The Slow Passage Of Time
Hannelore is 43 years old
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She is? Can she give me moisturizer tips?
It's not the focus of the comic, but I really like Hanners' shirt. It suits her well - sleek and white, and my weird brain associates white with clean (absolutely a Hanners trait right?) She's been especially pretty in the coffee shop comics lately. To me at least 🙂
Dagnabbit whippersnappers always making me feel old, rassem frassem...
Did the QC characters step on your lawn?
guys Hannelore was 22 just a few in-universe years ago, she is in her mid or late 20s, Jeph is kidding re 43. But also that means she *is* more than a few years older than Ayo, who is 19. Right? Unless we think only 2-3 in-universe years have passed since the early comic (can that be true?) (Also bc of how time works in this comic, I was roughly Hannelore's age when I started reading QC and am now 10-15 years older than her, egad)
Not 2-3 years, that would be silly. The current best estimate of the in-universe timeline is that we are now in the early part of year 4. SO SAYETH THE ALMIGHTY SPREADSHEET! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wqTgvVxV0GE1EoKnR0pxVChHUo4ZYtal
I'm not sure how I feel about being exactly as old as Hannelore...
puts you < 30 by a few years see spreadsheet above
Sven is 52 btw (jk)
So we're the same calendar age group as many readers who were there at The Beginning. However, the strangest thing that happened to us after realizing we're a "we"- late 30's- was all white/silver stopped growing in. We don't dye our hair and it's the same dark brown as ever, and we're going to be staring down that Half Century of Existence before too much longer. Still going WTF about it lol
Oh, if we've said this before... due to that whole "dissociation" part of DID, we don't share all the same memories, so one may repeat a story another has said, but doesn't know/remember that happened.
Some girls mature, faster than other girls.
(The 43 thing is a joke, she’s like 28 tops)
Working your way through that todo list from December I see. Since you've got the ages worked out now, I assume "Steve eating cereal on a boat" is up next? 😉 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5731
Yeah, I remember being 43...sigh....
Is she 43 for real?? I thought she was in her 20's. Everybody looks so young in QC...
Sure, and she has been since he started drawing the comic…In 2003.
Poor Hanners joining us who others say are full fledged adult. I remember those days. lololol 🤘😅🤘😂🤣
It's kind of funny how just 6 years can feel like a big gap in age. My former boss was 6 years older than me and that makes us part of the same generation but he had a pretty different set of pop culture references to me due to having grown up with different TV shows, comedy, and other entertainment.
My younger sibling is 6 years younger than me and they will always be "much younger" than me, but my coworkers who are 10+ years younger or older are still my age. It's weird.
My daughter won’t let me date anyone closer in age to her than to me, but this puts Hanners right at my minimum, yay!
Good for her! (and probably better for you as well!)
Suggestion: QC years work like dog years in reverse, 7 years in the real world = 1 year in the strip. The characters are therefore about three and a half years older than they were when the strip started, and Hanners is now around 25. Does that make sense?
She probably is about that age, yeah xD
If 43 is old I'm feckin' ancient.
On the subject of aging, did you ever notice how people who say "I don't FEEL 50" (or however old they are) usually just mean that being 50 doesn't feel like they imagined?
I've been Like This for my whole life, but people find it more normal in my late forties than they did in my teens :)
It's been 84 years
43 is Hannelores inner age. 😌
is...is that meant to be old? asking for a friend...
Wait really? I think I need a refresher on how old everyone is. I just assumed that they were all in their 20s.
I'm assuming it's a joke.
Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham: the next Canadian Time Lord, but instead of a 1970 British Public Phone Booth, its a huge Station. With Tilly, Sven, Emmitt, and Sam as her assistants, and Winslow as her Coo Boy, from the BBC and Disney Plus, it’s “Docteur Qui.”
Hannelore's sonic screwdriver would have the added ability to sanitize surfaces.
43 in real-time years, but probably mid or late 20s in QC-time years?
This brings up an interesting philosophical/artistic topic: how do you maintain relevance for your audience over the long term when your characters age so slowly and your audience ages, well, quicker? Whatever the answer, Jeph seems to be doing that very well, though it beats me how he does it!
People of any age group always seen entertained by the antics of twenty-somethings+.
The idea that Hanners is still a little older than me is kind of a shock. I could have sworn I would have outpaced the QC time stream by now.
Jeph is being flippant, btw, with the "43" thing.
I AM ETERNAL.
You are thinking of The Winslow over in Girl Genius.
Is she really 43? I have no idea how old anyone is.
No xD The characters don't age at the same pace as time passing in the real world, even if they maybe "should". But that would make it a very different comic.
Now that I’m 49 years old, I’m finally able to accept the reality that FUCK IT
Should she count the 7 years in cryo while returning from Enceladus?
