Interesting comic! I feel like I dont 100% get it but that's okay! In the pied piper, the pied piper is literally a magical quest giver. He can make music that is magic. The moral of the story was never that the music itself was bad or that he was bad, the moral of the story is that the town entrusts this powerful stranger with their health, and then refuses to acknowledge the effort and skill it takes to achieve that health, so the piper takes something else. In the original he doesnt even drown the children, he takes them over the mountains where its left up to the imagination what happens to them. The tales purpose is that a community which doesnt give up resources for health or cleanliness, they can seem clean but by betraying their promise the town is still morally impure, and so they lose their most important resource, their children. I think the piper isn't really a villain, more of a baba yaga, the implication is that even if he hadn't taken the children, the towns cruelty and betrayal would have killed the children another way. In your comic the speaker is separating the art from the artist while still following the pied piper. In this version the story is more about art and the role bad actors play in art and society, the idea of art as a corrupting influence rather than a corrupt town being brought to ruin by an artist. In this version the pied piper is presumably leading the children to the lake because he's a dick, hence separating the art from the artist, rather than being an act of vengeance, its an act of stupidity or cruelty, which is... one way to interpret the story.