This is the original, do you mean shadow on the writing?
Here's the original
The other route I've been thinking is to go more modern, something akin to the reddit guy for the top hat man, not sure dude. I wish I had the required skills myself, think I'm going to start sketching tomorrow.
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Got your PM.
Could you do either a little less shadow or bring out the text a bit more?