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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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”);
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. -_-
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.
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.
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.
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.
I got mistaken for a 13 year old at 21, almost 22. I’m supposed to be the spitting image of my grandmother, who didn’t stop getting consistently carded until she was in her 30s or 40s. Drinking age is 19.
So she has an Asian given name and an Irish married name… I’ve been binge-watching Deep Space 9 lately, so I’ll assume Rosalind Chao is her voice actress for the DoA animated series.
Faz is great in much the same way as a newborn puppy that cannot yet open it’s eyes, but because all he sees are the eyelids of Faz he beholds only greatness.
The eyes must come from Blaine’s side of the family, all his kids but Amber have them and she can fake them. Maybe it came from one of his parents and skipped him.
I don’t know why, but I suddenly got the feeling you were talking out of Joyce’s butt, like Ace Ventura.
Is that what you’re going for, or is it just a weird thought on my part?
—Go crazy, baby!
Yasashi sugiru yo anata
Kirawarete mo Tooshitai
Yume ga aru hazu… Don’t worry, baby!
Okotte kuretemo ii yo
Nante yatsu to ima koko de ‘Cause you are my friend!–“By Yourself”, the theme of the de facto second season of Dirty Pair, and my favorite song associated with the franchise
Ideally 33-going-on-34 minimum, given that she’s the mother of a 15-year-old and all that. (Yes, I know teen pregnancies are a thing, I said “ideally.”)
Also, okay, so that’s where the Smile(tm) comes from.
1. The time between the strip title loading and the actual strip loading was probably one of the most anticipatory experiences I’ve had reading this strip.
2. I always hate when people give assessments of parents (like “nice and normal”) after an interaction of all of two seconds. Sarah did say “seems,” so there’s that. And really, people do this with others all the time, it just especially bothers me when it comes to parents.
2. seriously though! Especially since most of my friend group grew up with…. let’s just say “less than stellar” parents, and yet most of said parents seemed perfectly nice if you just ran into them at Walmart for two seconds. (Not saying that Faz’s mother is one of those parents or anything. Hopefully she really is nice. I’m just saying, my hackles get instinctively raised by two-second assessments like that, haha.)
To be fair – the truly awful parents of this comic had us all screaming bloody murder after their first strip. Just look back at the first Blaine-strip…
(To be less silly, I completely agree. And the ability of horrible parents to present as respectable is a huge hurdle for the people suffering under them. Just ask Becky.)
i just say “seems nice” for everyone’s parents because i also hate pretty much everyone’s parents. it’s a default thing at this point and it rarely gets overridden.
Except of course for the cases where there were plenty of defenders long after it was clear. People thought Ross might just be misunderstood until the gun came out.
In this case though, it might be by contrast with Faz, who is clearly not “nice and normal” from the moment you meet him.
I don’t know why but Yuri sorta reminds me of Carmen Sandiego ~_~
Also I hope Sarah’s age assessment is wrong and she’s much older because if she’s 25 and her kid is 15-ish then that’d mean she was pregnant when she was anywhere from 9-11 years old.
And say what?
She’s got no direct evidence of abuse that we know of. We don’t know if Faz will support any allegations she makes.
And Blaine will likely retaliate against Faz if she does so and CPS doesn’t actually separate them.
Blaine seems to be mostly a emotional abuser, which is much harder to get action against – you can’t just show them the bruises or the neglected kid.
Amber addresses Fax with constant hostility and contempt, manhandles him, disparages him to others in his hearing, and openly tries to get rid of him as quickly as possible, even to the extent of just shoving him into an elevator. But she’s nicer to him than his mother is.
To be fair, we know Faz annoys Amber because he thinks that’s how beloved siblings should interact. So he probably takes a lot her hostility as just familial attention – something he really seems starved for.
It’s not clear when Amber was able to get in touch with her. There were a couple comments early on about not being able to reach her, so probably not until after her nap.
Not sure where she was or why she was unreachable, of course, but that doesn’t necessarily mean neglect. Faz may even have timed his excursion for when he knew she wouldn’t be easily available.
She could be a teen mom, really youthful looking or both. Maybe she gave birth not younger than 16 but still manages to look 25.
And omg she has the same smile XD
I’m sure you are great and all, and I’m very glad to see that you seem to perform at least adequately as a parent (especially in light of his ‘sucks to be abandoned’ comment), but I do have a request I would be very grateful if you could adhere to.
As Faz’ mom, please never – NEVER – use the world “nail” in any context involving Faz. Ever.
I didn’t read it as ‘cold’, moreso as ‘frustrated’. Although like you said Faz certainly made suggestions about her being not so great so I’d recommend keeping an eye on her. Assuming she ever shows up again.
I think I’m more curious about what Yuri’s last name is. In Shortpacked the joke was that Faz’s full name was Faz O Lee since he resembled some kid Willis thought looked obnoxious in their advertisements. I’m not sure if Yuri Lee is a play on anything.
There is a Korean sitcom character named Lee Yoo-ri (an alternate transliteration of the same names), but I somehow suspect that Willis isn’t up on Korean sitcoms…
….. okay, I’m too tired to dig through old SP! archives, but uh, is this the first time Faz’s mom has ever been depicted in the Willisverse at large???
It wouldn’t be biologically impossible just very very unlikely. She is likely at least a bit older than Sarah’s estimation though or this arc is taking an extremely dark turn.
It violates a LOT of heavy Western social mores, but it’s entirely possible for a 10-year old girl to get pregnant, sadly. In parts of America, I don’t think it’s even illegal.
