Pussey is a self-important, nerdy superhero comics artist, and the book ends in the future as Pussey dies alone and unloved, with Rebecca and Enid as two bitter crones in his rest home going through his possessions. When they discover his stash of "silly books" (comic books), they wonder, "What would a grown man want with such foolishness?" Enid Coleslaw is also an anagram of "Daniel Clowes". Rebecca Doppelmeyer Rebecca Doppelmeyer is Enid's best friend. Rebecca lives with her grandmother and acts as a caretaker to her. She has a bit more mainstream personality – while Enid enjoys more peculiar things in life, Rebecca enjoys things that most teenage girls of her age would take an interest in; for example, she reads a popular teen magazine, and is also more interested in men, and is described by Enid as "a skinny blonde wasp" and therefore embodies "what every guy wants." Rebecca and Enid spend much of the novel hanging out around the town together and making fun of others. In the end of the novel, Rebecca matures into a sensible young woman and pursues a relationship with Josh in place of her friendship with Enid as the two characters grow apart as they mature from teenagers into young adults. Minor characters Beyond Enid and Rebecca, there are many minor and recurring characters in the comic strip: Josh, a soft-spoken employee at a self-service convenience store. Both Enid and Rebecca are infatuated with him at different points in the story. Melorra, an overachieving, perky and popular classmate of Enid and Rebecca who seems to unexpectedly appear out of the blue wherever Enid and Rebecca may be. Bob Skeetes, an astrologer that early in the book is referred to as the "creepy Don Knotts guy". Oomi, Rebecca's fragile old grandmother, with whom Rebecca lives. Norman, an old man who waits on a bench for a bus that never comes. Enid's somewhat effeminate father and his girlfriend Carol, who resurfaces from Enid's past. Allen, or "Weird Al", the waiter at the fake 1950s diner called Hubba Hubba (the name is changed to Wowsville in the film). John Ellis, an enemy of Enid and Becky's, who often associates with them despite their dislike of him. John Ellis is obsessed with morbid and offensive things, such as Nazis, serial killers, child pornography, guns, circus freaks, torture, snuff films, and so forth. He is referred to