I was curious what would happen if I took a bunch of raw comic book pages, did some very basic captioning, and turned it into a LoRA. To keep the look consistent, I used three issues from an old "medical romance" comic series (see if you can guess which one!). The results are, quite frankly, terrible. I'm not presenting this as a LoRA you should actually use, but rather to show what happens when you create one trained on the broader idea of a "comic book" page.
It's a failure, but at least it's an interesting and instructive failure. Obviously, everyone should consider this to be extremely experimental. You can trigger the LoRA with "nursecomics," or with most nurse-related phrases, as I used exactly none of the best practices one should use for captioning a complex LoRA.
That said, the layouts this generates are actually pretty interesting. I've found that giving the LoRA 5-10 more sampling steps to generate additional details helps.
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Despite your comments, you need to be congratulated for tyring ... cos' you can not beat a bit of Nightnurse comic fun.... perhaps try Our Love next... have a great one!
Thanks! I looked around to see if someone else had done something like this, because it's a fairly obvious thing to try out. I didn't find much, probably because there isn't really a use case for this concept. Still, it's worth having this LoRA up just to show what happens. It's an interesting experiment. I could easily see doing an "Our Love" LoRA in this style, and I bet it would play well with some of the style LoRAs out there. Steranko did some really incredible romance comics once upon a time.
Also, it's a shame that Marvel never could figure out what to do with Night Nurse. There's a lot of potential to a superhero-adjacent medical romance drama in the Marvel Universe.
@unknowncity Yeah being a Steranko fan is where I discovered Our Love and then Nightnurse form that. I sold most of my comics a couple of years ago, including my Our Love and Nightnurse series ... sorta regret it but kept most of my other Sterankos ... BTW did you see this released the other day, looks good, havent tried it yet as December is always busy for me but will have a go next month... https://civitai.com/models/221389/jim-steranko?modelVersionId=249711
Have a great week, cheers!
@VaginaNipples The Steranko LoRA is on my list, for sure. Like you, I just need the time to play around with it. The art in many of those old romance series can be incredible, particularly on the cover and splash pages. Practically every artist at both DC and Marvel worked on those series at one point, and some of the stories were among those artists' best work.
Layouts are plausible, characters have all their limbs and facial features in the right places... You may not have fully achieved your objectives, but I've seen worse.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm not entirely sure what I expected, other than just seeing what would happen. It definitely generates something not-entirely unlike a medical romance comic.
Hey, it's Night Nurse! I bought it off the newsstand as a child. :)
So I asked a similar question on your Romance Comic model, and it's even more apparent here: With Win Mortimer's art as the sole source material you used, where does the heavy manga/anime look to the faces come from?
Maybe it's a naive question, I'm new to Civitai and AI art beyond basic text-to-image prompts. Just curious to understand!
It's the default look for the checkpoint.