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Middle Of The Road

🕑 Added 2020-02-18 02:08:04 +0000 UTC

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Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

One of my college friends was a football player who went on to be a small-town doctor. Another one was a stereotypical math geek who went on to become and Airborne Ranger Exceptions don't really negate the existence of the type, and if I say Jock, pretty much everybody knows what I mean.

Daryl Sawyer

"Jocks" are rather diverse, and often overlap with other cliques in sometimes surprising ways. For example, one of my favorite fellow D&D players was also a football player.

Daryl Sawyer

Clique clock clique clock clique clock...

Daryl Sawyer

It's after 1995 or so; there's a good chance it's an automatic.

Daryl Sawyer

Apparently, literature camp was lit.

Daryl Sawyer

Renee, the proper answer to Elliot's barb is "Yes, I got invited to *the best kind of parties*." Seriously, ain't no life like the social nerd life.

Obliviontoad

So glad to see its not a self driving van in that particular stub... Thats the universe I want to be in.

Am Queue

Is this the first time we've seen Elliot *not* nervous around a crush? o.O

Jon

Elliot can snark. I like it.

Devin Forbes

Balanced, as all things should be. Brunos.

Trigon Manthree

Also in strip 4197 (the second time)

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

In spite of his athletic build and obvious regimen (he mentions "leg day" at least once), Elliot never struck me as a "jock".

Tim Keating

Typo in that last panel -- cinammon instead of cinnamon.

David Pipes

And suddenly my high school life makes an appearance... shudder...

Diptych

Renee's with the chess club, goth club, drama; Brun has got a bad hip, Elliot will lift her; look out, kid, it's something you did...

Stephen Wells

Brun's in the tock tick clock clique; Eliot's in the box truck, drives stick. ...I've had too much coffee today.

Jon Guyer

He’ll drive all the way to CA in 1st gear, if he has to

Captain Button

Picturing The Clock People as the neighbors of The Scientific People in "The Stars My Destination." (See also "Chronopolis" by JG Ballard.)

Ack

The clock clique?

jimbo

definitely not. elliot's right arm is pressed tight in, on his lap

jimbo

followed by rolling eyes. Brun had no clique.

Rémi Beaulieu-Dubé

it's a moving truck, there's high chances the stick shift is build into the steering column~

Bagge

Brun, obviously, was popular with the clock people

Sean

The middle seat means you get the stick-shift in the knees. When a girl is there the driver is sometimes provided with an opportunity to touch their thigh... occasionally whether it was his intention or not!

Satan

nerd popular is the best popular!

Daniel Rydberg

Mr Churchill making an Elliott-blush. That’s hilarious!

SpookyPenguin

Oh I get the Renee-Brun dynamic now, the "popular girl+dowdy girlfriend" one. Except the dowdy girl never cared about popularity and the popular girl is still deluding herself with it.

Damien

*obligatory band camp reference*

Chris Crowther

I didn't even get invited to nerd parties.

EnterTheHero

Hey, don’t knock being nerd popular. It’s more fun than being “popular-popular.”

David J.

+1 for goth

allanfranta

Brun side eye...

Ted Van Roekel

Maybe it's because I identify with him a little too much, but I can see him playing one season of football and getting out because he didn't like the violence and conflict.

I can see him like taking weight training but never playing in any competitive sports.

Chris Heg

Hell, I'm nerd popular now. Lucky nerds become engineers.

Utaku Beta

I didnt even get invited to nerd parties >.> at least until college

Charlotte Grubbs

I aspired to be nerd popular.

Grace Kieser

Damn, Elliot! Serving some harshbrowns!

Julie Scott

Nerd parties were the best.

Matt

He ain't wrong. Just Sassy Sauce(tm) rubbing off on him!

GodsInTheCogs

I love the spicy cinnamon 😄 also I love nerd parties

Mad Marie

Jeph, would you please consider for Halloween this year (or perhaps during Comic-con): QC Characters in Alice Grove cosplay? Elliot is making me think of Mr. Church a little here.