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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Oh dear lord!! 0.o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_BNtuQ4shs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZCnWVO3ARs
HEY RICK
iz this based off of conan or yer real life :3?
Awesome, also, thumbs up on the Twokinds avatar
Totally liked Eek the Cat better than Courage.
ryufire~ Can you tell me where you got your icon? please and thank you~
Sure Tiggercat12 I got it at Furaffinity
oh, ok. Thanks! :3
Alt-Text: No squirrels were harmed in the making of this comic
RIP Peanut Sandwich
????-2010
Cause: Flying Squirrel Heart Attack
Are you sure he’s dead?
Try poking at it.
*pokes it with a stick*
D-…Did he died? D=
YES.
HE IS.
DEAD.
FOREVER.
NUUUUUUU
*sees peanut*
……
*glomp*
YAAAAAAAYYYYY YER ALIVE AGAIN XD!!!!!!!!!
or are you dead as well?
wait a eck what the crap he’s dead nooooeees
@ dalonewolf
ai’m ded NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!! X<
omg … they killed Peanut …. you bas….rds ….
but don’t worry the next morning he’ll probably wake up in his bed like nothing happened
cartoon science
Mintberry CRUNCH!!!!!!!
That was a HORRIBLE ending. I wanted to find out more about Mysterion’s curse……:(
but justin biebers hed EXPLODED XD!!!!!!!
it was SOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY XD
Ending was hilarious, who cares about kenny
Hey, Kenny is my favorite! Although I will agree bieber’s head exploding did make my day. ^_^
agreed… at least about beiber….
*giggles*
That poor squirrel!
Yes, that poor squirrel… *looks at Dissension*
that squirrel was stupid. Then again they can’t see glass
At least it wasn’t a bird.
A bird flew into our transparent sliding kitchen door a while ago, and left a print such that you could see all the little feathers and its little head and everything.
It was stunned for a while, but we think he got better and flew away.
…unless Grape or Maxwell got to it first…
I heard from my English friend that the pigeons in England are so fat, that one time, one flew into his glass door and it broke it’s own neck. o_O
Windex much? =P
lol yay
lol squirrels thats all that can be said about this one
Out of nowhere
You called?
Yes I called.
SPY.
*muffled speech*
*ignites Backburner*
-FWOOOOOSSSHHHHHH!!!!!-
ARR ARR!!!
wa-?
You forgot the hudda-hudda-hurr
Team Fortress 2 reference, sonic.
WHO SENT TINY ITTY BITTY TEENY TEAM TO COMMENT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
The Hungergames, lol, good book.
I read the series, one of the few bittersweet endings that made me actually sad.
Weren’t there only 2 books, though?
The third book was just released
ah ok, therefore cannoning to this strip…
This was at Rick’s house right? Flying squirrel wants to come and hits the glass, Rick goes through the ceiling to the second floor and has only his head sticking up…. That might be just the inspiration every writer needs!
Is this a new windex commercial?
I can’t believe I reacted so late to this…
ressurecting old story arc ability GO!!!
Huh?
What was the squirrel doing anyway?
Trying to fly like Rocky?
Perhaps there was a giant slingshot involved?
Squirrel + Giant Slingshot = XD ~~~~ WHUMP! XP
Squirrel + Ferrets + Giant Slingshot
“Jeeves, you forgot to allow for windage again!”
“Sorry sir.”
Help….Me…
*slides off window*
*sigh* sum1 get the squeegee
It’s a door, I think the other critters just convinced him that the glass wasn’t there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKS-hkhhh4
Like this?
lmao XD.
How bout this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwvrje8uySo
XD
It sounded like a bomb exploded!!!
*still laughing*
And he discovered he doesn’t fly like Rocky, but like a rock!
http://instantrimshot.com/classic/?sound=rimshot
Poor Peanut, he looks like he’s about to have a heart attack. I wonder why the squirrel hit the window, probably just trying to be funny.
This has happened to me so much with birds I don’t even notice anymore.
