Jean AKA Jeannie AKA Jeanie is a film, book, and magazine reviewer for a national magazine. Most of Jean’s work is done through email, which means he doesn't have to go into the office.
On a trip to find a gift for his girlfriend, Jean found an empty Genie Bottle. Upon picking up this bottle, Jean became the bottle’s new genie-powered occupant. Not only was Jean turned into a genie, but the bottle turned him into what he believed a genie of the bottle should look like. Which, due to his fascination with a classic 60s TV show, turned him into a busty blonde woman.
Yaa showing your weak hand is always a good idea. Jeez Jeanie your are going to live for 1000’s of years get a brain. Every master you get will bully you if you don’t.
Jeanie is legitimately traumatized by Araceli’s threat about locking her away forever. Especially since she knows she’s fucked up REALLY badly here, having had her bottle fall into the hands of someone else. If Araceli finds out about this, Jeanie is screwed. FOREVER.
I agree its one thing to say “don’t show your hand” but its another to deal with something that’s traumatized you as badly as being sealed away has her and this is a phobia that has a very real chance of happening to her especially with someone as manipulative and greedy as Araceli seems to be.
It’s not a good idea to say you’ll do anything, especially when you’ve been morphed into a sexy female and talking to an old fat guy that probably hasn’t had any sex in decades. Personally, I don’t think Jean is that desperate to stay out of the bottle.
I’m not sure about the comic, but J.D. aka Boss Hogg is married to Rosco’s Sister Lulu the show.
knowing the TV show and how the two interacted I’m sure J.D. knows Lulu would just about castrate him if he tried something with another female
I think that Jean is not just trying to stay out of the bottle, but is also trying to push Hogg into getting his wishes over with as soon as possible. She already doesn’t like him and probably wants to finish up her “contract” with him so that she won’t have to deal with him any more.
Actually, it could be a combination of what several people have been saying here. It could be a little fear here being stuck in the bottle or with Boss Hogg as her new master permanently and want to get it over with so she can go back to Neil as her master instead. Because, she definitely has Master/servant relationship with Boss Hogg. Which is an indignity that Jeanie doesn’t like and she think it below her.
Jeanie may be a real ditsy blond in every since of the word and really stuck up, but, remember that she still a Genie and she can really mess up somebody wishes that try to take unfair advantage of her, because, they think they can. Remember, we are now talking about him using the last of his three wishes and is now coming up. Remember the female Greek Captain.
She could have all three down right now if she played her cards right. The Dukes and their car could be two separate wishes, so the last one would be the third. Unfortunately, she doesn’t seem to have noticed.
Jean, listen carefully, he said “go back to your bottle”, he never said “go back into your bottle.”
Start being even move sneaky about what people have said, especially jerks like Hogg.
We’re about to get a ta-da nick of time, or the mobster gets distracted, or it’s one of those ‘we never find out and it’s better that way’ or Jean gets a cruel dose of reality.
Araceli I think would be SHOCKED to learn she had hurt Jean this badly.
I don’t think it really matters what Araceli thought her threat would do to Jeanie. It’s almost worse if she didn’t realize the effect it would have, because that means she doesn’t think of permanent imprisonment for eternity as being an especially harsh punishment. It’d take some serious sociopathy to think that way.
Concur with Vimmy. Jeanie has no concept of living that long, less even than having a master. For all we know, most genies know how to put themselves into a kind of hibernation so they don’t have to experience those long stretches of solitary confinement.
Works the other way, too. I don’t think Aracelli understands that Jeanie was mortal until very recently indeed.
I’m pretty sure she does vaguely recall something being mentioned to her she just doesn’t seem to care all she’s interested in is getting Jeanie’s master. At the very least Guano KNOW’S jeanie is a new genie and choose to stay with Neil permanently but he’s supporting his neice in her schemes.
Even if she doesn’t know and Genie’s can go into hibernation she’s not trying to get jeanie trapped for a few centuries in exchange for her master she’s trying to get her sealed away forever and forcing her to lie to her master about it.
As I postulated on a post a few weeks ago, I don’t think genies are allowed to interact with their own totems. Otherwise they could do exactly what you just suggested.
Now that you mention it I have seen quite a few things that follow that same thinking (though the same holds true for genies being able to interact with their totems to an extent,) I guess in the end it would come down to what you think about Genie rules/laws (which makes sense for creatures of mythology.) Thank you for giving me your input, always fun to see another person’s viewpoint 😀
She’s probably unable to take her bottle away from somebody who is her “legitimate” Master. She might be able to take it from Hogg and leave once she has granted his third wish, but not before.