Yeah, as I recall the youngest medically-recorded human pregnancy was at age five (I say this with a bit of vomit in my mouth). Apparently her dad raped her but was never convicted for it, and the kid was brought up believing that his biological mother was his “sister”, not finding out the truth until he was much older.
Actually, while I have heard of that, the father was only SUSPECTED of having committed child sexual abuse, it wasn’t confirmed and the biological father of the child wasn’t actually identified. Paternity testing wasn’t really accurate at the time (he was born in 1939) and didn’t start getting better until the 1960’s so they didn’t have the evidence to say who raped her (by statistics it was still likely someone who knew her, but there is no conclusive way to tell precisely who, especially now as her son died in 1979).
Yuri is a beautiful woman although, given that she had a relationship of some sorts with Blaine, she clearly has a rotten taste in men. That said, she’s beautiful enough that I’m pretty sure she’s going to tempt some of the guys (and maybe some of the more adventurous girls).
The ’06-’07 Honda Accord sedan is still in the lot. I forget what the light SUV is.
Not sure what Yuri’s car is based off of, since it only has the lower grille. It looks like a fictionalized mashup of late 2000s to early 2010s midsize sedans.
Maybe? The headlights and grille on the Malibu are pretty low (and I think the hood line kind of gives it and the Impala a Peyton Manning fivehead look).
It kind of looks like a Mitsubishi Galant, but without the upper grille or the fake vents around the fog lights.
Abusive people in relationships with parents will often because anxious and dangerous when their partners are nice to their (the partners’) children. I think its partly because anyone who takes up the target’s time and attention is perceived as a threat, and partly because they were often raised in problematic ways themselves, and questioning the methodology their almighty parents would be unthinkable, are you trying to get their arm broken again like in preschool? Plus it’s so easy to manipulate parents and grind down their self-esteem by telling them What You Are Doing Is Hurting Your Child, with a heaping bonus helping of Your Instincts Are Wrong, Second-Guess Your Feelings— always handy when you “need” to abuse a person.
That is, it’s entirely possible that Blaine has bullied Yuri into being distant or mean to her son, even if he’s not around, because look where Being Soft the way he was to Amber fucked her up. (Dollars to doughnuts, Blaine still believes, “If anything, I was too nice.”) Not that it isn’t sucky parenting and abusive in itself to let yourself get pushed into being a jerk to your kid(s) by your torturer. Just saying, that’s a surprisingly common dynamic and I would be unsurprised to find it here.
PSA: it’s okay to leave an abusive partner. You may think they are only hurting you, and you are not worth protection, but that shit is in fact contagious.
Asian women generally seem to look young for most of their lives. I had this Asian looking math teacher in middle school (some 15 years ago) who was maybe 22-25 when she started working. Saw her recently and she really didn’t change much
Re: the alt text, I think it’s that pop tarts could be viewed as a form of ravioli.
Re: the strip… I suspect she is still quite young or Amber would have replied saying “nah, she’s older than my mum” or similar (and remember, Amber’s mum is young enough to be Dr Dick’s sexy younger woman). Hopefully she’s early-mid 30s really but if she was younger than Faz is now when she had him it might go some way to explain her potential apathy to him (no “I was worried”, “Thank goodness you’re OK”, “What happened?”, “Are you OK”, etc – just a hopefully jokey threat) :-/ If we’re still going with mob connections I’m now wondering if Blaine met her while pimping underage girls or if that is too dark even for a comic that includes child abuse, suicide, etc as themes. (Maybe in the closest thing he gets to a redemptive moment when he discovered she was pregnant instead of beating her into a miscarriage he arranged for her to marry a minor mobster and stopped pimping her?)
While I’m not ruling anything out until it’s specifically laid out as fact in the comic or by Word of God, I will say that I don’t think we’re clear on how familiar Amber is with her step family. She doesn’t react to Faz’s presence when we first meet him because she’s too focused on her father- and she says that they haven’t spoken in three years. Other than that, she doesn’t talk about or react to their presence until Faz shows back up. I tried to double check how she reacts to that and with how much familiarity but I’m having trouble loading it, but yeah- I don’t think we’ve seen enough to say either way if- and how well- she really knows her stepfamily.
That’s been bothering me too. She seems to know Faz pretty well – enough to anticipate and be annoyed by rather than surprised by his behavior. She apparently has Yuri’s number – doesn’t seem like Faz would have been eager to give it too her earlier in the day.
That all seems at odds with the clues from Blaine & Faz’s first appearance that you mention.
That said, that last line suggests to me that she does know and that it’s one in a long list of things about Blaine she tries to avoid because she can’t do anything about.
Amber’s parent’s divorce finalized 5 years ago, not long after he got her self defence classes instead of therapy. Amber says they haven’t spoken in 3 years before Freshman Family Weekend. That’s a two year gap for her to be speaking to Blaine and possibly interacting with her step family.
Two years of a horribly withdrawn Amber having as little contact as possible with Blaine and his new family, whenever they came on the scene. Apparently enough for a 10-11 year old Faz to bond to Amber as the “nicest one to him” and for Amber to get used to his creepy sexualized behavior (at 10-11!?)
Yeah, I doubt that would be brought up if Yuri wasn’t young, though hopefully not that young.
Another thought is that a young single mom might have be an easy target for Blaine, easily made dependent on him.
