The Yarn Ball
The Yarn Ball being held at the Ritz. Comic: "Night At The Ritz" (click for full size)
Info
Number of Comics
3 (aborted)
Dates Published
December 29th, 2008 - January 2nd, 2009
Featured Character(s)
Grape, Max
The Yarn Ball is the 12th arc in Housepets! .
Characters [ ]
Plot [ ]
Max introduces Grape to some of the neighborhood cats, including Joey in a cat costume.
Later the Yarn Ball is held, and Grape and Max dance together while Fiddler & Keys play music.
Grape arrives home late, having nipped a bit, and falls asleep on Peanut.
Events [ ]
Trivia [ ]
The pulled comic as well as the apology posted. (Comic title: "Making A Withdrawal")
On January 5th, 2009, the 4th comic in the arc was pulled after about 9 hours, aborting the arc early. Rick decided that catnip referencing cannabis smoking was pushing the PG rating, later posting a small comic page with an explanation and that Housepets! would be taking a break for the rest of that week. Rick says that it is to be thought of as a terrible, terrible alternate universe.
This was the first arc to be fully colored.
The songs Keys suggests in Night At The Ritz are Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera , the 1912 song Moonlight Bay , Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven and Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel .
This is one of four arcs that follows into the next year, the others being Snow Joke , Hot Springs Encore and HECKRAISER REVELATIONS .
This is the first arc to feature Joey's "catsuit", as first mentioned in Cat Tail .
Story Arcs
2008
Imaginate! | The Game | Cat Tail | The Raccoons | The Adventures of Spot | Fido's Return | Mouse Mouse Revolution | Thematic Arc of Questionable Quality | The Zoo | The Grove | Housepets Christmas | The Yarn Ball |
2009
The Further Adventures of Spot | The Vet | A Mouse Named Spo | Zap! | Fall of the Pridelands | The Continuing Adventures of Spot | A Sinister Shadow | Roadtrip Woo | Down At The Farm | Money Sharks | n-ple Date | The Uncanny Adventures of Spot | The Visitor | Oops I Arced | It's A Wonderful Dog's Life (All the King's Men ) |
2010
Ocean's Two | Imaginate, Too! | The Present | Spot McCloud Presents: Comics | Dog Days of Summer | Theme Park World | The Adventures of Stripe | Movie Night | Scaredy Cats | Noob Tube | Hope of the Pridelands |
2011
We're Snowed In! | The Preeminent Adventures of Spot | The Arc Specifically About Being Naked | Not All Dogs | The Great Water Balloon War | Let's Imaginate Macbeth! | The Interview | The Case of the Aztec Gold | A Respite In The Country | Spots and Stripes | A Holiday at the Zoo |
2012
Housepets Babies! | Show Business | What Money Buys | The Mall | The Critical Review of Spot | The Trial in Heaven | Let's Imaginate Guys and Dolls! | Testing Grounds | Taking Cover | PsyCon | Getting Physical | PsyCon2: PsyConner | The Retroactively Continuous Adventures of Spot | Temple Crashers | All Hallow's Ween | The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Dog |
2013
One Cat's Treasure | Love And War | Jack of One Trade | The King And I | Mice to Meet You | THE GALLIFRAX PROTOCOL | Jungle Fever | Yes, Jessica, There Is An Opener Of Ways |
2014
Let's Imaginate And Then There Were None! | What's The Story? | Tiger's Very Own Super Special Television Show! | Heaven's Not Enough, Part 1 | The Interlude of Spot | Heaven's Not Enough, Part 2 | The Ineptitude of Spot | Heaven's Not Enough, Part 3 | I Need A Vacation All Hallow's Ween: Resurrection | Rabbit's Foot | Pageantate! |
2015
Maternal Instinct | Wolf's Clothing | Ea(s)ter | The Future of Tomorrow, Today! | All's Fair, Part 1 | The Plot Against Spot | All's Fair, Part 2 | Housepets 5000 BC, Part 1 | Housepets 5000 BC, Part 2 | Housepets 5000 BC, Part 3 | Special Delivery |
2016
The Spot-tacular Spot | Flip That Den! | Fort Pillow | The 4 Animals You Meet In Heaven | Puppy Power | Real Stories of the K9PD | Snow Joke |
2017
Save the Date, Part 1 | Save the Date, Part 2 | Temple Crashers 2: Temple Crashers, Part 1 | Temple Crashers 2: Temple Crashers, Part 2 |Temple Crashers 2: 2 Temple 2 Crashers (Part 3) | Temple Crashers 2: Temple Crasherser (Part 4) | Temple Crashers 2: Temple Crash (Part 5) | Temple Crashers 2: First Blood Part 6 |
2018
Temple Crashers 2: Oops (Part 7) | Temple Crashers 2: Final Crashers (Part 8) |Temple Crashers 2: Epilogue Crashers (Part 9) | Call o' th' Wild |Directed To Video | The Hot Springs Episode | Hot Springs Encore |
2019
The Maxwell Thing | Hearts and Minds | No Time For Hot Springs! | My Life As A Teenage Squirrel | My Life As A Teenage Squirrel, Part 2 | My Life As A Teenage Squirrel, Part 3 | My Life As A Teenage Squirrel, Part 4 | My Life As A Teenage Squirrel, Part 5 |
2020
Be Mine | The Identity Of Spot | Let's Imaginate Jurassic Park! Part 1 | Let's Imaginate Jurassic Park! Part 2 | Spo's Return | HECKRAISER, Part 1 | Heavendropper |
2021-2022
HECKRAISER, Part 2 | HECKRAISER, Part 3 | HECKRAISER, Part 4 | HECKRAISER REVELATIONS |