...My only concern would be
that the broken black line used in the figures is more broken than
showing and some of the cards are hard to read because of the
broken black line...
I'm sorry for being dense, but I'm unsure of what you mean by broken black line. I'm looking at The Firey and Erase, and I think I can see what you're saying by broken. Do you mean that there is no black outline around the colored parts? If so, I looked into it now, and I can see that it is hard to tell what's going on sometimes. The lack of outline is a hold over from the first version, where there was no color, simply black. All the colored parts where originally solid black, so I didn't need any outlines. When I added color, I left it out as I didn't like the way it looked with the distress - I wanted it simpler, and when viewing them blown up on a computer monitor, I didn't need the extra outline. When looking at the new cards, the ones I forgot to remove the black outline and the inner detail lines, I've liked the way it looked, so I'm debating adding them back in. If that is not what you meant, can you please explain?
As for what ueI said, I've noticed too that the distress texture was distracting. The cards look fine when I view them on my 27" screen, but when viewing them actual card size, I can see that you can't really see what the image is, or you have to strain to see it. I'm actually in the process of removing the distress texture from the characters in all of the cards. I'm finding though, that I have to adjust the colors to accommodate this change. I think it's the right way to go though. I first noticed this problem while saving the thumbnails. I started adding them to the atlas by hand, and noticed that you couldn't make out what was going on in most of the cards - it was just noise.
I'm still trying to work out the exact styling. I'll have to keep re-tweaking all of the cards, every time, which I'm getting used to. I keep making changes, and have to propagate it through all of the cards to really see if it works consistently. I'm finding out that what looks good on one or a few cards, looks bad on some of the others. The only way to see it is to change all, and view the result, which is why on my computer, I have a program set up to randomly arrange all the cards on a single page, making it easy for me to see how they look together, and find inconsistencies.
We'll see what comes of it all, and what the final look is. Updating the cards again, has unfortunately kept me from actually getting to create the last few. Still, should be done soon.