Comic Code Reviews

I’ve been experimenting with a way to make code reviews more understandable - turning tricky pull requests into short comic strips.

The blog post shows an example generated from a real PR: summarizing the changes, anthropomorphizing the components, and making the flow visually obvious. It’s meant to help reviewers grasp intent quickly and make reviews a bit more fun.

Curious whether others have tried visual or narrative aids in their review process, and whether this could be practical for real teams.

Interesting idea but unfortunately the given example comic makes very little sense.

It was difficult to parse even as someone who's familiar with these concepts, and I think it will hurt more than help any newbies.

You actually might be on to something... AI aside, it's often a good idea to include visuals in a PR such as diagrams.

But having something like a comic where it's both visual and communicative in a more conversational/narrative way could prove pretty effective. Also if you can throw some humour in there, it could potentially add even more comprehensibility, etc.

Thanks for sharing!

Looks like a fun inclusion

It seems to me the level this comic is at is such that anyone who needs an aid like this would not be capable of providing a meaningful review on the pull request.

If the goal is to encourage rubber-stamping by bystanders, it might help.