Housepets!

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That is indeed an awesome job on that strip Frank. You have my applause! (And a salute to your artistic skills and talents). Also, as you can see, I have indeed located the password again. Now all I need is to locate the time again... (That, sadly, has been the hard part all along). Fortunately, the...

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Ah, missed the tag. Well, that's an easy edit. Thanks for mentioning it.

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Here are the dossiers for the Minor Animal Characters - Karl-Lenin Faust and Squeak , the Zoo Animals , the Mr Bigglesworthâ€™s , the Farm Animals , the K-9 Unit , Joelâ€™s Pets , and the Random Animals . Once again, there really isnâ€™t enough information on most of them for backstories, and not mu...

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Here are the dossiers for the humans in the strip, excluding Mr Milton and his Ungrateful Relatives . Given that the current arc involves them, they can wait a bit pending further information. That limits this entry to the Sandwiches, Bill, Jake, Ryan, Jerry , the Fat PETA Guy , and the (often namel...

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*sighs* Thoth , I am not certain such a lengthy rebuttal was warranted by my failure to append "intentionally implemented to increase efficiency" to my previous statement. I am not interested in further debate on this issue, and I am sorry for my mistake. My apologies: I didn't mean to be...

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It sounds like you think of characterization differently than I do, then. I think of characterization as, how much can these characters stand apart from the other characters Evidently you're defining "Characterization" as "difference from the norm" not "having a personality...

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Ok, so how many of those people have as much characterization as the villains? At the moment, the Sandwiches are far far ahead of any of the villains as far as characterization goes, Joel - as pointed out earlier, hardly a villain - is either next up or tied, and then we have Bill. At the moment, t...

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OK, I can remain silent on this topic no longer: I fully support: A love quadrangle, including Grape, the Robot Reincarnation of Tokugawa Ieasu, and any two other characters of the reader's choice. Another love quadrangle, including Peanut, Orguna the Forsaken, and any two other characters of the re...

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Next up we have the dossier for the Milton Ferrets : 1) The Milton ferrets first appear - pleased and excited at going from "being given away for free" to "multibillionaires". https://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/07/20/meanwhile-back-in-babylon/ Note : The Milton Estate is a huge ...

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yeah we need some good humans in this comic. i dont think rick really sees these people, or anyone in this comic, as solely good or bad. they all have good and bad in them. I suspect that the problem there is that the comic is centered on the pets as protagonists. Ergo, if Rick wants to bring in hu...

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Next up are the dossiers for Fiddler , Keys , and the Raccoons . Given that there really isnâ€™t much on Fiddler and Keys, theyâ€™ll be first: 1) Fiddler and Keys first appear here, providing music - via fiddle and a portable electronic keyboard - for the Yarn Ball. 2) They've got a miniature keyboa...

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My Brain... Melting!!!

Actually that looks very good to me. It really does seem to suit him.

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Yep - and the "shadows" bit is in my post is A Midsummer Nights Dream reference - but Bino still seems perfect as the overdramatic and more-than-a-bit-crazy princeling who manages to get almost everyone in the play killed. He'd also do very well as any jealous sibling, treacherous schemer,...

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I'm rather amazed that they apparently didn't have twenty attempts to overturn Milton's will underway already. There are any number of law forms that would willingly pursue much more improbable cases for a chance at a share in fifteen billion in cash, even without counting in the value of the factor...

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Next up is the dossier for the Arbelt Pets - Tiger, Zachary, and Marvin . 1) Tiger is first mentioned - along with the information that "you all" (apparently the local dogs, including Peanut) made fun of Tiger because of his name. 2) Grape feels that Tiger has "crippling emotional pro...

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Frank wrote:I got some time, so

Oh, now you've done it. Now I can just see Bino doing Hamlet.

And if imagining something about a play is but the shadow of a shadow, does that make it real?

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Next up in the dossier parade we have Rex - with a sideline in Jasper and Jinx . 1) First appearance. Rex is apparently a cartoon bulldog, has a skull for a tag, wears a spiked collar, is apparently either angry, frowning, or embarrased, and is apparently upset that Grape is not playing "The Ga...

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Here we have a few more signature banners because of why not... As usual, the characters are Ricks, anyone who wants to use these here is welcome to, and if you want me to mark one as being yours, just let me know. http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/9708/videgamebanner.png http://img695.imageshack.u...

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Next up we have Miles - and, incidentally, the rest of the Pack . There really isnâ€™t enough on most of them yet to justify individual entries. 1) Miles makes his first appearance. He's apparently used to mugs or cups, as well as furniture. Inference : Miles has probably had at least a few weeks wo...

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Next up, we have a couple of the characters who havenâ€™t had much exposure... Sabrina and Daisy . Sabrina: 1) Sabrina appears. She's evidently in a relationship with Fido. Grape does not approve, but Peanut doesn't seem to mind. Note : Fido may have his own basement apartment. 2) Sabrina can produc...

