YMMV / Stray Dogs

• Complete Monster: The Master killed every one of the dogs' owners to get possession of them, often killing said owners by strangulation. Taking advantage of the dogs' memories, the Master keeps them in a house where he buries their previous owners; when the dogs attempt to call for help, the Master responds by taking one of them and skinning them alive. In a flashback, it's revealed that the Master had another pack of dogs in his house that he decapitated to keep as trophies on his wall. When the dogs attempt to escape, the Master pulls out a shotgun in order to kill them all.
• Fridge Sadness: The ending is already bittersweet enough, but with how only Rusty was seen in the final pages, it's also implied that he and Roxanne, which were established to be lovers, were separated when getting new owners, and due to their nature don't even remember each other.
• Narm Charm: The comic boasts a wide variety of variant covers all homaging horror movie posters. Using dogs in a cartoon style. And as shown by how these covers repeatedly sold out, it works.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Pretty much the entire comic. Despite, or maybe because of the artwork, the concept of a pack of dogs realizing their owner is a serial killer is played just as seriously as if they were all human characters. Sophie, Rusty and the others are trapped inside a fenced-in house with a man who stole them after he murdered their real owners in cold blood, then uses them to get closer to future victims. They struggle to find a way out as they're left at his mercy, and have to consciously fight to hold onto this knowledge because it's so easy for them to forget.
  • The reveal of what's in the shed. It was so bad that Sophie emerged, sobbing and hysterically pleading for the group to escape now. The Master's "punishment" turns out to be dissection, with Victor's pelt hanging from a hook, photos of dog anatomy, and power tools.
  • Earl's memories of a previous group of dogs the Master had leads up to him finding their severed and mounted heads inside the Master's closet, alongside poor Victor's.
• Sleeper Hit: It's a comic about a group of dogs who realize their owner is a serial killer and done in an art style similar to a Disney movie. And it managed to become one of the most popular comics Image has released in years, to the point every issue went through multiple reprintngs.