219*: The Power of the Key
May04
Apologies for the delay on this page, folks. Hollum really wanted all this bunny stuff to come out in April.
Anyway, here’s the full version of Page 219.
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BJBJ, or Boyd Johnson, thinks himself the ladies man. He couldn't be more wrong, but that doesn't stop him from trying to woo the fairer sex when he can. Comics: 133 |
Holly SmytheHolly is Melvin's crush. After the genie incident, Holly is aware that Melvin likes her, but there is a little too much strangeness surrounding Melvin and his friends for Holly's liking. Comics: 78 |
KahinComics: 46 |
Melvin ClarkThe unofficial leader of the trio of friends. Melvin sees himself as the wise wizard of the party. Comics: 248 |
SaachiThis quirky, awesome girl, is Holly's best friend. The pair grew up together and have become more like sisters. Comics: 57 |
Tiffany "Red" ThorntonRed was a boy until a new genie tried to get Melvin a girlfriend. That's when the genie turned Red into a girl so Melvin could practice talking to girls, and forgot to turn her back before disappearing. Red is hopeful that her situation is only temporary. Comics: 226 |
Okay, now we are starting to jump sharks.
We are putting this one Shark back to the aquarium, rather soon. Don’t worry. It was fun while it lasted.I feel sure it is only temporary and I think it is funny.
IMO, the whole premise of the Genie Bottle universe in a way jumps the shark. That is part of its ‘charm’.
So Pink wants to merge/assimilate Red. Nothing to be worried about.
So it appears that Pinky has firmly attached herself to Red at this point. I wonder if that means Red’s Pinky designed outfit will return once the bunny suits disappear, or will Pinky give back Red’s old clothes to help hide her presence from the others.
That’s a good idea. Giving back her old clothes as a hiding mechanism, that is.
That said… Red’s old clothes are *wrecked*. So she might not really appreciate it, haha.
I had forgotten how torn up Red’s clothes were, she may prefer to keep the bunny suit.
I would NOT complain! 🙂
Pinky/Rose is starting to sound a lot like the Borg, with a slightly better vocabulary.
To be fair, Rose really is trying to do what she thinks is best for Red. Unfortunately, it’s probably the same way Gilligan tried to do what was best for the castaways. Good intentions applied with energetic stupidity can do as much damage as evil.
Pinky is more like female Venom bound to Mary Jane and who would like very much to get her tentacles on Peter.
“Better vocabulary”? Borg assimilated plenty of native speakers, they use exactly the vocabulary they want to use. They don’t WANT to sound friendly.
Rose WANTS to sound friendly, is not actually powerful to just overwrite Red’s personality and thinks her goal are good for Red. And she might even be right in a sense – like, it seems there is no way for Red to return to man and she likely already wouldn’t want to anyway, so, what exactly is bad about it?
I don’t doubt that Pinky thinks she’s doing the “right” thing, but then, so do the Borg. That doesn’t make it right from the assimilated parties’ point of view.
And I always thought the Borg sounded very mechanical in their communication. And if they at least pretended to be friendly, they might have a better chance at tricking other races into getting assimilated. But that’s a minor point.
“Hello friends, we are the Borg. Please lower your shields, we would like to share our biological and technological distinctiveness with your own. Your culture will adapt and reach new heights with us. Resistance of our gifts to you is futile, we only wish to share.”
All of the above said in the same tone as Starfire from the Teen Titans.
You know, that actually IS a bit of an improvement. Not much, but some.
You’d think that a hyper-intelligent race that had absorbed many other species would have figured out that there was an advantage to using deception and diplomacy, at least initially.
Apparently, they are NOT so hyper-intelligent. Seriously, they assimilated Romulans (Yes, they did, I don’t care what Hugh says in Picard, both TNG and Voyager shown some) and they still didn’t understand deception?
Kind of like the North Koreans’ bizarro conception of English as used in their official communiques, with the underlying implication (conscious or not) of “You must conform to our world view, inferior beings.”