Well. It's just his style. He uses a pretty generic style to draw his characters. To me, this limits the amount of emotional information they convey. Also they rarely seem dynamic.
This recent strip has a character running in the first panel (im shit at names). Yes, he has the eyes done the proper way, yes, he has the body correctly proportioned etc BUT it doesnt seem to have any actual action in it.
He also uses generic managa style vacial features for emotions. I find that these comunicate the intention just fine, but aren't actually as emotionally involving as some other artists styles.
If you take the image in the Banner at the top of this page. It has sarine (?) in a pose. She looks ready to strike, you can see the tension in her body and it looks like she is actually about to move.
Thats the difference in style im talking about.
I think that Piro's style could be mimiced easily by just folowing text boks on how to draw manga. Poe's style is more personalised and actually shows originality in how it has developed.
Similarly sinfest and ozy and millie have their own styles and get you more involved directly from the image, without need for backround info.
As you can see, im not good at explaining my thoughts in text. That is why i stuck with "it lacks feeling".
BLM
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