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“I’m just saying some warning before the police brutality would be nice”
tho garbage + 420 = dumpster fire?
i prefer to call the ship walkyber.
I think Reltzik christened it the SS Garbage Skow. Or was it Garbage Skowl?
S.S. Garbage Skowl.
And I blame the lot of you for making that typo the official spelling.
Meredith appears to be white, so police brutality isn’t likely.
Pretty sure she’s of Asian descent?
The good news is, she might be okay around a cop. The bad news is, she might have trouble finding work in the film industry.
Maybe Western Asia? (I’d say Lebanese, but that’s mostly because I watch too much M*A*S*H.)
So, in other words, from the Arab/Central Asia area?
I mean, that dude the cop decided to play Simon says with before executing was white, and that 84 year old woman who got her ass beat
So there’s still a chance
I was gonna point out they were both Arizona cops but I forgot this is Indiana. I always mix then up
I need to find that roof for days like well week days
No Meredith! Bad! Back to the background with you!
girl gotta blaze it!
Good luck with that now that you’ve officialized her name as common knowledge.
This is a trap! Only drama awaits you if you leave the background
But Meredith/Mary Jane is best ship.
wait, is meredith new?
She’s been in a few strips, but hasn’t done much.
ive really been out of touch!
explains why i don’t remember her
Most notably (in my opinion), she appeared in the strip with Blowjob Cat.
But Blowjob Cat kinda overtakes everybody so…
Long time don’t give a sh*t about you, Meredith!
I wouldn’t remember her if I didn’t connect her slightly less inconsequential Shortpacked! incarnation.
Oh right. I forgot she existed
Oh yeah, Shortpacked!-Amber and Shortpacked!-Meredith…didn’t have the best relationship, huh.
CONTINUITY: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/prosecuted/ (note last speech bubble)
#TagTheCricket
And Howard broke into her room to watch Game of Thrones, but failed to see even a single boob #Sad
This is her second speaking role. The other 5 times she was just a face in the background.
If you know a cop’s True Name, you become the law.
I wish I could upvote this comment
So that’s how Judge Dredd did it.
Sucks to be you, superheroes don’t gotta tell you shit!
If either of you is the night, you gotta tell me.
She should have saved that Taco Bell card for after this.
I mean, for all we know she did save it and just went looking because, like, Blowjob Cat, who wouldn’t need context for that description.
True. Or she still has money left on it. Or she was high then, too, and it was as good a time as any.
Has Meredith’s life improved in any way since she was introduced to the wonder that is Blowjob Cat?
Hasn’t everyone’s life been improved by the simple wonder of Blowjob Cat?
He told her the secrets of the universe, and also where to find the Taco Bell she was looking for.
It’s good information to know after 420 roof.
I mean, she’s getting high right now, that’s usually an improvement.
She is up on the roof, so does that mean she is getting higher?
Yup, they’re a thing.
On Garabage roof they think themselves as garbage. But hey maybe it’s just like how they say one persons trash is another person’s treasure?
….I don’t know
They won’t be a thing until they show this chemistry somewhere else. …. or maybe make out on the roof…. but, yeah, they’re 90% of the way there to being a thing.
Well Meredith, thank you for (unlike nearly every weed smoker when I was in college) trying to be considerate of your residence mates by finding an out of the way area to light up.
Carla smoked pot outside, too, so Carla had that courtesy, too.
I guess Sal did, too, but didn’t like it and gave it back, just taking it for style points when she skated to show she could.
…..
You just used the words “Carla” and “courtesy” in the same sentence.
…..
I don’t think those words mean what you think they mean.
I believe it was well established that despite Carla’s outward objections she’s actually pretty great.
In my experience, there are two types of people who smoke weed in public:
1) The ones who smoke in a small, enclosed space (like a car with the windows rolled up), so other people won’t smell the smoke, then walk around afterward reeking of it, and
2) The ones who don’t want everyone to know they’ve been smoking weed, so they go outside to smoke, not realizing that everybody in a 2 or 3 block radius can smell it (are thereby know what they’re up to). There are some of this variety living on my block; apparently, they don’t want the house to smell like weed, but it’s okay for everyone in the neighborhood to know they’re smoking it.
