Murder in Bologna tests

After applying the style to the base concept still, I realized it looks good on white background but in a comic it looks sort of messy and muddy.
So I thought I'd try a different style and I tested it first on the secondary characters.

There are a lot of secondary characters in Murder in Bologna, maybe because it's a murder mystery.

 Eventually when you  apply the cleaner style to the concept style the image looks less messy.
What do you think?