How to Make Comic Panels with Nano Banana 2 (I Tested a 6-Panel Strip)

I wanted a nano banana 2 comic workflow that did not melt the heroine’s face by panel four. So I stress-tested a six-panel detective strip on NanoBananaTool: one character sheet, one style block, six separate panel gens.

TL;DR

Approach	Result for me
One mega “full page” prompt	Pretty, inconsistent faces
Panel-by-panel + character ref	Usable strip
Bake speech bubbles in-model	Unreadable text
Add balloons in Figma after	Ship-ready

How I tested

Same coat, hair, and rain city for six panels. Scored face lock, costume lock, and “room for balloons.”

Workflow that worked

1. Generate a character sheet (front + 3/4).
2. Freeze a style paragraph (ink + cel).
3. One panel per generation with shot size + action.
4. Assemble gutters in a layout tool.

Panel template I reused:

Comic panel, medium shot, [character] [action], rainy alley, thick ink outlines, cel shading, leave top-right negative space, same teal coat as reference

Mistakes I’d skip

Crowding every edge. Changing wardrobe mid-scene. Mixing “cinematic bokeh” into a flat comic block.

Soft CTA

If you need the same face across a set, start on Generate and keep the character consistency habits. Prompt basics: prompt guide.

FAQ

Full manga page in one shot? Draft only. Split panels for publish.
Dialogue in the image? Usually no — add text in an editor.