The Great Housepets! Re-Read Caper: Part 2

Last time on: The Great Housepets! Re-Read: Various housepets (who mostly walk on two legs and have thumbs) are introduced and hijinx ensue. Some ferrets inherit a bunch of money. 

Disclaimer: This is not meant as a comprehensive recap of Housepets! as a whole. This is more for light entertainment purposes as I re-read the comic and point out who I think is cute. For further context, I’d recommend going over to read Housepets! (http://www.housepetscomic.com/) or perhaps the Housepets! Wiki (https://housepetscomic.fandom.com/wiki/Housepets!_Wiki)

The Great Housepets! Re-Read Caper: Part 1

Presenting Geo, who is going to be digging through Housepets! (I promised him shiny stuff if he did.)

Housepets! (http://www.housepetscomic.com/) by Rick Griffin has been the one webcomic that I’ve managed to stick with after all the other webcomics have been forgotten in a dusty corner of my bookmarks folder, never to be seen again. Housepets! keeps pulling me back in with its giant cast of animal characters and plots that range from slice-of-life one-shots to arcs that end up [redacted] a [redacted] to [redacted].

It’s also been a looooong time since I’ve gave the comic a proper re-read. Which is why I’m starting this: The Great Housepets! Re-Read Caper. Gonna go through the webcomic, arc by arc, give a quick recap and some brief thoughts on each.

This is not intended to be a comprehensive recap to the Housepets! webcomic and won’t usually include one-shot strips. This is more a personal journey back through the comic and is by no means meant as anything official/serious/accredited. For further context, I’d recommend going over to read Housepets! (http://www.housepetscomic.com/) or perhaps the Housepets! Wiki (https://housepetscomic.fandom.com/wiki/Housepets!_Wiki)

Blam!

“Blam! Murdered you!”

This one panel makes me froth in anger

With this line, I knew that Rocket was not the character I had grown to love. Rocket had been striped of his intelligence and cleverness, his depth and humor, and he’d become some sort of monster. Any character that Rocket had had been replaced with a label “raccoon with guns” and that was the only trait that mattered anymore. For some reason, the fact that Rocket happened to be a raccoon that welded guns destroyed everything else that Rocket had been and he’d been turned into an unlikable psychopath.