Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off (comic story)

Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off was a standalone Jenny Everywhere comic story written and drawn by Nigel Palmer. It used a unique Jenny Everywhere Logo.

The story purported to present the last moments of the last incarnation of Jenny Everywhere left in the Multiverse and her final death — although it did leave leeway for fans to discount it as a true endpoint for the Shifter, with the Jenny in the story acknowledging that she may simply be the last Jenny in a finite “pocket Multiverse”, with other selves of hers still alive, but inaccessible her to consciousness, in other segments of reality.

Sitting at the peak of a mountain, a strangely peaceful Jenny Everywhere makes a final broadcast to ‘Infinity’ as she prepares for her imminent death. As she explains, she now believes herself to be the last surviving incarnation of the Shifter, all others having died one by one — some to old age or freak accidents or other such causes; some, only dying when the very universe they inhabited died; others still, murdered by the Hopper during his mad Jenny-killing spree.

She ponders how she could have run out of her infinite lives, and speculates that this specific incarnation of her has perhaps simply become disconnected from the unknown number of other, surviving Jennies — or else, that she is only the last Jenny of a finite sub-Multiverse contained within the true, larger Omniverse. She also wonders whether the universes where she died, and which are now closed off to her, still exist, or whether the world she is now sitting in is also the last world standing in the Multiverse.

Ultimately, with her time drawing short, Jenny decide to cease dwelling on these impossible questions. She says her goodbye to the universe, and declares with a smirk, just before the supernova engulfs her: “This is Jenny Everywhere, signing off for the last time. …Maybe.”

Worldbuilding

Jenny

The story stars a Jenny who believes herself to be the last in the Multiverse. She is sitting at the peak of a mountain, naked but for her goggles, holding a microphone which she is somehow using to broadcast into “infinity”.
She looks back on the number of Jennies who were murdered by Jackson Jones and on the Jenny who died in the “Scarf and Ceiling Fan Incident”, as well as several ‘immortal’ Jennies.

Universes

This story takes place all in one universe, on a planet whose sun explodes at the end of the story, taking out Jenny.
Jenny reminisces about several of the universes inhabited by her now-dead other incarnations, including the world of the Giants of Titan.

Behind the scenes

Legacy

In 2013, Paul Hoppe released an illustration which homaged Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off's iconic cover, but playfully replaced “signing off” with “singing off”, and altered the art to follow the implications of such a title.

The Cosmic Beholder's homage to Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off.

Read online

Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off was originally available on the Shifter Archive, having been submitted there directly. As it is no longer online, we reproduce the six pages of Jenny Everywhere, Signing Off, as well as the cover and afterword, here.