[732] Are you okay?!

Speed, speed! I panicked and did it as fast as possible. Sorry.

this chapter is really making my brain hurt so far

Gamma, Jack, and Annie are probably either all nobodies or all real. It'd be pretty dumb to have three of the four people be nobodies, so... yeah, it's not really likely that they're all nobodies.

Well, I guess Gamma could be Zimmy, and Annie could be a nobody, or vice versa, or something like that... but if any of them are Gamma or Annie, there'd be plopping going on.

Confusing comic is confusing

Aaarrrgh, my head is going to explode. Okay, quick observations.

1.) Zimmy's hair is about the same length as Annie's, so perhaps that's Annie.

2.) If it's really Annie who has been sitting with Jack, then her etheric sensitivity would certainly allow her to tell that he is really a "memory of someone" and not a "nobody" person.

3.) I would guess that perhaps it is Jack's spirit, stuck in Zimmingham while his body is in the real world being animated by the spider. Which means that Jack has been trapped there the whole time. Ugh!!!

4.) Annie saw someone get plopped, so she could have learned that intuitively. She's a quick learner, and she knows that "it's only as real as you let it be."

5.) I don't know why peoples' appearances are changing. Perhaps that's Zimmy going nuts because the power station hasn't been shut down, or because the room may have started out as a simulation courtesy of Jones (who is not a robot) but then started becoming the real Zimmingham when Zimmy's powers started affecting reality. Perhaps that is Jones and another observer in the window here?

6.) What am I doing up this late? I'm going to bed. See you all tomorrow. Er, later today.

I would argue that Annie is still--as always--Annie. Jack is probably really Jack, and Zimmy MIGHT be Zimmy. More likely, it's the real Gamma, as Zimmy has no 'GOPPing' abilities. That said, Annie's the only one I think we can be 100% certain about.

Also, did Zimmy-maybe-Gamma just disappear after yelling at Annie and decepto-Gamma to NOT do what decepto-Gamma's doing? Where'd she go?

On the subject of spiders: Tom, my arachnid colleagues have just notified me that they are seriously considering suing you for publishing barely veiled, slanderous online representations of their kind, indirectly resulting in the deaths of innumerable innocent spiders. 'Why,' they ask, 'could he not have had Jack possessed by a spectral fly or mosquito?' Their message: 'Change your ways, or we'll bite you 'neath your nickers.' They've even got the jumping spiders up in arms, and they're usually quite mellow, in regards to humans. I wouldn't call their bluff, Tom.

I wonder if jack can hear Gamma's thoughts.

I bet Zimmy thinks Jack is Annie.

They need to sort out who thinks who's who.

Ah... I forget. Gamma couldn't understand English, when last encountered. Silly memory.

Nah, it's a real statue in Birmingham.

Oh, good. Thanks for clearing that up.

Yet another theory:

"Gamma" is Jack (or a construct made by Jack). Jack is pretending to be Gamma in an effort to lure Zimmy off the edge of the roof, causing her to fall to her death. He can easily do this because he can fly.

However, Jack (or his construct) was confused by the fact that Annie, not Zimmy, was the first to enter, and is now luring the wrong person.

All the other people appearing here are psychically created garbage and are completely irrelevant.

My theory:

Annie is Annie, but is beginning to think that she is actually Zimmy, and as such is looking Zimmified. Zimmy is also actually Zimmy, but thinks that she is Annie, and Zimmingham has been allowing to GOP nobodies to reinforce this delusion, possibly for some nefarious purpose. Gamma is a nobody, to reinforce the delusion that Annie is actually Zimmy (to keep her from interfering, perhaps?). Finally, and this is the craziest idea, Jack is really Jack from ch. 19, as time works differently in Zimmingham.

Whatever happened to Jack back in ch. 19 is about to be seen here, as the spider has machinated all of this in order to get itself a vessel out of Birmingham, presumably because, like Tom says, it is a bad place to live.

Why is everyone so certain that Annie is Annie? It's entirely possible that she's actually Zimmy and looks like Annie only because they are in Zimmingham and she forgot herself. The question then is, how much of this and the previous chapter was Annie (if any) and how much was Zimmy in her nightmare world thinking she was Annie?

Just because Jack said "you" doesn't mean Zimmy can plop people, he could be talking generally (can't recall what's it called in English right now, but it's like he said "will they disappear if one touches them?")