If that’s list in Boss Hogg’s eyes, then his next wish might be to be young and good looking. In which case, he’ll be the prettiest 2–year old gal in Hazzard County. And he’d use (waste) the third wish to change back.
You don’t mean that Lulu, Rosco sister and Boss Hogg wife would have to sign for a three or four year old girl who is actually Boss Hogg.
NO! NO! NO! A thousand times NO! And then have the Duke boy driving off into the sunset with Niel and Jeanie in tow to take them to the bus so they can leave Hazzard Count to go back home.
So that Jeannie font you guys use, did you get that designed specifically for the website or was it a preset from a program? It’s a cool font and it looks great, so if it’s from a program or if there’s a similar one it could look amazing if used well. I understand you probably don’t want to share the source if it’s custom made, and I’d probably be left clueless if you sent it to me so if it isn’t custom or there’s one close to it you know of, it looks wicked and I wanna know.
Oh, and the christmas banner at the top has a typo. Read the name of the comic.
I am more than a little disturbed by Jeanie’s clinging to Hogg like that, and her crying. That is a seriously girly reaction that Jean would never have fallen prey to.
Either that, or she’s asking to be thrown in the briar patch, as Fairportfan says upthread. I wish I could believe that, but I just don’t believe Jeanie’s that quick.
She’s made a big mistake in not making an emotional bond with Neil, relying instead on his friendship with Jean.
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I wonder if she’s succumbing to Hogg’s aura of power and wealth. He may be evil, but he’s also powerful and wealthy.
Remember that Jeanie been both a full fledged Girl and Genie for over six to eight month or longer. So she should start to act like a girl and Genie on at least some level. She starting to put on the charm the way a women does around a man and not act like the way we guys try to act around other guys.
Jeanie isn’t Jean anymore and doesn’t think like Jean does anymore and as more time go by, the difference between Jeanie and Jean will continue to increase and Jeanie will act more and more like a girl and less and less like a guy. Because, Jeanie a “GIRL GENIE and not BOY”!
And No she won’t succumb to Boss Hogg power or wealth, nor is she interested in it and being Genie, she doesn’t need to be interested in it or have to cater to him or what he thinks he is or isn’t. However she might fall victim to Boss Hogg acting as the Master for a little bit, because she a Genie. But, that will be for only a little while, until she figures how to get out of this mess.
Jeanie will do what she always does. Which is, stumbling her way around, until she stumbles her way out of the mess, that she stumbled her way into in the first place. No problem!
In frame two, it look like she is considering her option of what she can do before she make her move in frame three.
I have run into girls like that and all I can say is all sh@t man. There plotting on the one side to pull some kind of crap on you and do the injured routine on the other side like there the injured party here and your the guilty party. Then they do the crying number on some other guys chest while he is thinks he converting her from something bad that you did and it will be in front of several guy’s at the same time. Then when she on the other side him, she will look across at you like, What your going to do about it.
We guys can be really really stupid sometime. We like to play HANDY DANDY FIX IT MEN, but, we usually end up playing the fool when some girl like that walk in. That girl had four or five guys twisting in the wind at the same time. Don’t be so quick to write Jeanie off yet, because, I have seen that look before.
I am not saying that she doesn’t have guanine fear of the bottle, but, I wouldn’t put it past her to at least have started the process of coming up with a plan from frame two to frame three.
“Oh, PLEASE don’t throw me in that briar patch, B’rer Fox!”
Well, Boss and his land does seem to Southern. But I don’t think he’d be a Song of the South…
I don’t like that look on Hogg’s face. “Anything” is a very dangerous word, especially when a genie is involved.
Its a very dangerous young word when you’re an attractive young woman talking to a man with low/no ethics..
Good thing Lulu would shove J.D. face-first down his own throat if he even thought about messin’ ’round on her.
Looks to me like Jean’s got a plan – of course this is Jean so I don’t think it will be a good plan.
As Sterling Archer would say. “Um… phrasing.” Seriously Jean watch out for that phrasing…
Yaa showing your weak hand is always a good idea. Jeez Jeanie your are going to live for 1000’s of years get a brain. Every master you get will bully you if you don’t.
Jeanie is legitimately traumatized by Araceli’s threat about locking her away forever. Especially since she knows she’s fucked up REALLY badly here, having had her bottle fall into the hands of someone else. If Araceli finds out about this, Jeanie is screwed. FOREVER.
I think that’s what she realized in panel 2.
