Show HN: The Roman Industrial Revolution that could have been (Vol 2)

A few months ago I shared the first issue of The Lydian Stone Series here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44253083 It's an alternate-history comic about an archaeology student in modern Pompeii who discovers a slate that lets him exchange short messages with a Roman slave a week before the eruption of Vesuvius. The premise is simple: what happens if someone in the Roman world suddenly gains access to modern scientific knowledge, but still has to build everything using the materials and tools available in 79 AD? Volume 2 (The Engine of Empire) explores the second-order effects of that idea. About the process: I write the story, research, structure, and dialogue. The narrative is planned first (acts → scenes → pages → panels). Once a panel is defined, I write a detailed visual description (camera angle, posture, lighting, environment, etc.). LLMs help turn those descriptions into prompts, and image models generate sketches. I usually generate many variations and manually select or