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Sass
Posted on April 15, 2018 by David M Willis

132 thoughts on “Sass”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    Next: Faz tries opening his eyes

    CREEPUNCHABLE FACTOR X9999999

    1. Ana Chronistic

      alt:”Everything is punchable if you believe in yourself!”

      1. Stephen Bierce

        The Italian restaurant in the town I live in, their sign says “Any pizza can be a personal pizza if you believe in yourself.” How Fazolian.

        1. Doctor_Who

          Is that a pun? If so, well done.

        2. TachyonCode

          It’s true. I once ate an entire 24″ pizza myself. It was extremely personal.

        3. Schpoonman

          Goddamn. What a mighty need.

        4. Genriu

          Best gravatar.

        5. Needfuldoer

          Ah, to be a teenager with a bottomless pit for a stomach again…

    2. tim gueguen

      “Eyes? Faz has no need for such primitive producers of vision.”

    3. shadowcell

      Pokemon: Brock Begins

      1. JessWitt

        Oh gods, I hate associating Brock with Faz but the proof is there.

      2. tim gueguen

        “Brock’s dad was from another universe? That probably explains a few things.”

    4. Kris

      I think it’s the opposite. We aren’t ready for open eye Faz.

      1. Needfuldoer

        It’s already happened once, in the old universe.

  2. AnvilPro

    Faz is great.

    1. Nomothehomo

      o shit

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Faz is new best character.

      1. Deanatay

        … for punching!

  3. King Daniel

    What Faz doesn’t have, cannot be punched

  4. BBCC

    That alt text though. I can’t unsee it.

    Good way to undo any good will I had for him before.

    1. Regalli

      I think Willis might have actually based that last face off the court sketch of Shkreli? I remember it looking pretty close to that. (You can find an impartial jury, but you don’t need an impartial court artist, I think the joke went.)

      1. Regalli

        Misremembering. Somehow Faz looks even creepier.

      2. marianne

        The sketch singular, Regalli? I did a google image search and while the first result is I’m guessing the one you mean, there… doesn’t seem to be a single sketch of Shkreli where he doesn’t look incredibly smug and punchable.

  5. vividgrim

    just slap an eggplant emoji on his face. that’s way better while still being accurate

    1. Doctor_Who

      Faz is the eggplant emoji made flesh.

  6. shadowcell

    one aspect of faz’s greatness is that it can be expressed in only two facial expressions

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      All we need now is a graph to depict it.

  7. Cattleprod

    Joyce, you’re in no position to triangle-smile shame anyone.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Single-Giant-tooth-platedness is a serious condition that affects tens of Americans.

  8. Barduwulf

    At least he’s somewhat self aware…..

    1. Kamino Neko

      An upgrade from the other universe.

      1. Doctor_Who

        He was capable of killing lions in the other universe. Let’s throw this one to some and see if that holds true here!

        1. Bathymetheus

          What have lions ever done to you?

        2. The Chosen One

          Nothing, and if we play our cards right, they never will!

  9. DarkoNeko

    glorious smirk.

    Also, thinking about it? Joyce could only travel so far thanks to.. Faz ? What did the world come to ?

  10. Passchendaele

    haha that smile isn’t creepy at all. on an unrelated note, where’s my flamethrower.

  11. newllend(henryvolt)

    Didn’t know it was actually physically possible for him to change his physical expression, up till now I thought it was like some sort of condition.

  12. Regalli

    Unfortunately, the medication for Shkreliface was jacked up by 1000% about two years ago.

    1. Godfather

      *laughs, then cries*

      1. Roborat

        I never really understood what he was trying to accomplish jacking up the price. The generic version of that drug is quite cheap and widely available.

  13. Stephen Bierce

    *plays “Enjoy The Silence” on the hacked Muzak*

  14. Arawn

    Faz is coming off as strangely human and kind of relate-able. What is this world coming to?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      It’s a sign of the Apocalypse.

  15. Professor Fate

    The creepy is strong with this one. Seriously, did the little dude slip his leash, or what? The last time I saw a smile like that was on Pennywise the Clown in “IT”.

    1. cbwroses

      Which version?

  16. Yumi

    On today’s episode of things that are wrong with me, I instantly started shipping this front desk person with Asma.

    1. King Daniel

      Am I to assume that Asma is in an open relationship then, since Asma isn’t even tagged?

      1. Yumi

        I…don’t understand your comment.

        1. King Daniel

          …I thought you were shipping the person asking at the front desk with Asma, not the person behind the front desk. I feel ultra silly now.

        2. Godfather

          I’m so lost. Are we in Narnia now?

        3. Roborat

          Let me check my chart.

      2. Pat

        I have no idea how any of those things are connected.

      3. Bathymetheus

        @Daniel: The person behind the desk is clearly not Asma – wrong skin tone, no hijab. So she cannot be tagged, she isn’t in the scene. So whatever weird inference you are drawing from the lack of a tag is unjustified.

