Story Arcs
- Comic
- 01. Imaginate!
- 02. The Game
- 03. Cat Tail
- 04. The Raccoons
- 05. The Adventures of Spot
- 06. Fido's Return
- 07. Mouse Mouse Revolution
- 08. Thematic Arc of Questionable Quality
- 09. The Zoo
- 10. The Grove
- 11. Housepets Christmas
- 12. The Yarn Ball
- 13. The Further Adventures of Spot
- 14. The Vet
- 15. A Mouse Named Spo
- 16. Zap!
- 17. Fall of the Pridelands
- 18. The Continuing Adventures of Spot
- 19. A Sinister Shadow
- 20. Roadtrip Woo
- 21. Down At The Farm
- 22. Money Sharks
- 23. n-ple Date
- 24. The Uncanny Adventures of Spot
- 25. The Visitor
- 26. Oops I Arced
- 27. It's A Wonderful Dog's Life
- 27.5 All the King's Men (prose)
- 28. Ocean's Two
- 29. Imaginate, Too!
- 30. The Present
- 31. Spot McCloud Presents Comics
- 32. Dog Days of Summer
- 33. Theme Park World
- 34. The Adventures of Stripe
- 35. Movie Night
- 36. Scaredy Cats
- 37. Noob Tube
- 38. Hope of the Pridelands
- 39. We're Snowed In!
- 40. The Preeminent Adventures of Spot
- 41. The Arc Specifically About Being Naked
- 42. Not All Dogs
- 43. The Great Water Balloon War
- 44. Let's Imaginate Macbeth!
- 45. The Interview
- 46. The Case of the Aztec Gold
- 47. A Respite In The Country
- 48. Spots and Stripes
- 49. A Holiday at the Zoo
- 50. Housepets Babies!
- 51. Show Business
- 52. What Money Buys
- 53. The Mall
- 54. The Critical Review of Spot
- 55. The Trial in Heaven
- 56. Let's Imaginate Guys and Dolls!
- 57. Testing Grounds
- 58. Taking Cover
- 59. PsyCon
- 60. Getting Physical
- 61. PsyCon2: PsyConner
- 62. The Retroactively Continuous Adventures of Spot
- 63. Temple Crashers
- 64. All Hallow's Ween
- 65. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Dog
- 66. One Cat's Treasure
- 67. Love And War
- 68. Jack Of One Trade
- 69. The King and I
- Guest Week!
- News
- Comic
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Horray for Spot (superdog)!
DUN FERGET DE DRAMATIC BLOW *blows air in ur face*
wutever blow billow same thing -_-
For a moment there, I thought “the dramatic blow” was an actual punch
That’s his cape billowing in the wind. Dramatically.
yay more spot!!
So the fantastic four dogs are they the K9 torch the golem, the invisable pooch and and rubber mutt?
These strips make me highly confused @.=.@
that face looks like a car.
-.__
-/__\
@.=.@
VROOOOOM.
Car looks like CART! WE MUST POOSH LEETLE CART!!!!1!1!111!
to me it looks like a tractor
TRACTOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRR!!!!
I see a shopping cart.
I see an oncoming BART train with the headlights on!
RUN!
Oh, look, a guy wearing coke-bottle glasses and a fez. Or is it an ink blot? Either way, it goes VROOOOOM!
It’s a giant novelty inkwell on a small skateboard.
thats the point^^
SPOT! He has a club? FAWESOME
suweeeeeet!!
DRAMATIC BILLOW
lol Yay more spot!
Shout out to Fantastic 4 in panel 2, nice.
I am ashamed that I didn’t catch that until I read your comment…
Well, they don’t exactly look the same…being dogs and all.
PEESHAW! -_-
i first was like, that reminds me of fantastic 4, but then i started to doubt.
now you said it i know i was right XD
I wondered why those characters seemed familiar….. Good catch! And nice little sneak in there by Rick!
The Krunk!!
“Don’t make me furious. You wouldn’t like me when I’m furious.”
Well it’s about time! I WANT IN THE CLUB
Sorry, no supervillans
Aww!
wut about just plain villans?
