[3][4][5] Material from Diesel Sweeties appears in Ted Rall's Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists, along with other webcomics such as Cat and Girl, Dinosaur Comics, Boy on a Stick and Slither, Fetus-X, and The Perry Bible Fellowship.

Stephens is one of the few professional webcomic artists, who has since 2002 supported himself through online sales of merchandise related to his comics.

Stevens cited exhaustion from doing a dozen strips per week, as well as the fact that the majority of his income remained tied to the website.

In 2005 Stevens abandoned this traditional form and began consistently publishing strips with more panels in slightly more varied configurations.

The comic depicts a world where robots exist alongside humans, with human-robot romantic and sexual relationships commonplace.