Would be far superior if it had avoided the romance tropes. The most well written thing in this comic was their friendship. Yes it's development was bad and forced (they fall for each other instantly), but the two characters had genuine moments between them that you couldn't help but chuckle to. I appreciated the fact that it wasn't just 'now let us fap to two women fucking'. I really loved his approach to BDSM, it was thoughtful and sweet. Sure, I enjoyed the geeky refs and the Twilight bashing but only as a 'i see what you wanted to do there' and nothing more. The narration was forced, the characters didn't seem real, the humor just didn't do it for me. What ultimately bothered me about Sunstone wasn't the art but the writing. Those are things that annoy me but do not discourage me from enjoying his work. The point is that I was expecting all of these, because I'm a fan of Šejić. I understand that many people enjoy these traits in a comic. In one page you have sketch-like drawings with hasty lines and copy-paste bodies with a different expression drawn on and in the next you see a highly detailed realistic extravaganza. The 'sameface' problem many artists suffer from (all the characters have the same face but with a different haircut or an extra mole) and the imbalance of the quality of the art. Too many wasted panels (wasted as in not bringing anything new to the story, panels whose absence wouldn't change a thing in a page), many of them clustered with narration/exposition, way too many repetitive facial expressions (close up on someone biting their lips for the 5.672th time). That is why I tend to mostly enjoy his comics when they're written by someone else and just illustrated by Šejić. While I adore his drawing style and illustrations I'm not very fond of his pacing and page structure/layout. I've loved Šejić since before he started working full time on Witchblade and I've been a fan of his dA account for many years now.

Sunstone vol 1 6 stjepan šejić