If you’re a serf tied to the land you’re working, you’ll get in all kinds of trouble if you leave it to go hunt for a clubhouse.
Yay spot!
-enjoys Fantastic Four reference/shoutout/thing-
I saw that too! It made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :3
Sounds rather like Normalman on the planet Levram, where everyone else had super-powers, and there was only one person to rescue…
I guess the Orphanage Arc must’ve been retconned when Spot (Superpuppy) Prime punched through reality.
yes, i think so, even though i have no ideal what you mean by that
Not familiar with the Infinite Crisis, huh?
Reminds me a lot of this:
– C. Coville
http://www.cracked.com/article_18475_6-horrifying-implications-awesome-fantasy-movie-universes_p1.html
That doesn’t count unsuccessful superheroes, and those who have superpowers but don’t make a big deal about it, or whose superpowers are things that don’t help them fight crime, like debuggerman and ironic boy.
i like screaming around, make more terror out of terror T.T
Your superhero name is… “Terror Terrier”!
Terrorier!
Er… I think it does. It’s “5,000 characters” counting “significant others, aliens and advisors”, which seems to mean that to be a character, you simply have to appear in one of the comments. Thus, Spiderman’s boss J. J. Jameson, the teacher who flunked one of the X-men, and that annoying cop in The Fantastic Four which had to have a name, are all in there.
That doesn’t count unsuccessful superheroes (who simply didn’t attract the notice of Marvel’s virtual docudramatists and journalists so they don’t show up in the comics), those who have superpowers and don’t make a big deal about it (so they don’t get airtime and show up in the comics), and those whose superpowers are things that don’t help them fight crime (Marvel is totally not going to make a comic about Electrician-man or The Amazing Gardener). Half the population could have a superpower that doesn’t make them interesting enough to show up on TV. I mean, how many people do *you* know have appeared on your local station?
Yeah, but I would DEFINITELY buy a comic book about The Electric Gardener.
Er… The Mayor? Superpower: convincing people to vote for him although it was obvious he’d do a terrible job.
Ok, now I’m getting political. I’ll stop.
What I meant was that you do see several people who don’t make a fuss about their powers, or have “lame” powers; they are just one-shot characters. And those who don’t appear, are outweighed by the large ammount of characters that appear who don’t have superpowers. Of course, without the numbers, we can say they are however many we want: 3 billion under your argument, a couple thousand under mine.
I think we’re agreeing, then, because all I’m intersted in doing is throwing some doubt on the fire. The article is assuming that there’s no (or at most few) supers who don’t show up in the comics. Marvel could turn around and decide that the ratio of supers to normals “off the list” is as high as the ratio “on the list”. Or that the list is all there is. Or (more likely) something in between.
For every SUCCESSFUL superhero…
Guess I can’t be in the club. For like, two (or three) different reasons.
do tell
You’re a supervillain, aren’t you? D:
Not super, not a hero, not fictional.
Close! Not a villain, and neither of my personas are dogs. One is human and the other is a cat.
* not a hero
MY KINGDOM FOR AN “EDIT” FUNCTION.
Cats (as I note below) don’t need superpowers. Being a cat is a superpower.
Heck, they’re already half-griffin!
NUN SUPER VILLANS!!! XD
what do nuns have to do with it?
Nuns R Ninjas.
http://humon.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2q6pfo
in the language of the *mumble mumble* nun mean no
Peanut said there are 200 (or so) superheros… lets make up names!
Super Slimy Schnauzer!
Mega Muti-Poodle!
Dashing Dachshund!
Cool Corgi!
Awesome Australian Shepherd!
Punching Pinscher!
Capped Calico!
Terrific Tabby!
THE LAST TWO ARE CATS!
It says superheroes, not superdogs. Nobody said that it was exclusively superdogs.
Except for me, just there, inside of the sentence where I said that nobody said “it was exclusively superdogs”.
Oh, and I said it there too.
“Son, everything I tell you is a lie. Except that. And that. And that. And that…”
“Assume two things are true. First: everything I tell you is absolutely true. Second: this sentence is a lie.”
