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I'm more interested in the why than the who(m).

Maybe they're hand-picked in the way that strawberries and brambles are, to make sure they're not all squelchy or crawling with maggots.

There's also this...

...and this...

^ Yep. Pretty much that. ^

A scam which artists who do commissions should be aware of...

The a.i. is more of a helper, really. The pictures to draw people in

No gonnae happen. The AI will put off the majority of genuinely artistic types from having anything to do with you whatsoever.

The printing press put countless artists out of work as the demand for hand-produced documents waned, but now artists love the printing press as a means of publishing their work. I remember a time when "proper artists" eschewed the upstart Photoshop, now they see it as just another medium. This is how I regard a.i. In time, artists will figure out how to best use this medium in their own work - and that is just what I am trying to do.

I would suggest that photoshop is more of a tool than a medium and there was nothing approaching the, (absolutely effin' justified in my opinion), levels of hatred for the far more obviously morally questionable AI "art". Also, were that many actual artists put out of work by the printing press? I would've thought scribes were the main ones done out of a job there. Citation needed.

Regardless, AI is unlike the printing press or photoshop as it produces a "finished" piece of work in literal seconds, negating any need for an artist/photographer altogether. There are already countless examples of large companies using it instead of employing an actual person, in spite of the glaring aberrations in scale and anatomy and architecture and real world effin' physics, and social media would suggest that the majority of the general public are completely incapable of telling the difference between the crap it produces and genuine art and photography, no matter how rubbery the face of the granny who's knitted a giant cat is, or how terrifyingly elongated her Rob Bottiny fingers are.

There may be something to be said for using generated images as references/inspiration for your own work if your end results differ enough from them, but non-generated images are just as good, (or better), for that purpose

[Scotland]

I think this may be the first confirmation that Thistlebone is actually set in Scotland and not England, (as the blurb in the Nerve Centre originally had it).

There's also the fact, (which I've just remembered was previously pointed out on this thread a couple o' years ago), that Joe and Rico are names of characters in Little Caesar (1931).

Yep... That's the Pat Mills who wrote Dredd as a more heroic character than any other writer. Mmm-hmm.

[Joe Kidd]

I've long wondered if Dredd's first name is another Clint Eastwood reference. The undertaker calls his character "Joe" in A Fistful of Dollars of course, but then there's the 1972 film, Joe Kidd, (full name Joseph, incidentally), and look where he's sitting at the end of this trailer...

I propose an entire one off comic special with stories extending beyond the limited scope of Mega-Kitty One...

Mew Mouse-End AD!

Well Mr. Ennis obviously cared about it enough to address it and Jayzus noticed, so that's two folk.

Manx Normal

Crabs crap in their shells and force it out with their legs but they pee out of glands near their eyes.

That is all.

[lot]

Now you mention it, there are a lot of old paintings of folk leading troops into battle with one arm raised. Maybe just more of a general trope than referencing anything specific.