O'Brien said that the comic "reek[s] of cool Britannia" and that the dialogue "ma[de] a pleasant change from the nonstop Americana of most comics". Also in 2006, James Eagle wrote for the British newspaper Morning Star that Scary Go Round was "brilliant", "bonkers", and "the best British strip that I've yet found". Writing for Wizard magazine in 2006, Brian Warmoth said that Scary Go Round "stitches a world of frightfully bizarre and at times even Lovecraftian happenings together with a brilliantly quirky cast indicative of his understatedly British sense of humor." Michael Whitney reviewed Scary Go Round in 2004 for the blog The Webcomics Examiner. Whitney said that compared to vector art used in Bobbins, "The paper dolls loosened up. The figures were squashed and stretched to make them feel more natural." Whitney said that Scary Go Round "decoupled" the Bobbins characters from gag humor, relationship obsession and reality: "They meander into stories full of zombies, witches and inter-dimensional doorways." Whitney added that despite the horror elements of the setting, "the characters take their circumstances too well to let us feel that they're facing a genuine threat in a horror story sense... The tone is too silly for genuinely dire consequences, which may be why Allison fielded some angry response when he killed off a popular character, Shelley, early in the strip." (Shelley would return to life in a later storyline.) Awards Scary Go Round won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Award for Outstanding Comic in 2005. It also won Outstanding Original Digital Art in 2003 and jointly won Outstanding Art in 2004 (tied with Mac Hall), and was nominated for a further 18 awards over the WCCA's history. External links (the Scary Go Round series is no longer available at this site, but instead it has links to buy PDFs of the series) References 2000s webcomics 2002 webcomic debuts British comedy webcomics Fantasy webcomics Spy comics Webcomics in print Web Cartoonists' Choice Award winners