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Terms
Posted on June 10, 2018 by David M Willis

174 thoughts on “Terms”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “what, the back of my skull?”

    1. Agemegos

      He’s not using it for anything.

      1. Zathras10

        I’ll have you know this *was* a perfectly good keyboard.

    2. erejnion

      “What, my brain?” was my assumption.

    3. Unusually Angry Hippie

      I KNEW THEY WAS GONNA FUCK. Amazi-Girl and Amber are both currently single. Walky is also currently single.

      1. Unusually Angry Hippie

        I mean, it’s no Walky/Billy, but I’ll take it.

        1. Shariku

          I don’t think that’s it. Amber may be sort of considering it but Walky is still very much in love. It also wouldn’t actually solve his problem or make himself feel any less like garbage. If anything, it would make him feel worse as he would definitely view it as cheating on Dorothy.

          I found myself playing with the idea that she hacks his grades or something like that, but this is ‘minors can’t drink’ Amber.

          I get the feeling this is going to be anti-climatic and her suggestion is that she tutors him.

  2. Doctor_Who

    Make his skull go away? That doesn’t sound healthy.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Dangit, forgot the first rule of commenting here: always assume Ana will get there first.

      1. chris2315

        How do you keep failing to get here first? Don’t you have a TARDIS?

        1. Dean

          Ana is actually Rassilon.

        2. Beef

          Have you seen her try to drive it? That thing has a mind of its own.

    2. Agemegos

      Worse than femurs.

    3. Crusading Barista

      “How is that physically possible?”
      “That’s what he said.”
      “HOW IS THIS PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE!!!”

  3. AnvilPro

    That’s an awkward way to transition into sex talk…. hopefully.

    1. Agemegos

      Awkward, schawkward. So long as it gets there, right?

    2. CrazyJ

      I thought this was a transition into Amazi-Girl getting a sidekick. Just got to think of a cool superhero name….

      1. Proxiehunter

        They aren’t mutually exclusive.

      2. Koms

        That’s exactly where my mind went. His super hero name will be Amazi-dukeofthingley

        1. HeySo

          Everyone’ll call him Amaziduke, but he’ll take a Captain Jack Sparrow approach to emphasizing the full title. 😛

        2. Marsh Maryrose

          This is the tale
          Of the Duke of Thingley
          Sidekick so brave
          Hero so rare

          A mythical journey
          From the Roof of Garbage
          Through the Hall of Read
          Down the Hidden Stairs

        3. marianne

          The… Fresh Duke of Thingley?

        4. Felix

          nah, just amazidude.

    3. Zathras10

      Walky Performs a Super-Sex

    4. segnosaur

      “Hopefully”? Speak for yourself.

      Both Walky and Amber are fragile right now. Las thing they need is more confusion in their lives. Lets say they do have sex. What happens if/when Amber figures out Walky is Sal’s brother? What happens to Amber and Danny’s friendship (something Amber probably needs) if he finds out the girl he is probably still attracted to is having sex with the same guy that his previous girlfriend was with?

      Never mind the fact that the 2 of them are probably completely unsuited for each other for anything long term.

      1. Delicious Taffy

        Who says sex has to include anything long-term or confusing?

        “I’m stressed, you’re stressed, fancy a shag?” is a classic that never goes out of style.

        1. whitt

          ….they live and study together.
          the longterm is *built in*

          but i think i hear what you’re trying to say

          …
          ..plus he’s the genderbent version of Amber’s “subconscious proof” of being “evil” or whatever she’s afraid her father made/gave her. (stabbing Sal was the turning point of her being hypershy to snapping and acting like her abusive father, hence Sal as the object of “proof”) so THAT’s not gonna be confusing for anyone down the road………

          ….(on the other hand, that would be an interesting way for her to overcome her personality disorder, by ….”tackling” it in such a way. a bit like immunization? XD lower-dose exposure and manipulation of somatic response. XD XD XD)

          so yaaaaaa GENERALLY you’re right on this, but with these characters there’s some built in drama already in play. =P

          ahahaha okay i now have no preference for them doin it either way.
          come on. Dorothy would get off to her man bangin her hero-crush. XD when they eventually make up, it’ll be a turn on. XD XD XD

