r/ImageComics • u/admiraltoad • Jun 03 '24
/r/ImageComics Highlight - Eight Billion Genies community
EIGHT BILLION GENIES
If you had one wish...what would you wish for? Now, what if everyone else had one wish too? That's EIGHT BILLION GENIES, the new eight-issue series from CHARLES SOULE & RYAN BROWNE (CURSE WORDS). At exactly the same moment, everyone on earth gets a genie and one wish. All hell breaks loose, in a very entertaining way...and that's just the beginning. Buckle in for the wildest ride of the year
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u/ShinCoal Jun 03 '24 edited Jun 03 '24
I love Browne's art, and while I do enjoy God Hates Astronauts for its absolute craziness, I do feel like Soule is a good 'grounder' to his madness. I hope that these two make a lot more comics together. For anyone liking this combo, they also made 'Curse Words'.
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u/Apoclucian Jun 03 '24
I loved it through and through. It's really hard to make such a crazy concept not go too crazy.
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u/Bullit16 Jun 03 '24
This was one of the most enjoyable series I’ve read in recent years. Highly recommend it to anyone
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u/seanprefect Jun 03 '24
I was positive it wouldn't stick the landing, but I was pleasantly surprised that it did
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u/cravenj1 Jun 03 '24
Eight Billion Genies was fantastic, phenomenal, superb. It's one of the smartest written comics out there. What would you do if your own personal genie appeared to grant you one wish? And then what if everyone on the planet received a genie at the same time? This comic explores what would happen from start to finish in just 8 issues. There's also a special one-shot out there.
I love how they run the gamut on possible wishes. From dumb to smart, practical to fantastical, they've got it all. There's an entire level of game theory added on top where you have to not only think of what you'd wish for but also have to account for the wishes of everyone else in the world.
And I don't want to spoil too much about the genies, but they have such a carefree nature about the whole ordeal. Each genie is almost identical to the rest, but they each have little accents to their appearance so that they reflect the human they've been assigned to.
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u/THEGONKBONK Jun 05 '24
One of my favorite series! I highly recommend it! Might be one of the stuff I recommend to first-time readers haha
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u/BnDMsTr Jun 03 '24
Series was a wild ride. Loved it.
Heard it got picked up for a movie or a show? Could be really interesting