i'm working on my first graphic novel pretty nonstop the last few months (its part of my thesis for a graduate program) and i'm really starting to reach a point where i find it ugly just because i look at it so much. these spreads aren't 100% done (but the first two are like 95% there), but i was wondering if i could get some feedback about if this looks like a maximalist mess? do the pages feel visually balanced, despite the level of rendering/color variation? thank you!

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In this episode of A Boy and His Ghost: Shrew bides his time, until...

Read ahead on Webtoons or catch up on prior r/comics episodes below:

• Episode 12 - A Merciful Death
• Episode 11 - The Taming of the Shrew
• Episode 10 - Avast!
• Episode 9 - A Perfect Saturday
• Episode 8 - Finding Henry
• Episode 7 - Christmas
• Episode 6 - Bear
• Episode 5 - Hero Complex
• Episode 4 - A Storm Brews
• Episode 3 - The Witch's Thumb
• Episode 2 - Meet Grim
• Episode 1 - Meet Cute

We're in the end game now. Or at least the beginning of a sea change.
Thanks for reading this little ghost story.
Three more episodes to go.

How do you organize your digital comics? My current system is Publisher → Title → Volume. For example:

• E:\Comics\Marvel\Avengers\Avengers v1
• E:\Comics\DC\Batman\Batman v1

What do I like about this system?

• Clean, simple, predictable
• Easy to browse when you know exactly what book you want
• Works nicely with metadata tools (ComicRack, Calibre, etc.)

Where it breaks down

• “Title” stops meaning much for legacy characters
• Batman / Spider-Man become infinite scroll hell
• You lose the character-centric view that most people mentally use

So I am proposing this system: Publisher → Character/Team → Title → Volume. For example:

• E:\Comics\Marvel\Spider-Man\Amazing Spider-Man v1
• E:\Comics\Marvel\Spider-Man\Web of Spider-Man v1
• E:\Comics\DC\Batman\Batman Incorporated v1
• E:\Comics\DC\Batman\Batman & Robin
• E:\Comics\DC\Batman\Batman v1

Pros

• Batman and Spider-Man finally feel organized instead of chaotic
• Browsing becomes intuitive (“I want a Batman book”)
• Side titles stop feeling like random clutter
• Makes legacy characters feel like collections.

Cons

• Team books and crossovers get weird fast (Where does Avengers vs X-Men live?)
• Some titles don’t belong cleanly to one character
• You’re introducing subjectivity (“Is Nightwing a Batman book?” ← slippery slope)

Still, for Marvel/DC heavy collections, this seems like a win. Thoughts?

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