on first look at the spread, it's great
but then I was reminded of how you told me before that the reason why you like Oda's spread is because every character on it has a purpose in the picture (and not just standing there posing and looking cool COUGHCOUGH bleach)
so I took a long and hard look at your spread again and asked myself this question: "will I be able to tell what each character is doing in the spread?"
and this is what I came up:
zoro: dancing flamboyantly (fair enough)
luffy: looking at zoro
chopper: looking at zoro
brook: digging a grave for himself while looking at zoro
ussop: looking at zoro
franky: possibly looking zoro while possibly hauling the pumpkin cart (possibly? honestly, that whole area wasn't represented particularly well, so I can only barely guess what is happening over at that section)
nami: spying at zoro but annoyed by sanji
sanji: obviously not looking at zoro but at nami instead
robin: brushing her teeth and not looking at zoro (with possible reference to colorwalk vol 2)
now…I wonder if there's a pattern to this...HMMMM, oh right
THEY ALL SEEM TO BE DOING THE SAME NOT-SO-INTERESTNG THING OF LOOKING-AT-ZORO
and why must you fit all the mugiwara into the picture if they're all doing the same thing? (other than appealing to the fans)
couldn't just a few of'em be looking at zoro and the rest be doing something more spectacular and interesting?
and while robin seems to be the only one aside from zoro who's doing something differently, (brushing her teeth), she doesn't seem to be making much sense...why's she brushing her teeth?
what does brushing her teeth have anything to do with everything else in the picture? (unless it's to portray how she does not have the slightest interest in zoro)
but this is my interpretation...take it however you want
I'm just saying, since you seem to be really going for color spreads recently, I'm just offering my opinion of what I don't like about the piece:
while it's beautiful and dandy and all that, I feel that it's overly crowded due to unnecessary cramming of all the mugiwaras, and a lack of a specific (or interesting) theme, but is instead dotted with abunch of characters not doing anything really interesting.
(though still a big leap from standing/posing looking cool COUGHCOUGHbleach)