genie-3
Original: genie-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A green genie emerges from a lamp held by a woman with brown hair in a red top.
Genie: "Wish for whatever you like, but beware the unexpected consequences!"
Woman: "I wish my husband had never left me."
Panel 2: Close-up on the genie's grinning green face.
Genie: "So be it."
Panel 3: A balding man in a suit stands looking dejected, with a starburst speech bubble.
Man: "I don't love you. Our marriage is a sham. But I am too emotionally immature to call it off."
Panel 4: The woman throws her arms up in joy. The genie's face appears in the corner.
Genie: "Ha! You should've specified that—"
Woman: "Woohoo! Together again!"
Votey:
The genie's face, drawn in a simpler sketch style.
Genie: "Stupid ever-increasing human shallowness."
Genie: "Wish for whatever you like, but beware the unexpected consequences!"
Woman: "I wish my husband had never left me."
Panel 2: Close-up on the genie's grinning green face.
Genie: "So be it."
Panel 3: A balding man in a suit stands looking dejected, with a starburst speech bubble.
Man: "I don't love you. Our marriage is a sham. But I am too emotionally immature to call it off."
Panel 4: The woman throws her arms up in joy. The genie's face appears in the corner.
Genie: "Ha! You should've specified that—"
Woman: "Woohoo! Together again!"
Votey:
The genie's face, drawn in a simpler sketch style.
Genie: "Stupid ever-increasing human shallowness."
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic about a genie wish gone right (for the wisher). Panel 1: a green genie rises from a lamp held by a brown-haired woman in red and warns, "Wish for whatever you like, but beware the unexpected consequences!" The woman wishes, "I wish my husband had never left me." Panel 2: an extreme close-up of the genie's smug grinning green face saying, "So be it." Panel 3: a dejected balding man in a suit declares in a jagged speech bubble, "I don't love you. Our marriage is a sham. But I am too emotionally immature to call it off." Panel 4: the woman throws her arms up in delight, cheering, "Woohoo! Together again!" while the genie, peeking in from the corner, sputters, "Ha! You should've specified that—". The joke: instead of bringing her husband back, the genie made it so he never left, trapping them both in a loveless marriage, which the woman happily accepts. Votey (aftercomic): a rough sketch of the genie's face grumbling, "Stupid ever-increasing human shallowness."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.