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.
A junior engineer working for a small engineering firm in Cocoa Beach. The firm focuses mostly on NASA projects.
Neil is Jean’s best friend. When Jean was turned into a genie, Neil became Jeanie’s master.
Neil knows the score well enough to be aware that being poofed into Natalie without warning is a sign of Jeanie’s annoyance. (BTW: I love Natalie’s description in the cast listing–“Jean has turned Neil into a woman so many times that she now counts as her own character”.)
Hmm, “Community”–is there an online group of girls who have been burned by Jean? Are they thinking of inviting Jeanie to join now that “she” has seen Jean cheating on his “fiancee”? They do seem pleased to see Jeanie right now–both Jeanie and these two appear to want to show the other that they have caught “Jean” cheating . . .
My guess is that Rodge is either hitting on Natalie, or trying to explain the situation to him. I hope it’s the latter because I’d like to imagine that they would have some way of messing with Jean.
@bossrhino: Yes, I’d appreciate seeing that too. Only problem is, I don’t think that Rodge has even the faintest idea what’s going on with Jean. He probably thinks she’s staying on her bottle because she’s having cramps or something.
Is that all it takes to convince a group of ex-girlfriends that a man and a woman is sleeping around? Just seeing them having a casual conversation in public and being complimented on the dress?
If those women are going to be true paparazzi on Rodge and Neil here, they’ll follow them until they get into a suite of their own (courtesy of Jean’s magic of course).
He’s got his arm around her neck. That’s not as intimate as if he had it around her waist, but it still suggests some degree of familiarity if not intimacy.
The question is, why is Natalie allowing Rodge to do that, especially long enough for the other women to notice. I wonder if Jeanie did something to Natalie’s mind to make her more receptive.
I think Rodge is whispering in Neil’s ear, probably explaining how worried he is about what Jeannie might be thinking. But of course, that’s not how others will see it.
@Ellie Dauber: Genies can’t mess around with a human’s free will with their magic as Kazom once explained to Jean. Unless you’re referring to Jean using substances like on that Korean spy one time.
Could be Natalie is having trouble with the heels, yeah I know that’s a long shot, more like she is just taking it in stride as what can be expected being friends with Jean.
Everyone ‘assumes’ Jean did something to Natalie. But I highly doubt that’s ever been the case. In fact I don’t think Jean has that kind of power. It’s never been shown.
@Jenny: Probably not. But at this point they’re just happy to have a photo where the gal actually shows up. (I really would have liked to have seen their consternation over their persistent inability to photograph Jeannie in any of her various forms & incarnations!)
Good point–the comment of “Finally! The camera worked!” does seem to imply that the woman with the camera had tried and failed to take photos of Jeanie’s previous disguises attempting to flirt with “Jean”. Apparently the “does not show up on film” rule applies equally to digital cameras as well (and probably even old-style analogue television cameras).
I wonder if this is going to lead to Jean losing his job because he is a scumbag? Considering that he engineered the whole thing i think it would be fitting.
Poor Neil has been girlified some many times he just rolls with it now.
Given all the time that Jean is committing to proving “her” point with those women, “she” might sooner lose “her” job over the new movie review that “she” supposed to be working on.
Has “she” even got it done yet or is “she” going to just magically poof it finished?
I’m still betting that Rodge will wind up writing the review for her… and then get complimented by the boss for what a great job it is. Which will undoubtedly annoy Jeannie to no end.
Considering Jean has dated and dumped the daughter of one of the higher-ups, and seems to have a well-known reputation for that kinda behavior (considering nobody commented on the fact that he had an entirely different fiancee less than… a year ago, I’d say), it’s probably unlikely. Jenny’s suggestion, however, may hold water if Jeannie hasn’t finished the re-working of the review.
Never thought about that. But I could see a situation where Jean/Rodge is talking to one of the higher-ups. And doesn’t remember about the script. This leads to him getting fired. And then Jean/Jeannie blames Rodge for all of this.
