Comic pages punish drift more than any other format. Six panels, one hero across all of them, and a workflow that scales to a forty-page issue.
Two characters in one frame is where most workflows collapse into identity soup. The regional-prompt-plus-dual-IPAdapter trick that holds both.
Most 78-card AI tarot decks die at card twelve. The lock-once, generate-everything workflow that ships a coherent deck in two days, plus the quality pass.
The LoRA-vs-IPAdapter decision tree, the page-by-page prompt template, and the rescue strategy for the inevitable page-eight drift in AI children's books.
The exact phrasing that swaps outfits in Flux Kontext while keeping the face and background locked. The one phrase that always breaks it, and the rescue.
LoRA alone caps near 85 percent identity match. Stack IPAdapter FaceID v2 on top and you cross 95. The exact node graph and the failures to avoid.
The IPAdapter weight that holds identity at portrait range breaks at full body. Here is the 100-image grid that shows the safe range per shot type.
Turn one selfie or render into a full turnaround sheet the AI can lock to. Front, three-quarter, side, back, plus expression strip. Real workflow.
A real workflow for getting the same face, same outfit, same vibe across an entire image set. Without character drift, without re-prompting fifty times, without two paid subscriptions.