Let me tell you about my Waifu

No, Sparks is not my waifu. Just my favorite character. She might be your waifu though no judgement.

Just a few things I want to talk about today.

First: Antihero for Hire is now running on WEBTOON! This site is still the main home, but I’ve also started updating it there- twice a week, Monday and Friday at 7 PM ET. It will run one chapter at a time until it gets caught up.

However, one thing I noticed was that the comic looks.. really bad on WebToon. And really kind of looks bad at full screen on mobile devices in general. So I asked around, and got pointed to Waifu2x. It’s an AI upscaling engine designed for animated-style graphics. I’m not quite at that style but it works wonders at making incredibly readable text and sharp graphics.

As an example, here is a comic at it’s original resolution:

Here is that same comic, at 800px (the widest Webtoon allows):

It’s pretty dang blurry huh? Well this is that same comic, upscaled using AI:

Look at that! Mm! Text so crisp it’s like the air in Canada in the winter.

So yeah, the version that I’m uploading to Webtoon is AI upscaled at 2x, then lowered down to 800 (or 700 for some in order to fit in the 20 mb limit). I’ll also be updating the copy on this site over time as I upload the same on Webtoon, but I’ll use the full 2x 900px wide versions here. Enjoy.

Waifu2x is available at https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x. There’s an online version here: http://waifu2x.udp.jp/ but that’s one at a time. You can get a windows UI version (the one I used) here: https://github.com/lltcggie/waifu2x-caffe/releases

The image at the top is scaled to 4x, if you were wondering. It almost looks like my original sized art before I scaled down and added text.