Eight Billion Genies Deluxe Edition Vol. 1

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This comic starts on a really high note as it well gets across the apocalyptic chaos that the core premise immediately causes. Eight Billion Genies collects issues 1-8 of the Image Comics series written by Charles Soule and art by Ryan Browne. The basic premise is that one moment everyone on Earth, all eight billion souls, get a genie at the same time. The bar is home to a diverse cast of survivors, each with their own unique perspective on the world. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Image did a great job of producing a beautiful book that really shows off Browne’s eccentric and colorful art. But thanks to a quick-witted barkeep, we've got a safe island and get to learn about a bunch of people stuck in the eye of the storm, relate to their troubles, hope they'll get through it fine, and in general bind the hilariously insane premise to human terms that we can understand. A Form You Are Comfortable With: Genies appear as tiny floating toddlers with etherial, wispy bodies. While these pages may appear humorous, they tell a more morbid story: the diminishing number of wishes and people.This consists of a rapid depletion of genies on both sides, as each attacking wish is met with a counter-wish that nullifies its effects. World-Wrecking Wave: Several weeks after "G-Day", someone ( Floyd Faughn) makes a wish for an energy wave that scours the Earth and kills most life forms. His run on She-Hulk is one of the inspirations behind the upcoming Marvel/Disney+ series featuring the heroine.

Flying Brick: Robbie uses his wish to become this, with powers of flight, super-strength, and super-durability. Our Genies Are Different: Earth, a short time from now, gets a visit from eight billion genies, one for every person on Earth. They're also happy to be consulted for context and advice up to the point that the wish is actually made and will fulfill a wish to the full spirit of the wish rather than the letter of the wish. I never felt like it fit too well with the premise, to begin with, and it started to break things as we got into decades towards the end.Genies also suffer this fate if their person dies before they can make a wish, only lamenting that the wish never got to be used. Morphic Resonance: A genie looks a little like the person they're assigned to — they'll look about the same age and have markings similar to their hair, facial hair, and glasses (if any). Soule and Browne are repped by Angela Cheng Caplan of Cheng Caplan Company and Eric Feig of Feig Law. While Wang and Lifeng are discussing what to do with their wishes, their genies pass the time by thumb wrestling, only for Lifeng's to cheat by increasing the size of their thumb.

Unfortunately for her and luckily for Brian, Will made his wish to render all wishes from outside the bar unable to affect the bar or whatever is inside, nullifying it.Deathbed Confession: When Robbie's superhero friends are killed by a particularly powerful supervillain, Robbie has a breakdown because at 12 years old, he's too young to process all this death and destruction.