Re: everyone saying that Blaine and Faz are not biologically related… are we SURE about that? In the Walkyverse, Blaine was the biological father of both Amber and Faz, right? That’s what I thought was supposed to be dramatic irony for a good number of us re: the “step-sibling” comments by Amber, since we know they’re actually half-siblings. (All the more reason why Sarah’s estimation of Yuri’s age is horrific and hopefully just way off base.)
Afaik it hasn’t been specifically said they’re not biologically related, either in comic or by DW himself. Faz does initially introduce himself to us as her step brother, but that could be more her(their?) father’s influence- I’m sure there’s a point where Faz falls him “our father” as well but I’m still looking for it.
In other words- who knows?
Ah, I wasn’t quite right- Amber mentions her dad, and Faz calls him “father”. Amber says no, not his dad, HER dad, his STEP dad, and he doesn’t respond. So… still potential for them to be biologically related, but nothing clarifying it either way. If they ARE Amber definitely doesn’t know.
We are not 100% certain. Maybe Blaine had an affair with Yuri twelve or thirteen years earlier that when we were told they met. We are however quite certain that
• Amber believes that Faz’s father is a different person from her father.
• Amber thinks that Faz believes that Faz’s father is a different person from her father.
• Amber believes that her father did not get together with Faz’s mother until after divorcing her father.
And we have had not a hint of any reason whatsoever to suppose that Amber is wrong about any of those things. That Faz is Amber’s half brother rather than her step-brother is pure unsupported blue-sky speculation entirely confined to the comment section, and has nothing to do with anything in the strip.
Faz is two weeks short of this sixteenth birthday.
In the strip titled “Set-dad” he says he’s going to reach the age of consent in two weeks time, the age of consent in Indiana being 16. Earlier in the strip he mention a “Romeo and Juliet” law covering kids aged fourteen and fifteen, so he is not mistaken about the age of consent.
No. I think Willis clarified.
He was saying he was 15, it was legal now thanks to the R&J law he had a printout of, but if that didn’t make her comfortable he would be fully over the age of consent in 2 weeks.
No, he was saying that he can bang because of the R&J law, and has a printout to clarify. Rachel says “Eww! That is super gross.” And then Faz says: “Okay. How about in two weeks when I’m over the age of consent?” Age of consent is sixteen.
Faz said quite clearly that he is two weeks shy of his sixteenth birthday. Word of God confirms it. I need a drink.
If Faz thinks Yuri isn’t nice to him, he is no different than a lot of 15 year olds. And a reasonable parent might think that Faz needs some strict guidance. And Amber has a relationship of some kind with her.
But there is the kinda Korean mobster thing going on in her background isn’t there? OK, let’s go with her being nice because she might have you killed otherwise.
I’m wondering if we’re going to have either Amazi-Girl intruding upon Yuri’s professional life or saving her from being unwillingly involved in her family’s ‘business’, whatever that turns out to be.
Or, maybe, we’ll just see her tell Amber: “That’s my family; it’s not me.”
I’m thinking that Blaine met Yuri through his ‘business’ connections. Either she’s formerly a victim of them or is related to one of Blaine’s colleagues.
In the Walkyverse, Blaine was shacking up with all his mob buddies daughters. He’s not Faz’s dad here but for all we know, that could still be how he met Yuri?
Faz thinks Yuri isn’t nice to him, by comparison to Amber. Who hasn’t exactly shown it in this arc. And Amber has some kind of relationship with her – among the many things she tries not to think about.
At this point, I’d trust Faz more than our 2 panel superficial impression of Yuri.
There are plenty of non-horrible, non-abusive parents in this comic. Dina’s, Sierra’s, Dorothy’s, and (off-screen to date) Carla’s parents…even Joyce’s dad, while historically not the best, is seeing marked improvement in how he’s been.
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congrats on making that mental image EVEN WORSE, Sarah
Have you met Sarah?
What’s the worst possible net situation? Let’s just assume that
Faz and Yuri can merge, combiner style, to form an eight legged slash daemon for Amber to write about?
She spent nine months getting him detached from herself and you want him to stick back on?
It’s not a feature, it’s a bug.
Faz’ mom also seems pretty great
Definitely a character that hopefully gets some more apperances
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.
Maybe what he gets is that no matter what emotion she is expressing, she is also smiling on top of that.
Maybe that’s where he gets it from.
…oh dear.
Faz’s mom has got it going on!
Heck yeah!
Seriously how’d she manage t spawn something as *shudders* horrible as Faz?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-12-26
Have we NOT met the human garbage barge that IS the father they unfortunately share?
Blair isn’t Faz’s father in this universe.
Or Blaine, rather.
For what it’s worth, I’ll bet that “Blair” isn’t Faz’s bio-dad, either.
The true horror of the “Blair- Which? project” has only just come to light.
oh and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4
As a Fountains of Wayne fan it saddens me that that is the only song of theirs most people will ever hear
Don’t worry, I’ll sink to the bottom with you.
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:
It doesn’t really matter, ‘cuz we’ll all be double over with laughter!
the greatness of Faz is matrilineal
I am concern about when she gave birth to Faz
Let’s hope Sarah’s estimate is off by at least a few years.
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.
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.
40’s, yeah.
50’s is maybe pushing it!
( I could get away with looking 5-10 years younger in my early-mid 30s…)
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.
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.
Someone in their 50’s looking like they’re in their 30’s is very rare, but it does happen. Exhibit A) Keanu Reeves.
She just has very good skin.
Wen gave birth to Faz?!
Wen, did this happen?
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.
Maybe she is just one of those women who look younger than she is.
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.
Meanwhile I turn 36 in a few months and people say I look good for 50.
