Boom has grammar.

Four Imam-style frames tell the whole arc. Pick a frame, tune dots and inks, fire the sound effects — the narration caption rewrites itself to match.

Bitten by a radioactive printing press, mild-mannered Dot gains dot powers.

Dots60%

Shake50%

Bursts3

Halftoneon

Tip: press 1 / 2 / 3 for POW / ZAP / WOW without clicking.

💭 “With great dots come great readability…” — use inline SVG thought, no emoji icons.

Every burst is a jagged canvas star with rotation, scale pop, and ink outline — no image assets.

Shake slider scales the impact tremor. High shake rattles halftone dots off-register on purpose.

Red, yellow, blue only. Frame tabs re-light the whole splash while keeping the trinity.

Sound words grow with burst count. The cover tally in the burst tag never lies.

Bullpen appendix · R — caption contest

Letter your own panel.

Pick a hero, pick a predicament, and the bullpen letters your cover line. Shout the best one at the splash above.

Hero

Predicament

“DOT, OUT OF INK, FACES THE VOID — AND WISDOM!”

Newsstand rating: ★★★★☆ — “moves units”

All dialogue shouts. Whispering is for thought balloons with dashed borders.

Exclamation density: minimum three per cover. Four is a crossover event.

The corner box lies to sell. Your coverline must outsell it.