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Um. Ok. I don't know where enforced selective breeding came from but okay. Think of it this way. Before way back when, it was unthinkable for a white person to have a personal relationship with an African. Why? They were too different from each other. Regardless of what other sub species of canine ...

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Hm. Looks like the "Quote" button isn't entirely reliable when there are nested quotes or too many of them. I'll have to trace it back and fix it when I have a little more time later tonight. "Maxfield" should be easy to fix though... Ah, there it is; must have gotten distracted ...

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Alex wrote:Fixed. King is still too human.

You mean this comic has nonhumans?

They may not be Homo Sapiens Sapiens, but I'd have to say they're almost all as human as most people are.

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Wolves being outsiders to a community does not make it inter species. It is interesting thought that Rick likes playing around with this taboo. No one said it did; if so, that would have made the interspecies relationship percentage 60%. It's 50% if you consider the wolves as being outsiders to the...

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Given Fox implies a previous encounter, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole neighborhood knows of PETA. It would also fit just as well into all of those things and be more likely! As fun as it may be to be wild, what I believe the point of speculation to be is not to see the extent of what you can...

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Our next Dossier is for Sasha ... 1) Sasha doesn't actually appear here, but this strip does establish that she can't spell very well, is more than a bit forward, and that she wants to spend some personal time with Fido. https://www.housepetscomic.com/2008/09/01/a-breed-apart/ 2) Sasha is helping de...

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Pretty much! Although, if you want to get elaborate, you can play with changing the colors, editing pixels, resizing, filling in missing bits, and all the other things you can do playing with graphics software. I think that drawing your own by hand and scanning them in counts as "fan art" ...

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Oh yes - but it could be stretched to account for a number of items - and "pets have really good ears" wasn't as much fun!

-And so noted...

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Spoâ€™s dossier is relatively short compared to some of the others... On the other hand, as a mouse, and one of the characters whoâ€™s NOT a dog or cat, he provides some interesting insights. 1) Spo was caught by either Sabrina or her (undisclosed) owner after - apparently - being spotted by said o...

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For the next set of banners, it's four new ones, one variant on one of the new ones, and three of the ones that were the wrong size resized for these forums. That makes them kind of short, but I suppose it doesn't really matter much. http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/4061/readingwrongbanner.png htt...

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I don't know... The trouble with the "giant conspiracy" theories is they can be used to justify anything at all. Once you start that, you can never really reach any kind of conclusion.

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Next up we have Maxwell's dossier... 1) Maxwell is "Spying" on the Good Ol Dogs Club with Marvin - but is inattentive and gets trampled when the dogs rush out. Fortunately he's not seriously injured. Inference : The cats probably have no comparable organization. This is later borne out by ...

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The "Multiply by Seven" rule for "Dog Years" doesn't really work in the Housepets universe. First up, according to Rick, the pets lifespans are roughly double those that can be expected for real-world pets. That would give us a rule of "Multiply by 3.5" to start with. M...

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That one is indeed very nice. I hadn't thought to try outlines... I'll have to fiddle with some. Ah well. It's only been a few days at this - and here are a couple more at random. As usual, if anyone wants to use one, go right ahead. If you want me to note it as yours, just let me know. http://img13...

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The only thing I know is that Fido is older than Bino and Joey is younger than Bino. :| Actually we don't know that; they're brothers, but puppies often come in litters in reality, the same may or may not apply in the Housepets universe. Presuming that character aging does indeed apply... We do kno...

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True - but they followed Peanuts advice to hide their relatives. And there are laws against shooting wild animals in the streets in the real world too, but that doesn't stop it. Even in Housepets, I woudn't count Murphy out if it might make a good story - plus it would show Miles making another thou...

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Next up is Peanut Butter Sandwich . Peanut, like Grape, starred in the first several arcs of Housepets - and so helped set up most of the general world background for the strip. However, since thatâ€™s been pretty well addressed under Grape, above, Iâ€™m going to try and stick with some specifics he...

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Peanut can sleep on the floor. He's a dog, after all, he won't mind. Oh trust me. I've kept a lot of dogs, and they mind. If they can't have your bed, or a nice comfortable upholstered chair, or at least a pile of blankets, they can get quite resentful - and Peanut can talk. More importantly, the S...

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Well, it's always possible. Still, animals have been moving in with humans for a long time, and there doesn't seem to be much evidence for a connection with Pete yet. Oh, since you seem to have picked up the "Peanut and the Pussycats" signature banner, I'll mark that one taken. Personally,...

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Who's bickering? Statistical projection of things which don't actually matter much is an intellectual puzzle-game, just like the Dossier thread.

It's much more interesting to be wrong, and figure out where you went wrong, than it is to be right the first time.

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