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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Rick in the background
What are you talking about? It’s just a demon…
Bull!
As in, you know, a male cattle named after his species. No need to get rude
*stands and applauds*
Demon + Bull = Minotaur!
That’s not Rick, that’s my brother’s mom.
oooooo burrn XD
Your brothers mom. Wouldn’t that mean your mom?
not if it’s his half-brother or step-brother.
Alt text: no more sandboxes after this point, so don’t get the mega slush.
Looks like the minotaur.
Actually in the Houspets universe how different is a bull from a minotaur? o_O
That’s…a very good question actually. o_O
Cattle in the HP! universe are quadrupeds…
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/07/06/playing-with-your-food/
… and don’t have glowing red eyes.
Well for one, a Minotaur has the head of a bull, and the body of a human. If the cows and bulls in the HP universe were like the pets, they’d still have bovine bodies.
lol This really isn’t even the same arc anymore why hasn’t this been split up into too arcs? its just so different
I was considering it, but then how to end this popped into my head. It’s the same arc.
They take an elaborate snow tunnel back down to earth. It’s that elaborate.
Oh gods, I missed that option. Yes, a snow tunnel is a perfectly legitimate path to a spirit realm!
more believable than a wardrobe.
or a rabbit hole
actually, it’s pretty much just as believable as a rabbit hole.
A mirror?
Sorry, spirit world. That may be clever, but it’s not as awesome as a roller coaster going home.
And at the end of the tunnel is the Spirit Dragon with a message to Peanut.
Yeah a message of affection, just not from Tarot right? X3
Wonder what will happen if Peanut saw Tarot in her spirit dragon form
that is probably how it is going to end or something like that.
@nether: Tarot’s not the dragon ya know that and I’m not sure the dragon would need a medium to appear in such a spirit realm. So at max he’ll see them talkin and just say: “Who’s your friend Tarot?”
(I may be wrong aboot the not needing a medium part. :p)
The spirit dragon isn’t a medium, it’s definitely a large.
@Z-Zman:Yeah,but medium or not,his reaction,will still be interesting don’t you agree xD
Wait…
If Tarot is dragon, who is SABRINA!!!
Dragon’s avatar’s apprentice. nothing special.
I think I’ve been there before. The blue slushies are better than the yellow ones.
Never get the yellow slushy or snowcone
…yellow snow?
Exactly
take the blue slushie and you go home, drink the red slushie and go further down the rabbit hol…er elevator shaft
+5 internets.
… Thank you! Come again!
I want a slushie
Me too. Curse you, winter! *Shakes fist angrily*
Slushies are better when it’s cold X3. Then they can’t turn into sugar water that makes you want to bounce off the walls of a rubber room.
That is seriously nasty.
forget winter i am getting a slushie NOW!.
make sure you get it in a BIG GLUP cup :p
How bout a DOUBLE GULP?
Man,is it cool bettween the heaven and earth or what
This is just downright crazy. I love it.
What type of slushies do the god’s drink?
Flower Power Honey mix
and Cool Blue Nexus Nectar mix
The Nectar of the God’s contains stuff that doesn’t grow on earth.
it’s like the Snapple of the spirit realm.
made from the best stuff not on Earth.
Correction, it’s made from Better Stuff.
Or good stuff for bettering stuff
no, it’s still the best stuff, it just got better.
But what of the children?
Stuffy stuff?
So… they’re in like purgatory for the living or something?
Null Void perhaps.
Hmm… that’s actually what I was thinking. You know, how the Catholics believe Purgatory is between Heaven and Earth… penance for your sins and all that… (I read somewhere that if you translate it literally, it’s actually [i]repent[/i], not penance…)
Mind you, this doesn’t look like a place you’d be doing much penance in. Unless the yellow slushies are what I think they are… and maybe, if you don’t do too well with hot (ie spicy) items, like the “Red Hot Ambrosia” I see there…
I must say, I LOVE ambrosia.
That is all.
So do the employees scoop out the sandboxes? XD
Are the sandboxes of the gods filled with holy relics?
Just the shrowd of Purben
Though I’m Christian, I have a very open mind, so I would imagine something like this for a middle plane between heaven and earth to be perfectly honest with you.
Psst, it’s still a web comic.
