Her smile in panel 3 might be the most detailed smile this chapter– everyone else’s tend to have much simpler shapes. Quite the contrast from Faz’s “are you even emoting or is your face just actually stuck like that” triangle (which she even shares, perhaps sarcastically, in panel 2).
I’m trying to imagine Faz learning to do a smile like that, and it kind of terrifies me. He’ll either fail and land in Uncanny Valley, or he’ll succeed and become unstoppable.
Kathleen
Maybe what he gets is that no matter what emotion she is expressing, she is also smiling on top of that.
Either she had him at 9, 10, or 11 depending on Willis’s claims of Faz being 16 bu reciting a law that impacts him at 14 or 15…or Sarah is off and she’s 33 and older. I seriously hope it’s 33 and older, or else Willis has taken things a bit too far.
Tualha
It’s perfectly possible, though uncommon, for someone in their 50s to still look like they’re in their 20s or 30s. I’m sure she just looks younger than she is.
( I could get away with looking 5-10 years younger in my early-mid 30s…) 😉
Annonymouse
I was still being carded into my late 30’s. When that stopped I realized that I missed it. Turns out that once I had started teaching night-school that I got THE LOOK, [or is it more of a glare?] and those bouncers just did the nope-don’t-wana-die smile as they let me in.
Gvtprtsgvnit
My aunt is in her mid-fifties, and has looked 25 since she turned 30. Her current husband refused to date her for months after they met because he thought she was less than half his age, as opposed to two months older than him.
shikomekidommi
Someone in their 50’s looking like they’re in their 30’s is very rare, but it does happen. Exhibit A) Keanu Reeves.
Faz is 15. So we’ll say he was conceived 16 years ago. So if she’s 35 now, she was 19 when Faz was conceived. If she is younger than that, welp, I’m not doing the math. Maybe Sarah is just really bad at judging age.
I was given (unsolicited) my first senior discount at age 37. I turn 60 this September I’ll let you guess how old I look now. (here’s a hint, I get carded because I don’t look “real”);
Rowen Morland
Maybe you’ll still look good for 50 in 2075, and they’ll be skeletons?
Bruceski
I think it’s mostly that I have thinning hair that, from the wrong angle, looks like REALLY thinning hair that I’m trying to hide.
I’m 32, have a 3 year old, and until like 2-3 years ago, was regularly mistaken for late teens/early 20s. So it definitely happens.
My favorite story was this one time I went to the bank to deposit a check (I was 21 at the time) and someone asked if I was lost and looking for my mom. -_-
feli
Oh gosh, I can relate.
When I was 28 a 19-year old student tried to give me “life advice” until someone told her my age. I also got carded for beer til I was 25 (and here you can get that stuff by the age of 16) and checked every time I went to a bar/disco.
People are still shocked when I tell them I’m actually over 30 now.
Inahc
lol, yeah, when I was 21 I went up to a sample table in Costco and got asked where my parents were. you only have to be *12* to get your own samples.
Lin
I’m 38. And a college professor. I am regularly mistaken for a traditional age undergrad.
SMZ
Once when my wife was going to substitute teach at a middle school, they stopped her and said students weren’t allowed in that early…!
Someone once told me off for not cleaning up my son’s toys in public. They were baby toys and the boy in question was six (and clearly not using them). He was my brother, and I was nine.
It’ll probably be a “split the difference” situation, where she’s definitely older than 25, but not old enough to avoid really uncomfortable questions. That just seems to be the pattern.
Liliet
that’s what I’m thinking
Annonymouse
Maybe she has that Asian mom gene where she looks like 20 something till she hits 60+ where she shrinks to half here height, twice her width, turns grey and wrinkly [ref Shampoo’s grandma Cologne]
Sup, still-getting-ID’d-at-30 buddy. I found it helps to act grumpy and confused about what’s popular these days. (As a somewhat obtuse example, what’s that Fork Knife game all the kids are playing on their phones, a cooking game? What happened to accessing Newgrounds via Anonymouse in the library to get around the content filter?)
I complain loudly about how confusing Bitcoin and Snapchat are, yet still get mistaken for an early 20-something at 32. 😐
I also regularly get the people with me (my 34 year old husband included) carded by the mere fact that if I am with them people assume we MUST all be underage.
ǝ snow ʍousɐ
The chain of commenters with Dina as an avatar who are in their early thirties and look ten years younger is really weird.
Come to think of it, someone mistook me for 12 earlier this year. I’m 22. (But I don’t have Dina as my avatar last time I checked.)
I was ID’d – and not just out of officiousness – at the age of 36. I’ve also had people be stunned that I have x years of experience. Had one guy ask me “What, did you start working in Middle School?”. I liked him.
My dad always loves to tell this story of this time his mom was trying to buy alcohol and got carded and replied all indignant, “My dear sir, I am 52!”
