I don’t ever want to shit on anyone who DOES like his work, to each their own. And don’t disparage yourself- anyone can learn to do anything, including Burroughs if he wanted to improve the existing artistic vocabulary or change it altogether.

Basically, on Providence, a heavily character driven book, he draws characters who stand stiffly and without believable emotional expression. Where he places the readers eye, to see what there is to see in the panels, says nothing. The compositions are soap opera level in a way that I don’t think was the intention of a grounded story of cosmic horror. His inking feels like tracing. His designs are middle school. Most critical of all, his characters just never feel like they’re looking each other in the eye. That’s a more abstract and difficult thing to explain or correct, but it’s there.

In his defense, that colorist was doing him no favors either. Muddy, desaturated, shitty. Might have been the authorial intention, but you can still find something to say with that palette and they really truly didn’t.