Honestly it’s a weird situation in general. One that I’m hoping blows up horribly in Jean’s face. Mainly because I want to see some actual character development out of Jean. And not the, “Oh let me act like a ditz and mess up my own life,” type of character development.
I missed the scene final scene change in the last panel of the last panel of last week’s episode; Rodge is already at the party, either entering or re-entering the big room. So Jeannie did have a plan after all. Jeanie seems to have been in the room long enough to make contact with Debbie and the other woman with Debbie, which doesn’t have the same very long hair as the one who made up the third of the hussy trio from the night before. No one else except Jeanie and maybe Rodge seems to have caught Natalie just popping in.
I wonder what “community” the girls are talking about. The community of Jean Naismith haters? Maybe they’ll have a convention in Cocoa Beach.
I don’t think it’s a matter of genies not showing up on cameras; the photographer is saying that now her camera is working. So maybe the rule for IDOAJB is that cameras don’t work when trying to photograph genies.
Rodge may have his arm around Natilie in the third panel, but his smile that disappeared by the second panel hasn’t returned. Maybe he’s pulling Natalie closer to talk without anyone else overhearing.
I got something wrong. I did see that poof in the third panel but I didn’t process it properly. Jeanie poofed in while the two woman were talking about the picture(s) they were finally getting and what to do with it/them. They don’t notice she’s there until the last panel.
There are no other people shown in this comic. But it does look like a pretty big room. Maybe we’ll find out next week there are other people in it, such as a certain mysterious waitress who was standing next to Rodge as Jeannie stormed out last night?
It was Neil that just got poofed from his game session in Florida to New York womanized in an evening dress. Rodge’s been the Jean double this time around.
Jeanie is literally trying to prove men can’t be trusted not to cheat. By doing this she is proving Jean is a scumbag, and that she was a scumbag when she was Jean.
I think this is the first time i have ever seen someone screw them selves over to prove a point in a story.
Does it actually even prove the point when the person she is trying to prove will cheat is not actually in a relationship and that she had to resort to bringing in the actual object of their crush to do so? That seems like the opposite of the point in question then. At worst all she has proven is Rodge is not great at sustaining an impersonation.
@Robert Which I have been pointing out for weeks. This plan has zero logic. It’s stupid….even for Jeanie. I really think that Hazzard Brew did a number on her braincells.
Oh I understand that, Robert, I was wanted to be sure I appreciated the full scope of this…thisness. I think it is starting to border on Jeannie almost beginning to forget that she is Jean and not Rodge. 🙂
No, no, Jeanie is the one who has already threatened to break Rodge’s bones, and unless Natalie has much more strength than Neil as well as much more bosom, Natalie couldn’t do it anyway.
Anyone else notice that the strap on Natalie’s purse has disappeared?
@TomSewell: Might’ve just bundled it up along with gripping the purse as well.
Robert seems to not enjoy be nit-picked on small visual details like that. From the time, that I’ve brought up about Ethan-turned-Honey’s missing ponytail in SailorSun. Or maybe that was CD Rudd?
Well, it looks like one of those small hand purses (I forget if there’s a technical term for them; never carried one). At least right here. But the strap was there in the last strip.
@Robert Nowall: I’ve only carried one of those strapless hand purses while wearing a pocketless dress one time at a formal event. I was annoyed with having to hold it all throughout the whole party. I prefer my pockets, strapped pouches and even a backpack!
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Photography [2] – Genies are unable to be photographed or filmed.
Since Jeanie was the first two or three people that they tried to photograph or take a picture of, they would only end up getting a picture of Rodge or alias Jean, every time they were taking picture to catch him. Genie don’t show up in pitchers even though they are posing as some other girl.
Go to Jeanie Bottle 161 and 162, Jean isn’t Jean anymore, but, is Jeanie a blond female Genie as her core now. She allowed to make minor changes and can for a time and with much effort change her appearances, but, in the end she will revert to being a blond female genie, because, that her core now.
“Photography [2] – Genies are unable to be photographed or filmed.”
In the TV series the film showed everything except Jeannie but that does not necessarily mean the same would happen here. It could be that the camera simply stops working when an attempt is made to photograph/film Jeanie.
