- Harsher in Hindsight: The famous "This Is Fine"
strip can be harder to find funny after reading its sequel, especially since it was made in response to the plethora of depressing events that happened in 2016. - Heartwarming Moments: The crab saga, and the end of the Ghost Ship.
- Memetic Mutation:
- "DARE YOU ENTER MY MAGICAL REALM?" has become tabletop shorthand for fetishistic GMs and, more generally, for when the more fetishistic areas of Author Appeal run a little too rampant.
- A more mainstream example: the first two panels of "On Fire", in which Question Hound tries to assure himself that everything is fine while everything burns around him. These panels took off as a popular reaction meme, used to convey self-denial or acceptance in the face of a hopeless situation. It also spawned at least one Fix Fic in which Question Hound realizes his error◊ and puts out the fire before it burns his entire house down and kills him.
- "I GUESS!" Explanation
- "Quit gettin' mad at video games." from Cool Frog and Dolphin is occasionally used as a reply to video game fans getting irrationally mad over something.
- "DARE YOU ENTER MY MAGICAL REALM?"
- Signature Scene: "This is fine."
- Tear Jerker:
- Occasionally, though "The Dog's Sins" stands out.
- And "On Fire"'s own sequel comic, "This is Not Fine". It may have been interesting to see Question Hound finally start discovering the elephant in the room, but in the wake of some of the more depressing news of 2016, it's way more than poignant.
- Occasionally, though "The Dog's Sins