It does happen. Tree frogs are scarier though, they just hang and sliiiiiiiiiide down
Yay, The Hunger Games.
EVERYBODY SCREAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
(lol.)
I’m impressed you managed a text based “Courage scream”.
Reminds me of when I had a bird feeder hanging outside my window. A squirrel came along and wanted some seeds, but it couldn’t sit on the feeder. So, it would climb onto the screen of our window, grab a handfull of seeds, and hang upsidedown by it’s back feet while eating. My mom freaked out the day she wanted to watch the birds and instead saw a window full of squirrel belly.
lol, awesome.
….Where’d you go? D:
To heaven O-(:D
poor Peanut. XD that would scare me to death as well though.
Me too… and it would kill me too because I have Long QT syndrome! WEEEE!
(googles)
Ouch!
Oh it’s not painful at all. I’ll just fall down, black out, and die. [Again] WEEE! Loud noises usually cause my episodes and this coupled with the fact that I have Aspergers Syndrome, the side affects in which makes me sensitive to sound, means I’m quite vulnerable to episodes. As long as I take my meds then I’m fine.
Tom Bergeron on Panel 1: Here we see a dog calmly staying on task of reading his book…
Tom Bergeron on Panel 2: … but he’s about to get a little… squirrely…
Panel 3: *Thump* AHHHHH!
Panel 4: *Crowd laughs*
Or better yet
“Peanut Sandwich is just a regular dog reading a regular book by his window. But this window, is not just any window. It happens to be a window of…. The Squirrel Zone!”
Sounds more documentary-ish.
lol – the title of the book disappeared on the 3rd panel.
I never took the saying
“The words just jumped off the page.”
seriously until now.
Once upon a time I was sleeping at the meadows in the campus of my University. Suddenly a squirrel came running and hoped on my head.
True story.
Awesome story.
He must have thought Peanut was reading a Giant Acorn
…Wtf?
And Hunger Games ftw.
Oh, and I have had a person walk into a glass sliding door before
(some visiting person, didn’t know it was there and walked right into it. Boy, did that make a noise!)
I walked through one once.
It took off the tip of my nose.
ouch
Ouch indeed. It was a little hotel out in the middle of nowhere, I had to get stitches without anesthetic.
Ow…that must’ve been painful as all heck.
It was a long time ago.
The scars don’t show that much, but they make shaving difficult.
You mean your not doing no shave november!? 0.o
Ferrets don’t shave.
ouch
Lol, I know what this ^^^ feels like =) it was a june bug that did that to me when I was reading a rather frightful story…but in all truth, the June Bug was more scary than the book. (or maybe it was a combination of both)
Peanut : Alrighty, let’s see what happe- HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGH
Ah hate when tha happens, nya! “^.^ Yer doin’ sumtin’ relaxin’, and then sumone or sumtin’ makes ya jump outta yer skin… -_-” Ya dun wanna know how difficult it iz ta put yer skin back on after tha… -_-”
Poor squirrel though… O.O Hope teh wittle fella iz owkay.
1 taime ai was walkin daown mai hallway and out of nowhere mai dad kicks ah ball and hits a glass ceiling light shade so then it falls on mah hed and shatters
the ai’m surrounded bai glass and ai’m jus’ thinkin’ “oh ****”
scared the crap outta meh 0.o
You two were just made for each other, weren’t you?
