8 Billion Genies Download
Liora Putcha
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. Within minutes, the world is turned upside down as billions of people decide to have their fantasies become reality.
Eight Billion Genies is an eight-issue Image Comics comic book series written by Charles Soule with art by Ryan Browne. 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. Meanwhile, Will Williams and the people inside his small Michigan bar grapple with their everchanging reality and what to use their omnipotent wishes on.
Although plenty of people outside are using their wishes. The genies vanish once the wish is used so there are two pages to indicate the human population and the genie population. The first count is eight billion but by the end of the issue the human population and the genie population count both decrease (the latter more than the former). I also like that the illustration of Earth used on those pages changes from normal to a cube with explosions a nice way of showing the chaos.
The design of the genies is also fun. They are blue ghost-like beings that float and seem to have a bit of sparkles like they are covered with tiny stars. They also have the classic genie wispy heads. They are small and pretty cute and also reflect the features of the person they are assigned to. So, for example, if the character has a beard then the matching genie will have a white line to represent a beard on their face. This makes each genie as individual as the people and gives them all their individual character.
As you can imagine \u2014 or at least enjoy \u2014 this \\\"dream come true\\\" for humankind is instead a far cry from utopia, personal or planetwide. 8 billion wishes quickly compete for attention, colliding in gritty, wacky, weird, grim, silly and sweet ways. By continuing to intersect with an initial group of rando characters we first meet in a Michigan bar, the series keeps us grounded through the conjuring chaos, even as the issue-by-issue takes us from the first 8 wishes, the first 8 hours, the first 8 days, the first 8 months \u2014 you get it, right?
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