Yes, Jeanie finally scored. But, what did she score? That is the real question here. Neil is taking fairly comely, but, he quizzing Rodge and he will soon figure out that Rodge doesn’t know anything that going on or what Jeanie up to.
By the time Neil or Natalie turn on Jeanie to fine out what going on. It would be a good time for Belle to show up and let those girl get a second hot pitcher of another girl with Jean. Will Jeanie ever learn to not try to impress or prove something that she has no business doing? No!
The brown-haired hussy is shown taking a picture of Veronica. She’s shown again outside when Jeanie tries Betty, but she’s looking at her camera with Debbie. They aren’t looking at “Betty” and Rodge when Rodge points them out to Jeanie.
Now, what are they looking at? Well, if they still see “Jean” but not “Veronica” they are NOT going to be acting toward Jeanie like they are in this comic. They’d be looking for Fox and Mulder.
So they have to have been seeing something they didn’t expect but wasn’t Beetlejuice spooky. The easiest option is just a missing picture. It fits “Finally! The camera works.” But the true nature option just might get by. Neither one of them knows Rodge, and Jeanie in her true form would be in her genie costume. From her back, I don’t think she’d be recognized.
Yes, but how is it going to blow up. If Belle shows up now, she’ll think Rodge is Jean, like everyone else in the room except Jeanie and Natalie. What happens next depends on whether Rodge recognizes Belle as Jean’s real girlfriend–we don’t know if Rodge has ever met Belle. I think maybe Jeanie didn’t actually see Rodge at all before she was going to date Rodge back in Las Vegas, or talk to Rodge face to face until she came to Las Vegas to rescue Natalie from Homeland Security. If Rodge asks Belle “Who are you?” things will get worse for Rodge. (And better for us.)
But not to worry if Rodge doesn’t ask that fatal question. He’ll find some other way to screw up.
Speaking of Rodge not knowing people Jean knows, I wonder how Rodge dodged a bullet when Tina made a pass at him. Remember Tina? The hussy hussy drinks too much? The daughter of Jean’s boss?
There no indication that Rodge ever met Jean before he was turned into a she by the name of Jeanie. So if that be the case, which it appears to be, then he has never met Belle and neither does he know that Belle Jean old girlfriend either.
The reason that he dodged the bullet with Tina, was she so disgustingly drunk and she had an attitude to match, Rodge decided to leave it alone, beside, he was thinking of what Jeanie might do to him also.
The bullet Rodge dodged was not asking Tina “Who are you?” or something similar to reveal he doesn’t recognize her. Not remembering someone you’ve slept with is a bad, bad move in any universe.
So, am I the only one who sees a bit too much enthusiasm from the brown haired woman at seeing Jennie? Will Jeannie be getting a chance to experience an old girlfriend in a new way? Not sure that’s the direction I want to see, but it’s not my story . . .
The sudden absence of wascally wabbits even though April was supposed to be bunny month does seem to be a scheduled event. Maybe it’s because it’s past Easter now. I don’t have a complete collection of Jeanie header images, but is this the first time Jeanie isn’t smiling? She looks like she’s got something on her mind. Maybe she’s just sad she can’t wear her bunny costume any more. Or maybe it’s a subtle clue to a major change in Jeanie, like realizing what an ass she was as a man.
It still remain to be seen if Jeanie plan actually worked. Up to this point all she has done was to poof Neil and as Natalie, but, nothing else has happened yet. But, we should find out in the next two or three installment of Jeanie Bottle over the next two or three weeks.
You know, I think this is the first time Jeannie has ever been pictured in the header lying with her head to the right. But I don’t have any way to verify this. CD?
Greenish hue? That’s a problem we’ve been having with the skintones on some characters, but I hadn’t noticed it on Jeanie in quite a while. Could you give an example of a comic where you see her with greenish skin?
Robert, the Christmas header image, that CD posted just above, has a faintly greenish hue to the skin tone. The hex triplet for the skin color is E0E7C5. If you shift it just slightly, to, say, EDD4C5, then it gains a more distinct pinkish cast and she doesn’t look quite so sickly.
