Rail Shift (comic story)
Rail Shift was a nine-page Jenny Everywhere comic story created by Jack Harvey, focusing on his default Jenny. It was notable for being entirely wordless.
Contents
Plot
Jenny is on a train, calmly her newspaper, when it is held up by a gang of masked robbers. When one tries to hold her at gunpoint, she calmly replaces his gun with a banana before kicking him back against the window of her compartment, knocking him out. She exists and bursts in on the next wagon, where she finds the leader of the gang. He tries to shoot at her, but she replaces each bullet with a flower as it comes. The rogue escapes onto the next wagon and unhooks his from the one Jenny is standing on, hoping to strand her, but she manages to hop over the gap to continue chasing him. After a brief scuffle, she manages to get a hold of the robber long enough to shift him along through the Infinite and directly into a jail cell. Later, similar events seem set to repeat as Jenny travels on a riverboat.
Worldbuilding
Jenny Everywhere
- The story stars Jack Harvey's default Jenny.
- Multiple Jennies are seen loitering in the Infinite on Page 7, including the version who previously visited Rat Boy's universe.
Universes
- The story takes place in an unidentified Prime-adjacent universe.
Other
- The Man With No Name is reading Hellsing and is infuriated by an apparently nonsensical plot twist where a male character “turns into a 12-year-old girl”.
- Jenny uses “Jesus Christ!” as an expletive.
Continuity
- The story features a cameo by the version of Jenny from COMIC: Jenny Everywhere vs. the Drag-Racing Monkeys.
- Jenny is seen passing through the Infinite, as then quite recently introduced in COMIC: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles.
Behind the scenes
Background
When posting the story, Jack Harvey gave it the following intro:
I knew this theme was too good to pass up on. |
—Jack Harvey |
Read online
The story's nine pages are available on DeviantArt (starting here). They are additionally mirrored here with the permission of Jack Harvey.