on this… most laikely <3 :3
Wut do U mean?! “^w^ He and hiz dehdeh? Or do ya mean sonic and meh, nya? ÓwÒ
And if it’s him and meh, do ya mean it in a platonic sense, nya? “^.^
O.o Heesh! That’s friggin’ scary, n-nya! Ah hope ya dun hurt yerself, nya! Ó.Ò *Hugs*
*huggles*
yah ai no scared the crap outta meh… but… luckily ai left w/ onleh a bruise O.O
Mrrrf! Glad tha teh harm was minimum, nya! {:3
Heyo nederlander
Hey hey fellow Dutchy, nya! ;p
Do Ah know yez?.. “^w^ Or do ya wanna keep meh in teh dark, juz ta mess wif meh? ;p
I confess this is the first time I’ve ever seen two people typing with an accent to eachother o.o *makes notes*
Lol! X3 Dun get infectid, nya! ;p Cuz if ya start, ya can’t stop, mrrrf! ~^w^~
yah itz hard
but de mods made meh stop on the forums T-T
Meh 2… “-_- But then again, not everybudy is openmindid aboot usin’ dialects, nya… /._.\ Iz due 2 teh culture nowadayz, peepz have ta abide 2 sertain social standards or they dun belong among teh “normal” citizen group, mao… /._.\ Peepz R forced 2 abide those invisible rules, or they’re gonna get punished due 2 their unique ways of expresshun, nya…
And tha changes peepz into Spelling-Nazis or bullies! Ò.Ó
wait ur on the forumz O.O… wait wich 1…
Dutchpaw, dun think yer on tha, nya! ;p Unless yer a Dutchy, German or Belgium, nya! ^w^
oh… NOPE! ^-^
Lol! Thought so, nya! ;p
I shall do my best to fight it away, with antibiotics if needs be
thanks for your support. (Funny thing is I’m actually going to the doctor’s now! Hah!)
I think the dialect is cute though…
ha! this reminds me of hat one of my uncle’s did while me and the family were on holiday
the one night we were all in the caravan and just chilling as you do (baring in mind the doors were glass and had no curtains) when out of no where my uncle jumped on the glass door and EVERYBODY just screamed and jumped out of their seats! oh gob that was funny!
good times…goooooood times
This happened to me too. Except it was a monkey. Granted it was at the zoo, but a monkey bouncing off the window next to you is easily just as frightening as a squirrel, if not more so.
hmmm…someones gonna catch that squirrel and lock it in their avatar box (COUGH)
…dalonewolf…
UH WHAT? who said that?
Only because you said so. E|:P
He was trying to run away from me, so he tried to get in the house when he realized that the window had recently been cleaned with Windex, but it was too late as he had just appeared right where I wanted him: In the comic strip.
lol now that you’ve got him/her…what should he/she be called?
George.
And I’m a pet him, and feed ‘im, and hug ‘im, etc…
Google’s top two suggested searches for “call him ” just now were “call him george” and “hug him and squeeze him a…”.
Behold the power of a meme.
Graaaaaaape! It’s snack time!
…also peanut is ded…
This has happened to me before. I THINK it was a squirrel that caused me to do exactly what Peanut did.
Almost happened when I was drawing too, but that time at least, the pencil was off the paper, and it wasn’t a squirrel, but a car hitting a parked car before backing up and speeding off.
Thats always a nice wake up call!
Peanut: GRAAAAAPE!
Grape: What?
Peanut: It’s another squirrel. You hungry?
Grape: Yeh. Thanks!
Why is the title of the book on the back cover?
It’s not the title, it’s the little description that goes on the back. A title would use much larger font
I’ve just noticed, it says “Praise for The Hunger Games”
I’m guessing he’s looking for a quick read, say before the commercial break is over
“Alright! Who’s been throwing squirrels around?!”
Hey that’d be a good comic Peanut dying goes to Afterlife & haunts his friends lmao But then he wakes up & realizes it a dream hehe Or was it?
Or he could only be able to talk to others through Taror and/or Sabrina.
This would be very interesting… now if it only didn’t say one-off.
Am I the only one who thinks there should be a follow-up strip?
That would make it a two-off.
…or we could get Rick to arc accidentally again!
I dont understand lol
There was squirrel, it hit window…….BOOM…..scare Peanut.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! SQUIRREL!
it alright peanut it was just a squirrel.
dont you know it the squirrels are gonna take over the world
Wait…is Peanut reading the Hunger Games?!
Peanut’s awesome just went up tenfold.
