*GASP*

This guy is obviously not terribly bright.

Well to be fair he was dead a moment ago, or at least near it. Honestly the fact he's being so agreeable rather then arguing shows some activity upstairs.

I just hope he got wounded aquiring the genie or hes even denser than i thought ^^.If I had my hands on one of those my first wish would be carefully worded immortality or as close to it as I could get =).

Well he was clearly running away in the first few pages and was called a thief so he most likely took the lantern from them, not to mention we saw him got shot three times and was forced to jump off of a waterfall. Not much choice in what happens there. Pay more attention to the previous pages, my dude.

I did pay attention-my dude

"I just hope he got wounded acquiring the genie or hes even denser than i thought"

Just sayin', the first 5 pages were explicitly and exactly just that so it sounds like you weren't paying attention since, you know, they showed exactly just that, that he was shot three times after getting the lantern followed by having no choice but to fall hundreds of feet off of a cliff side waterfall and that it wasn't exactly his choice to just up and die before being able to have an opportunity to use it. There's no "i just hope" since its "that's literally what happened."

Ok tuning you out now byebye!

Alrighty then, good luck carefully wording that immortality wish if you can't even word your own comments correctly or understand how you worded your comments.

Immortal isn't bullet proof, you want invulnerability.

Hence "carefully worded" just asking for invulnerability could end in me being an unbreakable statue or worse =)

Oh yeah, I forgot they give dodgy services. Thought your wish isn't much better. In Greek mythology, someone asked for immortality and received it but didn't get eternal youth, as a result continued to age and suffer until he no longer even remotely resembled human and never dying. There isn't a safe ask about this, to be honest, I would just be thankful she was generous and had enough initiative to do something this positive.

"even though djinn should never play gods." I dunno about you but, granting immortality sound like playing God to me.

Also every piece of media in the past century point toward immortality being a curse, not a blessing. =P

Every piece of media in the past century and further has been written by mortals,Of course immortality is going to be written as a curse,Its a huge case of us as a species finding out we cant have something we want and then sulkily declaring "we didnt want it cause it sucks anyway!"

I'm a mortal, I can barely imagine myself living past 70. Remove the aging factor and maybe I'd consider 120 years but anything over 200 years sounds like hell to me. =P

Living forever is bound to get boring at some point. It probably would ultimately twist anyone's perception of the world around them too.

Im a mortal and immortality sounds awesome to me-look at how much the world has changed in just a couple of hundred years,Id love to see the mayhem and advances in the next thousand=D.Boredom only happens for prolonged periods of time if you let it.Theres always something new to see-hell by the time youve read every book worth reading youll have blown through at least a century or two and thats just assuming you do nothing else at all.

Aah, but that's the thing though, new things to see aren't limitless, immortality is eternal, sooner or later, there will be no new things. (there's also the possibility you witness the end of mankind at some point and then you're the only one left, alone, forever...Or until aliens find the planet I guess, IF they find it. =P)

I think the big difference between us on this subject is youre a pessimist and im an optimist.Lets agree to disagree=)

I can see, how my previous messages could come off as being pessimistic (though I could say the cliche "I consider myself more of a realist really" =P), but I assure you I'm neither judging your perceptive on immortality nor am I saying I wouldn't like to be present if the day ever comes when humanity makes it as far as to travel the universe(hopefully faster than waiting several generations in transit between the stars because that's no fun).

I wouldn't mind if at some point I could just put myself in stasis and pop out every 50-100 years for a bit just to see how things are going. Heck I might not even mind the possibility of living more than a century (provided the longevity doesn't come with all the inconveniences that come with aging).

But that's longevity not immortality, not truly anyways. True immortality, would mean you can't die, even if you're tired and decide you've had a good loooooong run but it's time to get off the ride, you CAN'T. Because what makes life amazing is that things, everything changes, but that also means you can change yourself, at some point you might change to find living forever isn't as fun as it was 2 millennia ago. Immortality implies that the one thing that doesn't change is the fact you can't die.

And there are also moral dilemmas about immortality, are you the only immortal? Is everyone immortal? Is it random? What if someone in power is immortal or and immortal becomes someone in a position of power and they're not exactly the "nicest" of rulers. Do their subjects and their descendants all get to be abused and taken advantage of forever? Like I said, people change overtime, so even an immortal that was actually someone nice and actually a good ruler, could become something else entirely. There is that saying after all, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." , in a way what more absolute of a power is there than immortality, the power over death?

