Yeah… All that Michelle’s doing is “peer pressure”. Good to know.

It’s funny how continuity and details in the strips background change. In the early days of the strips, one of the running gags in the strip was how Nancy was a terror. She was able to push everybody around, even Fedya. Since Fedya is the kind of person who smiles when people are pointing guns at him, this seemed more unlikely every time I thought about it.

I think this is a much more likely explanation.