First things first: THANK YOU SO MUCH for a successful crowdfunding campaign for Book 4!!!
I'm really looking forward to seeing this final book complete the GGaR collection aaah :D :D :D finally!!
I hope Hiveworks is able to obtain a VAT number to be able to ship in England soon as well, so that when Book 4 is available in store, UK residents can (finally!) purchase the thing!!
Will let you know if that's the case, and any other important updates will be shared by Hiveworks through the crowdfunding campaign!
Secondly, regarding the first strip above: the plant that Watch is handling is a flower that... I forgot the name of :( but it was definitely not randomly picked! See, Roomie's name sounds like Rumi (there's one strip that mentions Rumi as a joke) who was a famous Persian philosopher that has many quotes that I LOVE, and so the flower picked here had (as one of its surnames) something with the word "persian" in it, and so I picked it as a very indirect way of saying, "oh hey this plant represents Roomie".
Sometimes I do these sorts of associations by myself, without necessarily having it to be seen by readers, I just like doing it :)
EDIT: found the name of the flower! -> Persian Jewels Nigella
*This is a rerun of the finished webcomic Go Get a Roomie! You can find these two strips in the old archive >here<!