And thus I have neatly sidestepped the “You are misinformed” rebuttal!
There are no cats in the comic though.
rlly ai thought it sed 700 mai bad
I can’t really tell if he said 700, 200, or 100.
It’s all the same though.
Great Golden Retriever!
Brave Boxer!
Miracle Maine Coon!
Magnificent Mutt!
Leaping Labrador!
Burning Beagle!
Daring Dalmatian!
I really hope Rick sees some of these and uses them in the coming comics!
i hope he sees them, those are pretty good
plauzable pincher
yielding yugoslavian shepherd
gorgeous greyhound
altering alaskan mallamute
bouncy basenji
limber lundehund
her you have some more dog superheroes
Odorous Otter
Colossal Coon
Sissy Skunk
Terrific Tayra
Yippy Yapok
Ferocious Fossa
Happy Hyena
Mystery Meerkat and Mystery Mongoose
Kopi Luwak and his arch-enemy the Decaffinating Dugong
You know, Karl could probably sue you for that use of Sissy Skunk (and I know you know which Karl I’m talking about)
I checked with Legal Eagle, the amazing avian advocate, and he assured me that it’s fair use! And I need to switch my avatar over there too.
Shamrock the Scotch Collie
Crusher the Cane Corso
Fury the Finnish Hound (maybe a supervillain)
Noble the Norfolk Terrier
Landspeed the Labrador Retriever
Saber the Siberian Husky
Indigo the Irish Wolfhound
Rick, can you please make some of these characters into Spot (superdog)’s companions? I think we’ve all got a few good ideas for you to use!
Bat-Ferret, whose secret identity is a millionaire so spendthrift nobody would EVER believe he was a superhero.
The mystery bovines: No Bull, Lotta Bull, and Abomina Bull.
The Albino Coon, the only procyonid trusted by the Justice House (because he doesn’t have a mask).
Superchicken.
Bat-bat. He’s a bat. He wears a bat-costume. Somehow nobody notices.
ooh ooh i know!!!
The Dogtor A time traveler who is the last of his kind and his time machine looks like a small dog house on the outside but has infinate space on the inside. He can die 12 times and looks different each time he regenerates. His dog house is supposed to be able to change form however the circuit to do so is stuck. Also he caries a sonic ratchet which can fix and modify most any thing and can also open doors he also travels with a companion and they change every so often.
if nobody gets the referrence i’d be surrprised.
That totally explains Snoopy’s doghouse! It’s a Tardis!
Ummm, sounds a bit like Ratchet and Clank. specifically from the future series.
Nah doctor who great brittish series
you know, of all the time I’ve had the BBC I’ve never watched Dr Who. Kinda sad now
thats a shame last saturday there was a big marathon of it ending in the epic season finale so awesome it’s on at five usualy exept on saturdays whe they have new episodes its on at 9.
better yet the watchpets!
Nightprowler
Fur specter
inkblot
doctor babylon
the comedian
and fuzzy tabbon
yes that will work!!
I’m wildly in love with the idea of Bat Bat…
Glad to be of service!
PS: Allegedly… Bat-Ferret has a secret lair under the ball room. Yes, that ball room.
Of course, now it all makes sense!
Simon is the Bat-ferret! His clever ruse has us all thinking of him as somebody obsessed with the limelight, but he’s really a master of deception! Remember how easily he manipulated hundreds, possibly thousands of people into going to Lake Michigan!!
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2010/01/18/pool-of-tantalus/
Or else the ferrets will get hold of Peanut’s notes and Simon will decide that being a superhero is a cool way to get media attention.
wow, just wow.
Spot is…. well frankly, Spot Is a better super hero comic strip then the modern day ones.
I read comics to escape from reality, not see reality in the comics themselves.
You gravatar is a perfect fit for your comment. Good job.
well ai iz espesialy tired today-night wutever so ai goin tah bed good night mai peeps :3
Heh, people complained that Rick was creating too many characters, but now he just went to the next level buy adding “200″ more in a comic… created by a character within a comic! XD
I kid, I kid! But hey, with what Frank posted I consider Rick to be pretty tame in that reguard. I sometimes browse a comic shop and I am amazed at how many characters there are in just one universe… you would have to make a spreadsheet to keep track! At least I would.