I agree its one thing to say “don’t show your hand” but its another to deal with something that’s traumatized you as badly as being sealed away has her and this is a phobia that has a very real chance of happening to her especially with someone as manipulative and greedy as Araceli seems to be.
Or…..
Jeanie is leading him to make a wish against Da Rules which
will invalidate his ‘ownership’.
It’s not a good idea to say you’ll do anything, especially when you’ve been morphed into a sexy female and talking to an old fat guy that probably hasn’t had any sex in decades. Personally, I don’t think Jean is that desperate to stay out of the bottle.
I’m not sure about the comic, but J.D. aka Boss Hogg is married to Rosco’s Sister Lulu the show.
knowing the TV show and how the two interacted I’m sure J.D. knows Lulu would just about castrate him if he tried something with another female
Well that’s where magic comes in but there’s lots of non-sexual possiblities he could be thinking of land, money, free wishes.
Might have to worry about the Duke girls, now…
anything 😮
if these are magic words for me
Jeanie, you really need to talk to Neil about this anything business.
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As it is, I think Boss Hogg is about to get himself into serious trouble.
I know that Jeanie’s scared of the bottle…but really, she should watch what she says. Anything will always end up getting someone into trouble.
Remember that old saying be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
I think that Jean is not just trying to stay out of the bottle, but is also trying to push Hogg into getting his wishes over with as soon as possible. She already doesn’t like him and probably wants to finish up her “contract” with him so that she won’t have to deal with him any more.
Actually, it could be a combination of what several people have been saying here. It could be a little fear here being stuck in the bottle or with Boss Hogg as her new master permanently and want to get it over with so she can go back to Neil as her master instead. Because, she definitely has Master/servant relationship with Boss Hogg. Which is an indignity that Jeanie doesn’t like and she think it below her.
Jeanie may be a real ditsy blond in every since of the word and really stuck up, but, remember that she still a Genie and she can really mess up somebody wishes that try to take unfair advantage of her, because, they think they can. Remember, we are now talking about him using the last of his three wishes and is now coming up. Remember the female Greek Captain.
Jean blew it. “You wish me to return to the bottle?” Poof, another wish down.
She could have all three down right now if she played her cards right. The Dukes and their car could be two separate wishes, so the last one would be the third. Unfortunately, she doesn’t seem to have noticed.
Jean, listen carefully, he said “go back to your bottle”, he never said “go back into your bottle.”
Start being even move sneaky about what people have said, especially jerks like Hogg.
We’re about to get a ta-da nick of time, or the mobster gets distracted, or it’s one of those ‘we never find out and it’s better that way’ or Jean gets a cruel dose of reality.
Araceli I think would be SHOCKED to learn she had hurt Jean this badly.
Yea, I really doubt Araceli knew the impact of trapping Jean in her bottle would have on Jean’s psyche. Jean isn’t a normal genie.
I don’t think it really matters what Araceli thought her threat would do to Jeanie. It’s almost worse if she didn’t realize the effect it would have, because that means she doesn’t think of permanent imprisonment for eternity as being an especially harsh punishment. It’d take some serious sociopathy to think that way.
Well, remember, these are genies. Being locked up in a bottle for centuries is a way of life for most of them.
A normal genie probably just dislikes it. For Jean, it’s probably 100x worse.
Concur with Vimmy. Jeanie has no concept of living that long, less even than having a master. For all we know, most genies know how to put themselves into a kind of hibernation so they don’t have to experience those long stretches of solitary confinement.
Works the other way, too. I don’t think Aracelli understands that Jeanie was mortal until very recently indeed.
I’m pretty sure she does vaguely recall something being mentioned to her she just doesn’t seem to care all she’s interested in is getting Jeanie’s master. At the very least Guano KNOW’S jeanie is a new genie and choose to stay with Neil permanently but he’s supporting his neice in her schemes.
Even if she doesn’t know and Genie’s can go into hibernation she’s not trying to get jeanie trapped for a few centuries in exchange for her master she’s trying to get her sealed away forever and forcing her to lie to her master about it.
Wait a minute, if Boss Hogg isn’t holding the bottle anymore (panel two,) why can’t Jean just poof away with the bottle and/or take it and leave?
As I postulated on a post a few weeks ago, I don’t think genies are allowed to interact with their own totems. Otherwise they could do exactly what you just suggested.