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”);
Maybe you’ll still look good for 50 in 2075, and they’ll be skeletons?
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. -_-
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.
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.
I’m 38. And a college professor. I am regularly mistaken for a traditional age undergrad.
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.
She probably just looks like 25.
Everyone always thinks Asian people look younger than they really are. My brother is 28 and he still gets consistently carded.
So if Yuri is twenty-five years old, and Faz is fifteen/sixteen years old…dear goodness I hope Sarah’s math is off.
Not physically impossible, but really really concerning and also dear me pass the brain bleach please?
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.
that’s what I’m thinking
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]
Either that, or we’ll get an explanation comic later titled Loli and all have faces resembling The Scream
Don’t think too hard about it.
Hopefully she just *looks* 25. Like me – I’m 33 and still getting ID’d.
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.
…gravatar win on so many levels
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.
ha, you kids, growing up with/on the internet.
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.
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.)
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.
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).
*Dry Heaving violently*
what’s with the triple parentheses on your name?
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.
A lot of Jewish people themselves also started to self-identify this way as an act of defiance and reclamation as well.
With Amber’s dad I wouldn’t be surprised.
Faz isn’t Blaine’s son, for once he can’t be blamed.
as far as we know…Willis could be pulling a double-blind and Faz wa telling the truth the whole time about her being his sister
If Blaine raped a 9 year old he automatically makes Ross look like Jesus.
Until Willis says otherwise I’m going to assume she’s one of those people who look about ten years younger than they actually are.
There’s a chance, since Asian women are said to look undefinably young for a very long time.
I got mistaken for a 13 year old at 21, almost 22. I’m supposed to be the spitting image of my grandmother, who didn’t stop getting consistently carded until she was in her 30s or 40s. Drinking age is 19.
Oh, Yuri’s her name!
For a moment I thought this was going in an entirely different direction.
You weren’t the only 1…
Yup.
That’s where I went when Amber said, “I try not to think about a lot of things.”
I honestly did not know that “Yuri” is both a Korean and a Japanese given name.
And Russian.
Pretty sure it’s just a Slavic name in general, not just Russian.
According to one source, it’s Russian and Ukrainian only…the different Slavic languages have their own version of “George”
Russian I knew. I am a cold war baby, after all. (Born just a year after Sputnik went up.)
But I didn’t know Russian “Yuri” is cognate with the English “George.”
In Scotland, a variant of George is…
Dode. (as in D-OH-D)
Nope.. I have no Idea why!
D’OH
D
It’s only a matter of time…
Well we have already gone there on here, not mentioning any cheerleaders or Resident Assistants…
I still think it’s referring to Amber writing self insert slash staring Joyce. Faz’s mom having the name is pure coincidence.
Thank the lord that isn’t the case.
It’s certainly where my mind first went.
Are we going to get a character named Yaoi next?
So she has an Asian given name and an Irish married name… I’ve been binge-watching Deep Space 9 lately, so I’ll assume Rosalind Chao is her voice actress for the DoA animated series.
You’re assuming she took Blaine’s surname.
… Which is probably a sound assumption, to be fair.
It’s the cultural norm, and besides do you think controlling, egotistical Blaine would have it any other way?
Yeah, after the previous page’s thing about pseudo family and slashfic fun.
If my experience growing up in a city where a large segment of the population is of Asian descent or origin, Faz’s mom is probably 40ish.
… is anything to go by.
Erk.
True that, we look young for our age. Even some half-Asians too.
Indeed. One blessing of our genetic heritage is that for most Asian people, take whatever age we look to be and add 10 to get our true age.
oh my god so that’s where he gets the smile
On her it works though
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/013/564/doge.jpg
If you say so
Where are the eyes from though?? The ether¿?
Faz is great in much the same way as a newborn puppy that cannot yet open it’s eyes, but because all he sees are the eyelids of Faz he beholds only greatness.
The eyes must come from Blaine’s side of the family, all his kids but Amber have them and she can fake them. Maybe it came from one of his parents and skipped him.
Blaine is not the bio dad to Faz in this universe.
At this point, I’m thinking Willis will either change that so the argument will stop happening, or reveal his biodad…Charles Walkerton.
So it has been claimed by the characters. Has Willis confirmed it?
I’m pretty sure that the link to the Tumblr post where he said as much has been posted to at least half the strips Faz has appeared in….
There we go, everybody take a drink.
I don’t know why, but I suddenly got the feeling you were talking out of Joyce’s butt, like Ace Ventura.
Is that what you’re going for, or is it just a weird thought on my part?
Does Yuri have a co-worker named Kay?
—Go crazy, baby!
Yasashi sugiru yo anata
Kirawarete mo Tooshitai
Yume ga aru hazu…
Don’t worry, baby!
Okotte kuretemo ii yo
Nante yatsu to ima koko de
‘Cause you are my friend!–“By Yourself”, the theme of the de facto second season of Dirty Pair, and my favorite song associated with the franchise
When I first heard this as a young anime fan, I just HAD to have it put on a mixtape!
Headcanon approved. (And one of them has a pet cat called Moggy.)
Goodbye, Faz – it was okay to meet you.
Hello, you must be going.
“You really cannot stay, you must be going”
“How can I miss you if you won’t go away?”
I hope Faz’s mom doesn’t also hurt her toe like Joyce did. Wouldn’t want to have to have Yuri on ice.
Don’t tell me yuri-ven going to go there.