Yo Dawg, I heard you like comics?
I so knew that was coming sooner or later. XP
So we put a comic within your comic so your can be awesome while snape kills dumbledore….
Yo dawg I herd yo and yo dawg leik to yo-yo so I put yo yo-yo-in dog in a yo-yo so yo can yo-yo yo yo-yo-in dawg while yo and yo dawg yo-yo, dawg.
OH….. MAI….. GAWD….. uz sound so gangsta ! XD
Actually, I think he was just quoting the closing lines of Shark Tale
Nope. I amplified the Yo Dawg Meme. I took the Yo an Yo Dawg like Yo-Yos, and expanded it.
ai’m confuzed -_-
@Batman: quite a toung tister. Twister. Can you do this one?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper pipped a pepper pepper pepper oh the hell with it.
Well, I can do it, but my mom tried it and kept saying “picked a peck of purple peckers”.
WOOHOO! Thank you, Rick!
My voice has been heard and it feels AWESOME!
Unless, of course, he was going to do this anyway…
…
IT STILL FEELS AWESOME!
Now, with my newfound powers of request-ing-ness is say:
And if Rick wills it, let there be an Arc. And this Arc would be of the format of a story. And Rick would write this Arc, as He has so many others; and the Arc
would be good. Let this Arc be of he known as Spot (Superdog). And let the Arc be known as “The Lost Adventures Of Spot (Superdog)”. And let this Arc tell the Story in which he Known as the Cyborg came to Be, and why this Cyborg be of Villainous persuasions. And let the Arc tell us of the Origins of the Conflict between Spot (Superdog) and the Cyborg. Let us Know, through this Arc, of the Epic Tale of the Arch-Nemesis. And it will be good.
Tl;dr: CYBORG ORIGIN STORY PLEASE.
hmm maybe he might do a one off briefly describing him and/or making a joke. personaly i want another pb and gj arc going though. havnt seen them arc for a while.
Yeah. I miss them. I’m just saying eventually, because I’m curious. And because Spot needs an arch-nemesis, and that guy in the dress just doesn’t cut it. He’s dumb. Good is the side that’s supposed to be dumb.
Superhero references are always a win. X3
Poor supervillans, now why can’t they go to the superhero zoo? XD
No I didn’t forget the shirts, but I have some alternative titles for the product pages:
Peanut Paunch
Grape Gut
Maxwell Midsection
all inspired by Fox Front, of course! ^_^
You’re unique, each and every one of you.
“You’re all individuals!”
…If Peanut decides so, that is
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
-Margaret Mead
… wait what?
“I’m so non-conformist, I’m goin to not conform to the ideal of the non-conformist by being a non-conformist that looks and acts like some conformist drone!”
Still just like everybody else. I have a manual for being a nonconformist around here somewhere…
Principia Discordia.
Okay, but how many are like just nut-jobs like me who run around in brightly colored costumes? …and no, I haven’t done that in about 20 years.
Speaking about things you mightn’t've done in years, do you still update The Changing Workplace (v. 1 or v. 2)?
300 ways to get kicked out of walmart: way number 237:
run around the store in a batman costume yelling “come robin to the bat-cave!! XP
That sounds spookily like you know it from experience
he he he >:3
I GOT KICKED OUTTA WAL-MART FOR A SIMILAR REASON!
I rode through the store on a Dora the Explorer scooter wearing a batman mask shouting “NANANANANANANANA BATMAN!”
nice.
Underwater Mutt is not that unique… is he based on Namor (the Sub-Mariner) or Aquaman?
(…and I just realized that “Namor” is “Roman” spelled backwards… ^^; )
“great skinny winkys batdog! we werent invited!”
“Because you keep saying dumb things!”
ooo peanuts creativeness
A sad Batdog you have made.
indeed indeed
“And perhaps an enemy, as well, Justice Club… House… Whatever…”
haha, good one
opps, picture broke
“This is why the Batdog likes to work alone”
“Well, maybe it’s because you keep referring to yourself in the third person!”
