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Back in his college days, Igor was known as the HBOC.
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Hunch Back on Campus?
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
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Hunch Back of Our College?
But yours makes more sense.
It's a reference to BMOC, or "Big Man on Campus".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big%20man%20on%20campus
an important and well-known person especially at a school
The quarterback of the football team is a real big man on campus.
Fun fact: this comic is how I learned about the term when I was a kid. I had to ask my mom to explain it.
Here's where it gets weird though... There's a 1989 movie called Big Man on Campus (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Man_on_Campus) which is based (loosely) on the Hunchback of Notre Dame and that even has the alternate title The Hunchback of UCLA.
This comic came out in 1993, so maybe Larson was inspired by the movie?
I figured as much. Mine only works if he's at Notre Dame University, and it's a pretty oblique joke.