Of course, there are people that go into the bathroom to spark up, but they seem to be the minority.
Amber is a cop/vigilante some of the time
does that count
Amazi-Girl once took on Sal, Marcie, Malaya, and Carla because of underage drinking. I’m certain Amazi-Girl would take a hostile view of anyone smoking weed.
But apparently Amazi-Girl and Amber haven’t been communicating with each other recently, and I’m guessing that Amber’s view is more of a shrug and a “Whatever.”
More accurately, Amazi-Girl attacked used underaged drinking as an excuse to attack Sal, so yeah basically she’s a cop
But even when Amber and Amazi-girl were still talking, Amber was allowed to be inconsistent.
GUYS, SHE’S SMILING
If they schlip-schlap the wiener cuz bond between Walky and Danny will be even stronger.
THE POTENTIAL FOR FORKING IS NOT IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW OK
MY BABY IS FEELING HOPEFUL AND OPTIMISTIC
SHE’S TALKING TO A CUTE BOY
MAYBE THEY’LL FUCK BUT IT IS STILL THE MOST PURE THING
Gravatar checks out?
Personally I’d prefer if it didn’t go in the schlip-schlap direction, but that’s still where my mind went.
But I am happy for Amber getting the occasional moment of contentedness in her life.
Fuck yeah, Amber deserves good people in her life, and her and Walky’s garbage roof is a pretty great way for them to support each other right now.
I’m loving these two and their healthier conversations. It’s also probably the most emotionally uninhibited either of them have been with a friend.
This is some good shit.
So I guess Amber’s romantic life is going to be the recurring theme of getting sloppy seconds from Dorothy?
Okay me being a mouthy asshole aside I’m sort of on the fence here of mocking this out of protest or actually taking a minute to Imagine these two as an item. But I think that comes from me just wanted to see how different personalities interact and I can just get that from unnormal companionship.
I’m not entirely sure about this, but let me put this out there and maybe this has merit, and maybe it doesn’t, I’m not invested either way.
Amber and Walky makes more sense as a relationship than either Amber and Danny, or Walky and Dorothy.
Danny did not fall in love with Amber. He fell in love with Amazi-Girl and he only started to love Amber once he realized that the two were attached. But although he didn’t know it, he never really clicked with Amber (only with Amazi-Girl), and Amber never really trusted Danny.
Walky and Dorothy’s relationship was based partly on physical attraction and partly on shared cultural touchstones, but apart from the sex and the nerdiness, they were never headed in the same direction.
Amber and Walky — neither of them is driven toward any particular goal. Both of them are just sort of coping at the moment. That’s not enough for a secure long-term bond, but it’s a start. Unless and until Amazi-Girl gets in the way, or Walky flunks out, there are no obvious-from-the-start navigation hazards for this ship.
Well Danny did grow to like Amber a little before he found out her secret but I don’t particular know if it was in that way. Other than that well….. fuck I don’t have a good rebuttal for this, Somebody help.
Danny was falling for Amber before he knew she was Amazi-girl: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/didnt/
In addition to the early attraction the others pointed out, I don’t see why you think Danny never really clicked with Amber. Certainly not why you think she never trusted him.
She did reinforce that he was dating Amazi-Girl not him when he tried to blue those lines, but she also blurred them herself as well.
> Amber and Walky makes more sense as a relationship than either Amber and Danny, or Walky and Dorothy.
> Danny did not fall in love with Amber. He fell in love with Amazi-Girl and he only started to love Amber once he realized that the two were attached. But although he didn’t know it, he never really clicked with Amber (only with Amazi-Girl), and Amber never really trusted Danny.
Not sure why you think Amber and Danny didn’t “click”. While Danny was initially infatuated with Amazi-girl, he has expressed admiration for Amber in her non-super persona (such as saying he’s amazed what she can do when she did the printer hack). Plus, they have other shared interests: comic books, the same course of study, etc. (And Amber would probably be turned on by Danny’s bisexualness.)
On top of all that, there is a need…. Amber needs support, Danny likes to feel useful.
> Walky and Dorothy’s relationship was based partly on physical attraction and partly on shared cultural touchstones, but apart from the sex and the nerdiness, they were never headed in the same direction.
