I try to finally get into making comics using AI. For my first try, I’ve created a world in which humans declared superheroes a threat to the world. Under the so-called “Fairchild Ruling” the heroes were declared persona non grata to be legally caught and executed by the authority and every citizen.

The idea is to first create some short stories in that world to test the available programs and see how far I can take them.

My first try was done with Midjourney:

I ran into a couple of problems creating the comic. Obviously, AI is still a giant hit and miss. I would estimate it to be at around 25% of where I want my comics to be. I’ll try to get better and increase that number as much as possible. So I’ll have to learn:

1. About creating comics: layouts, lettering, paneling, writing dialogue and storytelling for this medium.
2. About using AI properly: Midjourney has improved a lot since it’s early versions. There is still a lot of room for error in prompting. But I’m confident that I can learn to use it better while the future AI versions will offer more functions and better understanding of prompts.
3. About other AI solutions: There some comic specific AI programs I’ll check out and report on.
4. About using Photoshop: I should be able to fix “minor mistakes” with Photoshop. I will never be good enough to be a real comic book artist, but with a better combination of AI and Photoshop, I should be able to improve the outcome.
5. About uploading comics online: I’ll figure out platforms like Webtoons and social media platforms to check which ones are good places for me to put these comic stories out.

Here is my first try:

The Last Superhero Part 1