        2. Inahc

          Completely off topic, but, how did the job orientation thingy go? 🙂

        3. thejeff

          Possible, but neither of them have shown any signs of being that casual about it. They’ve each only been with one person, while in a serious relationship. I suspect both have all sorts of assumptions about sex and relationships that wouldn’t just easily vanish, even if they agreed to a casual shag.
          And given that, as whitt says, they live right on top of each other, there’s going to be some kind of longterm relationship here. Whether it’s romantic, friendly or hostile, there’s going to be something.

          Besides, I like them as friends. They don’t have to jump into bed.

  4. shadowcell

    all it would take is one technically very big stab…

  5. butts

    Amber: *produces a trepanning spike*

  6. Yumi

    I feel like she’s either going to tutor him or kill him.

    1. Agemegos

      Or fuck him. It’s an intriguing sort of offer.

      1. Yumi

        All three.

        1. Doctor_Who

          But in what order?

        2. Tacos

          One of those is a crime. And depending on the order, another one is also a crime.

        3. HeySo

          Fuck, Tutor, Kill?
          Okay, I think I’m seeing where Amber’s relationship issues are coming from.

        4. Regalli

          Better than Fuck, Tudor, Kill.

          (… I don’t actually know what that game entails, but you might have to produce an heir for Henry VIII or something.)

        5. Zathras10

          That proved to be a pretty dangerous pursuit.

        6. jeffepp

          Only if you screwed around on Henry.

        7. Regalli

          Nope, Jane Seymour died in childbirth. And we honestly don’t have a ton of evidence Anne Boleyn was actually guilty of anything she was accused of, he was looking for a way to get rid of her after she miscarried a son.

        8. Yet_One_More_Idiot

          Better than Fuck Tudor, Kill. The difference of that comma could make things so much better or so, so much worse. 😛 Now you definitely have to attempt to produce a male heir for Henry VIII.

        9. Regalli

          Which wasn’t a particularly appealing prospect even before he was dead for hundreds of years.

        10. thejeff

          At least now it would just be a difficult scientific project.

        11. Regalli

          I’ve gotta wonder what would happen to the royal succession if people started producing new babies from long-dead monarchs. I guess the easiest way would be declaring them illegitimate (which I mean, true) and that anyway, the Tudors no longer have a dynastic claim?

          Proooobably for the best for any countries with surviving monarchies that we don’t have the technology for this. Though the legal arguments would be kind of hilarious.

        12. Sensei Le Roof

          Faster, Tutor! Kill! Kill!

    2. Inahc

      I feel like the comic is going to jump to some other characters tomorrow. 😛

      1. Doctor_Who

        The cut back to Garbage Roof, and Meredith is now there alone. Just to be ominous.

        1. 3oranges

          “And that’s why 420 roof has bigger railings now!”

        2. 3oranges

          Sorry, that sounded more flippant and less horrible in my head.

    3. Marsh Maryrose

      The alt text says she’s a wizard; maybe, like Circe, she’ll turn him into a swine?

      1. HeySo

        :cough:

        ;P

    4. tim gueguen

      I’m thinking more hack the university computer system and change his grades.

      1. Marisa Mockery

        Ooooh much neater than tutoring.

        1. Mr D

          Dddoubt it. that’s kinda a big crime, bigger than drinking on campus, and she is a stickler for rules.

          AG would have to kick Amber’s ass, and that relationship is already going down the “Fight Club” angle.

        2. Wright

          Amazi-Girl is a stickler for the rules.

          And remember, Amazi-Girl fought, and Amazi-Girl lost.

          She’s been trying to deliberately work against the Amazi-Girl persona.

          Honestly, hacking the system is what I think she would most likely suggest.

      2. whitt

        =O hacker. oh gosh! that’ll be hilarious AND deepen Walky’s sense of guilt about not living up to standard

    5. Reltzik

      What’s this “either-or” business?

