A great style :)

hope you release it online - the style looks superb

I really like the blood spatters. Great expression as well, and I like the postwork.

Very strong design, B&W with little bits of red is always very dramatic. Looks like a hint of a smile on his face, is he a 'kind' gangster?

Fantastic creation. Great work.

I wouldn't say he's 'kind', but he certainly does enjoy his job :).

Cool image

Perfect style. Maybe the postwork is a bit excessive, as it's hard to distinguish the details in his expression (maybe that's why ArtPearl saw a smile there).

Cool character :) I suggest you either go all halftone, or all smooth shades, or if you mix them, make the halftones as distinct from the smooth shades as possible; they don't mix all that well imo and they don't really reflect what a paper artist would produce. You might try running each filter separately, and with pretty aggressive settings, and then try compositing them together. Typically in hand-drawn comic art you see some amount of ink wash (the smooth shades) with some amount of halftones cut from sheets of halftone gradient overlaid on top. In the real world, halftone dots do not bleed. Although I suppose I am a little old fashioned, and today's digital process make these techniques obsolete. Here is a tutorial that details another approach to adding halftone "cutout pieces" to an image via Photoshop that you might want to check out; the English is a bit difficult but the screens provided are very clear. There isn't anything really bad about the look you already have, but if you are going for a "raw" newsprint look, this is something to check out.

Really fantastic and useful advice pjz99! What I really SHOULD have done before attempting this kind of post work was to actually look at an old comic. This was all done from expermination and memory. Not the most effective means :). You've really given me some food for though - Thank you!

Very impressive. I like his stare a lot, as well as the style.

Interesting! DPH