I believe it’s based on this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8VrxPrkkiA
Rick may have seen a recent episode of Conan where Conan O’Brien was showing that exact clip
I like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0so5er4X3dc
hmm…. ai din know diss laike achohol (however u spell it -_-”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohgqRRLjBsg
ohh arget… wai must u put these things in mai hed
You keep forgetting to latch it closed.
wa- *checks back of head*
oh ****
*closes back of head*
>.>
<.<
o.o
There’s… some-THING…. on the Wing… err, I mean… Window Sill!
Cookie for you for the reference.
Ummm…. In Panel 4 his pupils are just… gone.
They… They… Killed him….. and now Grape must get revenge on the squirrels/ferrets.
Oh, had an idea. My chatroom ( http://xat.com/Housepets ) can be for weekend discussions on… who wants to guess?
Now it’s Grape’s turn to yell PEAAAAAAAAAAANUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!
For a moment I thought peanut swallowed his book…
Heh. And I first thought he was horrified at an event in the story.
Such Zen concentration, his ears didn’t move a pixel from frame 1 to 2.
Such grace, such calmness, such finess, such AHHHHH Squirrel!!!
So, what other YA novels from our world do they read in the HP world?
“So You Want to Be a Wizard” and its sequels would be awesome. They’d have to be a bit different, of course, particularly “The Book of Night with Moon” and “To Visit the Queen”.
“So You Want to Be a Wizard” was good but the series just went downhill from there, I’m just sayin’.
I liked Deep Wizardry and the feline wizards books a lot. I also like the one in Ireland. I could have done without the computerized manual, and the first book was a heck of an act to follow, but there have been other high points.
Though I could just see Tarot or Sabrina reading it and going “NO, that’s wrong, that’s wrong, that’s not how it works” like I get when I’m reading a book that’s got “computer hackers” in it.
Hahaha I totally know what you mean! I don’t remember the feline wizards sadly, it’s been a loooong time since I read it.
Flying Squirrels Scares Dogs since 1999
That happened to me once with a crow. :’D
Grape’s playing Squirrelball outside.
I love that game!
lol
That thing came out of nowhere!
Reading reading SQUIRREL!!!! buh…
Reminds me of a time when I was up in the studio in our old house, when suddenly, a bird came divebombing at the window and hit it and bounced off. ‘Cept then I think I was actually paying attention whereas here Peanut wasn’t. Still surprising as heck…
I don’t know why, but I’m sure…..that squirrel flying has something to do with the Milton ferrets.
Does it have something to do with the alt text here? http://www.housepetscomic.com/2010/08/02/the-happiest-place-on-earth-on-earth/
I think they missed the jello.
I actually saw that after I left my comment while thumbing through the older comics. It only confirmed my suspicions.
At first I thought maybe I was psychic like Tarot, but I think it is just more likely that Rick is just that good at describing the personality of the ferrets.
Random, simple, but still a funny filler. XD
Not sure why they have to say that alt-text line all the time in commercials and movies… it’s good for a joke, but who doesn’t know those things?
You know Now a sorta want a lay out of there house because they never seemed to have that room before or that window anyway.
“Layout” is one word. “Lay out” refers to the action of creating a layout
Sorry. Spelling nazi momment.
If you wanna be a speling nazi, you could also tell Rayne to use “their” in this scenario, not “there”.
No soup for you!
This has happened to me.
Is that a hunger games book i see =D
Strange I saw a squirrel yesterday at the zoo just running around, people taking pictures of it. But then a strange guy came out and told every one that the squirrels were getting used to every one and actually jumping into strollers to steal kids food and they had all ready bitten 3 kids at the zoo. How does rick know these things (has flashback to deliberations over ice-cream.)
That always seems to be the ways of squirrels. In New York they’re stealing kids cookies, cupcakes, bread, and other baked goods. And also, everyone goes nuts when there’s a squirrel at a zoo. They are natures ninjas… along with cats… creepy.
Well you’d better hide ya’ kids, hide ya’ wives, and hide ya’ husbands cuz’ those squirrels’re robbin’ everybody out hea’.
black squirrel reference?
