Wait what.
Thank you. I would have felt like a complete failure if at least one person didn't respond with this.
This story has taken a turn for the blatently dark and violent.
And your comic is in what I call the: Heaping of the plot
So I have no real words for where it is right now.
Alright, I feel as though I should address this. The basis of comedy - real comedy, not puns and silly faces - is to build up an expectation and then subvert it. Basically, the whole last half of this chapter was an extension of a single gag, in which I subverted the built up expectation for silliness as hard as I could. This culminated with the ridiculously darker-and-edgier end of chapter page (intended emphasis on
ridiculous). I mean, compare is to the
other two end of chapter pages. This is hopefully a humourous juxtaposition. Did it work? Fucked if I know! But I'm just experimenting here and it gave me the chance to try some things this comics wouldn't usually accommodate.
I guess I could have gone even more over-the-top with the timeskip, given Pink an eyepatch or something.
Anyway, that's not to say the plot is going to be completely irrelevant, just that the impression that everything is going to be SUPER SRS from now on is a false one. Just to clear things up.