How Old are The Eltingville Club Now? (aka, Potential Eltingville age/birth year canons)
So, to start they are around 16-18 years old during the time of the main events of the comics/pilot (I'm throwing 18 in there because of a tweet by Evan Dorkin stating that by the time of the zombie crawl story they are college aged, though there are lines in the comic that contradict this).
My personal head-canon is that they are 17 in the main comics and they are 27 in the epilogue.
Every comic takes place in the exact year they were written, so that the commentary aligns with what was popular at the time. This means that there is no solid year that the comic takes place in. It goes by Simpsons/South park logic, where the characters are always the same age despite the years changing. That being said, I want to see what their theoretical ages would be now and their birth years just based on the years the comics came out. I find generational differences interesting, so I'm going to calculate the potential birth years of the Eltingville Club based on the years the comics came out. I know that there is no official year, and that the comics go through time skips, but this is just something I find interesting.
For the sake of these calculations, we will be assuming they are 17.
The Oldest Possible Year of Birth is 1977
(Which Would Make Them Gen X's)
The first comic strip featuring them came out in 1994. If we assume they are 17 at the time, that would mean that they were born around 1977, which would make them Generation X which Is kinda interesting to think about. I guess nerds really don't change.
This would also mean today they would be around 47 years old now. Damn!
The Potential Birth Year in The Pilotverse is 1985
(Which Would Make Them Millennials)
The pilot came out in 2002, and because The Eltingville Club always reflects the year in which it is written we will be assuming that the pilot takes place in 2002. Assuming they are 17 since they are either junior or seniors, this would put their birth year at approximately 1985.
Which would make them around 39 today.
The Youngest Potential Year of Birth Would Be 1997
(Which Would Make Them Early Gen Z's)
"This Fan This Monster" is the last story in which we see them as teenagers. This story is also the first one to mention social media and have characters pull out smart phones.
The story came out in 2014, and by subtracting 17 from that number, their approximate birth year would be 1997.
This would make them 27 today! Which would mean the events of the epilogue would happen this year (2024).
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