The King still needs to choose a Queen, after all.

I'm glad it didn't end there. I'm glad that King didn't change back. I'm glad that the Griffin remain benevolent. I'm glad that Sasha had a moment of peace. In fact, I cheered that King wasn't going to be changed back. It would've been a travesty. [sp]Yes, he was a thief posing as a PETA agent. Yes, he deserved that bite in the buns by ...ugh.. I forget... Fox?[/sp] You know what though. I started to love the character that King was changing into. I thought that for two episodes in December, that I was going to have to find a way to break the 4th wall and kick his @$$ along with the WRITERS of Housepets because he spontaneously decides that his friendships are worth a hill of beans compared to the opportunity to be changed back?! And what life would he go back to? Hmm? Tell me how wonderful it was being a thief that steals dogs for ransom money and I'll give you a thousand reasons why that's wrong! WRITERS.... The logic... how did those moments of carelessness in King ever spawn. I felt bad that it was even put in the comic. ... but I would've had to do a lot of research to break the 4th wall to kick the appropriate butts... so everyone is safe.

Good for King. The goof didn't need to act on his moment(s) of stupidity!

People can change some times, sure but we never 'really' change all that much. We're still human (even when we're not). I think the thing anyone reading anything has to keep in mind is that there is 'no' set 'way' to tell a story, because there is no set 'way' that life works. Life is unfair. Sometimes stories go unresolved, sometimes people change in ways you wish they wouldn't and there's nothing you can do about it. Sometimes people go back to being the way they used to be because that's who they were meant to be all along.

Don't blame the writer just because they're being honest and true to their muse and characters. Shout at the stars if you feel the need to, blame the universe, it doesn't change the fact that being an adult is about learning to deal with and accept the things we can do nothing about.

So King is really that flaky?

Who isn't flakey? Life is drama lol everyone flakes at some point. We live in a crazy universe.

There sure wasn't enough clues to consider that King lost his memory of his human experiences.. his unfortunate human existence.

Edit.
Had to talk to some one, but I understand what you're getting at now.- That in either life, King could reconcile for his actions... whether that be after five years in prison or his current life as a dog.

that bird needs to growwww

I had never read housepets before I saw this little series on here, this past weekend I went from the very beginning to now. I think King may be my favorite character, but that could also be the corgi obsession talking.

This compared to the recent threat of turning king human made at the end of the wedding arc shows how far king has come and how much he has changed.

oh man,he is sooo fucking asshole.
by the way,maybe i would make some vore scene?

This isn't a fetish comic

Ok, who needs their temperature checked? (SNAP)

I love how Pete looks in this comic, looks more empathetic than ever.

That gryphon likes to play around with King quite a lot. I wonder what kind of scheme he has in plans for that puppy. :V

You know what my problem with a bad ending is in this case?

In one fell swoop, that so called "teacher" just taught his student that there really IS nothing good in the world, and he did it by dangling the one thing he wanted in front of his face, then snatching it away. I know the concept is that "but in later days, he learns to be happy" but... what else is there he could do? Nothing except kill himself in some manner.

Imagine you got snatched out of your current life, put in chains and made to clean the gutters of some out of the way town by eating the trash there, being dragged face down in the gutters. They give you the impression that if you do it, they'll eventually free you, and they tell you that if you don't do it, they'll just drag you to death, then leave your corpse there for the *next* person they force to do this to eat.

You do it because you hope for it to all end and don't want to force someone else to have to go through it (you also don't want to be dragged to death). And when the gutters are clean, they tell you you did a good job, and a noble thing, stopping them from capturing someone else and forcing them to do what you had been.

And then when you ask hopefully if you can go home, they just kinda laugh at you and say, "What? The streets will be dirty again in a few days."

I don't know what he did that would require his entire life to be taken away, and his "sunshine" to be permanently stolen from him, but who is this other person to do such evil to another person... when the reason he's claiming he's doing it is to teach someone a lesson? Doing evil to someone in response to an evil is wrong. If what King had done was that wrong, just kill him and be done with it. Torture is *not* educational. Loss is one thing; theft is another.

Agreed.

The words most applicable to King back in the day were "immediate moral reconciliation.' Beyond that was a benevolent, arbitrary, cosmic griffin playing a game... ever seen Star Trek Next Gen episode-"Q" ? Same thing. He sends them on a voyage and the relief is not what the crew thought it would be. But that episode/case is much worse than King's. It's not torture when you have friends where you had none previously. I'm starting to believe that it's the Griffin, dangling the possibility of being human again simply to be human that gets King distracted from the great things he already has.
Just speculating here... but a fake PETA guy like King used to be wouldn't last long in a jail full of guys named 'Bubba.' So I think it a merciful act as well.

I understand completely what you're saying, save that in the end it doesn't really apply to King, since Pete isn't trying to teach him a lesson. Rick's posting of King's story will explain that eventually, but really Pete doesn't give a damn about King. King/Joel just happened to be a pawn in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"Nothing except kill himself in some manner" at this point of the comic that looks like one of the more valid options for king. life in the gutter with no escape or end it now. pretty simple.

Pete's still a jerk. Thanks for the reminder.

I love going back and reading King's story. Reminds me greatly of how he;s my favourite character.

Oh, and Pete's still a jerk.

Everybody is saying that Pete is a jerk... and I agree! But, did I just glance at some sort of benevolence here? It's hard to explain given how forceful all this cosmic shenanigans are but it could be well that behind this so called villain there is a hero (in his own way).

how come he snap and become some kind of sinister person after this page?

i see you also post on fa