I agree, I think the biggest issue on that example panel is that there is no contrast at times. Alice in particular suffers from this - the detail in the original drawings we approved is pretty much gone.

Have you tried downloading the font Anime Ace? That's similar to what is on comic book pages and may look better there. Could also try perusing the free front sites and tweaking available fonts to get what we want - that's what I did with the main Namesake font.

Hey, two more days and you get me back! We plan to get to Mechanicsburg on Monday night.