*flees*
Second that. We’re talking about a world where a hundred-foot kitsutne can organize a Universes and Unrealities game; I don’t think any of our religions really apply
I think Discordianism applies just fine.
Or perhaps…ALL of our religions apply! =O
I think that would be omniquantism
(start at http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fc01386.htm and continue until 01391)
Espetially since he figured out how to play that game
What happens when deities lose The Game?
they don’t lose the game, they run the game.
You just lost the game!!!
Mwahahahahah
But, I don’t play.
How can I lose if I don’t play? o.O
By not playing, you acknowalge it, by ackowalging it, you make it real and it consumes you, by consuming you, you lose, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect one hundred dollers, and for the love of the forest god, don’t drop the soap
unless you’re into that sort of thing.
I mean struggling to pick up a bar of wet soap, what did you think I meant.
I saw what you did there
I won the game, thanks to xkcd, so suck it.
http://www.xkcd.com/391/
By using xkcd, they gain power, youcould have just entered the konami code to gain ivulnerability
I’d hope that a middle plane between Heaven and Earth wouldn’t use rat tails as currency…
oh if we just fly over to a different comic (the noob comic) im sure we would be fine about money
I thought it just meant “we sell potion ingredients”, because we’re going to have an awful lot of tail-less rats under your interpretation.
…or they could be some sort of synthetic
Everyone knows that Rat Tails are just to prove how brave you are and give you access to your fully powered classes instead of just your starter classes.
FF1 references FTW!
gas is expensive there too…
It’s better than in hell… 10,000 miles to the $3.11 gallon is a better deal than 10,000 miles to the soul. (TFS)
Maby Tarot work’s there,because she needs the money for all the candles they have.
The sad thing is it’s cheaper in this parallel world than it is at all the stations in my town.
What does the price there say, anyway? Most stations around my neighborhood (and city, for that matter) are about 110.8 or $1.10 CAD. I can’t read whatever that says in the comic.
I’m moving to canada
That’s per liter. So that’s like four bucks a gallon.
Never mind
Hm, the elevator stopped, and there was no Slender Man :/ (refer to my comment two strips ago)
I’m too scared too!
Angel food cake anyone? Is there a shop that sells that somewhere here? Anyone want to help me with that?
You’ve got to admit. Kudos to Peanut for being so calm, cool, and collective around Sabrina.
Heaven is an awfully generic spirit realm., don’t you think?
And isn’t ambrosia the nectar of gods? Not some celestial hot dog or something? Then again, slushies qualify.
But it’s not heaven, I said that
Which means you can get both the nectar of the gods -and- devil’s food cake!
Or devil dogs, oh hot damb, i want a hostess product now
Nectar and ambrosia are the top two divine food groups.
I know this is a little bit off topic but what breed is peanut?
Most believe he’s just a generic mutt like most of the strip’s dogs. Only King and Tarot have officially named breeds and after them only Sgt. Ralph, Kevin, Joey’s unnamed and unimportant Dalmatian friend are really identifiable as a certain breed of dog. Fox, Rex, Daisy and Lester all have likely breeds but could still be mutts.
He lives with a purple cat and you’re asking about his breed?
http://www.boreal-cats.com/photos/celestina/Kjarvy_Van_De_Blanke_Duin.jpg
there called British blue hairs
not nearly as purple as Grape.
The truck stop between heaven and earth, just to the left of the restaurant at the end of the universe
We’re gonna watch the end of the Universe together? I hope I can get out at my own time again! XD
Kudos for the hicthickers guide reference
Choose the Blue Slushie Peanut.
no! take the red one! we wanna see the end of the rabbit hole!
XD they are selling a rat tail would that be a Final Fantasy reference or am I just over thinking that?
That appears to be the price of a gallon of diesel fuel.
they are using it as money *slaps forehead* I read the sign wrong but still I think its a reference
You would be correct though
Nice ref, Rick. X3
Dont get the hotdog. Its not sanitary!
but it tastes sooooo goooodd!!
That’s because they sprinkle crack on them
I’m surprised this hasn’t been removed
It’s clearly a joke
That thing is fine, what you don’t want on it is the ani}-5yS{GYHk<P3$%8:P+++NO CARRIER+++
Did he just have a seisure? (check spelling)
seizure is spelled with a “z.” and I think he did just have one.