That I agree with.
> Amber and Walky — neither of them is driven toward any particular goal. Both of them are just sort of coping at the moment.
Still can’t see that working. While both of them are ‘coping’, neither share the same work/school ethic. Plus, while Amber likes comics in general, Walky seems to be fixated on one and only one comic/cartoon (which Amber has never expressed an interest in.)
Having different work authors ethics and interests really aren’t requirements for a successful relationship. I know many couples that are vastly different in both regards, and couldn’t be happier
Amber and Walky have had some really healthy, supportive conversations. So far they’ve been really good for each other. That’s way more important to a relationship than liking the same comic books or having the same study habits.
Amber and Danny didn’t (or at least wouldn’t) work out mainly because Amber has him on too high of a pedestal. He’s a sweet guy, but being around him made Amber feel crappy in comparison to how she saw him. Walky was in a similar boat with Dorothy. His fear of not being good enough exacerbated his anxiety over his grades. Amber and Walky can relate to each other’s problems in a way that doesn’t end up making them feel worse.
Similarly, both Danny and Dorothy both have some personal work to do before getting into any relationship. Danny’s finally figuring out who he is and what’s important to him that isn’t tied to being someone’s boyfriend, and Dorothy really needs to figure out a sustainable work/life balance, or at least what she wants that to look like in the long run. THEN she can figure out where/when a boyfriend might fit into that
Also, Danny ran headlong into Amber’s mental issues – both her trauma over Sal and the distinction between Amber and Amazi-Girl that he never really had the chance to grasp. Without that, I think they would have at least lasted much longer. He was just out of his depth and blundering through a minefield.
And Amber didn’t need any help feeling crappy about herself. I don’t think it was so much putting him on a pedestal as doing the opposite to herself – and she’d have done so with anyone who wasn’t just a jerk.
As for Walky, there’s some truth to that. OTOH, she also made him aspire to be better, which he could use a bit of, without actually forcing him to change. I think they were actually good for each other, until it all ran a ground her work/life balance issues – and probably still would be.
The problem with Dorothy staying out of relationships until she can figure out a work/life balance is that she’s decided on such balances several times, but she can’t stick to them. I don’t have time for such distractions/It’s just for fun/I love you, but it’s still going end when I leave/the pause/the break up.
I’m not convinced the break up will last. I’m pretty sure she’s not going to be better off this way.
Maybe an unrequited crush (walkys not moving on from his first love that fast. Then again there’s the potential for rebounding, but speaking from experience, a rebound when all you can think about is the other person doesn’t really result in anything deep.) Or maybe like, “I’m super sad, you’re super sad, we’re both super sad” sex. Maybe if walkys drunk
SHUSH
Nope! Doesn’t work that way at all XD
Well, TBF, if you DO meet a cop in this situation, and if they ARE going to bust you for the pot, they’ll let you know they’re a cop pretty damn quickly.
Amber’s smile here is so cute. I love her.
Amber’s little smile seeing Walky just makes me go ‘awwww’. Girl is long past due for some bonding and happiness, even if it is wrapped in mutual self-loathing. And since any situation that gets Amber in actual therapy will almost certainly curtail her vigilantism and Willis needs the action sequences, this is probably the healthiest thing Amber’s getting until Willis learns how to draw roller derby or something. (Mark my words now: next milestone anniversary of Roomies, we transition to a Roller Derby comic.)
Did anyone else think that was Sal before they read the tags or was it just me?
Nah, she’s several shades too light to be Sal.
Some of us don’t see color
So what do you do at a stop light?
Floor it.
o.0
Hope it’s vertical and not one of those weird horizontal ones?
Im pretty sure that’s why they have it organized red at the top, green at the bottom
It’s because she’s the Designated Smoker™ of the cast.
Well, that and the long, black hair.
Yeah, the hair made me think Sal when my eyes briefly passed over that panel, before I actually read the strip.
Same here.
I wonder what’ll happen once Amber finds out Sal and Walky are related?
Meredith read the alt text, it doesn’t work that way!
And those rules don’t apply to Amazi Girl anyways!
