Modern pens don’t drip, so there’s no reason not to remove all the extraneous lines.

Oh, and the cursive taught in writing classes is modeled after someone with really bad handwriting. (Probably because lots of old documents were written by people with bad handwriting and so everyone assumes it’s supposed to look that way…) That definitely does not help.

Regardless, I also have some years of experience in data entry, and let me tell you, I’ve seen some pretty bad handwriting, but trying to make out “seen” in panel two, as well as several other words (“consumed”, as well as any that contain an “s” or “n”) was a struggle and a half – partly because I had to squint and lean in to read it.

So, in the spirit of perhaps helping others, here is a rule to remember if you’re going to write in it: the legibility of cursive can be seriously hampered by text scaling – especially if some characters seem too similar to others.