# 51 Prophylaxis
Aug31
Hey kids, it’s that time you’ve been preparing for all week. Yep, it’s voting time! Some of you may use those stress balls to get your button pushing finger in shape. Some may dig out the last olive from the jar while refusing to use a fork, so as to get the most of your workout. Whatever your method, we appreciate the effort. Pleasant voting everyone!
Sincerely,
BACH-MANN & Shhadow
Sadly I see this wish magic working in some odd and unexpected way.
You can count on it and that what will make this cartoon series interesting.
I can see several possibilities here. Like Melvin trying to help Red turn back into a boy. Melvin could cast a spell on Red to change her back and it could get rejected and deflected back on BJ and then have BJ turn into a frog and then we would have to have Melvin have to convince Red to kiss BJ the frog so we could change BJ back into a boy.
There are all kinds of ways that Melvin can screw things up and then have to straighten this up again.
What’s with the Holly’s sexy body in the photo?! To answer my own question, it’s probably a photoshop Liam had made. At first I thought Bach-Mann had gone in a radically new direction in Holly’s character design. …Not that I would have complained. XD
Several strips back Red was looking at some picture online and said that wasn’t Holly’s real body. I have to conclude that this is the picture and it was photoshopped by Liam either to torment Melvin, or because he also likes Holly, or both.
This reminds me of the “safe sex” scene in the first Naked Gun movie. If you haven’t seen the Naked Gun movies or Police Squad TV series (only 6 episodes), you should immediately find and watch them, they’re Amazing.
Can someone please explain to me what the hell is going on! I’m so confused.
It seems Melvin has gained magic abilities; maybe from the book.
Yes, has some magical powers now, but, thing aren’t going as planned. He having some sexual fantasy and giant condemn fell on him or engulfed him and everybody laughing at him. In the last frame he see his old nemeses Liam with a girl that Melvin interested in. That what all those scribble marks are on Liam and her body are about.
Assuming that this is following on from the previous strip, Melvin was trying for a “magical protection” spell and ended up getting a different sort of protection, as stated by Kazom.
Heh, I’ ve never been able to make sense of it. I shouldn’t have to have Spark Notes to understand a web comic.
Didn’t know condoms came in that size. Medium?
Has Melvin used his 3 wishes yet? Does anyone recall?
Will Kazom HAVE to grant melvin’s wish, even though Melvin is thinking it?
Melvin. Stop pining over the photo. Be honest: it’s more that you resent him than like her.
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@Vimmy: No good for Kazom to interfere at this point. Melvin needs to achieve this breakthrough on his own.
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I have to wonder if the giant condom reflects his lustful thoughts.
Anyway, fun comic. Thanks!
He’s a teenager, lustful thoughts are part of the territory. Part of why we wait until the kids are in their twenties to marry ’em off is so that they can get back to being able to think with their brains, not their glands, when making a long term decision.
@50srefugee- Based on the last panel, it seems to me Melvin has genuine affection for Holly. He not only crossed Liam out, but the busty lusty imposter body as well, leaving only her face, encapsulated in a heart. He goes to this to be comforted after his defeat. He may be a teenaged boy, but I remember a rare few boys his age who were capable of something beyond just lust.
I agree–scribbling out the fake sexy body is a statement of “I want the real Holly rather than a fake-yet-hot fantasy.”
Really you’d think someone with a live in genie would know better than to utter the phrase I wish.