Two honest product lines
ComicsMaker markets an AI Comic Studio: generate comics and strips. Third-party writeups and their own positioning stress character creation, character training, custom LoRAs, scene generation, page design, and speech bubbles. They have cited very large user and scene counts on marketing surfaces. We will not repeat a number we could not re-count today.
Tab Story’s line is the other way around. The door is Create: style, script, lock a cast, generate panels — or paste a novel into Make. Character work exists to serve the chapter, not to become the product.
If you only remember one row
| ComicsMaker | Tab Story | |
|---|---|---|
| Gravity | Character and page workbench | Story and chapter |
| Power user | Train a face, edit a scene, place a bubble | Rewrite a board, regen one page, upload a fix |
| Risk | You can spend a week in the studio and never finish episode one | You can finish episode one and still wish you had a LoRA |
Where ComicsMaker is meaningfully better
- Creator-shaped controls: training, scenes, page designer — if that is how you already work.
- A strip/studio identity that matches “I am making comics,” not “I pasted my novel.”
- If you need a custom face as infrastructure, a LoRA desk beats a lock button.
Where Tab Story should stay itself
We will not add fake training just to look like a workstation. Writers who arrive with a story should not have to become model trainers. If that is you, stay. If you are a page designer first, ComicsMaker is the more honest home.