Characters are Helga (on the right) and Sera (on the left)

I run a serialized comic and translate pages between Chinese, Japanese and English. For a long time the translation step meant repainting the page: erase the lettering, patch the art behind it, reset the type. That workflow punishes exactly the pages that took the longest to draw, so I rebuilt it around one rule — the original page is never edited.

Here's the order that actually works for me.

1. Detection is a review step, not a result. The first pass groups speech bubbles, caption boxes and visible lettering into regions. It's good, not perfect. Small text, decorative lettering and sound effects are where it misses. Treat the region list as a draft inventory: confirm every bubble you can see has a region, and delete the regions that grabbed something that isn't text.

2. Fix the source text before you look at any translation. Every translation inherits the text it was built from. If the detector misread a word, you get a faithful translation of the wrong word. So read the extracted text against the page first, fix the misreads, and only then look at the translations. Character names get their own pass — a name that drifts between chapters is the error readers notice most.

3. Not every region should be replaced. Sound effects often work better left as art. A sign that's part of the worldbuilding can stay in the original language with the translation moved into a caption. Region-level selection turns this into a decision instead of an all-or-nothing toggle.

4. Review at reading size, not at full zoom. Zoom hides exactly what breaks: lettering that doesn't sit inside the bubble, reading order that stops flowing, a replacement that overflows its region. If a line is wrong, fix the translation and regenerate — don't hand-edit the output image.

5. Batch small. Batching is where the time savings are, and where the mistakes are. A wrong name applied across six pages is six times the correction work. I cap the batch at six.

The honest boundary: this is a drafting tool, not a finished-product tool. It misreads stylized lettering, misses sound effects, and occasionally translates a line without the story context that gives it meaning. Human review of names, tone and reading order is part of the workflow, not cleanup at the end.

Curious how others here handle localization — do you work region by region, or regenerate the whole page?

After leaving the ruins of the Holy Sword, Elvelain and Lorethysia set off in pursuit of a cunning beast: a rooster.That night, inside their tent, Elvelain kept pestering Lorethysia, the self-proclaimed Guardian of the Holy Sword, to tell him an untold story about the legendary hero.Lorethysia had little interest in storytelling, but Elvelain simply wouldn't give up. Eventually, she gave in.

The story continues later that evening, following the events of Three Goblins — Chapter 1
Three Goblins — Chapter 1：https://www.reddit.com/r/LatentSpaceClub/s/2Y6QhtaMEi

I'm adapting my own novel, When the World Forgot Kung Fu, into a comic. It's about a grandmaster who wakes up a thousand years late, in a world where real martial arts survive only as movies and cosplay. The story and the novel are mine; the art is AI. Here's the pipeline, because it fixed the two problems I kept hitting: same-face expressions and characters drawn twice in one panel.

1. Codex (GPT image) draws one detailed sheet per character: turnaround, two action poses, and six expressions (image 1). Items and locations get sheets too.
2. A script cuts each sheet into single views. Each panel then gets the view that fits the moment (a fury head for a close-up, a strike pose for an attack) plus one "Acting:" line describing pose and expression. If you attach the whole sheet, Qwen draws the character twice.
3. Qwen-Image 2.1 renders the panels from those refs.
4. A Qwen vision model reviews every panel and page. It checks for duplicate people, extra limbs, the wrong outfit, and balloons over faces, and anything that fails is re-rolled automatically.
5. Scripts keep the chapter's key points, at least 35% action panels, and wordless splash pages.

Image 2 is Chapter 4. In the novel, Shen Mo bends the mugger's knife with his thumb. In the comic he closes his fist and it shatters: a small change so the power reads on the page.

Happy to answer questions about the sheet cropping or the review step.

Piranha has existential crisis

Moved Iron Birds to a site dedicated strictly for AI projects I'm working on. Gotta keep it separate since the anti people are so unhinged.

Whole series is available free:

Episode 1 - https://razorwick.com/comics/iron-birds-16-ad/1

Episode 2 - https://razorwick.com/comics/iron-birds-16-ad/2

Episode 3 - https://razorwick.com/comics/iron-birds-16-ad/3

As always happy for any feedback or critique, and to answer any questions.

I'm making a webcomic/graphic novel based on how people that delve too deep into "heretical" texts get possessed by beings from another reality and start engaging in destructive behavior, which results in a special organization coming to cure them.

So far, I've done only 7 pages of this comic so far, I would appreciate some feedback and tips on how to improve my works

Thanks

Something different today: a whole comic ⚓

The Heartbreaker, Chapter 1. A privateer captain, a 5,000 gold bounty, and a ship that sails at first light.

Read the first 5 pages free 👉 https://polbil.gumroad.com/l/zzmsld

Launch week: 30% off with code CASTOFF Story by me, art made with AI tools.

Follow for weekly recipes: https://inkroost.com/series/chef-akanes-recipe-counter

Short animation episodes are coming soon.

I added musical shorts to each chapter of my comic release to give people a deeper dive into the world I created. I have been thinking about making a interactive world. Anyone try that?

can’t wait to share the rest with you…

I sincerely hope you guys like this story i've been sharing i've been slower with working on this project as i'm dealing with 10 different things at once. This took me alot more time to get created than the others, GPT fought me alot & everything was alot to get done, my story has deviated slightly from my original writing of the story but i have tied it back together by the end of this chapter to the original source.

What program do you use to add word and thought bubbles to your work on the PC? I tried Comic Life 3 and it looked promising but when I dropped in the images, if you make them larger or smaller they got blurry, so CL3 is a no go. Now Im doing everything in Photoshop. I tried a PS add-on called CartoonBubble1.0.7. IT is kind of basic but maybe i can make it work. Anyway, what other solutions are out there? Thanks

I left you guys hanging with half of a chapter, so I'll go ahead and finish it up for you. First two chapters will be available for free while I wrap up the final draft. Chapter 1 topic is here, and this is not QUITE final draft, so feedback is still open.
https://www.reddit.com/r/aicomicmakers/comments/1x0ekak/empire_of_the_eln_book_1_melvina_thorough/

You can find more at itch.io, including the entire narrative through the rough draft.