I need a new AI policy (again)

I’m the comics editor of a literary journal, and when we received this submission, I nearly accepted it. In fact, I was pretty excited. I was co-teaching Creating Comics at the time and had just been talking about different kinds of “hinges,” and so I loved how the surrounding backgrounds of the first two paired panels were “semi-continuous” (creating the visual effect of connected lines between disconnected parts of the story world). We had also just been talking about the five beats of narrative sequences, and so I was fascinated by how the second row moves from disruption to new balance while implying that the figure passed through the door. I was only worried about the duplicating (and so redundant) word-image relationships and was going to suggest that the author delete the three caption boxes. And then I paused. It was probably the generic birds in the last panel. And then the repeating sameness of the figure. Plus a general awareness of how easily pencil and pen art can be…