I'm a really annoyed that the author refers to their own work as "heartwarming" when all we have just forced drama
Dear Author of this comic. Other people can refer to your comic as "heartwarming", not you. You doing that just reeks of hubris.
Ikeepmyidealssorezore, yes it is hubris. Trying to prop up your drama filled comic as "heartwarming" is like a scientist propping up their potato clock as "nobel prize material". No, that is for the nobel prize committee people to decide that. Not the scientist.
Or a woman calling herself "the wife" of a man who hadn't said anything about marrying her.