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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I’m trying to find something to say but I can only facepalm.
dino warriors?
Yup. These dino-warriors. . .
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2010/09/06/same-spot-time-same-spot-channel/
(Panel 2)
Why do I feel a “2001: A Space Odyssey” pun coming on?
“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that”?
That’s not really a pun
KBROOSH!!!!!
That means she crashed through a wall.
K (Krack!!) Broosh (Rubble collapse)
you would figure after all this time penuts art skills would get better…
Do they?
Remember the law of the world, “Creations must never outshine Creators.”
Also, what do you mean by that?
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/01/14/a-beautiful-mind/
Huh, it looks like even more of an improvement when you compare it from early to recent. I guess Peanut’s been slowly developing.
I think they did. They look much more dog and cat like now.
But Stripe isn’t… oh… never mind…
Spot (Wolf)?
wut?
ai agree wut?
“ZOMG Miles is buff” + “Spot is buff” = “Spot (wolf)?”
oh ai get i naow
Not quite. Perhaps in this context.
“I can’t let you do that, StarStripe.”
u just made dis mo confusin -_-
I think he was replying to my 6:23 comment
oh
I believe you must mean ‘Spot (Superwolf)’.
Or- wait… would a wolf be on-par with a superdog? Making you correct?
Hmm…
lol at panel 6 that’s great so is the last panel as well.
Anyone noticed how good Spot is as a bank robber?
Just sad she forgot how to un-hypnotize spot
Dud never said she would REMEMBER how to unhypnotize him, only that she would know when she woke up. I bet from now on, she remembers every morning when she wakes up. Then forgets again, because it’s useless now.
It’s a hypnosis joke (Well it’s actually serious but anyways). She was hypnotized to know the antidote to hypnosis but her knowledge was also hypnosis-induced, thus she forgets what she knows when she uses the antidote. (Which is not very directive by the way)
Useless.
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7082/09122010stripepanel8.png
BRILLIANT!!
She remembers now!
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3724/09122010stripepanel4.png
I thought they live in a huge metropolis type city. Even with superspeed, it’s going to take time to rob each bank. Say five minutes. With 20 banks that would be, what, about 2 hours with fly time and all. That means that Lady-Cat only took about an hour and a half at the library? Is super spee reading one of her or Jim-Jim’s powers?
It’s the hypnosis panel! They take so long before they call for volunteers.
Also with super speed, you can do body multiplication (like ninjas) so robbing even 500 banks (at once) is possible.
Dewey Decimal Mastery is one of Jim’Jim’s powers he had before the toxic sludge.
i can never hear/see anyone say/write “dewey decimal” without smiling.
In France, you wiggle in viggles!
Correction, Germany.
You made Germany facepaw. Good job.
Lol, nice. Though I can’t quite get what Spot is saying in the last panel.
That (forgetting the antidote) ’s (apostrophe s stands for “is”) okay (Not important anymore) . (period) Now (as in currently or referring to the present) I (Spot (Superdog)) ‘m (apostrophe m stands for “am”) mysteriously (I, Spot (Superdog), do not know what happened) better (feeling of having escaped from the hypnotic spell) (missing period)
Oh ok, thank you.
but what about Jim-jim how do we fix that??
and BTW Happy 24th Birthday Rick!!!
that’s tomorrow
Technically…Oh wait, yeah.
No I was on the 9th according to Deviantart!
ai thot it wuz on de 15th
WELL in case I forget
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU RICK GRIFIN!!!
It’s Rick’s BIRTHDAY?!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICK!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the best reverse birthday present EVER.
Don’t you mean birthday giveaways?
I tought stripe was the quiet one,… I blame that radioactive junk
WOOPS
stupid phone…
His Birthday!?
Happy Birthday Rick!
Perfect avatar-coment match
You can’t fix AWESOME!
I do believe it was the snap.
Well, that was a snap.
never. again.
Love the concept.