    6. Needfuldoer

      Walky: “Really? You can make this problem go away? How?”
      Amber: *SHOVE*
      Cut to an overhead view as Walky falls straight down off the roof spread-eagle, accompanied by the Wile E Coyote descending whistle and/or Goofy Holler, until he hits the ground in a cloud of dust
      Walky, climbing out of an exactly-him-shaped impact crater: “NOT HELPING!”

    7. whitt

      oh good. i’m glad i’m not the only one who thought she sounded a bit like she was offering to off him.

  7. Pablo360

    This bodes poorly.

  8. Nono

    Sexy lesbian suicide pact?

    1. jeffepp

      Close enough.

    2. TCS

      I had a guidance counselor in high school that thought my roommate and I were in a sexy lesbian suicide pact. TBH I think she just shipped us but at least had the perceptive capabilities to notice that we were both severly depressed.

  9. Phil

    The birth of Amazi-boy? Wait, that didn’t work out that well the first time :/

  10. Opus the Poet

    No, Walky! You can’t become AmaziGirl’s sidekick.

    1. Agemegos

      Or he could be a masked crusader who does homework at night,

    2. newllend(henryvolt)

      That position is meant for Dina.

      1. desolation0

        Doesn’t she just cover the Archaeology papers?

  11. tirachokko

    Amber no, don’t make promises you can’t keep

    1. Clif

      She can keep them. She’s a wizard.

  12. Steve

    Amber produces Head Alien’s mindwipe device

    Oh noooooo

  13. Passchendaele

    weirdly enough, there *is* a spot on the back of my skull that hurts

  14. Stephen Bierce

    *record-scratch skip*

  15. QueerCat

    Well to be fair…using sex for emotional comfort/stress release and sex on the roof are very much college things to do.
    Livin’ the full college experience.

    1. Matt

      They paid the tuition, something better come of it.

  16. Larkle

    My mind is going to offering to hack his math scores. Which is very much not an Amazigirl thing. But could maybe be an Amber thing.

    1. kayelem

      This is exactly what I thought along with the chorus, “breaking the law, breaking the law”

    2. Needfuldoer

      Or maybe she’ll just offer to tutor him in math? It would help his grades, and give Amber something positive for once.

  17. Side One

    Uhhh…
    This isn’t the beginning of some sorta suicide pact, or a “Strangers on a Train” type thing, is it?!
    IS IT?!!!

    1. EvilMidnightLurker

      Probably more like “Throw Momma From the Train.”

  18. Kyrik Michalowski

    There are very few ways that this ends well and far more ways for this to end terribly. I want to be hopeful, but experience in life (and in this comic) has taught me better. I now only expect the worst from this situation, if it isn’t the worst then we’ll see how it goes I guess.

    1. Inahc

      otoh, the sheer variety of predictions from the comment section is entertaining.

    2. Jackson

      I have no idea what she has in mind, but I do know with absolute certainty that it is a very bad idea.

      1. Regalli

        I mean, something pleasant COULD happen.

        It won’t, but it COULD.

        (I finally realized shamefully late I can use the return key when commenting on my phone! No more ugly blocks for me!)

    3. Joseph Rasche

      This comment goes SO WELL with your Billie avatar.

  19. DailyBrad

    Hmm. Intriguing.

  20. Madock345

    Next comic: Amber hits Walky in the head with a bat

    1. GoblinScribe

      This was where my mind went, too.

    2. Keulen

      My first thought was that she was gonna stab him in the back of the head. My brain disturbs me sometimes.

    3. JessWitt

      Next comic after that: Sarah realizes her bat is missing, goes on a search.

  21. BBCC

    Amber tutoring Walky? Like a gender swap of Sal and Danny? Neat!

  22. Tacos

    Don’t agree to anything Walky! She just wants to brush up on her icepick lobotomy skills.

  23. Cass

    Amber, don’t push Walky off garbage roof.

  24. drs

    Tutoring was my first guess, too.
    (second comment try)

  25. vacantVisionary

    Soooo is Amber going to teach Walky how to dissociate,

    1. thejeff

      That’s where my mind went too. Can’t really see it though.

      1. Clif

        It worked for her.

        Sort of.

