Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for June 14, 2024

Hope you enjoyed it, silly

Never knew genies had feet.

I wish any curse imprisoning you to the lamp to be forever broken, with no backfires.

I like the last panel. My wish would be: peace all over the world and enough time to enjoy it. -Wait, that probably would be a second wish, right?!

She could have wished she could speak four different languages. Just make sure English is one of them!

But I like silly Broomie!

I thought you were supposed to get 3 wishes.

I’ve often wondered what wish I’d go for should a genie come my way with the question. Billions of dollars would be nice, but full of problems. But, think of the good I could do for folks in need.

Does this mean the end of Boomies silliness? Say it ain’t so!

No so, Genie: if you granted Broomie’s wish, then she would not have wished for ten more wishes, in which case she would not have had to wish she hadn’t been (past tense) so silly, in which case we’d be back at the starting point, running endlessly around this loop in time.

Maybe Genies need something like the “three laws of robotics,” so they don’t grant wishes that bring the space-time continuum to an end…

“O I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener”

Oops!

Faust should have called his lawyer first.