The St Patrick’s Day image has a different issue – the skin tone there is more grayish. That triplet is DDDACB; moving that to the same pinker shade also seems like an improvement, although not as dramatically.
Of course, you’d have to fiddle with the shaded skin tone, too, as it would then be proportionately too dark.
Robert, also the redhead in Panel 4 of the current comic appears just a touch greenish, too. Shifting her skin tone from E2DEAE to E8D8AE is just enough to change that.
That Christmas image is from a few years ago, back before CD and I noticed the green problem. Don’t know what happened with the St. Patty’s day pic, though. That’s a whole new kind of problem.
As for the redhead, I think she’s just supposed to have slightly more tan skin than her companion.
Robert: Yes, I understand that those particular images were not necessarily the specific ones you were referring to; I was just picking them out as being handy examples. (I have a side-by-side comparison image that I can send you if you want, where it’s easy to see what a shift of less than about 5% in the color values does.)
And yes, I know the redhead was supposed to be darker – my point was that you can preserve the more tan skin tone, but without the green cast, by just shifting the red-green ratio very slightly.
@Chuck: Seriously, it’s a side effect of the way colors are produced on computer display screens. The same color can show up slightly differently on different displays. Getting exactly the right hue, that works well in all situations, is a really difficult task. Kind of like producing a painting that shows up perfectly under any lighting conditions. Good luck on that.
That said, there are better and worse color selections, and for my money, CD does pretty darned well.
I’m tempted to bet the Trifecta: Guano, Belle, and Agent Anderson. Long odds but big payoff.
But here’s something more likely, plus it ties into the camera angle and the Barbara Eden series: The awards ceremony will be televised. Jeanie realizes she can’t be at the ceremony. So Jeanie uses her magic to make Neil/Natalie look like Jeanie so there will be a “Jeanie” at the ceremony as well as a “Jean.”
Neil knows the score well enough to be aware that being poofed into Natalie without warning is a sign of Jeanie’s annoyance. (BTW: I love Natalie’s description in the cast listing–“Jean has turned Neil into a woman so many times that she now counts as her own character”.)
Hmm, “Community”–is there an online group of girls who have been burned by Jean? Are they thinking of inviting Jeanie to join now that “she” has seen Jean cheating on his “fiancee”? They do seem pleased to see Jeanie right now–both Jeanie and these two appear to want to show the other that they have caught “Jean” cheating . . .
That line about Natalie in her character description was written by me. 🙂
Then, Robert you deserve a cookie,
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At a guess, there are probably enough women who have been burned by Jean that by now they have their own website, Facebook page and Twitter feed. 😉
My guess is that Rodge is either hitting on Natalie, or trying to explain the situation to him. I hope it’s the latter because I’d like to imagine that they would have some way of messing with Jean.
@bossrhino: Yes, I’d appreciate seeing that too. Only problem is, I don’t think that Rodge has even the faintest idea what’s going on with Jean. He probably thinks she’s staying on her bottle because she’s having cramps or something.
BossRhino: I’d say it’s probably both options.
Rodge is looking awfully familiar with Natalie in the third panel and from a distance it doesn’t look like Natalie is minding too much.
And it sounds like Rodge is having trouble remembering Natalie is really Neil.
Yeah, I noticed that, too. Amusingly, Neil is taking this rather well, too. This is working out surprisingly in Jeanie favor, lol.
By this point, the “getting hit on by Rodge” part probably annoys Neil more than the “Nati-fied and teleported” part.
@ijuinkun: Well, to be honest, Neil is probably pretty used to being poofed into a woman by now. Whereas getting glommed on by Rodge is less normal.
Is that all it takes to convince a group of ex-girlfriends that a man and a woman is sleeping around? Just seeing them having a casual conversation in public and being complimented on the dress?
If those women are going to be true paparazzi on Rodge and Neil here, they’ll follow them until they get into a suite of their own (courtesy of Jean’s magic of course).
