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Brandon Sanderson's review in The Official Time Waster's Guide cites the comic's world design, longevity and a discomforting setting where intelligent animals are killed as strengths.

However, Sanderson also complained that Holbrook does not enforce this aspect in the main characters, saying, " While Kell, Rudy, and others make kills every day, none of the main character herbivores ever really have to worry about being stalked and killed.

When they are threatened ( such as when Lindesfarne is stalked by some cougars near the beginning of the comic's run ), the enemy predators are presented as dark, evil things to be defeated .… This sense of careless, off-handed killing gives the comic a lot of its humor — however, to maintain that air of humor, Bill never allows the society to work its everyday worst on any of the main characters.