Housepets!

!!QUOTE WALL INCOMING!! 1)Sasha being abused by her alcoholic father which was solved offscreen and glanced over with a joke So, what you're saying is you'd prefer to follow those characters through the legal minutia of an animal cruelty investigation that we already have the basic details on, rath...

Perhaps since it’s happened so often, these flaws that you’ve pointed out were intentional on Rick’s part. He’s done strips without jokes before. In fact, immediately after that Gale flashback where she’s stitching herself up, we get a callback that changes the mood of a previous joke comic, recont...

Except that the problem wasn't that you intended to add drama. It's that you have no sense of tone and create a giant mess. That Buffy the vampire slayer as an example. In that series there's comedy and drama, but they don't interrupt a highly emotional scene to throw pies in the background. Wanna ...

Except that the problem wasn't that you intended to add drama. It's that you have no sense of tone and create a giant mess. That Buffy the vampire slayer as an example. In that series there's comedy and drama, but they don't interrupt a highly emotional scene to throw pies in the background. Wanna a...

That end at the bottom made me laugh.

Having set up this thread to make a broad critical point, Zidane, you might want to continue your observations (as most of us do) on a submission by submission basis with a little more focus. Yours is probably the most "total" critique I've seen of Housepets! as a comic work, but how much...

No-one says - nor has anyone any right to say - don't criticise but, for it to be useful, criticism has to be productive and helpful. Continual negative bashing serves no positive purpose. You say that you saw potential but you don't say what that potential IS or how to act on that. Instead you jus...

You make two arguments that we've seen before: that things are not being shown on-panel to your satisfaction, and that the jokes do not weave into the story to your satisfaction. Neither of these are new. Rick is constantly juggling many factors to balance this comic in terms of how much detail is ...

What makes you think the ending of this last arc was a joke? It didn’t really seem like one to me - more like the way a misunderstanding like this usually ends in reality. Sure, it was funny, but that doesn’t make it a goof for a goofs sake. Gale: "You've hurt me badly, Miles. You've betrayed ...

What makes you think the ending of this last arc was a joke? It didn’t really seem like one to me - more like the way a misunderstanding like this usually ends in reality. Sure, it was funny, but that doesn’t make it a goof for a goofs sake. Gale: "You've hurt me badly, Miles. You've betrayed ...

Carl Barks treated the Disney ducks the same way Rick treats his crew - a serious story salted with a couple of gags, a pratfall or two, an irony here, a sardonic moralization there, and a "lesson learned" at the end ... A lesson that might be uplifting but just as likely rueful, cynical,...

This is a smaller response as I think you’re just forgetting some stuff, it’s hard to argue that a lot of Arcs involving King are pretty consistent. If Rick sets them up as being serious, the arc stays pretty serious, heck I think there are people who complain about that stuff because they felt Ric...

I’d like to have a mild argument with you if you’d be quite alright with that Zidane. While Housepets has always been a more jokey series, he has had his hand at a lot of stories with more of a serious lean towards them, and while not my cup of tea, I know a lot of people enjoy one of his more seri...

Hi. I've found this webcomic some time ago and decided to take a look at it because some people said the story was good and stuff. Okay. I've read through the bulk of pages (gotta praise the Rick for not only updating this often but also for evolving the artstyle) and I must say that this comic has ...