I find it interesting when someone says not to copy such & such since I myself get immense enjoyment out of replicating, reproducing, copying (what ever you want to call it) another artists work over producing my own. Fact of the matter I copy more shit than produce original content and I love it and what's sad about it is that I sink more time into them than my own work
Just to elaborate yes you could say what I do are direct copies but they aren't without reason usually they meet a certain criteria like lack original stocks, left un-colored, done in pencil, Shit linework, shit resolution... There's just something I'm not happy with.