Since I use an RSS reader to go directly to the comic page, I couldn't figure out what was missing. The archive that Kern said was missing was present as far as I could tell.
Well, they're gone now!
I thought that Kern having Sha'sana get rid of them would be too much to hope for, but he actually did it! I preferred it when when we couldn't tell if Kiel was really breaking the fourth wall or if she was just nuts. Good riddance to them, IMO.
The red blob developed a spiral eye. I'm not sure what that means, but I'm somewhat afraid that we might not get rid of it now. Oh, well, we should be close enough to the end that it can't be all that annoying.
I don't know what the talk about a time skip is about, though. This would be a truly bizarre time to have a time skip. Is Kern just going to punt on the idea of giving the comic any sort of a climax?
And of course, Kiel is the character who happens to be present the moment when Sha'sana finally does the thing she's been preparing to do for thousands of years. Honestly, Kiel wasn't as annoying as she sometimes is, but it figures it would be her who would be present.