It's a challenge writing chatspeak and making it comprehensible -- enough slang but not so much that the meaning blurs. After all, even online, comics are not texting. (Hmm... Are there any text(co)mix out there yet?) And I don't text. Plus I'm oldschool about spelling. Too many years spent inputting copy for publications and correcting bad style. Keyboarding in all lower case is an effort; upper/lower is my default mode.
Does my attempt work? Am I even close?
This series has been in the works for years. That is, I'd written it as denouement of the whole Cindy-Horst-Celia plotline way back long before they even broke up. 2002, I think it was. There have been a number of variations and rewrites before pen went to paper, but this and the next three are the final result. I hope you enjoy. It's as close to a sex farce as Weltschmerz will ever get.
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