It's been a year

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

Tomorrow marks one year since the comic went on Hiatus.
What do you guys do to pass the time while you wait? I've been working on a feature-length fanfiction, trying to avoid directly using any established characters as much as possible while still having it set within the world of Housepets.
It's harder than you would think.

Have a nice day and hope for the comic's return soon!

[D-Rock]

Developing my own fan characters, really. Granted, their developments have now been like 98% outside of the setting.

[Amazee Dayzee]

What I did was try to make sure that this forum doesn't completely crash and die out by being active on it as much as I can. Some days are slower than others but I think I have been doing a good job at it.

[HiraokaNettoMichio]

Working on my own stories. Heckraiser is Housepets' Countdown to Destruction and I am fine with the story ending there. A satisfying end if Rick wants to move on from Housepets.

Otherwise, some slight differences as the likes of kitsune, dragon and griffon are still celestials in spite of canon saying otherwise, the fan works of mine doing it's own thing by being akin to a digital world that you play in, even so far as to introduce some offbeat ideas and fan characters that may or may not be offbeat themselves.

And crossing over with Rick's other comic, Aladdin Grey may as well be Trunks if he was a disc jockey, complete with Adrian being his mother who still care for Ali while he's still a little kid.

("What do you think of Aladdin Grey?" "You mean "Prince Ali?" Everyone added things up upon that revelation that faithful show.")

...it only gets more inane and deranged from there. But enough about talking about my fan fiction.

It's time for everyone to forge new legends! I believe in you.

[Chieris]

Spamming the forums, working on my Housepets characters and their stories, more recently started translating strips to my native language again (unsure whether there is another Housepets fan from my country currently).
Not related to the forums, but I'm also preparing for some abroad trips as I'm going to go Prague and Tauplitz this year and maybe I can squeeze in some short trips to Vienna, Bratislava or Brno

[NHWestoN]

What I did was try to make sure that this forum doesn't completely crash and die out by being active on it as much as I can. Some days are slower than others but I think I have been doing a good job at it.

... and so do I.

[Fragens]

Isn't may 8 the anniversary, because this was a leap year?

[Amazee Dayzee]

I honestly don't thin leap years count in the grand scheme of days except if something falls on the 29th. So even though the anniversary was a day before with the leap year added it is just easier to say its still a year.

[NHWestoN]

yup.

[Amazee Dayzee]

I honestly can't think of anybody adding a day to a year to say that is the anniversary because it was a leap year. If we did that then all of our birthdays would also be different.

[Fragens]

Fair, then.

[NHWestoN]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ..............

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

I still check the comic every single day to see if it's been updated, but I guarantee I won't notice right away when it does get updated because I'll just be sitting there staring blankly at it. I had been operating under the secret hope that Rick would resume the comic at the one year mark from when he put it on hiatus. Now I'm hoping for a mid-July date. I'm guessing he's worked out his scripts for all his active projects and is just working on a buffer of at least a few months' worth for all of them so he can draw new pages at his leisure.

[Amazee Dayzee]

Rick will get back to the comic once he feels he doesn't have to rush anything else. I get the feeling that trying to make sure the comic was updated on certain days was why he burned out and wanted to take the hiatus from it in the first place.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

Honestly he'll probably give us a heads-up at least a week before he brings it back. I don't ACTUALLY expect to find an update when I check every day, but I do get disappointed every time anyway. If he decides not to bring it back at all, he'll most likely tell us that too.

[NHWestoN]

Waiting for Slo-Go ( or was it Godot ?).

[Amazee Dayzee]

This waiting however makes Godot look like The Flash in comparison. After all of this time if Rick decides to just end things it really will be very sad but expected.

[NHWestoN]

Times flies when you're having fun. What does that tell you?

[NHWestoN]

... and now a year + four months.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

At least Rick's started posting a side comic on FA so I can get sort of my fix.

[Amazee Dayzee]

Does the side comic he is posting involve any of the Housepets! characters at all? I would love to see what ideas he had for the characters he will write for in the comic again.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

No, it's a spinoff of Haven Celestia.

[Amazee Dayzee]

If it is just a mini-comic hopefully it doesn't interfere with the return of Housepets! then. I want that to happen in a way that the forum FINALLY becomes active again and we get new members.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

Technically the comic he's posting is already complete and posted elsewhere, he's not actively working on it. I'm just not reading it on his site because waiting for new pages is half the fun.

[NHWestoN]

Right now, waiting for any pages is about the only fun left for Housepets! fans.

[Amazee Dayzee]

But if he waits too long people will grow apathetic and might not come back. If you stop doing something for a very long time when you get back to it, some people might not want to get started with it again.

[NHWestoN]

Oh, well, we all get to pal around on the Forum and read great fanfics, eh?

[Amazee Dayzee]

I just worry at how much longer this forum will last. When I came back in 2018 it definitely was a bit more active. Now it looks like only a handful of people care about posting and keeping this place active.

[HiraokaNettoMichio]

Oh, well, we all get to pal around on the Forum and read great fanfics, eh?

No way. Mine are not that good. It's not just modesty either, I seen the high standards and although I'll keep writing decent stuff, I will never be able to rival the greats here.

[GameCobra]

I'm still slightly around, but I thought I was going to be back in March. I'm currently in lurking mode due to other stuff.

Hopefully that changes soon.

[NHWestoN]

Oh, well, we all get to pal around on the Forum and read great fanfics, eh?

No way. Mine are not that good. It's not just modesty either, I seen the high standards and although I'll keep writing decent stuff, I will never be able to rival the greats here.

Well, I figure it's more about the creativity than the competition - if competition there is. We did have a couple of self-congratulatory sorts here for a while but we just enjoyed their writing and passed on the bloviation. Jes'keep doing what's good for you, Hiro, and it'll get gooder.