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Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 3:21 am
by valerio
TigerStryk wrote:Ha! You're talking to the king of quitting housepets. I started spending less and less time on it. Then just lost completely. I just got back actually. I feel loke the old guy visiting his alma mater after many years. "I dont remember this or that, and when did that get there???" Now that im thinking about it, I should get around to changing my avi.
You know how the saying goes: "The last comic is always the best one."

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 6:37 pm
by LionWolfHybrid
I only stop when the guests comics start to rise again...then I go back to reading the comic.
I just dont know why :|

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 6:41 pm
by Tatsuo
LionWolfHybrid wrote:I only stop when the guests comics start to rise again...then I go back to reading the comic.
I just dont know why :|


Aww "sad face"

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:06 pm
by Sleet
Maybe 'cause you just don't really like guest comics?

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:23 am
by valerio
LionWolfHybrid wrote:I only stop when the guests comics start to rise again...then I go back to reading the comic.
I just dont know why :|
That...that is...
Aw! :(

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 12:39 pm
by Azsassin
Nope, so far I'm up to date :D

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 10:03 pm
by Zavryn
I've actually never accidentally stopped reading Housepets yet. (It's possible it will happen but honestly I don't think it will!) I've been caught up for at least 6 months now, but I'm always eagerly waiting a new update. ^^

I have done this with other webcomics, though. I'll be all like "OH YEAH, THAT'S A THING!" Hehe. Clearly this is my favoritest comic ever.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:51 pm
by Laxan
Yup, for... *counts* two-three years... *shakes fist at university* I had a lot of catching up to do. xD

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 12:45 am
by Sleet
But what pleasant catching up it was?

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:46 am
by Laxan
If you mean spending pretty much 2 days curled up with a massive bowl of popcorn and drinking beer reading a rather enjoyable comic?... HELLS YES IT WAS.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 12:23 pm
by Sleet
Was it good popcorn? :P

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:10 am
by valerio
Sleet wrote:Was it good popcorn? :P
when you read HOUSEPETS! all popcorn tastes great 8-)

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:52 am
by RainbowDragon
Yes, I stopped reading it. After I got through the whole archive there is noting left to read :cry:

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 10:33 pm
by Shadowstar23
I will only stop reading it so that the storyline can build up. :ugeek:

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 8:34 pm
by exranio
I accidentally stopped for about a year and when I came back it was the exact arc picking up from the plot hook of where I stopped. So I still have amazing timing.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:14 am
by NHWestoN
Not since I started.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:16 am
by Vertigo Fox
Not so far, but I've only been at it for a few months.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:34 am
by OdedZeituni98
I kinda forgot about that comic after a few months, but I remembered somehow

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 5:24 pm
by Nathan Kerbonaut
Ever since I started in early January, the longest I've forgotten to read a new strip is one day. Every upload is a weekly highlight :)

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 5:37 pm
by Cesco
Never stopped to read the comic since my discover of it, in August 2013. ;)

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:36 pm
by Zesortinge
As I don't think a week break can be considered, a few times, mainly over summer. My interest jumps, as I did search for the comic that was supposed to be next before the site came back up.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 10:32 am
by Therolyn
I try not to miss it, its basically the only webcomic I really enjoy reading/looking at greatly thats basically prompt in its new pages. Most of the others I view are quite unreliable in their timing of updates.

There's once or twice where travel has made me have to miss a few but usually its no more than a weeks worth of updates.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 3:44 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Nope I have never stopped reading the comic at all either by accident or on purpose. Its like I'm addicted. Even when I am on vacation I make sure to read the comic which is the only part of my routine that I do. :)

Of course, it probably helps that I have the comic pinned to my "Top Sites" screen on Safari.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:50 pm
by Vertigo Fox
It always amuses me that Apple's browser is called Safari, 'cause if you found an apple on safari you'd avoid it like it's the plague. Which it probably actually is.
(And if you found anything that could be metaphored as a "safari" on your apple, you wouldn't be in much hurry to eat that either)
So it really makes it seem like Apple doesn't want people to eat their laptops and what was I talking about again?

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 9:01 am
by NHWestoN
Nope.
That said, there have been some arcs I've enjoyed less than others (including a couple I found just INTERMINABLE!). Some themes get a little repetitive and certain characters tiresome at times. But if you are in one of those situations where you can't get into the story, you can savor Rick's wonderful art. And then, wait a couple of days and - WOW! - another strip, another joke, and more great art.

Do people who stop reading the strip know this thread exists? I so hate starting Thursdays with a conundrum.
Drums give me headaches sometimes, too.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 4:44 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
I'm sure that they do now since it is back on the first page.

