Hello Rockdashzero here,
I have this friend at my fulltime job. Really cool guy, likes comics, brilliant conversationalist, and definitely someone I could talk to about interesting things and perspectives. Needless to say, I respect him a lot. He has a busy schedule and has four kids.
The other day he comes to me excited to tell me that he made a comic! I was so stoked for him. Then he tells me he made the first three issues in a couple hours. It was the idea he had briefly told me about last year. He had made it with AI... Normally, as an artist, I would be insulted, but I knew he didn't have the time to create it. But he did using AI. I felt so internally conflicted. He to this day gets excited when he has the AI he uses make a new issue and wants to tell me about it.
Objectively, looking at the art it was so incredibly detailed. Perspective was perfect. Characters rendered incredibly. It was missing something. That zing you feel when you know someone bleed for these pages. I had a professor in college that i studied under that told me "In art, all style is are the imperfections in your journey when making art." It was really lacking that. The soul of the pen stroke. The hours studying the form. (granted I am not the bees knees at any of this. lol) It needed that human element. Good or bad. It felt like a formula. Rules with no variation.
So I will say this. AI comics are not comics. They are formulas. They can be a window to the possible, if you are not able to invest the time into making a comic. BUT THEY ARE NOT COMICS. A good comic requires the human element to make it good. The imperfections. No matter the style. Even the simplest drawn comics have that soul that makes you want to read the next panel. So if you are willing to have an AI create a comic for you, be willing to use that time to just make it yourself instead because the world needs more comics and dialog in general.