The alt-text for the ones in mobiles
“While saving this comic as a PSD file, I notice a option box labeled Spot Color. It is grayed out. I am confused.”
That’s because spot is light blue, not gray.
wait, do you always do that? cause that would have been nice to know before i went through a months worth of comic just for alt texts.
We don’t always, no. It’s just become an evident problem, lately.
Me, I’ve always read from a computer, but I missed Rick’s first two months of alt-text before I happened to hover over the strip long enough to notice.
It was alright, though! I got to re-read months of Housepets just for that reason!
A veritable treasure trove of avatars this be!
*rubs hands in anticipation*
…
I’m getting a bit sick of new email addresses though… perhaps I’ll figure out that “plus trick” after all.
Truly you must. It’s
quiteveryinfinitely more convenient.I beg of you, teach me the secrets of your mystic order.
Here’s one: http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/2469/09122010stripepanel7.png
Create a Gmail account first.
For example: VKB@gmail.com (of course that’s not allpwed since there’s the character limit so no worries with privacy)
Next, in gravatar, you can use VKB@gmail.com and VKB+1@gmail.com and VKB+2@gmail.com and so on (The numbers need not be numbers and may even contain words. Just remember to only add alphanumerics after the “+” and before the @) And all these emails will arrive at VKB@gmail.com.
And that concludes the (lousy) lecture for the plus trick.
You may try this at home.
now i have no excuse not to get in on this. ok, give me, like, some amount of time.
got em! hooray!
Eh heh. . . Moderated. . .
Try this: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/08/gmail-plus-smart-trick-to-find-block.html
I WILL START USING THIS SOON!!
Someone has got to send me a pm or do a tutorial on the forums about this. I have yet to figure this out.
Read the link. But you need a gmail account. Which you houl get anyway because gmail is awesomesauce.
After some testing, I think hotmail works as well.
The plus trick should work on most UNIX based mail accounts, because it was invented in like 1984 by Eric Allman in sendmail. Hotmail counts because it used to be UNIX based before Microsoft bought it.
For many years it was a pain to use because idiot programmers writing web forms would go “+ isn’t legal in email addresses” and filter it out, so people started using other characters like minus. In fact that’s an option in one mail package. “plus is minus”. And war is peace, lies are truth, and black is white, which is why radical philosophers have so much trouble seeing zebra crossings.
gmails very veins flow with a deep well of awesomesauce.
and strawberry crush.
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Science/Images/drooling-homer-simpson.jpg
(mmmm… strawberry crush..)
I’m baaaaaaack (again). I was on vacation. =/
Anyways, just wanted to comment about the 4th panel. Maybe it’s just Peanut trying to do German, but me being the worrisome little perfectionist that I am, I just HAVE to correct it:
“Ach du stimmt! Ich weiß die Geheimnis zum Hypnose”
Although, I shouldn’t be talking, my German kinda sucks too…
*der Geheimnis
Oh I know it’s terrible, it’s meant to be
Did you take/are taking any German classes Rick? Just curious.
No, but one of my brothers is. Sorta.
By the way, shouldn’t panel 6’s text be:
HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Préparer à manger antidode, Spot!
And panel 7’s:
Un, mais l’antidote est. . .
Il suffit de dire. . . (Avec l’aimable autorisation de Google Translate)
I think that’s French… not German. BTW, DON’T use Google Translate EVER! I got a LOT of bad grades because of it…
Oh, my mistake. Also to the above (Let’s help the world by using one comment to comment on many. Remember, Reduce, Reuse,
though we can’tRecycle. . . 4R’s?!?!?)never dis anything google!
(incoherent obcinites)
google’s very veins flow with a deep well of awesomesauce!
and strawberry crush!
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Science/Images/drooling-homer-simpson.jpg
(mmmm… strawberry crush..)
t’was the hypnotist who had a funny accent, not the hypnotee.
This. Also: http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/9070/09122010stripepanel3.png
Hi!
Now, my partner in avatars, I shall leech off of you whatever avatars you do not desire! MUAHAHAHA!
