Hand-built boards
Breakdown is optional. A chapter can be a stack of panels you inserted, which is the path the onboarding “add a panel” door opens. That is the right path for a gag, a four-panel, or a scene you already see and do not want paraphrased.
Insert versus a full rerun
- Insert when one beat is missing.
- Delete when one beat is extra.
- Rerun the whole pipeline only when the chapter text changed enough that the board is fiction.
- A blank panel still needs a description or a prompt before it can draw.
Delete cannot be undone. If the image was the one good take, restore is not available after the panel itself is gone.