Mike, it is the wrong assumption. The second option (“I can make it stop hurting”) suggests that the tiny human has lost someone and wants that person back in life.
Just leaving a comment to say that this comic left a big impact on me. I keep coming back to it. It’s so subtle yet compassionate in its message and presentation. The choice to make the human’s dialogue “inaudible” was fantastic. It really invites the reader to think about the conversation between the genie and human more deeply.
Further, the genie’s perspective on death–one of a tragic equalizer–is fascinating. How a being of excessive power can come into possession of such wisdom provokes important question about the relationship between power and self-identity. Is his perspective shared by other, more powerful beings? Or has he alone made peace with mortality, the only one of his kind to do so, like an oasis in a harsh desert?
I keep coming back to this comic. First saw it on Instagram and saved it in a folder. was having one of those throwback scroll sessions where I go through it, and wanted to see this one again. couldn’t find it, went to their insta to see that they deleted it all from there. went on a little hunt here and reddit until I found it. just commented to say that no matter how long it’s been since I’ve first seen it, this still hits. if anything, it hits harder. I know you lost a lot of the interactions between readers on Instagram, and that’s why you were reluctant to take everything off from there. I thought I’d help make up the loss by interacting here, just a little.
He could have wished for me to stop chopping all these onions!
So I assume that person wish for eternal life and overall immortality?
Mike, it is the wrong assumption. The second option (“I can make it stop hurting”) suggests that the tiny human has lost someone and wants that person back in life.
Kek, yes I FINALLY understand now particularly in the last panel where the genie said to the small mortal, “I am sorry for your loss”😔😯
After seeing the tags, I am not liking the direction my mind initially went.
I really hope that doesn’t mean what I think it means…
I sorry if that mean that you lost one of your cat. This comic is very sweet. With love.
He should have tried using the dragon balls instead; that wish could have worked that way.
Fine art – as always.
Fine thought.
Fine compassion.
“Rule number three: I can’t bring people back from the dead… It’s not a pretty picture – I don’t like doing it!”
-The Genie from Aladdin
Just leaving a comment to say that this comic left a big impact on me. I keep coming back to it. It’s so subtle yet compassionate in its message and presentation. The choice to make the human’s dialogue “inaudible” was fantastic. It really invites the reader to think about the conversation between the genie and human more deeply.
Further, the genie’s perspective on death–one of a tragic equalizer–is fascinating. How a being of excessive power can come into possession of such wisdom provokes important question about the relationship between power and self-identity. Is his perspective shared by other, more powerful beings? Or has he alone made peace with mortality, the only one of his kind to do so, like an oasis in a harsh desert?
Thanks for making this comic.
I keep coming back to this comic. First saw it on Instagram and saved it in a folder. was having one of those throwback scroll sessions where I go through it, and wanted to see this one again. couldn’t find it, went to their insta to see that they deleted it all from there. went on a little hunt here and reddit until I found it. just commented to say that no matter how long it’s been since I’ve first seen it, this still hits. if anything, it hits harder. I know you lost a lot of the interactions between readers on Instagram, and that’s why you were reluctant to take everything off from there. I thought I’d help make up the loss by interacting here, just a little.