It's early to say to much as we're still working on book 1, but what I will say is that I'm hopefully optimistic about coloring this too.
However, you have lots of people that like your work so much and I don't now how they feel about the colors! They don't comment much, so I hope they will all like book 1.
I love the colors, don't sweat that my folks haven't seen it yet... I didn't mention that you were doing them because you are gonna post most of the pages not on here anyway. I'm sure though most will like it, I like them and I can be pretty critical...
your reference's were spot on .
However, you have lots of people that like your work so much and I don't now how they feel about the colors! They don't comment much, so I hope they will all like book 1.