Apparently looking young runs in the family (my dad’s almost 70 now and definitely doesn’t look it).
For a while, neo-nazis used a browser extension that put ((())) around the names of known jewish people and people with jewish names. When this went public, a lot of non-nazis started manually adding ((())) around their names to confuse the issue. Most people have reverted now(a jewish friend actually asked me to stop, as it was an unpleasant reminder to her), but some haven’t bothered.
272 thoughts on “Yuri”
Ana Chronistic
congrats on making that mental image EVEN WORSE, Sarah
Achallenger
Have you met Sarah?
Achallenger
What’s the worst possible net situation? Let’s just assume that
Rowen Morland
Faz and Yuri can merge, combiner style, to form an eight legged slash daemon for Amber to write about?
Gigafreak
She spent nine months getting him detached from herself and you want him to stick back on?
Rowen Morland
It’s not a feature, it’s a bug.
AnvilPro
Faz’ mom also seems pretty great
Puckish Rogue
Definitely a character that hopefully gets some more apperances
Gigafreak
Her smile in panel 3 might be the most detailed smile this chapter– everyone else’s tend to have much simpler shapes. Quite the contrast from Faz’s “are you even emoting or is your face just actually stuck like that” triangle (which she even shares, perhaps sarcastically, in panel 2).
I’m trying to imagine Faz learning to do a smile like that, and it kind of terrifies me. He’ll either fail and land in Uncanny Valley, or he’ll succeed and become unstoppable.
Kathleen
Maybe what he gets is that no matter what emotion she is expressing, she is also smiling on top of that.
Side One
Maybe that’s where he gets it from.
Rukdug
…oh dear.
Mr. Mendo
Faz’s mom has got it going on!
Felix
Heck yeah!
Seriously how’d she manage t spawn something as *shudders* horrible as Faz?
Some1
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-12-26
WikiDreamer
Have we NOT met the human garbage barge that IS the father they unfortunately share?
drs
Blair isn’t Faz’s father in this universe.
drs
Or Blaine, rather.
King Daniel
For what it’s worth, I’ll bet that “Blair” isn’t Faz’s bio-dad, either.
HeySo
The true horror of the “Blair- Which? project” has only just come to light.
Felix
oh and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4
Pablo360
As a Fountains of Wayne fan it saddens me that that is the only song of theirs most people will ever hear
SgtWadeyWilson
Don’t worry, I’ll sink to the bottom with you.
HeySo
Don’t give out, don’t give up-
One of these nights you might find someone to love [Fountains of Wayne along with you].
:Puts Coldplay on, pours a glass of wine:
Mr. Mendo
It doesn’t really matter, ‘cuz we’ll all be double over with laughter! 😉
shadowcell
the greatness of Faz is matrilineal
Derek
I am concern about when she gave birth to Faz
Doctor_Who
Let’s hope Sarah’s estimate is off by at least a few years.
LookingIn
Either she had him at 9, 10, or 11 depending on Willis’s claims of Faz being 16 bu reciting a law that impacts him at 14 or 15…or Sarah is off and she’s 33 and older. I seriously hope it’s 33 and older, or else Willis has taken things a bit too far.
Tualha
It’s perfectly possible, though uncommon, for someone in their 50s to still look like they’re in their 20s or 30s. I’m sure she just looks younger than she is.
Joe Covenant
40’s, yeah.
50’s is maybe pushing it! 🙂
( I could get away with looking 5-10 years younger in my early-mid 30s…) 😉
Annonymouse
I was still being carded into my late 30’s. When that stopped I realized that I missed it. Turns out that once I had started teaching night-school that I got THE LOOK, [or is it more of a glare?] and those bouncers just did the nope-don’t-wana-die smile as they let me in.
Gvtprtsgvnit
My aunt is in her mid-fifties, and has looked 25 since she turned 30. Her current husband refused to date her for months after they met because he thought she was less than half his age, as opposed to two months older than him.
shikomekidommi
Someone in their 50’s looking like they’re in their 30’s is very rare, but it does happen. Exhibit A) Keanu Reeves.
Mr. Anderson
She just has very good skin.
jeffepp
Wen gave birth to Faz?!
King Daniel
Wen, did this happen?
Viktoria
Faz is 15. So we’ll say he was conceived 16 years ago. So if she’s 35 now, she was 19 when Faz was conceived. If she is younger than that, welp, I’m not doing the math. Maybe Sarah is just really bad at judging age.
Melissa in Missouri
Maybe she is just one of those women who look younger than she is.
brionl
There’s one lady I work with, who I was sure was in her late 20’s, early 30’s tops. Turns out she’s got a 24 yo daughter and is 50.
Bruceski
Meanwhile I turn 36 in a few months and people say I look good for 50.