If she did kick her toe, I wonder if she’ll just go “ouch” or if she’d go “YAOI!!!”…
Yuri-nsurance would probably cover it.
I’m going to Galasso’s, anybody want anything?
Pizza or a calzone, thanks. Calzone travel better from Indiana to Texas.
Ideally 33-going-on-34 minimum, given that she’s the mother of a 15-year-old and all that. (Yes, I know teen pregnancies are a thing, I said “ideally.”)
Also, okay, so that’s where the Smile(tm) comes from.
How old is Blaine?
Blaine is not biologically related to Faz, so it doesn’t matter.
1. The time between the strip title loading and the actual strip loading was probably one of the most anticipatory experiences I’ve had reading this strip.
2. I always hate when people give assessments of parents (like “nice and normal”) after an interaction of all of two seconds. Sarah did say “seems,” so there’s that. And really, people do this with others all the time, it just especially bothers me when it comes to parents.
HAAA.
A strip titled yuri, featuring Amber…. yup. Works, even if I suppose Yaoi would be more her style.
Now, back to the Amber-cave to continue the work on “Bucky and the mystery of the missing pants.”
2. seriously though! Especially since most of my friend group grew up with…. let’s just say “less than stellar” parents, and yet most of said parents seemed perfectly nice if you just ran into them at Walmart for two seconds. (Not saying that Faz’s mother is one of those parents or anything. Hopefully she really is nice. I’m just saying, my hackles get instinctively raised by two-second assessments like that, haha.)
To be fair – the truly awful parents of this comic had us all screaming bloody murder after their first strip. Just look back at the first Blaine-strip…
(To be less silly, I completely agree. And the ability of horrible parents to present as respectable is a huge hurdle for the people suffering under them. Just ask Becky.)
i just say “seems nice” for everyone’s parents because i also hate pretty much everyone’s parents. it’s a default thing at this point and it rarely gets overridden.
Except of course for the cases where there were plenty of defenders long after it was clear. People thought Ross might just be misunderstood until the gun came out.
In this case though, it might be by contrast with Faz, who is clearly not “nice and normal” from the moment you meet him.
oh no faz’s mom is hot
I hope that age assessment isn’t too accurate given that Faz is in high school.
Do you suppose Faz is great enough to have skipped all of Elementary?
His claimed age is within a few weeks of 16, so maybe not.
I’m assuming Faz’s mom just looks ten years younger than she is.
I don’t know why but Yuri sorta reminds me of Carmen Sandiego ~_~
Also I hope Sarah’s age assessment is wrong and she’s much older because if she’s 25 and her kid is 15-ish then that’d mean she was pregnant when she was anywhere from 9-11 years old.
East asians tend to look younger compared to caucasians, so she could well be in her 40s.
She DOES seem nice, let’s hope that she doesn’t actually like, sacrifice puppies to dark gods or something
Oh wow, how bad would it be if Amber sent a kid back to the abusive parent they were trying to get away from? (Disregarding the fact that it’s Fax.)
Well, she is. Regardless of whether Yuri is nice, he’s going back to Blaine.
What else is she supposed to do though?
Call child protective services? Faz is under 18.
Luckily for Faz, Blaine isn’t related to him in this universe.
–oh right but they’re still probably living together. Derp. Bedtime.
And say what?
She’s got no direct evidence of abuse that we know of. We don’t know if Faz will support any allegations she makes.
And Blaine will likely retaliate against Faz if she does so and CPS doesn’t actually separate them.
Blaine seems to be mostly a emotional abuser, which is much harder to get action against – you can’t just show them the bruises or the neglected kid.
Didn’t Faz say something about Amber being the only member of his family who is nice to him?
“Amber is nicest to me.”
Amber addresses Fax with constant hostility and contempt, manhandles him, disparages him to others in his hearing, and openly tries to get rid of him as quickly as possible, even to the extent of just shoving him into an elevator. But she’s nicer to him than his mother is.
yep
I have concerns
To be fair, we know Faz annoys Amber because he thinks that’s how beloved siblings should interact. So he probably takes a lot her hostility as just familial attention – something he really seems starved for.
I get the feeling that Yuri might be neglectful of Faz. They sure didn’t rush to get him or anything.
It’s not clear when Amber was able to get in touch with her. There were a couple comments early on about not being able to reach her, so probably not until after her nap.
Not sure where she was or why she was unreachable, of course, but that doesn’t necessarily mean neglect. Faz may even have timed his excursion for when he knew she wouldn’t be easily available.
So did she abandon him or did Blaine or no one?
15-year-old boys will sometimes wander off for no particularly good reason. I speak from experience.
15 year old boys do a LOT of things for no good reason.
I think the implication of her question about nailing him down is that she was trying to keep her eye on him but he ran off anyway.
But yes, Blaine abandons most of his many children and their mothers, he’s kind of a jerk like that.
And that’s not even his worst quality as a parent.
Rather like his most redeeming quality.
I have always found his ability to get his ass handed to him by people he tries to bully to be a positive side of him.
Faz has been shown to be good at that.
I assume she’s like Ada Wong who is in her forties in Resident Evil 6 but still looks like she’s in her twenties.
Good bye, Faz. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out of the strip.
I must say – things didn’t go NEARLY as bad as I had feared.
Faz will return in
Avengers 5: The Sound of Music 2: Age of Titanic Boogaloo: Star Trek Enterprise The Motion Picture
But he will be played by a different actor due to creative differences.
And his facial hair will be digitally removed.
and then digitally replaced with a slightly less dense version.