        1. Godfather

          Out of complete confusion comes the idea of a queer hijabi romance, unless the person at the desk identifies as male.

          Either way, I’m so down with this ocean. Let’s get a story started!!!

    2. Bagge

      I don’t SHIP them exactly…

      But I hope they meat up for a coffee once a week to complain about the residents.

      “One of mine ORDERED A 1 METER TALL DILDO!”

      1. Yumi

        It’s a slow burn romance that starts with meeting for coffee and will burn beyond the length of the comic.

        1. BBCC

          I like the way you think, you’re hired.

        2. Rukdug

          I really, really like this idea.

        3. Bagge

          I knew there was a reason I liked her
          https://twitter.com/damnyouwillis/status/985545539767939074

        4. Yumi

          Guess who I am on Twitter, honestly

        5. Roborat

          Who are you kidding, the heat death of the universe won’t outlast this comic.

  17. Vangeln

    What if he puts a paper box over his face?

    1. SgtWadeyWilson

      Covering up a creepy face with a paper container… Where have I seen that before?

      Have you ever had a Chao Garden, by any chance?

    2. Roborat

      Then draws the same triangle smile on the box.

  18. Bathymetheus

    Having Shkreli-face is certainly a real problem. Not sure I’d call it medical, though.

    1. John Smith

      For a start, it’s a significant risk factor for being Shkreli.

      1. Clif

        Um.

  19. MM

    Oh, Dorothy. Now is not a good time to be single.

  20. DailyBrad

    Faz is probably earnestly trying right now, and that’s kinda sad.

    1. BenRG

      Sad, yes, but also heartening. He clearly really wants to impress Joyce and there is an element of sweetness to that.

  21. Tacos

    You could always punch some new facial expressions onto his face.

  22. C.T Phipps

    Faz is a sexual tyrannosaur.

    If only Dinah was single.

    1. Bagge

      He already tried to ‘woe’ that one.

      Wasn’t super effective.

      1. Yumi

        I don’t know if this is a typo or not, since while “woo” is more what he tried to do, causing “woe” was much more the effect.

        1. Bagge

          It WAS a typo… but I honestly like it better this way.

    2. Fart Captor

      What did Dina do to you to deserve this

      1. wwwhhattt

        Her best

        1. Fart Captor

          D:<

  23. Vukodlk

    Joyce “Do you have anything non-punchable”
    Faz “I do not”
    Me: “Just like Martin Shkrrli“

  24. JessWitt

    Put a plain-colored surgical mask on Faz. That’s one problem solved.

    1. Khyrin

      draw a normal smile on it at least. otherwise it’ll look like he has no lips.

  25. Bagge

    Sassy Faz might be the least intolerable Faz so far.

    1. cbwroses

      I had the same thought.

    2. Dean

      I am 1000% in favor of sassy Faz.

  26. D.S

    At least he admits his facial expressions are punch-able. Also, Joyce seems to be able to reign him in. Guess it speaks to her level of patience/tolerance?

  27. Caesaria82

    And he disrespected the Wu Tang Clan.

  28. cbwroses

    This is the most I’ve ever liked Faz in any universe (and by liked I mean slightly past indifference).
    I definitely prefer Sassy Faz to Creepy Faz any day of the week.

  29. Jess

    Theory time.
    What if the bit of hair covering Faz’s face is covering a black eye from Blaine?
    Ya know, since Amber actually beat him up, it could be Blaine’s way of showing an amount of dominance somewhere.
    Thus Faz’s current escape to the person that got away from the shitstorm that is Blaine.

    Just a thought.

    1. Jess

      OH
      I’m Sal!
      THAT’S AWESOME! 😀

    2. cbwroses

      That’s possible. And has two horrible implications.
      1. Since I think he’s always had that hair, it would imply that he’s been hiding his black eyes for at least as long as we’ve seen him and probably longer.
      2. It makes him saying he has no look that isn’t punchable less funny and more sad as he could literally believe that based off the abuse.

      1. HeySo

        And here we thought Ethan coming in to turn off the lights would be sexyfuntimes, but instead everything just got really dark. o.o

      2. Dan Skelley

        Oh lord Joyce would be reduced to tears to find out Blaine had hit him.

    3. LoookingIn

      Damnit, you just had to go and make Faz into a sympathetic kid! Now we can’t really hate him since it’s all a coping mechanism for his abuse!

      That does make sense, and Willis hasn’t shied away from that kind of shock before…

    4. Bathymetheus

      One of the things I find truly awesome about this comment section – and also unbearably sad – is that almost everybody here understands abuse, and what it does to people.

  30. Keulen

    Faz is approaching Ted Cruz levels of punchable.