He’s got his arm around her neck. That’s not as intimate as if he had it around her waist, but it still suggests some degree of familiarity if not intimacy.
The question is, why is Natalie allowing Rodge to do that, especially long enough for the other women to notice. I wonder if Jeanie did something to Natalie’s mind to make her more receptive.
I think Rodge is whispering in Neil’s ear, probably explaining how worried he is about what Jeannie might be thinking. But of course, that’s not how others will see it.
@Ellie Dauber: Genies can’t mess around with a human’s free will with their magic as Kazom once explained to Jean. Unless you’re referring to Jean using substances like on that Korean spy one time.
Could be Natalie is having trouble with the heels, yeah I know that’s a long shot, more like she is just taking it in stride as what can be expected being friends with Jean.
Everyone ‘assumes’ Jean did something to Natalie. But I highly doubt that’s ever been the case. In fact I don’t think Jean has that kind of power. It’s never been shown.
I think Rodge’s arm around Natalie’s shoulder might have something to do with that too
@Jenny: Probably not. But at this point they’re just happy to have a photo where the gal actually shows up. (I really would have liked to have seen their consternation over their persistent inability to photograph Jeannie in any of her various forms & incarnations!)
Good point–the comment of “Finally! The camera worked!” does seem to imply that the woman with the camera had tried and failed to take photos of Jeanie’s previous disguises attempting to flirt with “Jean”. Apparently the “does not show up on film” rule applies equally to digital cameras as well (and probably even old-style analogue television cameras).
But this is not just any man they suspect. They suspect Jean.
So from their perspective, it’s a safe bet that he’d sleep around.
Whoops! Jeanie forgot about her fez again! Fortunately, it (sort of) goes with her outfit this time…
Jean had actually wore “her” fez with the last evening dress “she” had on. It sort of went together with “her” dress then too.
Jeanie has been good with remembering to remove the fez when pretending to be somebody else, but doesn’t seem to bother with it the rest of the time.
Suddenly, I got this vision of Jeanie at a shriners’ convention, and driving in one of those tiny cars….
I wonder if this is going to lead to Jean losing his job because he is a scumbag? Considering that he engineered the whole thing i think it would be fitting.
Poor Neil has been girlified some many times he just rolls with it now.
Given all the time that Jean is committing to proving “her” point with those women, “she” might sooner lose “her” job over the new movie review that “she” supposed to be working on.
Has “she” even got it done yet or is “she” going to just magically poof it finished?
Good question.
I’m still betting that Rodge will wind up writing the review for her… and then get complimented by the boss for what a great job it is. Which will undoubtedly annoy Jeannie to no end.
@ Kattgirl: That would be a lovely thing to see happen. ^_^
Considering Jean has dated and dumped the daughter of one of the higher-ups, and seems to have a well-known reputation for that kinda behavior (considering nobody commented on the fact that he had an entirely different fiancee less than… a year ago, I’d say), it’s probably unlikely. Jenny’s suggestion, however, may hold water if Jeannie hasn’t finished the re-working of the review.
Never thought about that. But I could see a situation where Jean/Rodge is talking to one of the higher-ups. And doesn’t remember about the script. This leads to him getting fired. And then Jean/Jeannie blames Rodge for all of this.
Honestly it’s a weird situation in general. One that I’m hoping blows up horribly in Jean’s face. Mainly because I want to see some actual character development out of Jean. And not the, “Oh let me act like a ditz and mess up my own life,” type of character development.
I missed the scene final scene change in the last panel of the last panel of last week’s episode; Rodge is already at the party, either entering or re-entering the big room. So Jeannie did have a plan after all. Jeanie seems to have been in the room long enough to make contact with Debbie and the other woman with Debbie, which doesn’t have the same very long hair as the one who made up the third of the hussy trio from the night before. No one else except Jeanie and maybe Rodge seems to have caught Natalie just popping in.
I wonder what “community” the girls are talking about. The community of Jean Naismith haters? Maybe they’ll have a convention in Cocoa Beach.
