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Post by zbeeblebrox on Feb 26, 2021 10:21:49 GMT
That one lady on the sidewalk who tried to stop her from running into the road though... definitely got Zimmingham'd there. What makes you think that? She touched her. What other reason would I need to have?
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Post by pyradonis on Feb 26, 2021 10:46:56 GMT
What makes you think that? She touched her. What other reason would I need to have? Where in the main or side comic does it say that touching Zimmy brings someone into Zimmingham?
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Post by Gemminie on Feb 28, 2021 22:11:44 GMT
On multiple pages Zimmy appears to be either sweating or even melting.
The light spot on Zimmy's shirt is irregular in shape, far from a perfect circle.
The spirals and then explosion in the sky – an airplane? A premonition? Or just the sun? Right after this happens, Zimmy seeks a dark alley, out of the light.
And that's where she meets the three strange creatures – some have mentioned that they may be city fairies, or perhaps something else, such as abstractions of sensations such as scents or sounds. Or they could even be people, or children, warped by Zimmy's perception. Zimmy seems to smack one away hard enough that it crashes into the pavement, and the others leave to check on the injured one.
Then Zimmy seemingly pushes her way through a brick wall. Or does she? She pushes first with the right side of her face, which we later see bleeding, though after a second injury, but there's no reason why she couldn't have been injured twice. But she does seem to be somewhere else, surrounded by Nobodies. They crowd her, which she doesn't like, and then there are multiple hands of many shapes and sizes, some left and some right hands, all reaching for her. Is she walking in front of a car, and are they trying to keep her from walking out in front of it? Grabbing her clothes, her arms, and her hair, the Nobodies' hands are holding her fairly tightly, but she breaks free, just in time for the monster to come, apparently a car, warped again by her perception. But it seems the car stops before hitting her. The driver gets out, probably to make sure she's OK, but she runs away, of course.
While running she trips on a curb/kerb, and as the right side of her face is heading for a concrete barrier her perception shows her falling into some dark water. Has she injured herself once, or twice? Is the earlier brick wall incident actually the same as this one – is the sequence of events warped in her perception too? She wanders away, puddles of burning water with black flames trailing behind her, probably her way of perceiving blood.
And she's back in another alley, seemingly melting more than ever. Putting her hand on the brick wall, as if perhaps attempting to push through it again, the wall swells instead, as if something is trying to push through to her. A brick crumbles, revealing something behind it ... what precisely is it? It seems to have an insectoid leg and at least three eyes of some sort, somewhat similar to one of the creatures that was troubling her earlier. And then she pauses.
She turns around to see a shadow of someone coming around the corner, and as they come closer the wall undulates. When they finally appear we recognize them as Gamma, and where her hand touches things, reality as we know it shows through. And as Zimmy watches in amazement, Gamma reaches out a hand to her, revealing the reality: Zimmy isn't melting; she's bleeding, and quite profusely in fact. There is blood on the pavement, not black burning water.
We next see Birmingham Children's Hospital (by the sign), where some people are entering and someone at a desk gives them directions. We see that at least one of them has the Court's "Shadow Men" insignia on his suit. One of the people could be Jones, or perhaps not. They enter a room, and there is a bed with bandages lying on it, but no one is in the room. A window is open, and apparently Zimmy has escaped, possibly with Gamma. It's unclear whether Gamma was with Zimmy at the hospital or whether she just helped her get to the hospital. Whether they were together and escaped together or whether they met up again later, they obviously do meet up.
It's a bit difficult to say the order in which events occur, as I've said. Are we seeing the same events take place multiple times in different ways? She seems to be melting/bleeding from the very start. Perhaps she's in some sort of loop, experiencing things again and again with different perceptive twists, until Gamma breaks her out of it.
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Post by wies on Mar 1, 2021 8:13:04 GMT
Huh, reading this makes me realize how heavily Zim Grim leans on perception, one of the themes of the main comic.
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Post by lisanela on May 2, 2021 10:30:19 GMT
Very late to this but this comic has such amazing composition and details without feeling "overstylized"! I love how perfectly it conveys Zimmy's vision of the world and the relief she experiences when Gamma is here. Some of her visions remind me of Silent Hill but also Basil Wolverton's art with the way people/things are deformed.
Can't thank Tom enough for putting the extra comics for free on his website tbh.
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Post by foxurus on May 3, 2021 8:17:59 GMT
Very late to this but this comic has such amazing composition and details without feeling "overstylized"! I love how perfectly it conveys Zimmy's vision of the world and the relief she experiences when Gamma is here. Some of her visions remind me of Silent Hill but also Basil Wolverton's art with the way people/things are deformed. Can't thank Tom enough for putting the extra comics for free on his website tbh. I missed this comic, thanks for resurrecting the thread so I could read it.
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Post by warrl on May 3, 2021 21:10:08 GMT
My interpretation of the sequence of events was that Zimmy was put in the hospital (probably a mental hospital), which brought her to the Court's attention - but she escaped and went back to the streets. She met Gamma *approximately* the same time the Court agents got to the hospital, but the girls had time to get to know each other before the agents tracked them down.
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