The problem with Kakurady’s joke is that many people don’t connect to the internet via dialup modems any more, and less are doing so as the tech spreads.
(Me, I remember the synch up sound from regular use… and the $300/month phone bills that resulted from that sound preceding my connecting to BBSes around the country.
)
Heh, I’ve never had to face a text interface through a modem either (save for the ISP’s login interface – for some reason), so that joke was shamelessly copied from Slashdot.
But I can’t forgot that handshake sound. It’s wonderful. (Of course, I didn’t know English back then. Most of my time was spent playing an online game called StoneAge and its spiritual sequel Cross Gate. And the Web was a lot simpler those times.)
Judging from a lot of what I saw online back then, knowing English wasn’t exactly a huge roadblock… even for people who supposedly speak it as their native language.
Anyway, I got dragged kicking and screaming into the GUI era of online stuff, and had reluctantly taken up working in Windows because a CLI apparently wasn’t good enough for all those spoiled whippersnappers out there.
Can you get a spiritual disease from bad ambrosia?
Is there such a thing as bad ambrosia?
Don’t ask me, ask Cheshire.
“Ambrosía” is the name of a latin-american mediumly-sweet bun with rasins or candied fruit pieces. Just like a regular bun, leave it out too long and black mold will grow on it.
Yes, but you can pray it off.
I want that Nectar.
I knew there was a 7/11 (Seven-Eleven) between Earth and Heaven, but nooooooooooooooooo! No one believed me…
I AM NOT CRAZY!
I hope there’s an Oxxo around there too. I bet there’s a GameStop in Hell, HA!
In “Dandy and Co.” there was an Apple Store there for some reason.
Could be an AM/PM who knows?
I hope so… Naaaah, AM/PM is in Heaven.
The Oxxo’s will take over the world, sooner or later…
What is Oxxo anyway?
Don’t know what an Oxxo is,but my answer to “take over the world” bit is:Relax guys..only 1 more year till 2012 (end of the wordl as we know it)
Don’t you worry about that … WE WILL SURVIVE!
Be glad it’s not a starbucks!
it will be soon enough.
This wasn’t here a bit ago. Or was it? Eh, Sabrina
s expanding Peanut’s horizons in this arc!
I think Peanut is thinking WAY to hard
Ok, so I just spent the last six hours or so going through all the old pages. To be able to maintain my intrigue so much is quite a feat. Usually it’ll take me several days, if not weeks, to go through a comic’s archives, reading just a bit at a time but I gotta hand it to ya, this is a pretty enthralling comic ya have here. It is now among my top ten, though it was an easy choice, since very few comics appeal to me this much. I read… *counts*… huh… exactly fifty webcomics. Most of them are just mild amusement, but this one, I’d consider a true favorite. I can’t wait for more.
I agree with this. this is the only webcomic of which I’ve read through the archives twice.
I would have killed for a slushie yesterday. man, it was hot.
Where do you live?!?!?
Either he spent all day standing in direct sunlight with the reflection of the snow shining through the window and some sort of insulator to not let the heat out
Or south of the Tropic of Cancer
Hmm, ambrosia. Looks like someones face is going to melt…
Are the golden apple fruit pies any good?
Eris only knows.
That’s an awfully exclusive item. Who gets it?
Get Peanut to choose! What reward will he demand?
It’s been a while since we went all super-natural.
NOOOTHING CAN FAZE HIM !
Also, slushies.
except for his love life.
Maybe slushies will phase him. Oh no!
I think Peanut is the only mortal that could handle something like this without his mind being blown!
I mean they’re at the crossroad of heaven and earth and Peanuts biggest problem is what flavour slushie he wants…
speaking of which… I want a slushie… it’s like 38 degrees celsius here.
38 degrees? That’s pretty warm.
Just don’t eat anything at the Other Truck Stop. And don’t look back when you’re driving away.
I’ll be honest I was hoping for something a bit more like the final dungeon of an RPG
Who let the devil back in heaven?
sometimes God invites him up to rub it in his face that he’s stuck in Hell.
Watched Disney’s Hercules a bit too much?
I didn’t even realize that when I was typing it. No, I actually haven’t seen it in a while.
I like slushies.
HEY IT’S SLUSHY THE OVERPRICED SLUSH DRINK
Let’s hug him!