  26. chris73

    First panel Walky should have the back of his hand at his forehead, like this:

    https://giphy.com/gifs/sassy-model-5WXqTFTgO9a7e

  27. JessWitt

    Uh oh, is Walky gonna become AmaziGirl’s ward in crime fighting?

    1. Keulen

      If he does I hope he used the Duke of Thingley as his superhero name.

      1. JessWitt

        Better than my suggestions of Butt-Taco Dude, the WalkMan, and the Caramelizer.

  28. Morbid

    ……Not sure I like where this could be heading…….

    1. Clif

      She’s a wizard.

  29. lia47

    SIDEKICK SIDEKICK SIDEKICK

  30. Enya

    Getting real bad Song of the Sea vibes. Walky, run!

  31. Sam

    ……. what

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      Yeah, nobody knows what the hell she’s talking about.

      1. Clif

        But she’s a wizard.

  32. Regalli

    … Maybe she’ll confront Linda in costume? Unlikely, but let’s just throw a new possibility out there.

  33. maxyai

    Some people believe if you have a hole in your skull it makes you smarter, and they’re actually dumb enough to do it.
    The More You Know™

    1. Regalli

      But the hole in your skull lets you see Dust!

    2. Portland

      Sawbones tells me every episode not to drill a hole in my head, though!

  34. Stellar

    There is no music ominous enough to play over that final line…

  35. motorfirebox

    Amber! Murder is NOT the answer! Usually!

    1. Tacos

      What an appropriate gravatar considering Meredith is probably still there. 420 Roof and all that jazz, yo

  36. newllend(henryvolt)

    Okay so we all have no freaking idea what the hell she went with that last one. That’s okay that’s okay, Maybe it has something to do with why she’s visiting garbage roof this time around.

    … why is she on garbage roof this time?

    1. Clif

      She’s a wizard.

  37. Regalli

    … Wait. Just realized. We came in here off a flashback of Mike getting Amber’s grades changed for her.

    Yeah the hacking thing sounds super likely right now. Both of you, noooooooo.

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      Oooh yeah that sounds like that could be it, which is a bad idea because it could have some really horrible repercussions if it backfires.

      Would Amber go that far?

    2. JessWitt

      Good lord. AmaziGirl wouldn’t approve of that.

      Or would she?

      1. Regalli

        AG certainly wouldn’t, but Amber wants to ruin AG’s good reputation.

    3. thejeff

      We also came in here off of modern Amber being jealous of Ethan, which makes the sex idea a little more likely.

      1. Clif

        She just came in here turned on by the idea of Ethan and Mike. Also she’s a wizard.

  38. Dierna

    Amber gonna be using some mad hacker skillz….

  39. Archivist

    I relate to the first panel extremely hard.

    What the heck is Amber going to offer though.

    1. BenRG

      To teach Walky to hide his fear and self-hate behind a mask.

      1. CJ

        Not that. She knows quite well that doesn’t remove the stab.
        She suggests she can remove the stab for him but not for herself. So does she think his problem is solvable (by teaching?) and hers isn’t?

        1. BenRG

          That would be very in-character for Amber: She assumes that she is a special case beyond redemption or help.

  40. RachelEvil

    Pretty sure Meredith’s got a more effective tool for that…

  41. stoodmuffin

    I. Um. Is this? Is this happening/?

  42. Lone Wolf

    My first thought was “she’s gonna offer to hack the school’s computers and change Walky’s grades for him.”

    I don’t think Amber has the free time to spend tutoring someone else, and Walky’s had trouble with tutoring in the past.

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      But Amber has this lawful code about her so I don’t know if she would do that, nor do I think Walky would do that either because I don’t think He’d able to look Dorothy in the eyes ever again if he cheated.

  43. CoffeeBurps

    “What if I could make yours go away?”
    All it would take is a little nudge… right off the roof

  44. Xccj

    She’s gonna kill him.

    Or maybe suggest a tutor, like Danny, who’s already helped Sal with that class, although Walky is a whole other mess. On a related note, has Amber made the connection that Walky and Sal are related?

  45. BenRG

    Something tells me that Amber and Walky are about to do something that will have long-lasting repercussions.

