[3] According to website TheMusic.com.au, Shen was "an infamous name among certain cyber circles, having cut his trolling teeth upon the unsuspecting user-base of British indie game developer Facepunch’s forums".

[6] Shen said in a 2019 interview that he was primarily inspired to make comics by a webcomic artist named Ronnie Filyaw, the creator of Whomp!

[6] In an interview with Bustle magazine, Shen said that a lot of his comics are inspired by personal experiences, and that he will try to identify "a glimpse of humor" from stressful or bad days.

[15] Writing for The Beat in 2017, Heidi MacDonald said of Owl Turd and Bluechair that "Shen’s subjects are the usual: internet memes, self-doubt, cats.

[10] Website TheMusic.com.au included Owl Turd Comix in a list of "10 Webcomics to Add to Your Week" in 2013, calling it "darkly tinged, brutally honest and skeweringly sharp".

[4] The Bangladesh newspaper The Daily Star said in 2017 that Owl Turd Comix "drops truth bombs", "is witty and absurd", and said, "Reading it, you will be amazed at how Shen effortlessly articulates his unique experiences and inner realisations hilariously in just a few panels.

She said of the art, "Shen’s lines are nice, full of motion, well reduced cartooning, made with a pleasing, uneven digital brush" and said that the visuals have developed a long way since it started.

Napier compared Bluechair to "a 2000s strip-based man-on-sofa webcomic" but said that it apparently has a "total lack of bad will towards anyone... the character Shen never seems like a dreadful wanker.

This is because Shen infuses his avatar’s apparent sense of self-ignorance, or lack of definition, with a basic acceptance that feels like it’s there because the creator has a code of ethics...

There are Bluechair jokes about his incompatibility with various symbols of trad or aggressive masculinity, but they always swerve away from 'and that means I’m bad, which makes me good because I know it, heheh, give me my man trophy anyway' to the implication of a big shrug."