They have 7-11s between Heaven & Earth, but there’s not a single one around here for a good 100 miles? I live a doomed existence, living without access to slushies, just ye’ olde generic “Icey”.
I could so go for a big ol’ slushie right about now.
if you meant “Icee,” that’s a name brand, too. If you truly meant “Icey,” then yes, it is generic.
Wut? 24 hour purgatory diner?
There is no “when” here.
so the elevator was going down, but they’re somewhere between heaven and earth.
so either the elevator went down so far it ended up going up, or our common conceptions about heaven and hell are wrong, and you go down to heaven, and up to hell.
that’s why there’s no clouds.
it’s the divine comedy. down through hell, up through purgatory on the other side, then you get to heaven. the elevator has made it a lot faster and easier.
No moe physics. Enjoying the webcomic here.
Ok what is ambrosia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosia
Thanks
well, Rick, nice touch upgrading hands to 5 fingers. It’s an appreciated novelty, and they look cool!
That’s actually a mistake, not an upgrade
Aw
Hahaha, that was actually really funny
Mon Visage.
Whut? 5 fingers? Oh!
Wait, that’s perfect for wednesday’s comic!
“Sabrina, how come now I have 5 fingers?”
“You’ll need that where we’re going”
“Oh, Okay.”
“…You’re not going to ask?”
“Nope”
That would be exactly how such an exchange would go lol
Can’t see any fingers I tell ya… Okay maybe they got “fixed”, too bad. :p
Yes, they did
Neeecter of the Gods!
(I really doubt anyone gets that reference)
Nope sorry, care to help me out on it?
Look up ambrosia, or… just go here.
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2011/02/07/the-truck-stop-between-heaven-and-earth/#comment-61645
I got the ambrosia part, I just don’ know this reference.
It’s from a Let’s Play of a game where, whenever the player character would drink some water, the narrator would go ‘Ah, Life Giving Water; Nectar of the gods.’ It was something that the guy doing the video found hilarious and kept repeating in ever more dramatic fashion.
Its the Dog Days of Summer arc all over again!
Once Peanut learned about the Spirit Dragon, how could it not go the way of “The Dog Days of Summer” all over again?
But it’s still funny so who cares? And people keep talking about that storyline anyway so a sequel is only natural.
That’s what I dislike about this kind of thing, you can’t see the person’s body language of tone of voice.
My comment is in no way negative or bashful.
I thought it was jest. Doesn’t my reply look like it?
Elwood just kinda made it seem like I was complaining.
So, is this part of the Q Continuum?
Does Q work here as a clerk when he’s not out annoying the Multi-verse…
…Engage!
I’ll make it so.
I’m entitled to ramble on about something everybody already knows.
And we’re entitled your walls of text
Oh it’s a known fact there’s a truck stop between here and Heaven. If I recall, Osiris was the one who wanted it there. Something about slushies…
The waiting area for weighing hearts was getting kind of cramped. There is only one feather of Ma’at, after all
Meanwhile, Hephaestus is working as a mechanic in Ohio, and Zeus is running a trucking company. Cupid and Psyche were smuggling chocolate hearts before their unfortunate accident with the Wild Hunt.
Zeus is more of an electrician. Hercules runs a gym, Achilles is a marathon superstar and Aphrodite is a Victoria Secret angel…
Nuh-uh, he runs a trucking company. I read it in the Books of Magic.
Both, actually. How else is he gonna pay for Olympus’s electric bills?
Also before you ask, yes Set is banned from going in there. So no worries.
he makes electricity for free. he isn’t an electrician, he’s a living generator.
What does this has to do to do with the snow?!
We’ll find out.
Okay let’s just hope Peanut isn’t hungry or thirsty cuz as far as I know ambrosia makes the consumer into a GOD!!!!!
)
…
Wonder what kind of a god would Peanut turn out to be. XD
(P.S.: Tell me if I’m wrong aboot the ambrosia thing.
Demigod. You know, like Hercules, or Spot (superhero). Which answers your question.
I thought that it could only be safely eaten/drunk by a god or demigod?
Let’s agree on immortal and we’re done. X)
How many demigods do you know that lived past the age of 20?
*GASP*
…
Ummm… I don’ get that Frank. XD
Yay! I just finished reading ALL the comic.
