Jeanie Bottle 433
The triumphant (and sexy!) return of Agent Anderson!
And Jean being somehow both very nice and… wait… she sent them where?!
The triumphant (and sexy!) return of Agent Anderson!
And Jean being somehow both very nice and… wait… she sent them where?!
D-DAY?! That’s a bit too far, don’t you think?!
Yeah, that was my reaction.
Robert? Panel 7 – shouldn’t that be, “creak”?
It’s obviously making the sound that a small river makes.
Oh, of course – they’re next to the Atlantic Ocean, so clearly that’s the sound of the Gulf Stream. 😉
Oh, uh, also – Panel 6? “BENG” -> “being”.
Or if it had an apostrophe, then it should be “be’in”.
Actually, if it were to have an apostrophe it should be ” bein’ ” The apostrophe stands in for missing letters, in this case “g”.
Pretty sure those guys just have a weird accent.
agreed. this cut strait into family guy ‘It’s funny because it’s terrible!’ territory, which is fine some places, but off tone here… Oh well! I guess Jean’s a psychopath now!
Try emotionally immature and a little daft and possessing the ability to abuse vast cosmic powers to deal with pet peeves. I’m sure some sort of consequences will result from this when the genie lords glance up from their current murder problems going on.
Nya, The first thing I thought of was “this has not been Jeanie’s work.It’s probably been an intervention by the evil djinn. Jeanie’s intention was for the bridge to sag and this dudes fall to the ground.The djinn has twisted the wish because he is very powerful The other genie lords will soon warn young genius not to use their magic because the djinn can control the effects and use the most kind magic attempt to provoke the most horrific thing”. What do you think?
@Mattiehase:
I doubt they’d care, especially since the two sexist jerks will probably be killed before they can do any harm to the timeline.
Well the good news is that the Germans refused to shoot a soldier playing the bagpipes on the beach at Normandy because they thought he’d gone mad. Maybe a pair of oblivious surfer dudes who stroll around the beach will get the same treatment? Of course that doesn’t still solve the issue of them having to take the slow path back to the present, Weeping Angel style, especially with one of them being a black guy who is going to have some serious problems coping with American society throughout that time. Assuming they both survive the Germans in the next couple of minutes.
That what have said bagpiper in general in WWII
No, that’s only if they’re on a bridge.
‘A bit too far’ doesn’t cover it. This is almost certainly murder.
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I don’t know French History that much but I’m guessing those two muscle dudes got dumped into the beginnings of a major war battle.
Does the Normandy invasion of France Mean anything to anyone here? Where 30 or 40 thousand of Alied troops storm the beaches in an invasion of France in World War II.
It was a long time ago in a place far away. It’s generally not relevant to anyone anymore.
oookay wow
Saint-Laurent-Sur-Mer has a famous cemetery. You’ve probably seen it. It’s the cemetery in Saving Private Ryan. And that beach has a name: Omaha. The machine gun is a pretty good rendering of an MG-42, probably the best general-purpose machine gun ever made. It’s almost impossible to jam and fires 1200 rounds per minute, about twice as fast as our Brownings.
But why didn’t Jean turn them into women?
Maybe she’s learned some new tricks from her last little time-travel adventure.
Technically Jean has yet to do that; we’ve only seen that “she” would eventually in a flashback arc on Rouyaa.
I think Jean seen these guys being perverted towards women one too many times and to decided to deal a very stern punishment on them. Plus Anderson would wonder how they got womanized like “himself”. Guano also had an issue with Jean on the styling of “her” last punishment on a pervert before in the present.
About 2000+ American troops died on Omaha beach, and the death toll in total for D-Day was over 425,000 dead, wounded, or MIA from Allied and German troops. It is sad that so few know the horrors of WWII as it would make the thought of war less appealing to those that seem to desire it.
Robert E. Lee, at Fredericksburg
Omaha beach had 90% casualties. If you really don’t like someone, using time travel magic to deposit them there without weapons is practically a death sentence.
It was a long time ago. It isn’t currently relevant.
Or, well, it wasn’t until “some country” decided to elect a Russian puppet last year.
And 5he evidence mounts for the djinn being Eva.
Autocorrect on?
No. Just bad at typing on a phone. -_-
Can we get a larger pic of Agent Anderson in that swimsuit?
If you sign up as a Patreon member you can. That’s where we’re posting full-resolution pinups these days. She hasn’t been posted quite yet, but I’m sure CD will get around to it by tomorrow. (I unfortunately don’t have access to the backend of the Patreon).
Good news! CD gave me access to the Patreon backend, and I’ve posted the full-res pinups from this page. All 5 of them.
And now that I’ve got access, you can expect pinups to appear quicker. Sometimes even before the page is released. 🙂
Ooh La La!
Well, it been awhile since we seen Agent Anderson. We knew he would show up sooner or later and speak of the devil, here he or she is. I take it, this is the beginning of the next arc.
And she is rocking that one-piece 🙂
hmm very Baywatchy. the good Baywatch
Doesn’t this fall into the realm of ‘influencing major world events’ in the Genie code that got whatsherface banished?
