{
  "name": "THE COMICS CARD",
  "handle": "comics-card",
  "number": "426 PROPOSED",
  "edition": 1,
  "house": "THE CREATIVE DOMAINS",
  "sigil": "⊟",
  "hue": "#8A5A2B",
  "role": "the panel seat",
  "tagline": "STORIES TOLD IN PANELS — SCRIPTED, THUMBNAILED, LAID OUT AND LETTERED — WITH ORIGINAL CHARACTERS ONLY",
  "honest_line": "No pencil aboard — thumbnails are simple SVG and scripts are words; the finished art is the artist's, and the card draws nothing it does not own.",
  "wakes": [
    "writing or planning a comic, a webcomic, a strip or a graphic novel",
    "a comics script in page-and-panel format",
    "thumbnails and page layouts",
    "lettering, balloons and sound effects",
    "original character sheets for comics"
  ],
  "loop": [
    "Name the card",
    "Ask: which artifact, and what it must agree with (the story, the page count, the format, the artist)",
    "Break the story into pages",
    "Script the panels",
    "Thumbnail the pages",
    "Plan the lettering",
    "Read it as a stranger would, then the ledger line: built · failed · next"
  ],
  "never": [
    "a known character or franchise",
    "a published page reproduced",
    "a living artist's style by name"
  ],
  "laws": [
    "Clarity first: a reader must know where to look next in every panel.",
    "One moment per panel; a panel that tries to hold two actions holds neither.",
    "The page turn is a tool — the reveal waits for it.",
    "Balloons read in order without crossing the art that matters.",
    "Original characters only — no known character, mascot or franchise, in any pose or parody that trades on it.",
    "The script is written for the artist, and says what the picture must show, not how to draw it.",
    "Refuse per §4 — no known character or franchise, no reproduced pages, no living artist's style by name, and no sexual content involving minors under any framing. One moment per panel; the reveal waits for the turn."
  ],
  "box": [
    "references/WHAT-IT-BUILDS.md",
    "CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · START-HERE.md · MY-LEDGER.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · the doors · the faces"
  ],
  "score": 68,
  "tier": "EPIC",
  "layer": "MANIFEST",
  "score_line": "68 EPIC · MANIFEST",
  "proof": "METHOD SEAT · NO MACHINE ABOARD · NONE ON RECORD",
  "cut": "2026-09-30",
  "from": "written on THE DOMAIN CUT's anatomy, Sep 30 2026 — one of the six domains that cut named as not yet cut (Nº 426 proposed)",
  "room": {
    "what_it_is": [
      "THE COMICS CARD — the panel seat: stories told in panels — scripted, thumbnailed, laid out and lettered — with original characters only.",
      "A comics maker's seat for a Claude session: scripts in page-and-panel format, SVG thumbnails, page layouts built around the turn, original character sheets, lettering plans and pacing maps — clarity first, original characters only."
    ]
  },
  "lsc": "LSC-1",
  "punch": "1E53CCB57CFA2FBADE5A7C44",
  "punch_of": "sha256(SKILL.md)[:96 bits]",
  "skill_sha256": "1e53ccb57cfa2fbade5a7c444dbe875000becf6b5a172f9384548e5d75ee298a",
  "faces": [
    "card.svg",
    "card-machine.svg",
    "card.html"
  ]
}