Predictability is what killed newspaper comics. You can't just have one of your characters eat too much food again. Sometimes someone's gotta summon a giant spirit dragon.

So wait, will this arc be about Grape and her Pridelands stuff or will it be about the secret santa thing? Or both?

IT's no doubt going to be about Pridelands.

I'm just thinking somewhere in the comic though, Rick will throw us a teaser moment. probably right on christmas day.

This actually happened in Blondie just yesterday.

No, yesterday his wife tried to get him to eat healthy.

I think when Grape sees the author she'll faint and by the time she wakes up she's gone.

Also, I'm curious about the skull rising out of the DS... what is Peanut playing?

Haha, that's awesome.

He was probably playing something like NSMB and he just died.

Grape is definitely in character. Peanut is a little less excited than I would have expected him to be, but I'm not sure that really counts.

You'd think that Peanut would be more excited for a new Pridelands book, since he went so crazy over the last one...

I was thinking that as well, that's a little inconsistent.

Actually it does make sense since he doesn't want to meet his hero and has obligations to the club plus he'll get to read it anyway when Grape brings it home, possibly first since hes a really fast reader. Also we didn't see how he acted when he first heard that it was coming out so he might have calmed down a bit since then.

In real life dogs can't talk.
I think it works well for Grape, though, it makes her more interesting.

Doesn't bother me, I'm just pointing out that I don't worry about how the comic relates to real life.

I still can't get over the snow. I want some of it.

Characters can change in responce to the will of there creator. Unless the creator developes an Authors complex, Then the characters tend to act of there own accord....

Well yeah, characters change and shift. But you can also reveal a new side of the character without it being contradictory, too.

True, but that limits the ability for plot twists.

It's like Peanut and Grape switched bodies or something.

Awkward.

I don't see the big deal...Peanut and Grape are meant to balance each other out...so if Grape is being too fangirlish, then Peanut has to calm her down a bit. That's how their chemistry works.

That... -_- ...that actually makes sense. o_o

Peanut's original line was, "Uh-uh, fool. Step back."

Yes, but it's usually Grape who calms Peanut down a bit.

That's true, but in the end, Rick does what Rick wants.

It's been reiterated several times, some of which by people who actually matter, that not every comic has to be a crazy guy and his voice of reason. Characters are allowed to be more complicated than that.

And an ATHF reference in Housepets! would have been weird. *giggles*

And then everything Grape says at the end of this arc ends up being true.

except she gets Cake and Coffee.

I've got the creeping sensation that tomorrow's comic will feature Peanut dancing around wearing a clown suit with Grape (wearing spectacles, a bowler hat, and a long coat) correcting him in a refined English accent just to spite us...
except that actually would be funny...

Amusing as that would be, Tis highly unlikely. Of corse I could be wrong.

I only JUST noticed that Peanut appears to have died horribly in-game in that last panel. Stop distracting a gamer, Grape!

Don't get it...

I mean, it can't be like that

Looks like she's probably a human after all. Or is she?!

God only knows what she wanted signed.

No fair hiding Grape in the third panel! She's never looked cuter!

Oh Rick, pushing the rating again, as usual....

Last panel. Lol.

Except that God doesn't want to know.