I don’t think it’s a matter of genies not showing up on cameras; the photographer is saying that now her camera is working. So maybe the rule for IDOAJB is that cameras don’t work when trying to photograph genies.
Rodge may have his arm around Natilie in the third panel, but his smile that disappeared by the second panel hasn’t returned. Maybe he’s pulling Natalie closer to talk without anyone else overhearing.
Ran out of edit time. Again.
I got something wrong. I did see that poof in the third panel but I didn’t process it properly. Jeanie poofed in while the two woman were talking about the picture(s) they were finally getting and what to do with it/them. They don’t notice she’s there until the last panel.
There are no other people shown in this comic. But it does look like a pretty big room. Maybe we’ll find out next week there are other people in it, such as a certain mysterious waitress who was standing next to Rodge as Jeannie stormed out last night?
So much for Roger kicking back and playing his favorite video game
It was Neil that just got poofed from his game session in Florida to New York womanized in an evening dress. Rodge’s been the Jean double this time around.
Hahah, I love how you used “womanized”. Would Jeanie’s frequent use of TG magic make her a “serial womanizer”? hehehe
Oh, I get the joke now! Ha-ha!
Remind me again which hair-brained point Jean was trying to prove again?
Jeanie is literally trying to prove men can’t be trusted not to cheat. By doing this she is proving Jean is a scumbag, and that she was a scumbag when she was Jean.
I think this is the first time i have ever seen someone screw them selves over to prove a point in a story.
Does it actually even prove the point when the person she is trying to prove will cheat is not actually in a relationship and that she had to resort to bringing in the actual object of their crush to do so? That seems like the opposite of the point in question then. At worst all she has proven is Rodge is not great at sustaining an impersonation.
You have to realize, Random, that Jeanie can be stubborn to the point of idiocy. Of course this whole plan doesn’t make sense, lol.
@ Robert: Not to mention that she can just be plain old idiotic, period?
@Robert Which I have been pointing out for weeks. This plan has zero logic. It’s stupid….even for Jeanie. I really think that Hazzard Brew did a number on her braincells.
Oh I understand that, Robert, I was wanted to be sure I appreciated the full scope of this…thisness. I think it is starting to border on Jeannie almost beginning to forget that she is Jean and not Rodge. 🙂
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Eeeeeeeyup.
…Mmm-hmm.
One would hope “Natalie” can break Rodge’s arm…
No, no, Jeanie is the one who has already threatened to break Rodge’s bones, and unless Natalie has much more strength than Neil as well as much more bosom, Natalie couldn’t do it anyway.
Anyone else notice that the strap on Natalie’s purse has disappeared?
Tom, some purses, particularly small ones, have straps that can be detached and/or tucked inside to convert it to a clutch-type.
@Kattgirl: Thanks. Obviously CD couldn’t have forgotten a detail like that. I’ve only been to one party in drag and I didn’t carry a purse.
@TomSewell: Might’ve just bundled it up along with gripping the purse as well.
Robert seems to not enjoy be nit-picked on small visual details like that. From the time, that I’ve brought up about Ethan-turned-Honey’s missing ponytail in SailorSun. Or maybe that was CD Rudd?
@Tom: Um… Okay. Wow, that’s a visual, for sure. 😉
@Jenny: Well, in all fairness, a missing strap IS a pretty small detail.
Well, it looks like one of those small hand purses (I forget if there’s a technical term for them; never carried one). At least right here. But the strap was there in the last strip.
@Robert Nowall: I’ve only carried one of those strapless hand purses while wearing a pocketless dress one time at a formal event. I was annoyed with having to hold it all throughout the whole party. I prefer my pockets, strapped pouches and even a backpack!
Well, I have a photojournalist’s vest that I intended to use when I needed extra pockets, but I seldom wear it…too uncomfortable.
Head up everyone! This is copy straight information page at this site.
Photography [2] – Genies are unable to be photographed or filmed.
Since Jeanie was the first two or three people that they tried to photograph or take a picture of, they would only end up getting a picture of Rodge or alias Jean, every time they were taking picture to catch him. Genie don’t show up in pitchers even though they are posing as some other girl.