And he’ll have to sign a 9 movie contract
Isn’t faz’s mom Asian? It’s probably just those tragically wonderful genes
Yuri probably doesn’t smoke tobacco either. That can hasten the aging process if it’s a daily habit.
She could be a teen mom, really youthful looking or both. Maybe she gave birth not younger than 16 but still manages to look 25.
And omg she has the same smile XD
Okay, so, she was probably a very young mom (possibly a teen mom) – hopefully with a similarly very young dad (possibly a teen dad).
I like her name, and she seems very nice and very pretty.
Dear Faz’ mom.
I’m sure you are great and all, and I’m very glad to see that you seem to perform at least adequately as a parent (especially in light of his ‘sucks to be abandoned’ comment), but I do have a request I would be very grateful if you could adhere to.
As Faz’ mom, please never – NEVER – use the world “nail” in any context involving Faz. Ever.
Thanks.
If she follows this advice: “Nailed it!”
I don’t know about “perform at least adequately”.
Faz’s comments suggest otherwise. And she married Blaine. Hopefully that’s her biggest failure, cause if it isn’t …
Even that “Faz. Dear.” carries some seriously cold overtones.
I didn’t read it as ‘cold’, moreso as ‘frustrated’. Although like you said Faz certainly made suggestions about her being not so great so I’d recommend keeping an eye on her. Assuming she ever shows up again.
there is something slightly offputting about expressing frustration through a term of endearment, though…
I think I’m more curious about what Yuri’s last name is. In Shortpacked the joke was that Faz’s full name was Faz O Lee since he resembled some kid Willis thought looked obnoxious in their advertisements. I’m not sure if Yuri Lee is a play on anything.
There is a Korean sitcom character named Lee Yoo-ri (an alternate transliteration of the same names), but I somehow suspect that Willis isn’t up on Korean sitcoms…
I bet that’s either Faz’s father’s surname or her maiden name here.
….. okay, I’m too tired to dig through old SP! archives, but uh, is this the first time Faz’s mom has ever been depicted in the Willisverse at large???
Yup!
I’m 25 ._.
Oh. Wait. How, old was Faz again?
15. Too old for Sarah to be correct, as it would be biologically impossible
It wouldn’t be biologically impossible just very very unlikely. She is likely at least a bit older than Sarah’s estimation though or this arc is taking an extremely dark turn.
It violates a LOT of heavy Western social mores, but it’s entirely possible for a 10-year old girl to get pregnant, sadly. In parts of America, I don’t think it’s even illegal.
Yeah, as I recall the youngest medically-recorded human pregnancy was at age five (I say this with a bit of vomit in my mouth). Apparently her dad raped her but was never convicted for it, and the kid was brought up believing that his biological mother was his “sister”, not finding out the truth until he was much older.
Actually, while I have heard of that, the father was only SUSPECTED of having committed child sexual abuse, it wasn’t confirmed and the biological father of the child wasn’t actually identified. Paternity testing wasn’t really accurate at the time (he was born in 1939) and didn’t start getting better until the 1960’s so they didn’t have the evidence to say who raped her (by statistics it was still likely someone who knew her, but there is no conclusive way to tell precisely who, especially now as her son died in 1979).
She might only be 28-29. Where I live in America, it’s not uncommon for someone to get pregnant around 12-14.
Usually the father is a teacher or authority figure. I live in an awful, awful town.
Yuri is a beautiful woman although, given that she had a relationship of some sorts with Blaine, she clearly has a rotten taste in men. That said, she’s beautiful enough that I’m pretty sure she’s going to tempt some of the guys (and maybe some of the more adventurous girls).
Guess That Car time!
The ’06-’07 Honda Accord sedan is still in the lot. I forget what the light SUV is.
Not sure what Yuri’s car is based off of, since it only has the lower grille. It looks like a fictionalized mashup of late 2000s to early 2010s midsize sedans.
Some recent model years of the Chevy Malibu are kind of like that.
Maybe? The headlights and grille on the Malibu are pretty low (and I think the hood line kind of gives it and the Impala a Peyton Manning fivehead look).
It kind of looks like a Mitsubishi Galant, but without the upper grille or the fake vents around the fog lights.
calzones are a pop tart
*puts a calzone in a toaster to check this*
……
….
..
.. You owe me a new toaster.
What was it Faz said to Amber about her being the only member of his family who is kind to him?
Aah! Sneaky! He said it to Joyce!
Amber is nicest to me.
Cast your mind back to how Amber treats Faz, and then revise your opinion of how nice Yuri can possibly be.
Amber pays attention to Faz (she’s got no choice in the matter). One wonders if Yuri is a bit too ‘hands off’ because of work pressures or something.
I wonder much darker things than that.
Our only reason for believing that she’s nice is that she is beautiful. We suck.
Well, beautiful and polite to Amber and not obviously horrible in the two panels we see her in. But yes, that’s very superficial.
“…or something…”
Abusive people in relationships with parents will often because anxious and dangerous when their partners are nice to their (the partners’) children. I think its partly because anyone who takes up the target’s time and attention is perceived as a threat, and partly because they were often raised in problematic ways themselves, and questioning the methodology their almighty parents would be unthinkable, are you trying to get their arm broken again like in preschool? Plus it’s so easy to manipulate parents and grind down their self-esteem by telling them What You Are Doing Is Hurting Your Child, with a heaping bonus helping of Your Instincts Are Wrong, Second-Guess Your Feelings— always handy when you “need” to abuse a person.