Now that you mention it I have seen quite a few things that follow that same thinking (though the same holds true for genies being able to interact with their totems to an extent,) I guess in the end it would come down to what you think about Genie rules/laws (which makes sense for creatures of mythology.) Thank you for giving me your input, always fun to see another person’s viewpoint 😀
I’m currently of the opinion that a genie can interact with its own totem but it can’t leave a master before the 3 wishes are up.
She’s probably unable to take her bottle away from somebody who is her “legitimate” Master. She might be able to take it from Hogg and leave once she has granted his third wish, but not before.
If that’s list in Boss Hogg’s eyes, then his next wish might be to be young and good looking. In which case, he’ll be the prettiest 2–year old gal in Hazzard County. And he’d use (waste) the third wish to change back.
Please no.
Boss Hogg’s scheming, evil nature combined with a little girl’s cuteness?
Soon to grow into a young woman’s sexiness?
Oh, please dear God no.
Problem with being a Kid, is Boss would need a legal guardian to sign any contracts on the Boss behalf.
You don’t mean that Lulu, Rosco sister and Boss Hogg wife would have to sign for a three or four year old girl who is actually Boss Hogg.
NO! NO! NO! A thousand times NO! And then have the Duke boy driving off into the sunset with Niel and Jeanie in tow to take them to the bus so they can leave Hazzard Count to go back home.
NOOOOOO!
I think were in a heap of trouble, good buddy. Well keep the shiny side up and the dirty side down,
Ya Hear.
So that Jeannie font you guys use, did you get that designed specifically for the website or was it a preset from a program? It’s a cool font and it looks great, so if it’s from a program or if there’s a similar one it could look amazing if used well. I understand you probably don’t want to share the source if it’s custom made, and I’d probably be left clueless if you sent it to me so if it isn’t custom or there’s one close to it you know of, it looks wicked and I wanna know.
Oh, and the christmas banner at the top has a typo. Read the name of the comic.
The font was just downloaded from a Free Font website. You can Google, “I Dream of a Jeannie Font” and you’ll find it.
Cheers.
Sidenote: The world’s finest detective is still allowed to have a brainfart.
This won’t end well for someone, not sure who right now….
I am more than a little disturbed by Jeanie’s clinging to Hogg like that, and her crying. That is a seriously girly reaction that Jean would never have fallen prey to.
Either that, or she’s asking to be thrown in the briar patch, as Fairportfan says upthread. I wish I could believe that, but I just don’t believe Jeanie’s that quick.
She’s made a big mistake in not making an emotional bond with Neil, relying instead on his friendship with Jean.
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I wonder if she’s succumbing to Hogg’s aura of power and wealth. He may be evil, but he’s also powerful and wealthy.
Remember that Jeanie been both a full fledged Girl and Genie for over six to eight month or longer. So she should start to act like a girl and Genie on at least some level. She starting to put on the charm the way a women does around a man and not act like the way we guys try to act around other guys.
Jeanie isn’t Jean anymore and doesn’t think like Jean does anymore and as more time go by, the difference between Jeanie and Jean will continue to increase and Jeanie will act more and more like a girl and less and less like a guy. Because, Jeanie a “GIRL GENIE and not BOY”!
And No she won’t succumb to Boss Hogg power or wealth, nor is she interested in it and being Genie, she doesn’t need to be interested in it or have to cater to him or what he thinks he is or isn’t. However she might fall victim to Boss Hogg acting as the Master for a little bit, because she a Genie. But, that will be for only a little while, until she figures how to get out of this mess.
Jeanie will do what she always does. Which is, stumbling her way around, until she stumbles her way out of the mess, that she stumbled her way into in the first place. No problem!
I think you’re reading way too much into this. Jean is just legitimately terrified of her bottle, and can’t stand the thought of being returned to it.
In frame two, it look like she is considering her option of what she can do before she make her move in frame three.
I have run into girls like that and all I can say is all sh@t man. There plotting on the one side to pull some kind of crap on you and do the injured routine on the other side like there the injured party here and your the guilty party. Then they do the crying number on some other guys chest while he is thinks he converting her from something bad that you did and it will be in front of several guy’s at the same time. Then when she on the other side him, she will look across at you like, What your going to do about it.
We guys can be really really stupid sometime. We like to play HANDY DANDY FIX IT MEN, but, we usually end up playing the fool when some girl like that walk in. That girl had four or five guys twisting in the wind at the same time. Don’t be so quick to write Jeanie off yet, because, I have seen that look before.
I am not saying that she doesn’t have guanine fear of the bottle, but, I wouldn’t put it past her to at least have started the process of coming up with a plan from frame two to frame three.
INSTANT REGRET