Eight Billion Genies Deluxe Edition Vol. 1

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Worth checking out but I wasn't a huge fan of where Soule took the premise and Ryan Browne's artwork, although certainly a professional level, isn't really my cup of tea. To navigate the possibilities of the this reality, the eight-part series tells the story over increasing spans of time: The first eight minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, and finally centuries.

apart from the world establishing shot at the start, which shows a big chunk of the planet missing and only raises more questions. That's the question on everyone's mind when eight billion genies, one for every person on Earth, materialize out of thin air to grant humanity's wildest dreams. It follows a world forever changed by the appearance of magical genies able to grant any wish imaginable and whose motives are shrouded in mystery. They have all of the memories and mannerisms of the real person, but disappear soon after the wisher dies.At the very least, as Robbie gets older he properly grows into his superhero body and simply becomes a huge hulking guy as an adult.

This post-apocalyptic comic is about the world being destroyed by the abundance of wish fulfillment. The fact that 2 billion people have died directly or indirectly as a result of the wishes the genies granted in a mere eight days doesn't register to them in the slightest. He was the genie who granted the last wish in the previous iteration, and has lived for nearly 1,400 years as a result.In the early issues, people ask for crazy wishes out of impulse, but as reality sets in, wishes become a form of currency or status symbol. PORTAGE PARK — Imagine a small genie suddenly appears before you, empowered to grant you exactly one wish. That’s the premise behind Image Comic’s new graphic novel, “Eight Billion Genies,” published in late July. This exploration of how society can fall back to its worst tendencies even in the face of an apocalypse is one of the most interesting aspects of the series.

I'm not saying any of these things couldn't have gone the way they did, but the more they deviate from the expected and the sensible and what common sense would dictate, the more set-up they require.

In a single moment, each person on Earth, gets their own personal genie, willing to grant them their own single wish. Ernest goes into a tirade when Will prepares to refuse service until Ernest can pay his tab, whereas Dorothy asks for martinis so she's soused when she inevitably goes poof from No Ontological Inertia. We all love to fantasize about being rich or having superpowers or everyone loving us, but I bet most of us haven't thought this whole thing through. As a result, they refuse to grant wishes that would cancel out too many other people's (a zombie apocalypse, world peace, any one country taking over the whole world), and break out in applause when they get to grant a completely selfless wish.

Exact Words: Unusually for a work about genies, this is averted/subverted - unspoken intent is taken into account, and it's this - along with potential conflicts with other wishes - that causes unintended consequences. Justified because Will Williams' wish was for the bar to remain unaffected by any other wishes, making it a safe haven from the madness outside.

It begs the question of whether or not she would've made that wish had she known it would change a fundamental part of him (as opposed to "just" overriding his free will). Browne's artwork felt rough at first, but it really grew on me, and I think it fits the book very well. Unsound Effect: Wishes in the story are almost always accompanied with the onomatopoeia of "Wisssssh!