Housepets!

Okay, anyone else read Houspets!?

Cause really the latest page... Pete is really starting to irk me. It's rather irritating..

And well if anyone else does read this comic there's now a thread to talk about it?

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I created the tvtropes page for Housepets, so... yeah

I know Pete is a prick but this is just petty.

edited 17th Jun '10 10:38:25 AM by ACDrawings

When All Else Fails, you have fun and flirt wit da ladies, dats da Drawings way!

Clearly King needs to sneak out.

Sakamoto demands an explanation for this shit.

Well, commenter on the site seem to think he's trying to teach King another lesson or maybe he's got a scheme going.

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I was right.

Looks like Pete does have plans. If not ones involving King anyway.

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Escape! Escape! Escape!

Pity about that bump to the head.

Sakamoto demands an explanation for this shit.

Poor guy, at least he'll get to go to the party now! (Hopefully)

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We got a thread for this? Squee!

Johl or whatshisface turning into a corgi has seem to made everyone in the comments section forget who he was originally. Then again, he wasn't really that bad of a guy. Just kinda misguided... Maybe?

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Yeah, misguided and probably a little traumatized.

Also, I was right. Ha he got to go to the party after all!

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Yeah, I wouldn't consider Joel to be a good guy by any stretch, but I don't think that, before the transformation, he was actively mean, either (unlike, say, Bino or Pete). I won't argue he isn't a little whacked in the head, though, and I don't mean from the tumble down the stairs.

I am curious, a bit, about how Tarot knew he was human in the Monday strip, though, whether from watching Pete or some innate sense of "that corgi just ain't right".

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Tarot is psychic, remember?

An adorable fluffy little psychic.

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I also wonder how she knew, taking into account the fact that she's psychic - which portion of her psychosis did she use to figure it out? Ask the Spirits? Some yet unmentioned True Seeing effect? Future Sight? That last one might imply that she foresaw him getting turned back...

The comics equivalent of PTSD.

Ezekiel actually went into the detail I should have, but didn't.

Of course, the question has been directly answered in the Wed strip. And are my eyes deceiving me, or is Grape channeling a certain mutant antihero in that last panel?

edited 29th Jun '10 10:40:45 PM by Nohbody

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Well, it was answered by Grape. One has to wonder if that's actually what Tarot did.

...wow, that was a hasty reaction from Grape.

To be quite honest, I've never really liked Tarot much, mostly because of her whole psychic shtick. It just seems like... like she's only there to fill a role in the story, which mostly involves telling people that they need to do something and being Peanut's girlfriend, and she still ends up being a bit too overall perfect, maybe because she doesn't get enough screentime to herself to have any real flaws other than being a little weird.

The comics equivalent of PTSD.

And on the note of what Grape's *snkt* was a response to, other than Plot Induced Stupidity and/or Rule of Funny, why didn't King just take the obvious  ^*

path, and point out he wasn't aware she had a boyfriend?

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That's exactly why I thought Grape was being too hasty. She had to explain that fact to him, so why is she reacting like she thought he already knew?

The comics equivalent of PTSD.

Well, with Grape, while she is the more rational of the two Sandwich household pets, she isn't exactly unknown for emotional "snap" reactions, as I recall.

Kinda goes with that whole feline thing, donchaknow.

(Pothole meant in an affectionate manner, being a cat person myself. And no, I don't mean that way, not just because I'm not female. )

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Grape is Peanut's bestest friend of all bestest of bestness ever. (Of Bestness +Best) So that can justify that she might be hasty about treathening someone who might get between him and Tarot. Though Tarot had the levelled head of rejecting Joel/King.

Also she probobly just didn't feel like being in the company of a soda intoxicated sleazy corgy.

Funny how people find that behaviour cute from him as a corgy, but if he was still human, we might not be hearing such positive remarks about it...

edited 30th Jun '10 12:34:30 AM by KuroFox

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The "cute" comments about King have all been about his appearance, though, at least as far as I can remember. Acknowledging that "anecdote" isn't the singular of "data", I find the drunken flirting like that as annoying done by King as I would if done by Joel.

Which brings a thought to mind... Did he tell himself to stop flirting because the behavior was wrong, or because Tarot's rejection reminded him that he's ultimately a human (whatever his current form)? I can't imagine a pre-change Joel thinking that flirting with animals was acceptable...

(BTW and FYI, it's "Corgi", not "Corgy". )

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Sorry... And thanks for the grammucation (grammar+education). The more you know...

And possibly because Tarot reminded him that he is still a human. People can forget an awful lot when under the influence of things like sodahol.

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Well, we'll see if there is any maiming come Friday. But, here's a good question. What will Pete do when he comes back and finds that a. King escaped and b. went to the party?

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Hit him on the head with a rolled up newspaper and make him sleep outside?

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On another Pete/party note that came to mind last night, what if Pete didn't want Joel!King there because of Tarot's presence?

I'm guessing, from her describing Pete as "kind of a jerk", that she has more than a passing knowledge of him. What if she (or even one of her ancestors; we don't know, IIRC, how long Pete was imprisoned) was involved with sealing him up in the first place? If so, could she be part of putting him back in the supernatural slammer?

If there's any validity at all in any part of my above WMGing  ^*

, it might explain how King's presence at the party could interfere with Pete's plans, as he explained to King before locking him in the pet carrier.

edited 1st Jul '10 4:38:29 AM by Nohbody

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Oh I see. Here comes Pete! Also, haha ooh King you're in for a real trip soon.

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So what are we looking at here? Ol' Joey-boy's gone and pissed off a nigh-omnipotent griffin, so something bad is about to happen...

Think he's going to die? If so, is it too late to count as a Heel–Face Door-Slam?

Or maybe instead we're looking at And I Must Scream or Taken for Granite, given that Pete has a predilection for Involuntary Shapeshifting and seems to be a bit of a control freak.

Perhaps he'll just lock him up or something... probably the best route for the comic's PG rating, but I dunno, with all Pete was originally built up to be...

edited 2nd Jul '10 10:52:02 PM by Ezekiel

The comics equivalent of PTSD.