Go to Jeanie Bottle 161 and 162, Jean isn’t Jean anymore, but, is Jeanie a blond female Genie as her core now. She allowed to make minor changes and can for a time and with much effort change her appearances, but, in the end she will revert to being a blond female genie, because, that her core now.
“Photography [2] – Genies are unable to be photographed or filmed.”
In the TV series the film showed everything except Jeannie but that does not necessarily mean the same would happen here. It could be that the camera simply stops working when an attempt is made to photograph/film Jeanie.
Yes, Jeanie finally scored. But, what did she score? That is the real question here. Neil is taking fairly comely, but, he quizzing Rodge and he will soon figure out that Rodge doesn’t know anything that going on or what Jeanie up to.
By the time Neil or Natalie turn on Jeanie to fine out what going on. It would be a good time for Belle to show up and let those girl get a second hot pitcher of another girl with Jean. Will Jeanie ever learn to not try to impress or prove something that she has no business doing? No!
Not to nitpick, but I think you mean “picture” rather than “pitcher.”
Cameras, again.
The brown-haired hussy is shown taking a picture of Veronica. She’s shown again outside when Jeanie tries Betty, but she’s looking at her camera with Debbie. They aren’t looking at “Betty” and Rodge when Rodge points them out to Jeanie.
Now, what are they looking at? Well, if they still see “Jean” but not “Veronica” they are NOT going to be acting toward Jeanie like they are in this comic. They’d be looking for Fox and Mulder.
So they have to have been seeing something they didn’t expect but wasn’t Beetlejuice spooky. The easiest option is just a missing picture. It fits “Finally! The camera works.” But the true nature option just might get by. Neither one of them knows Rodge, and Jeanie in her true form would be in her genie costume. From her back, I don’t think she’d be recognized.
Can’t help thinking that this is going to get back to Jean’s girlfriend, Belle Lows and blow up in Jean’s face.
Yes, but how is it going to blow up. If Belle shows up now, she’ll think Rodge is Jean, like everyone else in the room except Jeanie and Natalie. What happens next depends on whether Rodge recognizes Belle as Jean’s real girlfriend–we don’t know if Rodge has ever met Belle. I think maybe Jeanie didn’t actually see Rodge at all before she was going to date Rodge back in Las Vegas, or talk to Rodge face to face until she came to Las Vegas to rescue Natalie from Homeland Security. If Rodge asks Belle “Who are you?” things will get worse for Rodge. (And better for us.)
But not to worry if Rodge doesn’t ask that fatal question. He’ll find some other way to screw up.
Speaking of Rodge not knowing people Jean knows, I wonder how Rodge dodged a bullet when Tina made a pass at him. Remember Tina? The hussy hussy drinks too much? The daughter of Jean’s boss?
There no indication that Rodge ever met Jean before he was turned into a she by the name of Jeanie. So if that be the case, which it appears to be, then he has never met Belle and neither does he know that Belle Jean old girlfriend either.
The reason that he dodged the bullet with Tina, was she so disgustingly drunk and she had an attitude to match, Rodge decided to leave it alone, beside, he was thinking of what Jeanie might do to him also.
The bullet Rodge dodged was not asking Tina “Who are you?” or something similar to reveal he doesn’t recognize her. Not remembering someone you’ve slept with is a bad, bad move in any universe.
So, am I the only one who sees a bit too much enthusiasm from the brown haired woman at seeing Jennie? Will Jeannie be getting a chance to experience an old girlfriend in a new way? Not sure that’s the direction I want to see, but it’s not my story . . .
I rather suspect they’re enthusiastic about being able to show Jeanie that ‘Jean’ is cheating, so she’ll join their community against Jean.
What happened to the Bunny Girl-Jean on top of the site?
Wabbit season? The bunnies are gone from Sailorsun.org too.
It’s not Easter anymore, ergo: no more Easter bunnies.
