Get caught up (kinda) fast on the ongoing Jam saga!
(and if you see descriptions in parentheses like this, those are alternate timelines added on to the main storyline. Fun!)
The first wish doesn’t go as planned and Digby ends up on the roof of a house thanks to an ill-timed bark from Geoff! (don’t worry, he gets down safely. . .with a magic carpet?!?!?)
Digby and the aliens engage in debates on etiquette and ’80s pop music. Ultimately Geoff may or may not have eaten the aliens!
And suddenly we’re on a beach where a robot is trying to get help opening a jar of pickles?!?!?
(Pickle-bot doesn’t get help with the pickles but does get whisked away by Doctor Hoot on a new adventure!)
After Steve Wallet and his cat give us a quick break, we find Digby relating his story to a little boy, who then becomes a rift creature (as does Steve and his cat)! In an epic battle, Digby defeats them!
Or maybe not? After a daring escape with the help of Geoff’s Milk Bone, Digby reveals that the wish demon is a Fire Djinn and is being hunted by the Shayatin! But for the cost of 3 wishes, the Frisbee aliens (also known as the N’th Sect) will help it! (and in an alternate, bleaker timeline, Geoff is a hand puppet?!?!?)
You’ll be shocked to hear that things don’t go as planned! The demon mishears the first wish (or does it?) and summons forth a monster! And then E-Girl and Femtastic show up to save the day!
Unfortunately, not even E-Girl and Femtastic are strong enough to withstand the demon’s secret weapon: cookies and coffee!!!
With the demon and his rescuers gone, Digby and Geoff think things have returned to normal until they hear a CRASH. This ends up being the Faux News truck, spilling out journalist(?) Geraldi Riviera, who proceeds to engage Digby in a poorly researched interview. And then everything just disappears!
According to Manrake the Magician, everything has been an illusion! He uses his magical powers to bring back Geoff, but they inadvertently bring back the Fire Djinn, too!
The Fire Djinn reveals its name (good luck trying to decipher it!) AND that the Shayatin are still coming. Digby wishes to revoke his three wishes and have everything return to normal. The Fire Djinn resets everything all the way back to page 1, but it’s not enough to stop the appearance of the Demonic Grannies of Retribution, who are the parents of both the Shayatin AND the N’th Sect!
It’s all too much for Digby, who wishes everything would just stop. And it does! Because apparently Digby’s been the REAL wish demon all along, and the Fire Djinn is his dad?!?!? And they need to get to Reno before dawn?!?!?!
But in outer space, the N’th Sect, the Shayatin and some other shady characters are conspiring against Digby and send him and Geoff and the Fire Djinn to Reno, Ohio! And the Fire Djinn ISN’T Digby’s dad?!?!?
Upset by the continued lies and manipulations, Digby wishes himself and Geoff as far away as possible and immediately becomes embroiled in an intergalactic invasion by the N’th Sect!
He also meets his future self, who happens to have amnesia (after a brutal battle with a whole bunch of demons!).
Turns out, everything that has happened so far may have just been a dream!!! But whose dream?! The answer to that is less important than breakfast, so Geoff and Digby chow down, accidentally mixing their food with each other’s!
With unexpected results! Geoff and Digby switch bodies!!!
Before they even have time to figure out just what the heck they’re going to do, a mysterious figure appears. He goes by many names, but the most important is that of the Un-Betweener, a cosmic being who lives between the panels of the story. He warns Digby that his wishing has caught the attention of the Reality Redeemers, who are on their way to eradicate him!
But things take a turn when one of the Reality Redeemers reveals he is, in fact, the wish demon!
Digby tries wishing him and Geoff back to their original forms, but it doesn’t go as planned. As the Reality Redeemers close in, our mixed-up duo find themselves being rescued by none other than Epsilon-7! Epsilon-7 reveals itself to be one of the Seven Paladins of Eternity (another being Pickle-Bot!) and sends Digby on a mission to find the most powerful of the Paladins!
But how to get there?!?! Help comes in the form of space trucker Buck Tuckles, who takes in Digby and Geoff as hitchhikers!
Unfortunately they don’t get very far before Digby and Geoff are sucked into a giant, sentient nebula!
Which deposits them back on Earth in their original forms! But another wish goes wrong and before you know it, Geoff has become a demon dog and Digby has become a buxom blonde being chased by every single character from the Jam!
Luckily, Digby remembers he knows boob-fu and vanquishes his pursuers. Which is when Red Raven appears, not only returning Digby and Geoff to their original forms but also giving them wings and weapons!
And sends them into battle against their dopplegangers in the Altiverse! Which doesn’t go well. But as Digby reads through the rules of the wish battle, we discover he can talk directly to the creators of the story! And promptly demands that someone write him out of this mess!
That demand is promptly ignored, and after Brien Wayne Powell and his creations debate where the story should go next, the wish demon comes back yet AGAIN, and we suddenly find Digby and the demon hanging out at a ranch, discussing the meaning of life and a good place for a burger.
The demon explains the meaning of life just in time for Digby to be turned to ash by a giant fireball!
After a tour of the afterlife, the wish demon brings Digby back to life, where he is reunited with Geoff just in time to witness an alien invasion!
They are promptly rescued by the Beach Mother, who reveals she’s Digby’s mom! And after this startling revelation, she shrinks him and Geoff down to the size of fleas! After a brief interlude featuring Gus and Fred, Super Flea comes to the rescue!
The Wish Demon sets Digby and Geoff on a new path, leading them to run into Kyle the Horse, who demands that Digby avenge his death!
Knowing he can’t take on the Wish Demon on his own, Digby recruits his fellow dog park friends Jackson, Riley, and Simon, each with their own special skills! But before they can head into Hell, the Wish Demon and Beach Mother make a surprise appearance!
And suddenly we’re in Stonehenge! Where Slogroth is summoned forth to destroy the world! Slogroth is thwarted by Geoff’s powerful bite, and moments later we discover that we’ve been at a Stonehenge-themed dog park this whole time!
Which has racked up dog park fees of $2970! And since Jan Dolph doesn’t accept Venmo, the whole Sunday Jam crew puts on a musical to raise the funds. Unfortunately, they come up five cents short, but luckily Ken Anthony II is there to bail them out!
But Jackson shows up just in time with a coffee superbrew that leaves Digby’s nemeses covered in coffee sludge and facing a hefty coffeehouse check! And then the Coffee Witch shows up, offering a refill! But at what cost?
Digby won’t have to answer that question alone, because Juan Valdez is there with his own coffee and wisdom! Juan let’s Digby know that it’s Digby and not the coffee that has the power to choose his destiny! And Digby chooses a jungle adventure!
Which he immediately regrets, coming face to face with Simius Rex! But he gets an assist from none other than Duke-Dangby, who dispatches their pursuers with the Gorilla FlipTM!
All that adventuring builds up an appetite, so Digby and Dangby set up a trap to catch some food, not realizing that the Bi-Polar Bear has set up a trap of its own! Except the trap is really Bi-Polar Bear’s own existential ennui, leading it to explode and forcing Digby and Dangby to try to eat a bunch of depressed jungle creatures.
Which somehow causes Digby and Geoff to end up back at the beginning of the story! Except this time, it’s snowing! And there’s a Yeti! A Demon Yeti!
Luckily, Steve Bostin, the $6 Man shows up and delivers the Demon Yeti a shocking defeat! But Digby and Geoff aren’t out of the woods yet, because right at that moment they are attacked by a garden gnome wielding a battle axe!
To be continued!!!!
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