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What Happens At The End Of The Eltingville Club?

The series just seems to stop after the Dark Horse Comics run—I need the final fate of Evan Dorkin's bitter fanboy quartet. Does the last comic or special resolve anything?
2026-03-25 16:47:40
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Rebecca Baker
Rebecca Baker
The Eltingville Club concludes its series of stories about a group ofJerry old men stuck in their own obsessive nerd culture. After losing their clubhouse in a disastrous trip to go to a con, they are in the end banished from Comic-Con for all time. This is not change. This is not growth. And if you’re looking for stories about ultimate confrontations and last ends, I just finished reading The Rich Man’s Game: It’s Over. The entire story follows a billionaire playing his one final, high-stakes game to pay off his life’s debts with the possibility of winning his freedom, or losing everything and being ruined for good.
2026-07-31
Owen
Owen
The Finale of ‘The Eltingville Club’ is a glorious dumpster fire of comeuppance. The conariantgatekeeping, the childhood arrogance on full display of the Eltingville Club, all lead to one tragic end: their hardcore, obsessive, fandom-obsession finally turns in on itself and devolves into self-destructive chaos. In a particularly sharp and savage sequence of scenes, the once-tight-knit crew of “usual suspects” has their fragile alliances shattered at the con. Evan’s carefully curated comic is trashed. Pete’s boundless ego is utterly, fatally, destroyed. And, in a tour-de-force of craptastic human emotion, Josh has a total meltdown. The sad, hollow, & emptiness-fueled argument that ensues in the abandoned, crowded convention-center-hallway between the 4 Eltingville Club members? Each one furiously maintaining that they are, in fact, the “greatest fan” of whatever-it-is-that-they-love, is, alas, piercingly familiar. And not just as something that exists only in comic-books, either. We’ve ALL seen variants of this kind of ugliness play out within various online (and IRL) communities & subsets of similarly-besotted super-fans & obsessees. And it’s all just, alas, ampersandsnd MAJOR. No resolution. No closure. No hugging it out. Just the empty, hollow & bitter end-result of their own damned, insular, nit-picky, obsessive, addicited, demented & suffocating World-of-Fandom: they’re all just a bunch of idiots,finally left with nothing but the ruining of their own fandom, each still pointlessly arguing with each other in a deserted, crowded convention center hallway long after all else has been reduced to rubble.
2026-03-26
Kevin
Kevin
Total annihilation. The Eltingville Club finally gets to practice what they really do best at their latest “annual” “convention”: Blind greed causes the to try to take each other down during the trivia and collectible awards contest. In the ensuing bedlam Evan’s stack of comic books goes up in flames, Pete gets embarrassed in front of others and The Eltingville Club gets to individually see what total annihilation REALLY looks like. They each are left alone, still ranting and raving about how they and they alone are the biggest, most die-hard fans of whatever obscure item of nerd culture of which they were the biggest fan. (Very funny, like a car crash of monomaniacal geek entitlement. No lesson learned, just fun to watch).
2026-03-27
Jade
Jade
The ending of The Eltingville Club by Leah Moore was just a chaotic and darkly hilarious exploration of the end of The Eltingville Club as they went to a con as a group of fans of comics, anime and collecting. After years of behaving ridiculously, their enormous catalogue of petty insults and behaviors finally led to a total meltdown and they started to sabotage each other’s prizes, including Evan’s rare comic book. As the book comes to a close the end shows the Eltingville Club members, each and every one of them, vastly alone as they are convinced that they are better than everyone else. It was bleak but in some way cathartic and in many ways it was a fitting end to a group of such insufferable dorks in which their dorkiness had evolved into a full scale war.

It’s a trainwreck that you can’t help but look at. There’s no redeeming value here, no lessons learned, just the deconstruction of the most obnoxious aspects of fandom and the stereotypes we see in everyday life among fans who take themselves way too seriously. The comic draws out these aspects to their absolute and most cartoonish extremes in horrible, hateful and disgusting fashion, but it’s just so over the top and cartoonish.
2026-03-28
Nora
Nora
Wow, that ending was so terrifically awful. The Eltingville Unitized Platonic Solids Club finally collapses under the weight of their respective toxicities after all that time. And what better place for them to completely fall apart than at a big ol’ con? Yeah, it all unravels because of a little contest and in the end, all of the guys are alone (save for their clothing, luggage, etc.) and respectively cannot stop yammering on about how they are so much better than everyone else. It’s so awful and incredibly saddening all at once. A complete and utter crash and burn of elitism, fantastic. The comic is a total, brutal and hilarious roast, and I loved every bit of it.
2026-03-29

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