So. Is Amber also going to date Walky after breaking up with Danny?
Since she broke up with Danny like 2 weeks ago, it kinda has to be after if it happens at all
I’m aware that Amber has already broken up with Danny. I was commenting on how after breaking up with Danny, Dorothy started dating Walky, and was wondering if that was going to be a repeated pattern since Amber is becoming close with Walky after breaking up with Danny. A Danny to Walky inevitability.
Since I can already feel the desire growing in the mass amount of people reading this comic who want to see these two make out, I think we should take this pairing and toss it as deep into the friendzone as we can before it’s too late.
Because even I’m starting to like these two hanging out more than I should and that’s not good because part of me still holding out for Danny.
If anyone is going to bring Amazi-Girl back into the foreground, it’s Danny, and that’s not going to be good for either Amber or Danny.
Danny is wisely working on himself right now, and if Amber moves on, then when Danny is ready and when the aftermath of whatever the hell Mike is up to clears, Danny and Ethan won’t be worried about Amber and they’ll finally be able to make their penises kiss
It’ll be like one of those sitcoms where the sensitive, respectable guy moves in with the buff, handsome guy whose last roommate was a total jag. Except with penises.
Do you consider Garbage Roof a date?
If you consider Garbage Roof a date, your standards are low enough that you belong on Garbage Roof.
“And for some it’s ‘posing-while-looking-cool-roof'”
“I’M SURE I DON’T KNOW ANYONE LIKE THAT.”
Seriously, it feels very important that it’s Amber rather than Amazi-girl that shows up to hope to find Walky.
Panel three warms my heart.
Cool, Meredith has a character trait now!
Ruth mentioned that Meredith smokes weed in December of last year, when she mentioned that she “didn’t write [her] up” for doing so on her birthday. Meredith’s birthday, that is.
THEY’RE FRIENDS NOW, I LOVE IT.
Lemme get to the point
Let’s roll another joint–the late great Tom Petty
I doubt this is her last dance with Mary Jane, though.
Meredith seems to be too trusting towards a couple of people she suspected to be cops.
But she asked, and think they would have to say. They didn’t, so she believes they aren’t cops, and even though it doesn’t actually work that way she is correct.
Whether that means she actually knows they aren’t cops is an epistemological question called the Gettier problem.
You don’t know something unless you have sufficient evidence so that it is not possible to be wrong. She believes that they aren’t cops. She is right. She believes that she knows the aren’t cops. She is wrong. Gettier problem solved.
She’s probably not entirely serious about that.
Amber’s smile is making me friend-ship her and walky so hard
I thought that was Mary for a moment
It really doesn’t work that way
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/are-you-a-cop/
Nice try, Officer!
Amber, you’re off the clock. Don’t bother Meredith, please.
*bust, not bother.
Ironically, this is the 19th strip of the 4th storyline of the current book … so close!
DANGIT
It’s ALMOST like that time you coincidentally mentioned “Titanic” on the 20th anniversary of the movie, huh
Tell you what, if you slip in an extra strip of Riley eating cereals or whatever, I won’t raise a fuss about it.
Whaddya wanna bet they’ll still be talking about pot next strip?
4/20 CONFIRMED
Garbage Roof 3: Garbage With a Vengeance.
Garbage Roof IV: A New Dump
Garbage Roof V: The Smell Strikes Back.
Wait, what happened to Garbage Roof 2: Wrath of Garbage?
It was remade as Garbage Roof Into Refuse.
Fan-dubbed as “The Wrath of (Garbage) Can”.
420 means a completely different thing in my country. It roughly signifies someone who’s a cheat or a fraud. Guess i added one more thing to my knowledge today.
What does it mean? Context lets me think of “an undercover cop has to answer truly if you ask them if they are” but that seems to be a strange rule that rather defies the purpose of being undercover so I’m not sure if that’s a true rule or an idea to create drama in crime stories.
420 refers to smoking sweet sweet marijuana.
Legend has it that this number is the police code for pot-smoking, like over their intercoms or whatever. 420 extends to things like smoking on April 20th, or smoking at 4:20pm (which, luckily, occurs every hour in some timezone somewhere), etc.
