How I cut speech-bubble retries from 70% to 0% with 200 lines of Pillow code

If you've ever asked Stable Diffusion or DALL-E to render readable text inside a comic panel, you know the pain. It almost works. The letters look like letters. Until you read them — "WHAT ARE YOU DONIG" , "HEILP" , "BLEAH BLAH" . About 70% of my generations needed a regen just because the dialogue was garbled, and every regen burned ~$0.04 in GPU time. For Comicory I gave up trying to make the model render text and moved typography into a deterministic post-processing step. The model now draws