Thread by @JimLee

When I was workshopping a drawing class at @Princeton—one of the topics that came up was the future of AI art engines. I’ve only seen weird outputs—warped images that looked painfully tortured, like paintings of my worst nightmares.

Faceless figures and mashed up features-interesting but thought the technology still needed a ways to go. During the conversation, we decided to have fun and compare my cover for ONE BAD DAY: MR FREEZE to the output from an AI engine using Jim Lee Mr. Freeze Big Headshot…

and put MAN against MACHINE!

Ethics aside—I have to say I was impressed with the AI results and could see myself creating a comic in a day or two using such technology. I would certainly want to go in and alter the outputs, fixing or adding elements to enhance and improve…

panel to panel storytelling, but also recognized I would have to create an altogether brand NEW style for such works. Someday the results are going to equivalent if not superior to what I could dream up. Given this inevitability—some sort of legal ownership of one’s aesthetic-

style seems like a future battle to be had. Good luck with that though…

SO WHICH DO YOU PREFER!? I really fancy the bottom Mr Freeze on the image with two heads. Nice distortion which gives it a bit of life and character. The others feel a bit on the generic side…

Thanks for reading this long winded missive. If you like great comics—check out @GerryDuggan and @ScaleraMatteo deliver Victor Fries’ most frigid story yet in BATMAN - ONE BAD DAY: MR. FREEZE, out November 15! #dccomics #batmanonebadday#batmanonebaddaymrfreeze

Inks by @ScottW_inks and colors by @Sinccolor natch!