Thanks, I was wondering. Any idea how the number came to be associated with this particular activity?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/420/
Thankee kindly, masked stranger.
420 is weed-related slang.
It’s not. Hollywood myth that cops obviously aren’t quick to correct
Not having to do with 420 — some people falsely think that, if you ask a cop whether they’re a cop, that the have to tell you truthfully. Nah, they don’t have to tell you. They’re not folk-spirits.
That myth is decades old, do people really still believe it? I would think that it was a joke, but never under estimate the stupidity of humans.
It refers to smoking marijuana, which I believe is still illegal in Indiana. There used to be this old wive’s tale that if you asked an undercover police officer if they were a cop, it was your legal right to know and they had to tell you. I honestly think there’s a possibility that this notion comes from certain folktales about pookas and such— certainly, it has no basis in legal reaity ’round these here parts. Unless you’re a member of the Unseelie Court.
I heard that fae couldn’t lie, but as policepeople are human, I wouldn’t hold my breath….
In my country in our penal code there’s a section 420 which lays out penalties for people involved in cheating and fraud. And such people are colloquially known as 420s.
Well, technically Amazi-girl isn’t a cop.
I don’t want to say I ship Amber/Walky, but I do definitely want to see them sloppily make-out then cry in each other’s arms for a minute.
Shouldn’t we expect Billie to show up there soon?
Only if someone says “booze” three times.
It seems a lot of people go to that roof to escape something!
Oh hey Meredith
AMBER YOU BACK THE HECK UP. THAT’S DOTTYS MAN
Formally.
Then again it’s only been a day.
Dorothy strikes me as the type who would be happier if Walky moved on quickly (and in a bizarrely healthy way) rather than sitting around moping.
Dorothy strikes me as the type who would decide it was all for the best if Walky moved on quickly because that’s best for all concerned and she really shouldn’t care about such things now that they’ve broken up. And then would be hurt if he did. Not that she’d take it out on him or anything, just that her emotions don’t line up where she’s rationally decided they should.
Formerly.
In case anybody thinks that’s true, it’s not
Wha? This is Meredith? I thought it was Sal when I saw her.
Hi Mer !
garbage roof is starting to be crowded
Well, Meredith, one of them is a masked vigilante! Does that count?
I like that let’s be charitable and call it “theory” that undercover cops have to give themselves away if you ask them. I want to believe the cops made it up in order to trick really stupid criminals into helping with their cover.
This theory, like any good theory, is falsifiable.
…. also, to assume that the cops would need this to trick really stupid criminals is to underestimate the stupidity of really stupid criminals.
No, you guys thought that was Mary before you.checked the tags…
Yes, I did, and my eyes boggled for that short few moments!
Mary would sooner die than smoke pot (anywhere that anyone might catch her).
We would have to call her Mary-death.
That is a different webcomic.
*googles*
*loses an hour to archive binging*
Damn you, sir.
Thats one other reason to be on a roof
I just want to add that I hope Amber and Walky help each other out of their respective pits of low self-esteem. Both of them need friends (as opposed to significant others) at this point.
Walky’s looking like Marco Diaz from Star Vs.
I really don’t want to see Amber and Walky get together romantically, but I absolutely think this has solid friendship potential and hope that’s where it leads.
Okay, I need my eyes checked. I swear that was Sal when I first looked.
Amber
It’s also fandom roof on fridays. Homestucks and D&D players have constant fights over the roof at night, and some people just want to cry over what Thanos did in Infinity War.
And new favorite character!
Seriously, I thought this college only had alcohol for years now.
Carla also smokes weed!
Spoiling the past for you!
Is it a bad thing that I didn’t know Meredith’s name and just went “Oh it’s Blowjob Cat Girl!” :O
i think “blowjob catgirl” is a different webcomic
*starts to google*
*remembers his earlier mistake*
*realizes what he was about to google*
That is either the best or worst superhero name.
I’m not good with characters, I thought that was Sal at first.
You know, this is cute. It’s really cute. I want to ship it. But I feel a little bad for Amber if she picks up Dorothy’s reject boyfriend for a SECOND time. >_>;
Amber, I know you are a Rule Dork but please be cool