  31. Foxhack

    *sees that last panel*

    JoaquinCruzReactingBadlyToTV.gif

    1. Foxhack

      … Not Joaquin Cruz, wtf? Joaquin Phoenix.

      Dammit, brain

  32. Rukdug

    It’s interesting that he’s listening so well. To me it says that Faz isn’t self-absorbed with being a creep like everyone’s comments have implied to me he was in the other comic in the Willis Multiverse, but desperately wants to interact with people. He instead seems really isolated and out of touch, and if the abuse theories are true, it’s incredibly sad and gives me even more reasons to hate Blaine.

  33. Maggie

    It’s promising that he is trying at least. Maybe there is hope for this version of Faz.

  34. NinjaNick

    He could’ve done the Cheshire cat grin and become near invisible.

    1. Needfuldoer

      A floating Faz grin won’t help reduce his creepiness, that’s where it’s all expressed.

  35. BenRG

    Faz’s self-awareness in this strip is actually quite disturbing! So, who is it that Joyce knows in Forest? Lucy maybe?

    1. Clif

      Billie .

      1. thejeff

        This might however be the long awaited meeting of Lucy and Joyce. Can the campus survive that level of adorableness?

    2. cbwroses

      Yeah, like Clif said, it’s Billie. She hasn’t met Lucy as far as we know.
      She probably wants Billie’s opinion on what Joe said abou Sarah, or possibly about Joe’s potential feelings for her.
      Or both.

  36. Ainara

    AAAAAH!

  37. Captain Ahab - He's a Hero!

    Holy sheeshkebab, that wee buttnugget does look like Shrekli…

  38. Dave M

    Hmm, Faz has a connection to Amber.
    Amber pawns off Faz to Joe as there is a possible future connection between them.
    Joe pawns off Faz to Joyce.
    Thus proving the Joyce/Joe connection isn’t mere shipping, the comic itself symbolically supports it!

    (screaming while being restrained in a straight jacket and dragged off by men in white coats) “It’s not shipping! it’s subtext!” 🙂

    1. Khyrin

      if I follow that…
      You are suggesting Amber/Joe/Joyce polyamory? or just friendshipping?

  39. Tawdry Quirks

    So, can Sassy Faz make syntactically awesome stylesheets?

  40. Nenja

    Well that’s even creepier.

  41. Coma

    Well… at least he’s honest and self-aware to a certain part!

  42. Liliet

    This relationship is so precious and pure. I love the un-corrupting influence Joyce has on everyone who comes in contact with her <3

    1. Bagge

      That is the truth.

      Well… except ToeDad – but it’s not for her lack of trying.

      And her plan B was pretty nice as well.

  43. Harry

    hah hah he does look like shkreli

  44. Hey

    This is the 69th strip of “Fax is Great”.

    I note this milestone in honor of Faz.

    1. Needfuldoer

      Isn’t a group of 69 anythings together called a Nice?

  45. Vulcanodon

    Strongly suspect that for Faz, being punched is not hypothetical or at all humorous.

    1. Deanatay

      He’s clearly gone through extensive testing.

    2. thejeff

      Maybe?

      He has talked about violence against him as a turn on, which just gets even more disturbing if he’s a physical abuse victim.

  46. Deanatay

    Wait! They’re going into Forrest Quad! To meet Billie, I suppose.

    Does that mean… Faz might meet Zaph?

    *annihilation levels Forrest Quad*

  47. ProfessorDetective

    At least he seems to be making a genuine effort… And the suspicion is back!

  48. creativerealms

    He is more self aware then I expected.

  49. abysswatcher1993

    Faz is an SCP!!!! That or he is just a jerk.

  50. Godfather

    HE DOES LOOK LIKE SHKRELI!!!!

  51. Yumi

    Everyone vote for the Forest Quad desk clerk for the Patreon strip so that I can potentially get a new Gravatar.
    Or don’t. Your choice. (Do it.)

  52. H3xx

    Faz is the love child of Ted Cruz and Martin Shkreli…

  53. ischemgeek

    Bahahahaha.

    Also every.single.person I have met who has Shrekli-face is a massive asshole. It is like being a massive fucknozzle imprints itself on your face.

  54. Ed Rhodes

    Completely off topic for this particular strip, I’m watching “Little Big Shot,” And the first guest is a kid musician/singer named Tai. In showing a video of him starting out in music, there’s a shot of Tai about 8 or 9, standing on a table playing a blue ukulele and wearing a newsboy cap!

  55. Keith Curtis

    Am I the only one that likes the interaction between Faz and Joyce? I don’t think I have ever seen Faz try to modify his behavior for anyone. Or even to acknowledge that it could be modified. The Force is strong with her.

  56. Roborat

    I am disappointed. I was hoping for a triangle smile dominance contest.

  57. PB

    I did not know who Martin Shkreli was before this comic. Having image-searched him, that is indeed one punchable face.

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