Yes, it's worth your time and suits what you're trying to do. Reading the short story from that link, it has a pulp noir mood. Art styles that might interest you are explored in Bill Watterson's Tracer Bullet persona from Calvin and Hobbes and the much longer graphic novel AKA Goldfish by Brian Michael Bendis.
Black and white comics would do very well with a high contrast chiaroscuro style to build the mood.
Scat plants. Thank god we can't hear them speak. Who knows what they have to say.