I'm certainly relieved to hear that the two of you found this comic met all the marks you were hoping for. It's hard to meet such exalted expectations, but I'm glad we met the mark.
Spoiler warning I suppose for those who haven't read it, so reader beware.
I'm not entirely sure you would want Lance anywhere near the girls. He's a... bit violent... and gets off on that.
As far as Brenda near the end, I'll start by saying that some decisions were mine, some were Celestin's. Some I fight for, some I don't. The flashback sequence at the beginning was almost entirely Celestin's design. I just told him to make it as hard as possible and gave some suggestions, but my direction comprised about a sentence, so I give him full credit there. I find it's more interesting to work with what one is given rather than attempt to tightly control the narrative, and Celestin makes some really good decisions that I didn't even think of.
That said, Brenda in the van was also his decision. There were bigger issues with that sequence than Brenda being present that I had to make repeated requests to have changed, so that only caught my attention when I was putting in dialogues after Celestin's entire process had been completed. There are problems with it to be sure, but I don't consider them too fundamentally flawed.
Now that it's been "published," I can reveal that the last minute problem that delayed release was I was going over one final check over and realized that, in the Lance/Emily sequence at the end, Emily didn't have any nipple rings which is a big, big problem. But we got it fixed.
Only afterwards did I realize I forgot to add tails to word balloons in one page. D'oh!
Anyway. Glad you two enjoyed it, and I hope that others find it enjoyable as well!
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