill, who goes by the pseudonym Greedo318. Josh lives with his parents, but his mother takes strong medication and has a history of heart attacks. He is Jewish. According to Evan Dorkin, Josh may be bisexual. His musical tastes include movie soundtracks, classical music (influenced by his parents), and

Height. Pete is the shortest member of the club.
Build: He is usually depicted as stocky.
Hair. Black, short, often hidden by a baseball cap worn backwards.
Face. Characteristic features include prominent, unibrows, a large nose, and acne.
Eyes. Often drawn without pupils, as white circles.
Clothing. Reflects his interests: T-shirts with graphic images related to horror, comics, or heavy metal bands, which he wears with jeans and sometimes a jacket. Hot-tempered and aggressive. Pete is quick to anger, argumentative, often insults his clubmates, and readily gets into fights.
An obsession with the horror genre. His passion for horror, especially practical visual effects (VFX), borders on fetishism. He often delivers lengthy monologues about horror films.
Behavior. Occasionally attempts to show maturity or speak out against the group's more extreme behavior, but these moments are often short-lived.
Family Relationships. Pete's interests are frowned upon by his family, especially his father. He was also bullied by his older brothers. Family Relationships. Pete's interests are frowned upon by his family, especially his father. He was also bullied by his older brothers.
Other Traits: Pete listens to metal, including black metal and death metal. He is Italian-American and speaks some Italian, but is not fluent.

Untidy appearance. Bill is usually depicted as a slightly disheveled teenager.
Face. Youthful, expressive, with a round chin, covered in acne. In the comics, glasses sometimes hide his eyes.
Hair. Shaggy, tousled, light brown.
Clothing. He often wears casual clothes that reflect his fascination with comics: graphic T-shirts featuring superheroes or references to classic comics, jeans, or chinos. His signature look includes a plaid flannel shirt or orange plaid blazer, a square-faced watch, and high-top sneakers reminiscent of Converse All-Stars. There are nuances in different versions of the character: in the animated pilot, Bill has a more pointed chin, while in the final installment of the pilot, he wears a white T-shirt with a red light bulb stylized as an exclamation point. Obnoxious and arrogant, Bill is described as a man-child with a sadistic sense of humor and a fiery temper.
Conflicts. He often gets into verbal and physical altercations with his teammates (especially Josh Levy), as well as with his family members.
A hierarchical view of fandom. Bill believes that the club members, and especially himself, are the pinnacle of fandom.
Exacerbation of negative traits. Over the course of the comic, these traits reach levels approaching sociopathic. He is overconfident and territorial. He tends to overshadow others and strives to outdo them, often displaying biased views, including casually throwing out homophobic and ableist slurs.
Fanaticism. In some storylines (such as "This Fan, This Monster"), his fanaticism reaches dangerous levels—after a power outage, he sets fire to a comic book store.