# 54 Divine Intervention
Sep14
on September 14, 2015
at 8:21 PM
Hey kids, you’ve got to love a sweet, intelligent girl whose willing to pick up a hammer and enter the fight!
Like the ole Klingon proverb says, “Today is a good day to VOTE!”
Sincerely,
BACH-MANN & Shhadow
Why do I get the feeling Kazom may go in hot here and make a mistake.
Yes, let’s hope that he doesn’t hit Holly with anything worse than what he hit Susan with earlier.
This is going to escalate quickly.
I may not be fluent in Arabic, but I’m pretty sure that “Haji” is a name applied to someone who has been on a holy pilgrimage. So why would Kazom be worried about something with that name?
Haji was also Johny Quest friend that use to travel with him around the world. He was the other boy and he was from India.
So that has interesting possibilities too. Was Holy an avid Johny Quest watcher when she was young or something. Because, she getting into the spirit of it after probably day dreaming about it too.
Haji is also the the chief of all genies in ‘I Dream of Jeanie’.
Check the information page at JBcomic.com
http://jeaniebottle.com/?page_id=1821
It look like Holy going to get to see a talking cat, but very blurry.
It sounds like Holly may have dreams where she’s battling creatures often. The fantasy world must be a pretty big part of her life as well to afflict her dreams. It’s no wonder Melvin is so fond.
Kazom seems to have been expecting someone/s to make contact with Melvin. Probably why he’s been so focused on Melvin “protecting” himself.
Also, I’m assuming witchcraft and genie magic are a bit different. Kazom has been the one mentoring Melvin with his magic. I can see how Kazom could offer some wisdom of experience, but I wonder how much he knows about actual implementation.
Confirmed, Holly is a dork.
Also confirmed, slightly befuddled Holly is adorkable.
Kazom, you know how to use the toilet. Don’t tell me you haven’t figured doors yet.
(Are his powers really so weak he cannot, in an emergency, just >poofpoof< its knob?)
(Aargh. Stupid tags.)
*poof* through the door, or *poof* its knob.
Melvin probably locked the door when he pushed everyone out. Perhaps Kazom is saving his magical energy for the battle he presumes is inside.
Even if the door is locked, it’s an inside door–the lock can likely be defeated with a bobby pin. Even a typical entrance lock or deadbolt wouldn’t involve more than a few ergs.
Kazom, great and powerful genie, is panicking.
Just realized–Melvin now appears to want Holly out of his room.
And yet, she stays. His deeper wish is to have her there with him, and that outweighs his panic.
Own up to your feelings, kid. The Object of Your Desire plays the role of “cleric” (although she has adapted pretty darn well to finding herself in an actual magical situation).
You, on the other hand, are an actual wizard, with actual reality bending powers.
Use those powers, Oh Blue One. Take command of the situation.
I kinda hope Kazom doesn’t get through the door until Melvin finds a way to resolve the situation himself. Sometimes crisis is necessary to make a breakthrough.
I think Melvin just needs a minute to calm down and think *clearly* that he wants her safe back in her home. Then it will happen. His brain is in too much of a jumble right now . . .
If my memories of being an adolescent contain any shred of connection to actual events, “thinking clearly” when he has magically transported the Object of His Affection into his very bedroom is simply not going to happen. Particularly when, as I suppose, he deep down wants her there.
No, he’s going to have accept the situation and play it as it lays. That is his true test: can he cope with the consequences of his magical mistakes, beginning with owning up to his victim?
I see him continuing doing what he doing, at least for a little while. The worst part being, trying to explain why she in his bedroom in the first part without telling her what really happen. I see Melvin going about 6 to 8 cartoon strips, before being box into a corner and having to tell her the truth.
She going to know that something not right. She might not know what it is, because, Holly not stupid.
No, I don’t see Melvin “coming out” to Holly about his power or his feelings. It’s the old trope of the unrequited lover who can’t bring himself to talk honestly to the girl and her never seeming to have a clue. See Niles Crane and Daphne for example . . . At least that is the direction I see this going.
@ranck:
He must, if he wants the girl. Talking to her face to face is the first, minimum hurdle to prove you are worth talking to.
In this case, given that she has also demonstrated magical powers, he probably should admit he did it.
His other option is to say, “Holly? What are you doing in my room?”
That would put her off balance, big time.
But if he’s going to be a wizard, he needs to learn to assertive and fast on the uptake.