ASL Training With Stump

ASL Training With Stump

Welcome to “ASL Training With Stump,” a comic strip where the real enemy is the rulebook.

It’s a WWII comic strip built around a hopeless private and the sergeant stuck teaching him. Pvt. Stump means well and understands nothing; Sgt. Grognard has seen everything and is running out of patience to explain it — and between the two of them, every strip finds the intersection where battlefield chaos collides with the notorious rules of Advanced Squad Leader. Around them orbits a growing cast pulled from every theater of the war, each one dragging Stump’s lessons somewhere new.

It’s a strip you can read for Stump and Grognard’s odd-couple chemistry, come back for the war-nerd trivia, and stay for the moments that catch you off guard. And when you follow their travels, perhaps you’ll learn a thing or two about ASL!

Meet The Cast

General Statement on the Use of AI

Yes, AI is used to generate the drawings for ASL Training With Stump (because I can’t draw for shit), but nothing else. I write every idea, character, and script that is used as a prompt for each strip. Each script is around 400-500 words and follows a rigid structure to get consistent results. AI is not writing the story/text prompt, or writing the dialogue, or picking the subject, or developing the characters and their personalities, or choosing the rules to mock, or interpreting the rules. I use Photoshop to combine the art with the script (and to change/fix things in the art/setting).

AI is just a software tool used to complete tasks it’s given, just like an Excel script or a software compiler. If you feed it garbage, it will return garbage. If you feed it clearly defined criteria, it will fulfill that request. With image/context refinement and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) training, it can return even better results. So, yes, “AI slop” exists out there, but it’s generally low-effort, lazy, and/or uncreative. I always try to use AI in creative, constructive, and fun ways.

Thanks!