Guess I have to do the window breaking one, since it’s different from last time.
Huh, checking something…
And I thought that wouldn’t work…goes to show how much I know.
Anyways, happy early birthday Rick!
Early “Happy Birthday”, Rick!
Final avatar from me for today…
tvtrope activate – “SUPER WINDOW JUMP!”
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/4859/09122010stripepanel6.png
Happy Birthday! Hope its a good one!
Happy Early Birthday, Rick~ thought i’d just say that now -w-
ai agree happie erly b-day rick ^.^
Well in real life hypnosis DOES in fact wear off eventually…
Also Happy B-Day : ) (was is it with today and birthdays anyway? I know like six other people who have their birthday today…)
In real life, you can’t hypnotize a person to violate their conscience. But then, this is three levels removed from real life.
I think you’re referring to suggestive hypnosis since post-hypnotic suggestions seem to allow acts that would get someone to kill. Though the “someone” should be very susceptible to hypnosis for it to work so it might be a special case.
wait…only three???? *checks the math*
Real life ⊂ Housepets! comic ⊂ Universes & Unrealities plane ⊂ Babylon Gardens plane ⊂ Spot (Superdog) comic
If Housepets! comic = Universes & Unrealities plane, then it is three levels
well actually if Housepets comic = the game of Universes and Unrealities…then this would only be 2 levels removed from real life.
Hah, I can retcon that! It’s like why Lancelot was imperfect, and was too good to be true because he was so tempted to not be. Good that is.
Spot really wants to rob banks, deep inside his psyche, it’s his superpower of good that keeps him awesome.
it is the law of existence, eventually every superhero must fall to a darker path.
this gives me great fear! we must flee! quickly pack the emergency rations and head for the bunker!
Ach du lieber! Streife kann jeztz ausgezeichnet Deutshch sprechen! Das ist unglaublich! Na… nicht so unglaublich wie mann gehoffen hat, aber noch ein bischen unglaublich.
ドイツ語を話せません。でも、日本語を少し話せます。
オレはバカ。m（。＿。）m
そうか。リック先輩のお誕生日はおめでとございます！
Now say it in Klingon, I dare you!
Reading this, I almost feel ashamed to have wondered why Rick wanted a language feature to be implemented here. . .
Anyways, celebrating multi-lingual birthday greetings (Hope I say this right):
Maligayang Kaarawan
Oh right, I forgot my local language is among the languages that have the greatest level of incompatibility with the English language filters.
Well not to worry, moderation does not prevent administrators from seeing them.
Oh, are you a native speaker, or is it just a language in the local area?
Well, since I guess it’s the time, I may as well throw in one as well.
生日快樂, Rick!
Hm, already done, I realised. Oh, well. Nevertheless, many happy returns, Rick.
It’s the country I’m in’s native language.
Curious.
Well, it’s nice that many people are wishing Rick a happy birthday, anyways.
日语……什么时候我才能会说日语呢……
克林贡语？那是什么? 可以吃吗？
啊，对了。
瑞克生日快乐！
蛋糕多么美味又湿润。
Du Versuchst Deutsch zu Sprechen ? ha da kann ich ja nur lachen such dirn besseren Übersetzer und lass uns dann weiter reden und zwar in CHERMAN !!!!111 German Skill Lvl 9000+
ini akan memakan waktu kita.
AGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
First alt-text, now this!
Stop hurting my brain!
:p
Hour bout this? Canoe and dust and it? “Force core and sufferin’ ear sago, hour four feathers broad feather pinnace contentment anew nay shun…”
first of all…
gauisus natalis, rick!
second of all…
Haha! gettysburg madgab!
Happy birthday! May you be weirded out by lots of people younger and more talented than you are, like I just was. ^.^
I keep wondering though. . .