As a 40 yr old, I'm accepting hanners being 43 as canon now
Keep in mind Hanners lived on a space station for a number of years, thanks to Special Relativity: High speed = time slows down. However, General Relativity: Weaker gravity = time speeds up. So the question is which effect wins? For Hanners living in low earth orbit the Speed effect (slowing time) is stronger so she has aged slower than people on earth. For every year she spent in orbit = 0.010 seconds less. :)
Oh Hanners... A "womanizer" is such a kind way to put it. (also is it just me or is she extra cute tonight? her expressions and body language are so so good and cute!)
"The Womanizer" is the supervillain in my next comic book series.
I was thinking the original cast were mid-early 30s at this point...
In strip-time they’re all still 20-something’s. Remember Hanners is running the coffee shop because Dora is still on her honeymoon.
WTF? She's 43???? That's a joke, right? I didn't think anyone in this comic was like, over 30, other than the "parents".
It's a joke, no worries! At Most she's in her late 20s.
Hard to keep track of Hanner's age when the last time it was stated was like 18 IRL years ago lol. How much in universe time has passed since her 22nd birthday?
Every time she Releases The Virus it resets time back five years.
This is truly the most Looney Toons sequence, I love it.
It's ok, Hanners. Ayo's immaturity just really throws off the curve.
it's not that Hannelore is old, it's that Ayo is 18 going on 12?
Cartoon life is fluid. In “Real Life” — my almost 20 year old is 18 months older than Ayo. I’m likely older than the dads in comic we’ve seen.
In fairness to Hanners reaction, Sven *is* a good 6 or 7 years older than her. Which doesn't seem that wide an age gap to me anymore, but pretty significant to someone in their twenties, I think. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1069 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1782
I forgot we learned Sven's age at one point too.
Eowyn: My uncle told me a strange thing. He said that you rode to war with Thengel, my grandfather. But he must be mistaken. Aragorn: King Theoden has a good memory. He was only a small child at the time. Eowyn: Then you must be at least 60…70?…but you cannot be 80! Aragorn: 87.
Wait what?!
Wait till someone calls Hannelore Ma'am.
Ma’amelore rides again!
we saw Hannelore celebrate her 22nd birthday so that would mean TWENTY ONE YEARS have passed in universe since Faye hooked up with Sven.
18 years have passed IRL since that 22nd birthday comic was made lol, somebody who was born that week might be a adult now.
Oh, Hanners.
Three times six and four times seven, Twenty-eight and eleven! She's a young thing!
You feel like your lifestyle hasnt changed much since your early 20s part from a slight slowing down, but you then realise most of your friends have kids.
And most of your kids have friends.
Guessing someone's age is risky business! But not nearly as bad as guessing if a woman is pregnant. Sometimes, tongues are meant to be bitten!
I'm reeeally starting to think that JJ should have used the /s for sarcasm about the 43 thing. For clarity.
Nah, BookBeard has you covered with the facts.
"And you're a lot older than me!" "Who are you?" "Samantha--my dad makes these croissants." "I'm barely older than you are!" "Sorry, I didn't know you were sensitive about your age."
And then Moray pulls the same on Sam.
🤲 I’m sorry. I teach at an elementary school. I’m exposed to this six or seven times a day. Please send coffee.
6 7?
43! I don't know why but I always saw them all as much younger than me and now finding out Hannelore is older than me is wild.
Hannelore is not actually 43. She is probably mid-20s.
I mean, she hasn't reached for a weapon yet. So not *that* sensitive, at least by CoD standards. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3976
I feel like Hannelore is the kind of person who would go into cryo rather than suffer the indignities of age, so being 43 is nothing compared to being 430
Someday, somebody's gonna transfer to a robot body.
All the characters from the first 5 years of the strip are secretly Jeph's age, no matter how little time has passed in the comic.
Aaaaand now everyone is painfully aware of how old they were when they first started reading QC
Hey, I know this is off-topic but I've been wondering for a while: Is it possible to make out what my avatar is a picture of?
on the patreon app on my motorola, yes
She's 43?!
That's her age in Base 6. Which is 27 in Base 10. Edit: Well, if it's 43 Base 7, then she'd be 31 Base 10. Base 6-7, I figure.
"Hannelore is 43 years old" Holy cow, really?! I've always pictured closer to 34!
I believe Jeph may be employing humor 😉. Hanners is around 25/26.
It's an absolute wonder Ayo survived high school.
It's an absolute wonder Ayo survived home schooling.
She was 23 when she was first introduced, wasn't she? That fits, then. It's been 20 years...
It is really weird knowing I've been reading this comic basically daily since high school.
Ow, my back!
"I'm only ninety-three-and-a-half years old."
She's only 43 if you count the time spent in cryo-sleep.
"Dead, Dave. Everybody's dead, Dave."
I've learned that my age doesn't FEEL like my age, so I get confused a lot
I am convinced that *I* don't age. Someone just keeps replacing people who are older than me with people who are younger than me. Probably the same person who stole all my knee cartilage, actually.
Time flies faster than you think
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Another day, another “Ayo, shut up.”
omg I'm a year younger than Hanners
Wait. 43?!
I think Jeph is mixing QC ages and this world's time: Hanners was introduced as an adult over twenty years ago.
Jeph how dare you