That is, it’s entirely possible that Blaine has bullied Yuri into being distant or mean to her son, even if he’s not around, because look where Being Soft the way he was to Amber fucked her up. (Dollars to doughnuts, Blaine still believes, “If anything, I was too nice.”) Not that it isn’t sucky parenting and abusive in itself to let yourself get pushed into being a jerk to your kid(s) by your torturer. Just saying, that’s a surprisingly common dynamic and I would be unsurprised to find it here.
PSA: it’s okay to leave an abusive partner. You may think they are only hurting you, and you are not worth protection, but that shit is in fact contagious.
Like mother, like son.
Holy crap she is hot. And hopefully 25 is just an exaggerated way of saying she looks young.
Asian women generally seem to look young for most of their lives. I had this Asian looking math teacher in middle school (some 15 years ago) who was maybe 22-25 when she started working. Saw her recently and she really didn’t change much
Faz is like, 14 though?
Let’s just hope she only looks young.
Faz is two weeks short of his sixteenth birthday.
Some people just age well, a fact about which Sarah is pre-emptively jealous.
If someone carbon-dated the veins of spite in her body she’d be probably older than pyramids…
Trying to take Amber’s advice, Trying not to think how I can find someone from Fazes gene pool attractive….fucking damn it all.
The first step is to stop giving a shit.
By which I mean, you can be attracted to anyone you want, especially if they’re fictional.
The Great Faz will return in The Avengers!
No. Yuri’s something different. You’re thinking of Loli.
Re: the alt text, I think it’s that pop tarts could be viewed as a form of ravioli.
Re: the strip… I suspect she is still quite young or Amber would have replied saying “nah, she’s older than my mum” or similar (and remember, Amber’s mum is young enough to be Dr Dick’s sexy younger woman). Hopefully she’s early-mid 30s really but if she was younger than Faz is now when she had him it might go some way to explain her potential apathy to him (no “I was worried”, “Thank goodness you’re OK”, “What happened?”, “Are you OK”, etc – just a hopefully jokey threat) :-/ If we’re still going with mob connections I’m now wondering if Blaine met her while pimping underage girls or if that is too dark even for a comic that includes child abuse, suicide, etc as themes. (Maybe in the closest thing he gets to a redemptive moment when he discovered she was pregnant instead of beating her into a miscarriage he arranged for her to marry a minor mobster and stopped pimping her?)
While I’m not ruling anything out until it’s specifically laid out as fact in the comic or by Word of God, I will say that I don’t think we’re clear on how familiar Amber is with her step family. She doesn’t react to Faz’s presence when we first meet him because she’s too focused on her father- and she says that they haven’t spoken in three years. Other than that, she doesn’t talk about or react to their presence until Faz shows back up. I tried to double check how she reacts to that and with how much familiarity but I’m having trouble loading it, but yeah- I don’t think we’ve seen enough to say either way if- and how well- she really knows her stepfamily.
Ah- my point to that being that she might not know enough to correct Sarah (or not), leaving it still open for discussion.
That’s been bothering me too. She seems to know Faz pretty well – enough to anticipate and be annoyed by rather than surprised by his behavior. She apparently has Yuri’s number – doesn’t seem like Faz would have been eager to give it too her earlier in the day.
That all seems at odds with the clues from Blaine & Faz’s first appearance that you mention.
That said, that last line suggests to me that she does know and that it’s one in a long list of things about Blaine she tries to avoid because she can’t do anything about.
Amber’s parent’s divorce finalized 5 years ago, not long after he got her self defence classes instead of therapy. Amber says they haven’t spoken in 3 years before Freshman Family Weekend. That’s a two year gap for her to be speaking to Blaine and possibly interacting with her step family.
Two years of a horribly withdrawn Amber having as little contact as possible with Blaine and his new family, whenever they came on the scene. Apparently enough for a 10-11 year old Faz to bond to Amber as the “nicest one to him” and for Amber to get used to his creepy sexualized behavior (at 10-11!?)
Yeah, I doubt that would be brought up if Yuri wasn’t young, though hopefully not that young.
Another thought is that a young single mom might have be an easy target for Blaine, easily made dependent on him.
Ravioli is not a pop-tart.
Pop-tarts are wrapped in flaky crust, which is essentially fattened bread.
Ravioli is wrapped in pasta.
Pasta and crust, and for that matter pasta and bread, are non-trivially distinct.
Re: everyone saying that Blaine and Faz are not biologically related… are we SURE about that? In the Walkyverse, Blaine was the biological father of both Amber and Faz, right? That’s what I thought was supposed to be dramatic irony for a good number of us re: the “step-sibling” comments by Amber, since we know they’re actually half-siblings. (All the more reason why Sarah’s estimation of Yuri’s age is horrific and hopefully just way off base.)
Afaik it hasn’t been specifically said they’re not biologically related, either in comic or by DW himself. Faz does initially introduce himself to us as her step brother, but that could be more her(their?) father’s influence- I’m sure there’s a point where Faz falls him “our father” as well but I’m still looking for it.
In other words- who knows?
Ah, I wasn’t quite right- Amber mentions her dad, and Faz calls him “father”. Amber says no, not his dad, HER dad, his STEP dad, and he doesn’t respond. So… still potential for them to be biologically related, but nothing clarifying it either way. If they ARE Amber definitely doesn’t know.
Amber mentions her dad. Faz mentions his dad. Amber says “No, not your dad. My dad. Your step-father.”
Step-dad.
It could not be more clear that Amber believes that Faz’s father is a different person from her father, and believes that Faz believes that too.