  46. PB

    I have a Star Wars line about this…

    1. Michael Lanting

      “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”?

    2. Meta

      Try spinning, Walky. It’s a good trick.

    3. King Daniel

      “I don’t like math. It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.”

      1. PB

        Sorry, guys, it was “I have a bad feeling about this.”

  47. Mr. Random

    This sounds dangerous.

    1. BenRG

      Or just fandom breaking. Are we ready for a Walky-Amber affair?

      1. Mr. Random

        I meant more psychologically dangerous for Walky. Amber’s coping mechanisms aren’t exactly healthy.

  48. Jay

    Yep, that’s a fun experience, literally the only reason I ended up breaking out of that thought process (I still haven’t and still worry about it every day but to a much less degree) was because I started dating my girlfriend xD, my thoughts when from I’m fucking everything up to I need to not fuck everything up so get your ass straight….I still ended up dropping out of highschool but hey I’m getting my maturity and going to college so….small victories?

  49. Bagge

    “Hear me out -do you have any latex allergies?”

  50. ProjectXa3

    Hunh. If this is going where I think it’s going, I gotta admit that’s one swerve I would not have called.

  51. Socky

    “Tell me Walky, did you ever hear the tragedy of The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis ‘The Wise’?”

    1. BenRG

      The Dark Side can grant its’ wielder great powers, powers held by most as being… unnatural.

      1. abysswatcher1993

        Funny, he was capable of saving others but himself.

  52. Daisy

    Yes, Walky, take advice on coping mechanisms from the garbage roof buddy, because she clearly has her life together /sarcasm

    1. alice

      meh, i’d rather get advice from someone who’s struggling than someone who has no idea what i’m experiencing

  53. Darkoneko

    Does it involve pushing him from that roof ? I wouldn’t recommend that permanent solution

  54. FacelessDeviant

    Walky becomes AMAZI-WALKY?

  55. ValdVin

    Walky’s eyes, especially panel three, are incredible.

  56. Disastroid

    Amber is Chromedome, here comes the Memnosurgery!

  57. Robert

    I don’t think that “My girlfriend dumped me” is a proper motivation for one to become a superhero. Even in the DOAverse which is chock full of convoluted logic.

  58. Dev

    I read this and immediately thought she meant pushing him off the roof, went “she wouldn’t do that,” but now I’m just like D: at “…well maybe she would and now I’m not so sure.”

    D:

  59. abysswatcher1993

    I hope Amber is suggesting helping him study and not become a vigilante. In that scenario he will become the Nite Owl II of her Rorschach. Option C is they have sex, but I think that is too soon and too toxic for their mental health at the moment.

    1. timemonkey

      None of those options would fix any of his problems.

      1. Clif

        Helping him learn to study would solve his grade problems. The other might give Dorothy a sufficient shock to make her think deeply about what is important to her.

  60. nightshade

    you know 420 girl failed pot etiquette the other day…. You always politely offer a toke or two even if you know there gonna decline ,.. unless the kids changed it since the 90s/00s

    1. ninja_jesus

      Free tokes? In this economy?

      1. Azukar

        It’s more likely than you think.
        [free PC check]

  61. JBento

    Crazy thought: What if Amber means she can make use of Dorothy’s admiration for Amazi-Girl to convince her to get back together with Walky?

  62. Classic Appa

    It’s time Amazi-Girl takes on her protege, Lazy-Boy! Together they will take bring crime to it’s knees using the power of their shared sense of inadequacies!

  63. Miguel

    Wish i was getting what Walky’s getting

    1. Clif

      Fs?

  64. Marcel

    pleasedontbeasucidepactpleasedontbeasuicidepactpleasedontbeasuicidepact.

  65. Wayne Farmer

    Is Amber trying to rescue a citizen in distress?

  66. mister gray

    I smell a ship! Walky/Amber for the WIN!

  67. Mike Crichton

    They are going to end up f@cking SOOOO vigorously, aren’t they?

    1. your pal sunny

      you know what actually i think i’d like that

  68. your pal sunny

    this hits so hard

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