[713] I don't need their help!

It looks like reality is breaking up around Jack in panel 4. That can't be a good sign.

More interestingly, he seems to have developed the ability to bend light / warp spacetime in his immediate vicinity.

Ah, yes, comic pages. The socially acceptable version of "F1R2T!!!!!!"
I can understand it, as jerky as it is. It feels good.

Anyway, yeah, it's getting worse. Might be a coincidence, but in panels 2 and 5 you can see the gunk creeping into his cheeks. It's growing.

EDIT: Hmmm, it was already in his cheeks. It does look like it's a bit thicker there though. 2 lines instead of one, maybe.

"Maybe he just likes her smile?"
Who would not? She has many, many ultra fine and also triple sharp fangs.

Nah, Tom just was sleep deprived and couldn't draw straight

It occurs to me that Jack hasn't explicitly mentioned Zimmy here. All the references have been simply "her". Zimmy's the obvious conclusion, but there is another: It's someone he saw in Zimmingham. Possibly someone dead. We know Zimmingham can make nobodies based on real people from the Fake Kat, so it's not unreasonable that a similar situation happened to Jack.

Forget about panel 4. PANEL 5. ZIMMY AURA. AAAAAAAAAAAAH.

But he didn't see Gamma at all; only Zimmy and Annie saw her. I think there's some rule that if a person was actually in Zimmyham, schle can't have a mindclone there.

In any case, Jack did seem the most agitated about Zimmy. Maybe he saw his sister that died in a tragic accident there, that's a possibility. But it seems more likely that, as he's referred to Zimmy before, that he's talking about Zimmy.

I want to know what a "mindclone" is. Because I don't remember Tom mentioning that.

Seriously. My heart thumps at the memory.

Perhaps the "she" in this specific page refers to someone other than Zimmy. Personally, I think that it would be an interesting take on the "I met with eldritch powers and now I crazy AUUGAGAGAGAH!" theme, with the apparent breakdown of sanity combined with external baggage. It downplays the otherness of said eldritch powers, but also downplays the otherness of the victim as well.

Although, if Jack did become infatuated with Gamma, and is becoming something like Zimmy, then we'd obviously have a creepy-supernatural-insomniac-love-triangle. With hijinks.

I still wonder how the meeting with the people who landed (assuming that they're Court security - the most likely explanation) is going to turn out for Annie. She could be considered an accessory to Jack's actions at the power station, which are serious - and that's on top of the incident at the bridge the year before, and freeing Reynardine (in a way). I can't see how the Court is going to tolerate Annie's adventures and meddlings after this; they would have to make it clear to her that these excursions have to stop - whether through her giving them up voluntarily, or their placing her under so many restrictions that she can't sneak off to go exploring Gunnerkrigg any longer.

But it would be difficult to have further stories at Gunnerkrigg if Annie has to give up those adventures - unless the webcomic replaces her with a new protagonist, or all the stories (for a while, at least) are about school activities (like the Recreational) or Annie watching her classmates deal with their problems (like the Parley/Smith trouble), that won't require her to go snooping about on her own or with a friend or two. I look forward to seeing how Tom handles this.

Casey: That would be indescribably rad.

Rocks fall, everyone dies. ;D