Not quite, my friends are really keen on the autotuned version of the linkin park rapist song, it’s really funny and it’s got a guy with this epic attitude and an accent like that. I found it fitting for the comment.
And your name speaks the truth.
What does your gravatar pic say man!? I can’t read it and it’s driving me crazy! lol
Be sane! Read the original!
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2010/06/16/deliberations-over-ice-cream-2/
Thnx homie
Multiple questions for everyone:
1- What does Rick use to draw the art on the computer?
2- How do you make your avie different in the comments? Every time I do it, it changes it for all comments.
3- What are some peoples favorite genres? Writing comic and novel, and I’m totally lost… for now.
1. Most likely a tablet, what kind? I dunno
2. Ask dalonewolf25
3. I hate reading.
#2 was best explained here: http://www.housepetscomic.com/2010/09/13/gotta-boogie/#comment-44920
As for #1: http://www.housepetscomic.com/2010/10/13/ghost-in-the-machine/#comment-49166
Now, if you’re stuck on story writing, revise your characters, your setting, and the direction of your plot. One of them is probably not developed enough.
1. pencil, scan, color with tablet
2. Do this:
http://www.housepetscomic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=930
3. I generally read books. Star wars is mostly on my list of titles. Another big one is the ‘Bone’ series from Jeff Smith. And cough dinotopia cough.
2. I was gonna link there, but seeing as you were the one to create it a while ago, I guess you should keep the link. E|:P
I also recently discovered that gmail ignores dots in usernames.
So final.silence@gmail.com and finalsilence@gmail.com are the same user.
Which gives you an alternative of the plus trick for sites that freak out at + in email addresses.
Oh, and, reading? The perfect novel would be a post-singularity epic involving steampunk cybernetically enhanced giant otters. In space.
Sample dialog. “No wonder you can’t mind-link with your space-suit, how the heck did you get a live eel stuck there? No, don’t explain. Yes, you can eat it now.”
You can tell that it wouldn’t be entirely serious.
I think is a door and the squirrel wasn’t flying, was running and then it stamped on the glass of the door.
No, it’s one of those windows with a handle on one side. Though generally a standard format is two handles in the center. Though why there’s not a screen on this one I don’t know.
Many years ago, I was reading Alan Dean Foster’s “Into the Out Of”. It was 1AM on a rainy night. It was cold out. The rain was heavy. And I was at the part of the book where the group is trying to repair the Land Rover, and they can hear the Shetani hordes closing in. *B-BANG!* Something slams into my bedroom window. It’s big. It’s furry. Glowing eyes! TEETH!! OMGASDFGHJKLAAAAGH!!!
*blink-blink*
It’s the cat. Hanging on the window screen, soaking wet and crying to come in.
We used to have this little box thing that let our outside dog be a couple feet inside our living room, it came through the window and had a window inside. One time I was reading and she sneaked up inside and was just watching me in silence and out of nowhere she just BARKED at me, scared the double cheeseburgers out of me!
this is awsome !!!!
It’s the attack of the squirrel stalker!
If he’s dead I say we donate his body to a Korean restaraunt
The squirrel? Why not give it a proper burial?
R.I.P. Flying Squirrel
“Was shot off a catapult by the Milton Ferrets, which are inevitably going to be sued”
????-????
(Ya, we never checked to see if he dead or not…)
…why am I involved in a ping & trackback?
Also, delayed rehabilitation in 3…2…1…
I wanted to post this link on the Wednesday strip, but I didn’t find it in time.
I think this would be a bit much even for Grape.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060125
Peanut’s entire expression in the fourth panel is just GOLD.
IS HE READING THE HUNGER GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
The squirrel probably has this face -ಠ_ಠ
I’m beginning to think you’re just looking for excuses to use India symbols
Hello, this my first post. Good Luck!
cool
Peanut will have to clean out his shorts. Wait, he doesn’t wear shorts….
If you look closely, you can see his teeny tiny pupils looking toward the window. XD
Epic. Epicepicepic! Also… What the hell?!