Eight Billion Genies Deluxe Edition Vol. 1

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Betty and Carlos, son of the leader of El Futuro, end up being happily married for several decades, with several children and grandchildren.

Walking the Earth: Daisy does this after the deaths of Brian and Alex. She does this for 700 years due to her unexpected immortality.Incompatible Orientation: Daisy doesn't learn Brian is gay until long after she wastes her wish trying to make him fall in love with her (it didn't work because he was inside the wish-proof bar when she made the wish but she wasn't). 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). Unsound Effect: Wishes in the story are almost always accompanied with the onomatopoeia of "Wisssssh!" followed by the genie fizzling out after completing its wish.

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).I always tell people that the most creative and original storytelling is being done in comic books. It seems like the most innovative ideas are being explored in this medium. Eight Billion Genies is the latest thing I've read that reminded me of that. Starting on the fateful day when 8 billion cute tiny genies pop out of nowhere and latch themselves to each living person on Earth, granting each person one single wish, it then proceeds to tell the story of the craziness that transpires after that. Reality Warper: The genies can make practically anything happen so long as the wishes are worded properly. Their abilities can completely ignore conventional logic and physics, making functional Humongous Mecha, giving people superpowers, and even turning the moon into a ravenous Genius Loci. They even mentioned offhandedly how they could create hundreds of new realities to accommodate the wishes of leading politicans to have their countries rule as a superpower, but they call it far too much work to do so, instead choosing to anull all those wishes. Will: You have to snap your fingers with a flash of light, right? Isn’t that how this happens? But, yes, you’d maybe be strategic, like our bartender, Mr. Will Williams, with his zone of protection around his crummy bar. I don’t know how far the book is going to get bogged down in this, but if he could wish for a zone of no wishes, couldn’t someone else wish that no one got any wishes? Will: Well, I mean, that’s literally what I wished for up there in the intro, so it must be a thing I’ve really wanted. But for realsies, he does a great job here. I don’t know how I would have gone about drawing and coloring a mess of genies, but the work is great — each genie has their own little sense of visual character, and the cosmic coloring immediately gets to the point that these things are not of this earth. Also, it just looks cool.

Fading Away: The genies fizzle away like a mirage after granting their person's wish. It seems to be a form of death for them, as their population gradually goes down along with humanity's as more and more wishes are made. And yet, the genies remain excited and willing to grant as many wishes as they can, going so far as to nullify wishes that would negate other wishes. 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. Will: I’d only be interested in that book if it had just, you know, the most electric colors imaginable. And if it was by the same creative team that brought us Curse Words. I wish you’d burn in Hell,” one punk teen tells her parents at the dinner table, instantly regretting it when they catch fire in front of her and a horrified sibling. Crazy-Prepared: Will converted the basement of his bar into an armored bunker with a little bit of everything, from food to supplies to weapons in case he needs to hunker down. He figured that he needed to be prepared for a wildfire after watching all the friction being created all over the world even before the genies came to Earth.And then we skip almost a millennium and get to see just about nothing that has changed. Not so much as a glimpse of the outside world... apart from the world establishing shot at the start, which shows a big chunk of the planet missing and only raises more questions. Also in all that time human population has remained pretty static: you'd think it would either recover some, or die out completely. Wishplosion: This turns out to be the point of the whole thing. The genies will keep returning to Earth for as long as its sentient population collectively feels unfulfilled before reaching a certain size. Every time they do, the person with the last genie has the exclusive right to wish for something that resets the whole thing with different conditions. There is a rumor amongst the genies of an "ultimate wish" that'll permanently satisfy all human needs and desires forever, ending the cycle of genies, but none of them know what it is; a single genie gets left behind to live on the new world each time to try and figure it out. It turns out to be for "everyone to love the way they want to be loved". This results in an Earth with a population of eight billion, but no genies this time around.