On SPPF it had waayyy more positive replies than yours.
Here's the thing, when you make your OWN sprites from scratch, you can afford to not always give them a clear expression, when you use offical sprites which have the expressions anyway, you have NO excuse.
Incase you are actually stupider than what i gave you credit for, the backgrounds are in the same style as thr sprites themselves, a style that I DELIBERATELY made flexible for the comic.
I stopped making sprite comics, that;s probably why it hasn't being updated.