"[3] The British comics website DownTheTubes.net praised the "hard-hitting" series for its "gritty storytelling that might appeal to fans of Charley's War and Battle Picture Weekly.

"[4] Comic Book Resources wrote that, "Even today, Vietnam Journal is one of the most gritty and brutally honest war stories ever published.

"[5] Vietnam Journal collections published by iBooks, and edited by Hilary Hughes and Dwight Jon Zimmerman, were nominated for a 2004 Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project.

The entire Vietnam Journal series was re-published in graphic novel form through Transfuzion Publishing in 2011[4] (and later republished by Caliber Comics in 2017–2019).

Vietnam Journal: Series Two, featuring all-new material by Lomax, was published for 15 issues by Caliber Comics starting in 2017.