So how are all the other students dealing with the "distortion"
It still just feels very unclear what the deal is. Like, they're just walking around here and everyone's fine. Did they forget they were supposed to be in some kind of The Cell-like dreamscape? And literally every adult is just not doing anything, leaving it to Annie to solve the "problem", whatever exactly the problem is. Oh yeah every adult except Tony, Anja, Donnie, and Annie's friends are all handwaved out of the story because they're fucking off to Earth 2. It feels like this entire mess has absolutely no direction whatsoever, it's just a series of short soap opera mini-vignettes except without the drama tension and climax, with all the world building this comic spent 2 decades on just reduced to a chatgpt pastiche of itself.