- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The side stories featuring or connected to Babylon Jones, an earlier comic that Poe started work on, but never came to fruition. Only a few strips have any bearing on the main story.
- Harsher in Hindsight: All the Suspiciously Specific Denial jokes about how the things related to Babylon Jones totally weren't going to be important become this as a result of everything about Jones being abandoned after the comic finished.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- At the start of Act Two, Ralph is convinced there was something romantic between Jordan and Jones earlier. As proof, he cites Jordan being a fan of Avalon's Phoebenote as proof of Jordan having homosexual tendencies. Doubly hilarious in that only did Jordan turn out to be bisexual later, Phoebe would later turn out to be attracted to girls after all.
- One early strip featured a Take That! at Amazon, with a fake plug saying "We'll turn a profit soon, honest!" Less than twenty years later and Amazon is the king of online shopping, with it's founder being literally the richest person on Earth.
- Moral Event Horizon: If Hooper didn't cross it by killing Jordan's parents and inadvertently causing the loss of her arm, then his killing Bush solidified it.
- Nausea Fuel: ...Yup.
- Seasonal Rot: The later half of Act 3. While the first half has some solid backstory and a bit of development of Bush and Jordan as well as setting up some possible threads for Bimbo and Ralph, the latter half is an extended cliche tentacle monster/magical girl parody connected more to the ultimately unused Babylon Jones while Bimbo and Ralph mostly just complain about their lack of panel time. It does have its humor, but in terms of plot progression, nothing of importance happens. Act 4's focus on giving the comic a conclusion helped move it out of this.
- Squick: Too... many... fluid jokes!!!
- Tear Jerker: Last few pages.
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