@mwl i dont wanna throw claims around, but am i crazy for thinking that this looks ai generated?
its annoyingly hard for me to dismiss the idea even if my gut wants to tell me its not the case
theres just some smaller details throughout the panels that feel make me feel like there is a chance its ai
but i also just dont wanna just throw around a claim acting like im 100% sure
i just wanna ask and get a genuine response on if this gut is correct or not

@mwl oh you took it from elsewhere, got it
ill at least see if the lettering is consistent, seems like that was added afterwards but i cant tell (assuming it was ai generated anyhow)
most of what leads me to thing its ai generated is some weird inconsistencies on lines, odd coloring choices as well that no sane digital artist would realistically do, theres some inconsistent levels of detail too, and i think the biggest thing here is that the background changes between some shots, which considering its the effectively the same background for each shot i dont find it to be very likely an artist would redo the background and have it end up nearly identical for each shot, but still slightly different
give me a bit, ill do some analysis on this all myself to try and determine if its ai or not
at least if it is it doesnt seem like it was intentional from you, which doing it on accident is miles better than doing it on purpose

@det @mwl The way animation was done back then was to paint a static background for a particular scene, much larger than the area that would be shot for any given frame, then plop character cels down on top of it. Backgrounds and cels could usually be reused for different episodes or different scenes in the same episode. The comic looks consistent with that style. Boxes 2 & 6; and 3, 4, & 5 use the same head. Boxes 1, 2, 3, 5, & 6 use the same body with different cropping.

@log @mwl i mean yeah, i generally understand how cel animation works
im just pretty sure this isnt that
it looks like its a digital piece
and with all the weird inconsistencies in the image itself, it feels like it was done using ai tools, probably doing ai edits on top of the base image to keep things consistent enough for the context of panels in a comic format
regardless of what kind of style it used, it would be very weird for the background to be slightly different between panels, clearly trying to be the same image between each panel, but changing regardless, which if that were to be done by a real artist, would be a very weird and time consuming thing to do for not much of a noticable benefit?
i am still very very skeptical about this not being created by ai