 On August 31, 2014, Matt Melvin announced that he was no longer part of Cyanide and Happiness.John Hargrave of zug.com said that "Despite all this solo effort, the end product is coherent and strangely logical, as if the four creators were each viewing the peculiar world of C&H from a slightly different angle -- a world in which disembodied heads turn into seagulls, and Jesus is a designated driver.