The sudden absence of wascally wabbits even though April was supposed to be bunny month does seem to be a scheduled event. Maybe it’s because it’s past Easter now. I don’t have a complete collection of Jeanie header images, but is this the first time Jeanie isn’t smiling? She looks like she’s got something on her mind. Maybe she’s just sad she can’t wear her bunny costume any more. Or maybe it’s a subtle clue to a major change in Jeanie, like realizing what an ass she was as a man.
Wait. Did one of Jeannie’s plans actually work? unprecedented!
It still remain to be seen if Jeanie plan actually worked. Up to this point all she has done was to poof Neil and as Natalie, but, nothing else has happened yet. But, we should find out in the next two or three installment of Jeanie Bottle over the next two or three weeks.
I agree.
While her plan may have achieved its immediate goals that does not mean she has achieved the result she was after
Finally, now Jean can finally realize the gaping problems with her plan!
(The hard way, of course.)
You know, I think this is the first time Jeannie has ever been pictured in the header lying with her head to the right. But I don’t have any way to verify this. CD?
Their was a Xmas image and a St. Patty’s day image with her head to the right. But your right, most of them are to the left.
That’s a particularly cute outfit for St. Patty’s Day. I’ll have to look for something like that.
Whew…i wasn’t the only one who noticed…hehehe
I’m happy to see Jeannie’s lost her greenish hue. Never understood that.
Aw, she was probably just trying to be the green-skinned Orion girl from Star Trek. 😉
Greenish hue? That’s a problem we’ve been having with the skintones on some characters, but I hadn’t noticed it on Jeanie in quite a while. Could you give an example of a comic where you see her with greenish skin?
Robert, the Christmas header image, that CD posted just above, has a faintly greenish hue to the skin tone. The hex triplet for the skin color is E0E7C5. If you shift it just slightly, to, say, EDD4C5, then it gains a more distinct pinkish cast and she doesn’t look quite so sickly.
The St Patrick’s Day image has a different issue – the skin tone there is more grayish. That triplet is DDDACB; moving that to the same pinker shade also seems like an improvement, although not as dramatically.
Of course, you’d have to fiddle with the shaded skin tone, too, as it would then be proportionately too dark.
JMHO.
Robert, also the redhead in Panel 4 of the current comic appears just a touch greenish, too. Shifting her skin tone from E2DEAE to E8D8AE is just enough to change that.
That Christmas image is from a few years ago, back before CD and I noticed the green problem. Don’t know what happened with the St. Patty’s day pic, though. That’s a whole new kind of problem.
As for the redhead, I think she’s just supposed to have slightly more tan skin than her companion.
Robert: Yes, I understand that those particular images were not necessarily the specific ones you were referring to; I was just picking them out as being handy examples. (I have a side-by-side comparison image that I can send you if you want, where it’s easy to see what a shift of less than about 5% in the color values does.)
And yes, I know the redhead was supposed to be darker – my point was that you can preserve the more tan skin tone, but without the green cast, by just shifting the red-green ratio very slightly.
@Chuck: Seriously, it’s a side effect of the way colors are produced on computer display screens. The same color can show up slightly differently on different displays. Getting exactly the right hue, that works well in all situations, is a really difficult task. Kind of like producing a painting that shows up perfectly under any lighting conditions. Good luck on that.
That said, there are better and worse color selections, and for my money, CD does pretty darned well.
Wait wait wait wait wait…
Community?
The community of those screwed over by Jean, to which Jeanie is the newest member 🙂
Would this be an inopportune time for Guano to show up?
I’m tempted to bet the Trifecta: Guano, Belle, and Agent Anderson. Long odds but big payoff.
But here’s something more likely, plus it ties into the camera angle and the Barbara Eden series: The awards ceremony will be televised. Jeanie realizes she can’t be at the ceremony. So Jeanie uses her magic to make Neil/Natalie look like Jeanie so there will be a “Jeanie” at the ceremony as well as a “Jean.”
Nothing can go wrong with that plan. Right?
any bets that the “Community” is a group of witches or techo-witches who will seek to punish “Jean” by I don’t know say turn him into a woman.