* ArcFatigue: For nearly half the comic Hansel, Bo, Brave and the others fight against Licorice's forces. Reading it now probably doesn't seem bad but at the time the comic took a lot of hiatus. To clarify the fight started around 2008, took ''four years'' to get through it (finally ending in 2012) and the characters never moved from the area when it first started neither.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Gene. Even reviewers who lambasted the series were willing to admit that they liked him and wished he had more focus. When the comic continued, they got their wish.
%% ** A kinda sorta example, Brave.
%% * ToyShip: Hansel and Bo again.