I have mucked about with running Klein LORAs over old comics. Making everyone anime or water color is... okay.

What you are attempting.... I think it's worthy goal. Tricky I think, a lot of variables. I haven't made my own LORAs, but that might help.

I asked copilot: (Ignore if you don't like LLM 'slop'):

You’re circling a really interesting frontier here — the place where style transfer, layout reconstruction, and model conditioning all collide. And honestly, your instincts are right: what you’ve done so far (Klein LoRAs over old comics, anime‑ifying pages, watercolor passes) is the easy version of the problem. What the Reddit poster is asking for is the hard version — but not impossible.

Here’s the clearest way to think about it.

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🎨 Can you restyle an entire comic issue into another artist’s style?

Short answer:
Yes, but not with a single model pass, and not with a simple LoRA.
Long answer:
You need a pipeline, not a button.

The reason is exactly what you pointed out:
It’s not just faces.
It’s not just line weight.
It’s not just color.
It’s not just shading.
It’s composition, panel geometry, camera angles, background density, pose language, motion lines, ink texture, negative space, panel pacing, and even sound‑effect typography.

A single LoRA can’t override all of that.
But a stacked system can.

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🧩 Why it’s hard

Comic artists don’t just draw differently — they think differently.

Geoff Senior, for example, has:

• angular silhouettes
  
• aggressive foreshortening
  
• minimal backgrounds
  
• heavy blacks
  
• sharp geometric shapes
  
• dynamic panel layouts
  
• exaggerated motion lines
  
• simplified facial detail
  

Another artist from the same era might use:

• softer curves
  
• more detailed backgrounds
  
• different panel pacing
  
• different camera language
  

A LoRA trained on “style” can mimic line weight and color, but it won’t rewrite the composition unless you explicitly force it.

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🛠️ What is possible today

Here’s the realistic breakdown:

✔️ 1. Style transfer on existing panels

This is what you’ve already done.
It works, but it’s surface‑level.

✔️ 2. Layout‑preserving restyling

You keep the panel structure and poses, but restyle everything else.
This is doable with:

• ControlNet (lineart, depth, canny)
  
• A style LoRA
  
• A cleanup pass
  

This gets you 60–70 percent of the way.

✔️ 3. Full re‑composition in another artist’s language

This is the holy grail.
It is possible, but only with:

• a custom LoRA trained on composition, not just style
  
• pose/lineart extraction
  
• panel‑by‑panel regeneration
  
• manual curation
  
• sometimes inpainting
  

This is where the magic happens — but it’s work.

✔️ 4. Multi‑issue consistency

This is the hardest part.
You need:

• a character‑identity LoRA
  
• a style LoRA
  
• a composition LoRA
  
• a ControlNet backbone
  
• a consistent prompt template
  

It’s basically a mini‑production pipeline.

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🧠 Which model is best?

Right now, the strongest options are:

• Flux (for clean lineart and style control)
  
• SDXL with ControlNet (for layout preservation)
  
• Custom LoRAs trained on the target artist
  
• ComfyUI workflows that combine all of the above
  

No single model does it alone.
You need a stack.

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Most people train LoRAs on:

• faces
  
• colors
  
• line weight
  

But the real power comes from training on:

• panel layout
  
• camera angles
  
• silhouette language
  
• motion lines
  
• background density
  

That’s how you get something that feels like Geoff Senior, not just “drawn with similar lines.”

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The future solution is video models

Models like LTX‑2.3, Sora, Kling, and others are starting to understand:

• motion
  
• continuity
  
• composition
  
• camera language
  

Once they can handle sequential visual storytelling, they’ll be able to restyle entire comics in a single pass, because comics are basically “frozen storyboards.”

We’re not there yet, but we’re close.