To add a contributing post to this topic, I haven't ever found an arc that I disliked so much that I skipped it. I was annoyed when Rick made Kevin and Sasha OTP but I just shifted my focus to Fox instead who took it a lot worse than I did.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:45 am
by CuriousCnidarian
I'll add to this thread. Like with most things, my interest waxes and wanes. I'll usually quit following for months at a time as my interest drifts, but I come back.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 3:03 pm
by NHWestoN
Amazee Dayzee wrote: Thu Nov 12, 2020 4:44 pm I'm sure that they do now since it is back on the first page.

To add a contributing post to this topic, I haven't ever found an arc that I disliked so much that I skipped it. I was annoyed when Rick made Kevin and Sasha OTP but I just shifted my focus to Fox instead who took it a lot worse than I did.
Yeah, I just tell myself it's Rick's world and I should try to be a good guest. Sometimes, though, I don't succeed very well. ;)

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 3:37 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
I'm sure you took it better than Fox finding out that Sasha and Kevin were not going to break up anytime soon (and better than me. :mrgreen: )

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 7:47 am
by NHWestoN
Once I started, only after it stopped.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 2:36 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Don't you just hate it when that happens? You start something then it stops on you. :lol:

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2024 11:42 pm
by DogeyOverThere
I started reading in September 2020, (from Start to the most recent) then stopped on that hiatus. I think i only read pages when i was feeling really down, until December 2023 and i felt like i missed out so badly that i reread from Temple Crashers 2 to the most recent page.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:42 am
by Amazee Dayzee
Good news about the hiatus is that now anybody that stopped can play catch-up with the comic! I do look forward to the comic resuming though I am losing hope as its been 2 months into the New Year already. :cry:

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:11 am
by NHWestoN
I review the forum pretty much daily and try to keep up on birthdays. I have several little routines to structure my day, something I need as a retired geezer without a job-like commitment. I haven't gone over to Discord or Twi-ttarr (now X for now) simply because I don't want to get too deep into the internet world.

I admit, by the end, Housepets! was starting to lose some of its charm for me. I've never been a fan of Marvel-ish stuff or "the Dome" sort of extraterrestrial meddling drama, which was basically where the last saga seemed fixated. Most of the newer characters I found unappealing and some old friends were becoming tiresome, overwrought, and their story lines repetitive and turgid. So, overall, taking a long hiatus struck me as a good idea for Rick who seemed to be losing interest in the whole Houspets universe and drained from the demands of producing strips every week.

A& H Club is also apparently in slumber as well, for what that's worth, and I don't know how his other projects are going.

But ... I never stopped reading Housepets! and look forward to its return.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 4:19 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
You saying that A&H, Rick's other work, is also on hiatus sort of makes me feel like Rick might be losing interest in comics in general since I thought he really liked that one more than Housepets! In any case, I am pretty sure A&H will come back before Housepets! does.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:36 pm
by NHWestoN
Amazee Dayzee wrote: Sun Feb 04, 2024 4:19 pm You saying that A&H, Rick's other work, is also on hiatus sort of makes me feel like Rick might be losing interest in comics in general since I thought he really liked that one more than Housepets! In any case, I am pretty sure A&H will come back before Housepets! does.
Really? That's an interesting theory, Amazz. Let's see wha'happens.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:05 pm
by D-Rock
if I remember from the Patreon discord correctly, seems a lot of his current energy is on getting a new book for one of his other settings possibly published.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:50 pm
by DogeyOverThere
Amazee Dayzee wrote: Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:42 am Good news about the hiatus is that now anybody that stopped can play catch-up with the comic! I do look forward to the comic resuming though I am losing hope as its been 2 months into the New Year already. :cry:
Good for that, I managed to convince a long term friend to give it read, she asked me where to start, and I said at the start, so she's going to need some time to catch up. :lol: As for hoping for a return, well, I'm always going to stay optimistic, though, I think for it's run, Housepets! could end for a while without disappointing people too much for too long, especially once more people become aware of Rick's other comics.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:41 am
by Amazee Dayzee
Hey I managed to read the whole comic in just a few days when I first discovered it.

Granted I discovered it in 2014 so it was only running for 5 years.

Re: Have You Ever Stopped Reading Housepets (Accident?)

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:34 am
by DogeyOverThere
Dogey6565 wrote: Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:50 pm Good for that, I managed to convince a long term friend to give it read, she asked me where to start, and I said at the start, so she's going to need some time to catch up...
Update: She likes it a lot, think's it's very funny