Opus the Poet
I was given (unsolicited) my first senior discount at age 37. I turn 60 this September I’ll let you guess how old I look now. (here’s a hint, I get carded because I don’t look “real”);
Rowen Morland
Maybe you’ll still look good for 50 in 2075, and they’ll be skeletons?
Bruceski
I think it’s mostly that I have thinning hair that, from the wrong angle, looks like REALLY thinning hair that I’m trying to hide.
autogatos
I’m 32, have a 3 year old, and until like 2-3 years ago, was regularly mistaken for late teens/early 20s. So it definitely happens.
My favorite story was this one time I went to the bank to deposit a check (I was 21 at the time) and someone asked if I was lost and looking for my mom. -_-
feli
Oh gosh, I can relate.
When I was 28 a 19-year old student tried to give me “life advice” until someone told her my age. I also got carded for beer til I was 25 (and here you can get that stuff by the age of 16) and checked every time I went to a bar/disco.
People are still shocked when I tell them I’m actually over 30 now.
Inahc
lol, yeah, when I was 21 I went up to a sample table in Costco and got asked where my parents were. you only have to be *12* to get your own samples.
Lin
I’m 38. And a college professor. I am regularly mistaken for a traditional age undergrad.
SMZ
Once when my wife was going to substitute teach at a middle school, they stopped her and said students weren’t allowed in that early…!
Portland
Someone once told me off for not cleaning up my son’s toys in public. They were baby toys and the boy in question was six (and clearly not using them). He was my brother, and I was nine.
DrunkenNordmann
She probably just looks like 25.
Zerelly
Everyone always thinks Asian people look younger than they really are. My brother is 28 and he still gets consistently carded.
King Daniel
So if Yuri is twenty-five years old, and Faz is fifteen/sixteen years old…dear goodness I hope Sarah’s math is off.
King Daniel
Not physically impossible, but really really concerning and also dear me pass the brain bleach please?
K^2
It’ll probably be a “split the difference” situation, where she’s definitely older than 25, but not old enough to avoid really uncomfortable questions. That just seems to be the pattern.
Liliet
that’s what I’m thinking
Annonymouse
Maybe she has that Asian mom gene where she looks like 20 something till she hits 60+ where she shrinks to half here height, twice her width, turns grey and wrinkly [ref Shampoo’s grandma Cologne]
Icalasari
Either that, or we’ll get an explanation comic later titled Loli and all have faces resembling The Scream
FLUFFYWOLF
Don’t think too hard about it.
Inahc
Hopefully she just *looks* 25. Like me – I’m 33 and still getting ID’d.
Mitsukara
Considering that adult Faz (even at a presumed age of 20-something by the end) in Shortpacked still looks 12, I find that pretty plausible here.
LookingIn
…gravatar win on so many levels
Needfuldoer
Sup, still-getting-ID’d-at-30 buddy. I found it helps to act grumpy and confused about what’s popular these days. (As a somewhat obtuse example, what’s that Fork Knife game all the kids are playing on their phones, a cooking game? What happened to accessing Newgrounds via Anonymouse in the library to get around the content filter?)
Don’t laugh. It will happen to you.
StClair
ha, you kids, growing up with/on the internet.
autogatos
I complain loudly about how confusing Bitcoin and Snapchat are, yet still get mistaken for an early 20-something at 32. 😐
I also regularly get the people with me (my 34 year old husband included) carded by the mere fact that if I am with them people assume we MUST all be underage.
ǝ snow ʍousɐ
The chain of commenters with Dina as an avatar who are in their early thirties and look ten years younger is really weird.
Come to think of it, someone mistook me for 12 earlier this year. I’m 22. (But I don’t have Dina as my avatar last time I checked.)
Delicious Taffy
Don’t worry, I don’t understand how to play Bitcoin, either. Apparently, it requires a high-end graphics card, so it must have some amazing visuals.
Just Karen
I was ID’d – and not just out of officiousness – at the age of 36. I’ve also had people be stunned that I have x years of experience. Had one guy ask me “What, did you start working in Middle School?”. I liked him.
autogatos
My dad always loves to tell this story of this time his mom was trying to buy alcohol and got carded and replied all indignant, “My dear sir, I am 52!”
Apparently looking young runs in the family (my dad’s almost 70 now and definitely doesn’t look it).
(((Mkvenner)))
*Dry Heaving violently*
Derek
what’s with the triple parentheses on your name?
Viktoria
For a while, neo-nazis used a browser extension that put ((())) around the names of known jewish people and people with jewish names. When this went public, a lot of non-nazis started manually adding ((())) around their names to confuse the issue. Most people have reverted now(a jewish friend actually asked me to stop, as it was an unpleasant reminder to her), but some haven’t bothered.