Why is Spot Blue? Doesn’t Peanut imagine him to be white?
http://www.housepetscomic.com/tag/peanut-as-spot-superdog/
I’m confused by that too; I think it’s just to distinguish him from the white paper background. :S
i always thought he was a little bluish in that arc. and you know you can never find the right color crayon/colored pencil, so you have to settle. if he couldn’t find a whie/blue, he would have to settle for blue.
semi-unrelated: i hear crayola comes from the french for “oily chalk.” true/false?
Dang, aint that always the way it goes. You learn a very valuable secret, you go to save a super hero who is under some badies control and right before you save the day, you have a big ol brain fart…happened to be the same way like 3 or 4 times last week ALONE!!! argh, i feel for Stripe:(
Like learning the location of the TV remote controller?
truly one of the universe’s most best kept secrets in of itself.
i have nothing funny to go with this.
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/09/02/staying-in-the-closet/
give me 5 minutes, some string, roll of tape and a magazine and i will have a book of funny for you.
OH SHI- I’m OLDER than you!?! O_o
Why do they always have to jump through a window. I mean sure its a cool way to make an enterence but when you think about it, it’s just making it a lot stressful for the robbed.
“No need to thank me citizen, just doing my job.”
“…Are… you going to reimburse me for the window you broke through?…”
That’s the reason most superheroes are government approved.
You don’t see it since it happens off-screen but they are required to sign reimbursement forms whenever they do so, only after the problem’s been taken care of though.
This is why Batman’s a vigilante. No no, not you VKBatman
well, what went on with “Hancock”?
He went to jail.
Heh they’re lucky to live in a city like that(cuz of the few banks not cuz of the monsters and supervillians :p), our city is not that big, but we still have 4-5 bank right next to each other. XP
Stereotypical german speaking magician who knows the solution, yeah that’s a nice touch… But still don’ get why did Stripe talk german? He said she knows the cure not that she becomes the magician. XD
So BTW the cure is a failsafe as well so no one can learn it later right?
Dino-warriors? Don’ ya think that now that Spot is free again that would make a pretty short strip… IF ya don’ use some small fillers that is. X3
OH SNAP!
OH SNAPPY SNAP !!
OH SNAPPILY SNAPPY SNAP!!!
Old blue-eyes is back!
I was ready to call myself “Silver Quarryman” if I had also made amber-cream eyes.
That was before they made it big.
PSST… you forgot to make the back of your head sable.
Dayum. . . Anything else? (except the spot beside my ear, I just bleached it)
I think I used too much bleach so I switched to a more color-friendly detergent.
All the original Quarrymen are silver now…
http://www.originalquarrymen.co.uk/
I did use the alias “Sterling Mason” once.
Finally someone said it.
ISAIDNEVERAGAIN!
MAGIKS! viggle viggle
Happy friggin’ birthday!
hehe…thats actually pretty funny
Why does Spot (superdog) need a gun to rob banks? Can’t he just break directly into the vault and take out all the contents? Or just rip the vault out of its foundations and steal the whole thing?
Because it’s not robbing a bank without pointing something at the teller but pointing fingers is rude and superheroes don’t do rude aside from wall/window/ceiling crashing.
and robbing banks…
There is also less risk and production of evidence when you, yourself do not handle the money/vault/tellers until absolutely necessary. And if you threaten the latter at gunpoint, they’re still technically doing whatever you say of their own free will!
Then, all this would apply IF we weren’t talking about somebody who can do in two seconds what takes Saint Nicholas upwards of an hour.
In that case, it must be so his criminal activities are fully recorded on-camera! The hypnosis was obviously intended to hit Spot where he’s most vulnerable: square in the PR.
Oh, WoW!
Happy early birthday!
My 22nd birthday is this Weds!
Hope it was a happy one!
Yay! he’s mysteriously better!
Happy Birthday Rick!!! XD
Happy birthday, Rick!
Heh, my birthday is the day after and I’ll be 22
Same Wednesday as CampSoup up above? Then I reiterate my sentiments.
Lol happy birthday
I think I get the joke, here, actually X3
well, I guess i’ll de-lurk to tell you happy birthday.