Yeehaw!
For whatever reason, this comic tends to get an influx of readers when it starts to deviate from the norm.
Theres a norm?!?!?
Touché
*bows*
A pale yellow slushy doesn’t look good at all. =L
I know. And who would drink a slushy in the winter.
hot cacao or chocolate tea is better
I couldn’t agree more
Slushes?
R U pepl crazeh?
*makes some hot coco*
the way peanut is acting you’d think he saw this kind of thing every day.
Peanut: Hmmm… what to get? Red hot ambrosia or nectar of the gods?
Why both of course!
is it just me or did rick change “litterbox” to “sandbox”
>_>
It was always sandbox?
Ah, nevermind. I must be paranoid >_> <_<
I’ve heard it both ways
But then who was litterbox?
what’s the difference really
Litterbox: cat-bathroom
Sandbox: playground fixture in which small children play and (inevitably) ingest at least part of what they find within.
Mix-up = gross
but that mix-up probably happens on a regular basis.
i had a brain fart. i forgot the sandbox meaning and mixed it up
So….empty…
By the way, I believe FinalSilence owes us some cookies…
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/331/6/e/tigavtr_by_john_sandoval-d30623b.gif
*wonders if that’s allowed*
*flees*
Oh gosh, the weirdness continues. =D
Alt text plz!
It’s in the comments on the first post.
Or scroll over the comic.
I’m on a phone
Look at your phone.
Now look at me.
Now at your phone.
The alt text is now diamonds!
latest commercial in that ad campaign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R2cnxz27LI
In case nobody else said it, and someone asked close above me, alt text:
“No more sandboxes after this point, so don’t get the mega slush”
In other news: This arc keeps getting stranger…X3; I wonder how this’ll end!
I love it how Peanut like most other heroes in comics and anime, is surrounded by a cloud of calming ignorance which protects them from harm.
The last arc like this got really confusing really fast (I’m referring to the mythical creatures D&D arc). There was a lot of important stuff said, and I’m afraid that I missed a lot of it. Just wanted to point it out in case nobody else did (I’m sure they did, but I like to throw in my two-bits anyway).
Two bits won’t buy you a cup of joe any more.
nor a shave and a haircut.
…but it did win him the response of a ferret and an old limerick man.
Is the rat tail a reference to 8-bit theater? maybe?
8D
Practically all 8-bit theater is a reference to Final Fantasy. Rick has confirmed it’s a reference to Final Fantasy
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2011/02/07/the-truck-stop-between-heaven-and-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-61560
I’m not sure if that counts as a “yes”
Do I want a slushie? Hm… Nah. Red hot ambrosia? Never had that! But, should I…
Sabrina’s paying… Right?
When you think about it, just a little, public sandboxes in gas-stations is a really, REALLY CREEPY AND BIZARRE IDEA… Seriously… Wow…
This comic never used to have so much to do with fantasy and magic… how and when did that happen? I’m just noticing this now… Maybe it started with the “King” arc. But before a certain point this comic would not have even begun to accept alternate universes
The animals talk. How is that not fantastic or magical?
Actually, it introduced Pete waaaaay back here: http://www.housepetscomic.com/category/comic/the-grove/
So it’s pretty likely that this is all part of a planned and continuing subplot that will resurface from time to time, interwoven with the Housepets! “normal” stories.
agreed sketch
suoiruc detcelloc skcaj ylloj (POWER TO READING THINGS BACKWARDS!)
Siht daer ot sdnoces artxe evif ekat em edam uoy?
?taht etirw ot uoy ekat ti did gnol woh
¡noʎ ɹoɟ ʇı op ʇɐɥʇ sǝʇısqǝʍ ǝɹɐ ǝɹǝɥʇ
Tmennoc suoiverp eht daer ot as etirw ot gnol sa em koot ti ,laV ot.
slliks dam evah I ,tnegrA etisbew a deen t’ndid I.
This same thing is also used in chuck Norris facts. Example: “tnemmoc siht dekcik esuohdnuor sirroN kcuhC”
.niarb ym gnitruh era stnemmoc eseht
ha! i knew it
ambrosa and nectur lol greek god refrace
“Somewhere between Heaven and Earth”?
Ah…. Everybody… LIMBO!!!
Hey! A Wal-Mart!