So yeah, to me immortality sounds bad, for a bunch of reasons on lot of different levels, I don't mind people living for a century or two(maybe), or finding a way to "spectate" what happens to humanity until the end of times. But personally, past a certain number of centuries, I wouldn't trust someone's objectivity anymore, I certainly wouldn't want them influencing my life anyways. To me Immortality is kind of a selfish desire, so as long as immortals keep to themselves and just "look but don't touch" I wouldn't care, but if they start making decisions that affect the lives of non-immortal then we got a problems, and unfortunately for me, a problem that can't die apparently. =P

But I'm probably rambling, I really like the subject, but in truth I'm not sure Viktria's comment section is the best place to discuss it, I'd understand perfectly ifyou wanted to drop the discussion here.

No, just a cynic who doesn't trust djinns. XD

Not trusting Djinns is probably not that bad an idea,If anythings going to have a blue and orange morality its going to be the creature that glows in the dark with godlike powers XD

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p.....mortalityHurts

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p.....reverIsAwesome

Also though Djinn shouldnt play god it doesnt mean they cant grant a wish that will in some way add more time on the clock =).Does a doctor play god by giving a patient antibiotics?or healing a wound that might eventually go septic and kill the patient?.

That's a pretty extreme comparison, comparing actual immortality to a simple disease prevention. a doctor is about as godly as a person just washing their hands before eating. Doctors are problem solvers, not life extenders. You can definitely live longer with the stuff that they do but its not going to ultimately prevent death in the end like immortality is supposed to do. There's honestly no way you'd be able to get around the "no playing god" rule, no matter how carefully you word your wish because in the end she'll probably just deny it cause they know what you're getting at.

Perhaps but I doubt shes going to cockblock every wish that will add time on the clock just due to some nondescript Genie prime directive.Heres a quote that sums up my attitude to the situation:

"I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that, I'd settle for a good few thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice."
— CEO Nwabudike Morgan - MorganLink 3D-Vision Interview (The Longevity Vaccine), Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

Him : ".... B-But... The tits?"

no tits for you! >:C

poor boy

Yup I'd count myself lucky. XD Would still offer her a meal at a cafe or something as a "Thanks for not letting me die, even though it was totally justified as I had stolen you..." XD

Well. He sure is still lucky. but kinda feeling bad for him after all the efforts to get her.

curse you fifth speech bubble.

Actually the whole 3 wish thing is just a Disney myth for the sake of plot, they even admit it in the bonus features in the DVD. Because a genie, djinn or efreet would grant as many wishes as was in their power. However, they also enjoyed toying and messing with mortals by twisting their wishes. So making a wish was a risky thing to do. I know, this is the standard thing now but I take my mythology seriously.

That's pretty interesting. o.o

To be honest, the 3 wishes thing was here for the sake of the plot, because if you have a finite amount, it's easier to take all away, and mess up someone's hard work for the lantern :D

Not that it matters now as he used his super wish.

I think she stands to have a wish of her own granted at this point. He is technically indebted to her afterall.

She sounds like an angry wife.

Moral of the story: read the terms of service agreement of your genie/djinn contract.

I get the feeling this is going to lead to some interesting stuff.

That kinda sucks, go through all that and back to square one x-x

Well, that's a bummer.

Well, that kind of sucks, guess whatever he wanted is all up in smoke

Oh man, with such a big rule why did she save him in the first place?
Probably out of pity?

I do love this so far

She let him have it.

She let him have it twice. Eventually we're going to see her let him give something back to her I bet.

dreams = rekt

time for making new ones

But the way. Blue as her main color ? Sabertooth teeth ? Translucent ? Oriental clothes? = Super HOT
I love her character design.

And now you owe her one, buddy. Frankly that's totally fair though, to me. In his position I'd just shrug and be like "Fair enough! Now what?"

Still he got the lamp so she's now stuck with him, she might not like it tho ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

how come I get the feeling he was going to wish her free?

At least he has enough common sense to not argue with a highly powerful magical being.

Should that be "even THOUGH djinns should never play gods"? Love her so far anyway. She's a spicy one.

"but you love me."

Jeez, who pissed in her cheerios?

Who spat in her bean curd!? Also, the look on the face makes me wonder if he was planing to make a wish for someone else...

Sorry for posting twice, but what the heck is going on in the top part of this comment section?

At least they are having fun. It could be wors XD

I like the way her jewelry floats without touching her.

Thank you for noticing it, I was really proud of that idea :) I tought it would add to her etheral being, if her jewelry would just float and folow her without even leaving her :D

Not sure if a typo, but in the first bubble of the large panel, she says "tough" when I assume she should be saying "though" ?

is this alaadin but a furry reptilian version

:v I guess he's lucky, poor guy through all that and he gets nothing more than another day to breathe.

It looks like he ain't never gonna have a friend like her. :/