Although we are not clean they are disgustingly filthy. The novel portrays what Hanley calls the "real, horrible, fantastic, but disgustingly true". Short, squat, and disgustingly sinister, Slimestone enjoys wallowing in pools of boiling oil. Ciel described him as someone who was "disgustingly obsessed with status". And, above all, both were "in physical sense, disgustingly unclean in their persons and houses". He tells of his former life as an adultering, lying, disgustingly wealthy accountant. James Wood-Mason has recorded that the females have a strong and disgustingly rank musky odour. He's disgustingly virtuous&colon; a flawless fighter for good and justice, a Superman without the cape. "San Antonio-Express News" editor Susan Yerkes described Charmander as "disgustingly cute". San Antonio Express-News editor Susan Yerkes called Squirtle "disgustingly cute". The art style has been called "cute" by Wired Magazine and "disgustingly cute" by Siliconera.