“Batdog is perfect the way he is!”
“Argh! I’m a pirate!”
“Batdog is confused…”
“That was my way of saying you’re ridiculous and that I’m done with this conversation.”
Just watch Misfits. After the storm hits half the city get superpowers, and some of them are really bizarre.
That suddenly reminded me of Xanth. Every one has one spell that only they can use, except for the duplicates, and the nightmares have two, and the mundanes don’t have any. And also centaur magicians.
Well waddaya know, it IS Lupus.
Woo, House!
IT’S NEVER LUPUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry just sayin’
And you can cure it with Vitamin C!
“Underwater Mutt”
A super-hero comic that I totally would (not) read :3
pffft, id read it!…and not because im bored
3rd panel, the one in green has a camera. Yes?
yes, i believe so
Oh? I thought it was a non-chocolate bar!
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/04/17/deus-ex-spotchina/
I think the fantastic four is a pretty cool guy eh kills it with fire and doesnt afraid of anything.
the fantastic 4, doctor strange, iceman, the hulk, aquaman, (not sure who futuredude and scianceman are representing)
Futuredude = probably Booster Gold, and Scienceman = probably The Atom
Naaaah. I doubt it.
We’ll have to wait for the author to chime in on this topic.
*grin*
You gain 2 wins for Doctor Strange.
By the Crimson Rings of Cyttorak!
MEIN FUHRER! I CAN WALK!!
oh wait that’s Dr.Strangelove
hey i wonder where the green lantern core is during this… how could there not be a green lantern core? their awesome!!!
No, Rick, we haven’t forgotten the shirts! They’re awesome, like something that’s really awesome but I haven’t had any coffee yet so you’ll have to put up with ironic non-metaphors.
FUTURE DUDE!
Scienceman?
HE MADE SCIENCE!!
I’d guess he’s probably the usual archnemis of Professor Killbody.
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2010/05/05/professor-spot-and-the-incredibly-geeky-joke/
You know, before he started arguing with Spot?
I don’t believe it!
There she goes again!
She’s tidied up, and I can’t find anything!
All my tubes and wires
And careful notes
Hmmm,
Lotta random occurrences in that universe; aren’t there! XD
Random, but unique!
Like me!
Rats, I need to remember to set my email back after I do that.
love the dramatic billow
aw sweet! A clubhouse!
ai had a club house 1 but it burned down
i think Bino is one of the supervillans.
yes, they have a sign that says no super villains allowed, thats definitely gonna stop em from com’in into de club house! /sarcastic ^_^
weeell thier is 1 goinz “AWWWWW” in de front of de backgrownd ;P
hey rick y does uz update at the taimez u does
Rick most likely updates when he does cause he wouldn’t want ta do it every dayz so hez doin it every second dayz so dat he givez himself a break but also gives uz a nuff timez to conmmentz.
yah but y at thatz timez?
Because midnight is about the time I got to bed usually
Not a morning person, eh?
when will there be another story arc?
Patience, my grasshopper. One-offs usually last a week.
700 superheros and superheroines in one house.
Go superheros! Wait, why are they all dogs?
Because cats don’t need superpowers. Just ask Grape.
Well, actually, the Invisible Woman reference in panel two is a cat…
With her eyes flopped over like that I’m pretty sure that’s a dog, maybe a Pomeranian. Tarot’s ears are kind-of like that in the regular comic.
That’s true, though she looks like a cat with dog ears now.
Then again, Peanut does have a history of that kind of thing…
Yo, dawg, she looks like a dawg to me, dawg. Yo.
Peanut: Do cats need superpowers?
Grape: Being a cat IS a superpower.
SFX: *snick*
Peanut: How do you make your claws DO that?
Grape: *smirk*
wouldn’t de clawz make a mores *shink*- OOWW ai hurt mai self again, durn u kittie….. ai dun even no y aiz got a kittie ai is more of ah dog person ;3
So superheroes have their own club. Just like the Good Ol’ Dogs’ Club.