Buon compleanno, Rick!
I dare you guess what language i’m using (not that it’s hard)
french? (im about to look stupid, aren’t i?)
“… and do you have some Visine, maybe an aspirin? That swirly-eye thing’s given me eyestrain…”
I’m willing to bet dollar-signs aren’t much better.
Then, they’re not even circular. Ouch.
Happy Early Birthday!
Also that wizard has an epic mustache. XD
qoSlIj yItIv!
This be Klingon?
Yep.
i want to hear more and then less and then never again.
Forgot about the “No space, no break”
Truly sorry.
(It’s already 9/14 here)
why is your comment all the way down here?
Because it’s already 9/14 there
Okay, scratch that. He’s replying to a deleted comment, which leads to what we know as “breaking the comments”
ah k. only 14mins. left until 9/14 in central time
¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Rick!
Happy birthday :3
Well that story wrapped up quick. O_o
Who says it’s over?
i do.
Wow, 24 huh? I’m only 20 myself, happy Birthday, and great comic like always.
*SNAP* You are now a monkey!
like a huge furry fanbase that would do anything to turn into a dog/wolf/cat/fox … but nooo you have to turn us into monkeys … you’re evil …
*walks around like a monkey*
that was nearly funny enough to make me lol {if you knew me you’d be all like WOAH. [i don't laugh (on the outside) much]}
It is said that ‘lol’ is code for ‘I have nothing better to say’.
While I do lol on occasion, I still prefer to articulate. Most of the time, I chuckle and say it’s funny.
I think you and I are going to get along swimmingly.
Happpy Birthday Rick! I will celibrate your birthday by playing Reach until my eyes fall out.
WHO WILL JOIN ME?!!
lets do it!
You know what probably is next? Spot asks “Who are you? And while I’m at it, where’s Stripe?”
Sadly, it’s the end of the arc, isn’t it?
i said no its not! (or did i say it was? …..hmm… im sure its somewhere up there)
What if the wizard had used reverse psychology in order to hide his hypnotic secret?
That would be cheating.
Happy birthday Rick! Meant to do it 5 mins earlier
Since it’s 1AM over here, Happy birthday, Rick!
Happy B-Day Rick!…..24!?!?!…wow, I thought you were…erm, nvrmnd =3
The thing that’s going to bake your noodle is… what happens next time someone snaps their fingers around our heroes?
Unless that’s a multilevel hypnosis, I don’t think anything else would happen.
The Rule of Funny sometimes makes snapping your fingers a toggle (or a repeated post-hypnotic cue).
Good point, the German wizard did make a finger snap to get Lady-
CatDog to know the secret.So. . .
*SNAP*
*GASP* I remember the secret.
*SNAP*
Which was. . . eh. . .
The big problem would be if they got out of sync.
its not a problem. its comic genius.
-”Is that bad?”
“… Huh? Is what bad?”
-”Your memory thing getting shut off.”
“Who shut off my memory?”
- “You did.”
“I did what?”
-”Shut off your memory.”
“Why do you want me to shut off my memory?”
-”No, it’s already shut off.”
“What is?”
-”Your memory.”
“Yeah, what about it?”
Happy Birthday, Rick!
YAY GERMAN!!
good job on being old
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I love birthdays, giving gifts is a lot of fun!
Happy birthday! Hope it’ll be a heck of a great year for ya!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
happy birthday, i must say thats an awesome age, i tink, hope ya have a good one rick and lots of presents and people who annoy you about it all day haha
every single panel in this strip = win! (‘cept MAYBE not the first one. but we can’t expect amazing hilarity EVERY single panel, can we?)
you started doing the google e-mail trick, haven’t u?
Happy Birthday!
You don’t need gratuitous reminders, so I’ll just fill this out with the word “Birthday.”
Excellent strip! Never a dull moment, and Spot-on humor. One thing I noticed right away was that the wizard really is pointing to the strip’s primary exhibition panel of the hypnosis panel. Heh. Thank you!