OMG noooooo!

*sniffle* Awww....

So much face hiding in one page.

If this were Loony tune, this is the part where she'd hang her head, hunch her back and a picture of a shoe heel would superimpose itself on her.

and then she would open the door to find her roo friend standing expectantly just outside to be let back in, and that heel would be quickly replaced with a sucker.

Omg, go after her! >.<

Oh, I know, Rick. Do I EVER know...

Welcome to my world from over the past 20 years.

good job H, you made her cry

Someone shut that kid up! He's been crying for 3 pages now! ;p
Hehe awesome work , and you're right about comics, I can't even imagine how long the process is from planning to layout to drawing etc. but bravo, cause you pull it off so well

I'm sure it's been answered somewhere else, but... why does no one wear pants?

Pantless world, deal with it lol

Gals with no pants, and a nice set of girls...

I want casual dress world!!


Apologies, but... hey, I'm a guy! It's my job!

Why do you always seem to focus on the Drama / melancholy?

Sometimes theses are the stories that just need to be told.

He has a much lighter comic, if this is too "down" for you,

It's not so much that it's "Too down" for me, as...it fits the "formula" i see this theme a LOT

Because it's part of a genre?

oh good heavens no... that would be a real lame excuse for a writer, just because you have a genre..does not mean you HAVE to do the same plot device, for example, she could have just as easily called her back..as let her walk out (though the formula would say she's going to do that one way or another sooner or later anways)

Perhaps the reason is this is simply the way the story goes. Instead of complaining about it or questioning it in what seems to be a disapproving "I would have done it differently" sort of way, you can wait to see where this is going instead of making a fuss, or as someone else suggested, stop following it as it's not living up to your expectations.

Perhaps I'm reading more into your comments than is actually there, but this is the feeling that I'm getting. You don't like the way the story is going, and more than simply wanting to know why it's going that way, you feel it should have been done differently. While there's nothing wrong with feeling that way, the author and artist is the one who should and does have the final say. All we as watchers can do is voice opinions, suggest things... and watch.

Right there in the feels, man.

Making comics is difficult you say? No sh*t!?! Seriously if they were easy everyone could do it and pump out 5 per week. With what you do on Housepets and this one it is a wonder you have time for anything else.

Thanks for sharing!

First, like "House Pets," I am LOVING this story line.


And, isn't it amazing (and scary) how our offspring can sense when we're upset - and BAWL unstoppably?

I feel sorry for Adrian At least her little one is not doing this on an airliner.



As for comic production... heck I've been trying to do that myself (as a newbie in that area). I think I'm now beginning to understand!

yup i tred for a weekly think and only got 9 pages who quellitty id childish XC>

god damit i need to bloody chack my stuff when im on my phone. what I ment to type was this. " yup i treid for a weekly comic and only got to like 9 pages whose quality was childish XC>

Nuuuuuuuu! ;-;

This is intense and emotional. Excellent work.

It has to be to make great comic pages like this.

:(

i dunno >.> im not super amazing at sociabe stuff but ;o
it seems super rude from the kangaroo to just leave the place afterwards and guilt tripping the wolf ._.
she did came and caused all the riot after all >.>
also: holyshit how did she clean the whole place so super fast before leaving 0,o
XD dont get me wrong tho, liking the comic so far~ doing a great job :'D
9/10 would read again

Well, she got invited. She turned up at a bad time, and the trashing of the living room was an accident; her son did it while she was moving things.

She was made to feel like she shouldn't have turned up from the beginning, and in the simple act of trying to settle in, her son made her get treated that way again. She was already coming from a position of being under a LOT of stress. People break down in those times, and she did right there.

I would have probably reacted the same, honestly. "All I do is cause other people trouble, even when they're trying to help me. I should just get out of their way and deal with things on my own." I would clean up as best I could, take my things and quietly remove myself from being a problem... if only to reduce the amount of stress I was feeling.

As for how she cleaned it all so fast? Doesn't she seem familiar with how much of a mess her son creates? x3 Also, those frames may be sort of time lapsed, to show how she quickly and quietly cleaned up and left.

Quick!Nail the door shut so she cant come back in when she remembers that she was here to bum free lodgings off of you a week earlier than expected!(Ive experienced something similar to this before so im less sympathetic than i should be about her plight n.n; ).Excellent story I have to admit =)

It's often easy to feel less when you're in a position of being comfortable and settled, and someone who needs your help asks you for things.

My middle brother was treating me like garbage for a time because he was doing exceptionally well in life, while I was struggling. It wasn't even a matter of me asking for help; he felt free to critisize my life and everything I was doing because it wasn't putting me on the same level as he was.

Now that he's been out of work for a while, he's become a lot quieter, and is, if not feeling what I felt, not feeling so high on his pedestal as he used to.

My personal thought is if you have a *true* friend and see them in trouble and refuse to help them or only do it very grudgingly, you should reconsider what having a friend is at all. If you can then hold the person accepting the help you offered against them that's... pretty damn harsh, even if they do come a little early.

sad yes but the Big Mouth is funny!

Ali needs so many hugs.

omg, the feels… TvT

heartbreaking...

/heartbreaks

There's so much awesome to be said about this page. Mostly about the emotions and hiding the faces to show what literally >isn't< shown. The second thing that I find almost as awesome is PERSPECTIVE YAY and all those well constructed lines that make the apartment look just... right!

Thank you for sharing this story and helping to inspire myself and others with our own comic work and ideas. I will take the lessons to heart :)

Wolf season opens today. >:C

In re your question: Yes, I know, I've done it myself. You have to work on so many different levels; For example, editing your own scripting, then figuring out the most effective layouts for your pages (how many panels per page, and do you stay on the grid like you've been doing, or do you go off it like Will Eisner did in The Spirit and his graphic novels); Making sure that the staging in the panels works, along with the acting your characters are doing, that is, are they really honestly expressive and in character (Too many cartoonists suffer from what I call The Neal Adams Syndrome- A cartoonist with a great drawing style, but the acting his drawn people did consisted of mouth open, mouth shut, blank expressions, and melodramatic scowling. You don't do that, though). Then there's continuity- Making sure your backgrounds stay consistent from panel to panel, like you've been doing with Hilde's apartment. Its darn tough work, and you can't be conflicted about what you're doing: You can't be too humble or too egotistical about your work. You have to have honest faith in your abilities and Hemingway's shock-proof S--t Detector to make sure you're not getting too self-indulgent or lazy or full of yourself. Yep, it a hard complicated job to create A & H Club- But the results are really worth it. Kudos to you, Rick.

Onmgmgggg CANT LEAVE OFF ON THAT NOTE DANGIT X'S my feeeelllllss aarruuughhhh~ <3

the little kangaroo :(

OW

Nice dimensions here!