Let’s just hope Spot doesn’t get kicked out because of Stripe.
But Stripe, despite all appearances is NOT a cat!
True
hmm. is this the intermission between story arcs?
It’s a tradition by now. Just go with it.
An awesome tradition
so awesome it makes meh wanna DANCE!! XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c4H8qbIdus&feature=related
neva mind click on dis instead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pb5HsCm-mw&feature=related
(rick u should delete the comment above this XP)
No can-do. Since your comment is a reply, deleting its “parent” comment will simply send it to the end, and make it impossible to reply to
Rick has deleted comments cleanly from the middle of threads before. Remember when he ninja’d my link out?
Actually when I do that I try to wipe the whole thread. I don’t personally delete comments much unless it’s very inappropriate.
like if somebody had keyboard turets? or if they were dissing housepets?
@ rick
sssoooooo can u pleeeaaassse personaly delete mine….. like the 11 ai wanted {insert puppydog eyes}
Hurrah for Spot (Superdog)! ^^
All these western superheroes. We need some eastern superheroes, like kitsune and dragons…
or superheros from Xenophiboros is mai home galexy way better that this one -_- but ai enjoy u humans so ai enjoy comin once in a little while ^_^
or maybe some hero from space like ellen ripley. don’t be a hater.
ai like mai galaxies superheros more -_-
Actually, we have estern superheroes: The Power Rangers, The Kamen Rider, … need I continue?
those are Western superheroes capitalizing on the Eastern legends.
@frank
NARUTO!!! XD
I think taht after spending yesterday and today going through this whole archive after discovering the comic, King has become one of my favorite characters, lol.
Great comic btw.
Well hi there. Apparntly I’m the unofficual welcome wagon, so welcome to the commenter club.
OI, I was going to do that!
In either case, thanks lol.
I’m so glad that Peanut didn’t read any comics from the 90s, or he’d learn about the great superhero power of all times: GUNS!
And then everyone would be dressed in black latex body suits and would be named some combination of “Blood” and “Gun” and “Black”. It was a 90s requirement. It also helps if you misspell it, because “Poor Literacy is KEWL!”
Peanut has a problem when it comes to drawing firearms…not that they do any good against Spot anyway.
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/09/14/the-uncanny-adventures-of-spot/
Off to go watch AGT, so only one reply for now:
So, what, there are 200 superheroes? So how many supervillains?
Just thought I’d ask. I haven’t really read any news posts outside the ones in the comic pages themselves, so I was wondering. There any word on when part two of all the King’s Men will be posted?
Probably we’ll take a break from being King centered for a while, go to Peanut/Grape, then focus on Fido/Spo, maybe even a “Cats” arc with more bout Sabrina, Fiddler & Keys, Max, Jasper, Jinx, and whoever I missed.
Makes sense I suppose, lol. The cliffhanger on that story made me really wanna see part two is all. can’t wait to see what’s next for the whole gang though.
I’m not sure if that was a cliffhanger or a punch line.
maybeh both?
If it wasn’t a cliffhanger, the next Spot storyline will probably include Peanut monologuing about ret-cons
Spot isn’t in “All the Kings Men”!
do they all know each other sercet I.D.?
is there a Neo in dog form?
Tarot?
no Neo is a man, Tarot is a girl.
The films never state that Neo needs to be a man. Heck, Neo doesn’t even need to be a human! Anything that creates enough of a ruckus to reset The Matrix would work.
true. but animal were not use as batteries for machines do to no sun.
This means Neo was a man not because he had to be, but because of a lack of options
Pete, then.
No, Pete is Agent Smith.
PS: the Firefox cartoon in The Dawn Chapel (advertised on the left up there) is really really cute!
*really exicted* Wut, AH CARTOON AI WANNA C 1 !!! XD
http://dawnchapel.com/2010/07/firefox-has-crashed/
OHMAIGOSHTHAT’SSOCUTE!!!XD
1 hr, 50 minutes left!
wait, that should be just 50 mins, my backspace is stupid.
The Underwater Mutt has saved my life many a time.