That’s what I was trying to say, yes, that it’s Amber’s belief- although it seems I was wrong and Word of God HAS confirmed it (thanks Kamino Neko!)
Yes, we are sure.
To make this post not disappear into the aether and not make you click, quoting…
‘[Faz being Blaine’s biokid is j]ust a Shortpacked! thing. Amber is his only biological child.’
We need a handy wiki of things confirmed elsewhere to be canon in the comic! (…That probably already exists.)
But thank you for sharing that.
Walkypedia is around, and we do need editors!
…huh, apparently I have a tab open editing the Faz page already. anyways. http://walkypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Faz
We are not 100% certain. Maybe Blaine had an affair with Yuri twelve or thirteen years earlier that when we were told they met. We are however quite certain that
• Amber believes that Faz’s father is a different person from her father.
• Amber thinks that Faz believes that Faz’s father is a different person from her father.
• Amber believes that her father did not get together with Faz’s mother until after divorcing her father.
And we have had not a hint of any reason whatsoever to suppose that Amber is wrong about any of those things. That Faz is Amber’s half brother rather than her step-brother is pure unsupported blue-sky speculation entirely confined to the comment section, and has nothing to do with anything in the strip.
Well, not certain except for Word-of-God from the writer.
So if the mom is 25, and Faz is 13 (I think that’s been said somewhere), she would have been 12 when he was born…
Faz is 15, going on 16. Two weeks shy of 16, specifically.
Faz is two weeks short of this sixteenth birthday.
In the strip titled “Set-dad” he says he’s going to reach the age of consent in two weeks time, the age of consent in Indiana being 16. Earlier in the strip he mention a “Romeo and Juliet” law covering kids aged fourteen and fifteen, so he is not mistaken about the age of consent.
Grr! Typo and no edit function. “Step-dad“, not “Set-dad”.
I thought he was saying that he was about to turn 14, so he can bang 18 year old freshmen in two weeks?
No. I think Willis clarified.
He was saying he was 15, it was legal now thanks to the R&J law he had a printout of, but if that didn’t make her comfortable he would be fully over the age of consent in 2 weeks.
No, he was saying that he can bang because of the R&J law, and has a printout to clarify. Rachel says “Eww! That is super gross.” And then Faz says: “Okay. How about in two weeks when I’m over the age of consent?” Age of consent is sixteen.
Faz said quite clearly that he is two weeks shy of his sixteenth birthday. Word of God confirms it. I need a drink.
She’s not 25; take that to the bank.
Well, at least Amber, dad wasn’t the bastard impregnating the minor… probably…
I don’t think something is a pop-tart unless it’s made out of the crumbly stuff pop-tarts are made of. Pop-tarts can’t be ravioli for the same reason.
Ravioli is not a pop tart. There is, however, an argument to be made that both ravioli and pop tarts can be classified as sandwiches.
Not everything is a goddamn sandwich.
You can nail him down, but that won’t stop my D&D group from stealing him unless you also set him on fire
Your group doesn’t have a ring of fire resistance?
If Faz thinks Yuri isn’t nice to him, he is no different than a lot of 15 year olds. And a reasonable parent might think that Faz needs some strict guidance. And Amber has a relationship of some kind with her.
But there is the kinda Korean mobster thing going on in her background isn’t there? OK, let’s go with her being nice because she might have you killed otherwise.
Re.: “Korean Mobster”
I’m wondering if we’re going to have either Amazi-Girl intruding upon Yuri’s professional life or saving her from being unwillingly involved in her family’s ‘business’, whatever that turns out to be.
Or, maybe, we’ll just see her tell Amber: “That’s my family; it’s not me.”
I thought we knew Blaine was mobbed up too?
Which doesn’t preclude her family being in it, but is suggestive.
I’m thinking that Blaine met Yuri through his ‘business’ connections. Either she’s formerly a victim of them or is related to one of Blaine’s colleagues.
In the Walkyverse, Blaine was shacking up with all his mob buddies daughters. He’s not Faz’s dad here but for all we know, that could still be how he met Yuri?
Faz thinks Yuri isn’t nice to him, by comparison to Amber. Who hasn’t exactly shown it in this arc. And Amber has some kind of relationship with her – among the many things she tries not to think about.
At this point, I’d trust Faz more than our 2 panel superficial impression of Yuri.
Why do we believe that the Dumbiverse version of Blaine is mobbed up?
Richard told Joe that Blaine was an actual mob stooge.
It might have been hinted at elsewhere, but that’s the recent reference.
With open eyes Faz’s smile isn’t that creepy. Looks nice on his mom. It;s the mix of the smile and his closed eyes that makes him look like a creep.
I presume she’s as abusive and horrible as the other parents in this series. Evil often comes beautifully wrapped.
There are plenty of non-horrible, non-abusive parents in this comic. Dina’s, Sierra’s, Dorothy’s, and (off-screen to date) Carla’s parents…even Joyce’s dad, while historically not the best, is seeing marked improvement in how he’s been.
Amazi-Girl’s archenemy! THE ABSURDLY YOUTHFUL LOOKING MOTHER!
I hope Blaine doesn’t abuse them, too.
…uh. Sadly, I… strongly doubt that’s even a little likely.
*Immediately and seriously starts to ponder if ravioli is a poptart*
Just from seeing her face, I would say Amber’s Step-Mom, Faz’s Mom looks HOT!
Faz’s mom doesn’t look Asian at all.
Neither does anyone in sailor moon
Looking back now, hitchcockian half-shadow face??