Also, I mean, Jeanie you just /killed/ two guys. Tore them straight from time and put them in a situation where they won’t possibly survive without suddenly a massive plot shield dropped on them. Not really a properly scaled punishment.
They might have a chance. The Germans had orders to wait for the landing craft to open their bow doors before opening fire. And if they’re important to the story, they’ll survive.
Yes–they’re Americans at a specific time and place where the people holding the location are under orders to shoot any Americans on sight. Not good for their chances–at best they’d be captured as suspected spies (after all, what reason OTHER than spying would enemies have for walking onto such a location “pretending” to be unarmed civilians?).
Hm. The one guy is a redhead. Maybe he comes back after the war, settles in California, and has a grandkid named Clarence. 😉
And the Germans did refuse to shoot a guy playing the bagpipes on Sword Beach because they thought he’d gone made. If those guys wander around like oblivious surfer dudes then they have a chance… It isn’t a great chance but in order to not make Jeannie look like a complete murderer I’m going to choose to believe that somehow these guys survive it. Somehow.
If you google “Bill Millin: Mad Piper of Normandy” then you’ll get his story.
Depends on a few things, are they able to really interact fully with things around them or just observe and feel like they are running for their lives without being truly endangered. If she left they fully there and unprotected then they were sentenced to death which is too harsh for what they did.
Time Travel, whatever problem you’ve just caused there’s a good chance a future version of you will have had gone in after you and will have had fixed it.
This and other things like what your talking about, may be the reason that Jeanie has to do time travel in the future into the past.
*Has had to have done time travel in the future. As Douglas Adams noted the biggest issue with time travel is using, planning to use and having had used the correct tense.
She at least gave those guys a remote chance of survival. Not sure I’d have been as generous if it were me making the call.
If we executed people for being douche-bags, nobody would make it past their teenage years -_-
Eh, I’d only execute people for being one specific kind of douche bag. 😉
I can’t really explain it but the last panel doesn’t’ sit right. The Greek sailors lives were turned around completely but they still had their lives. For these guys to be sent to D-day and for no knowledge of the future to be passed on means they likely died there. By extension this means that Jean practically put the gun to their heads and pulled the trigger which is not the normal magical hi jinks we are used to.
Maybe the next coming will see them poofed back to the future with fear in their eyes but as it stands it represents a completely different and amoral side to Jean than we have seen before.
Well, depends on a lot of things. If the two survived, what likely happened is that an alternate timeline spawned (look at all the stuff that happens in the 1632/Ring of Fire series by Eric Flint and others.
We, in the present, would never know something happened. There’d just be missing person reports on those two guys.
Wow. Jeannie has a mean streak. The black guy, in particular, is going to have some nasty surprises ahead for him. (Given the dialog in Panel 3, I’m pretty sure that Jeannie’s had run-ins with these two before. Which could explain her pique.)
Now I’m wondering if Jeannie actually recognizes Agent Anderson. After all, she wasn’t actually physically around when she poofed said Agent into a woman… so it’s possible that she doesn’t actually know what Andy looks like now.
And it’s clear in Panels 8 & 9 that the Agent doesn’t recognize Jeannie – which means the pic she’s showing around must be that of Natalie. So as long as Neil can stay Neil, she won’t find anyone who can link the two.
On a completely different note, the art in Panel 1 is really superb. Jeannie’s proportions are great. And the action shot looks very realistic. CD, you’ve outdone yourself!
Kattgirl said “On a completely different note, the art in Panel 1 is really superb. Jeannie’s proportions are great. And the action shot looks very realistic. CD, you’ve outdone yourself!”
I agree completely, Just needs a little work on the toes 🙂
That must be ‘toes on the nose’.
Sorry. I’m such a California Girl. 😉
Speaking of that panel 1 shot, I sent CD a full-res, uncropped version of that for him to put up on the Patreon. You get to see the entire surfboard. 🙂
As if we needed more proof that Jean is a over proportional a-hole. Our blue haired girl at least has the excuse of being centuries or more behind the time in terms of morals and ethics.
So, wasn’t Agent Anderson blonde the last time in Comic 316? Was that just a temporary change?
https://jeaniebottle.com/?comic=jeanie-bottle-316
Her blonde hair is what got poofed into place during Jeanie’s sneezing fits. All of that eventually reverted when she got better, I thought.
Isn’t that kind of murder?
I mean she puts them in a place against their will where their chances of survival is minuscule.
If I had been her, I would just have sent them to Timbuktu
Not much better at the moment http://www.france24.com/en/20170601-mali-french-soldiers-wounded-attack-timbuktu-military-base-barkhane
I’ll be damn, I didn’t think anything was really happening there anymore, I mean it is a dust town in the middle of the desert and not really a place worth fighting over.
Oh well, I guess the third option would be Tristan da Cunha, they will properly be safe there but we wont see them for a while.
Unsettling…
To be sent … there? There? I don’t know if I can describe how I feel. Nobody deserves to see that day… but we will always remember those who did.
Agent Anderson is wearing a sexy one piece while conducting an investigation? I mean, a full suit would probably be asking too much, but slacks and a shirt would not be too out of place.
I don’t want to hear anything about saying she’s asking for it, BTW. That’s not it. She’s out of uniform for what she’s trying to do.
I’m only willing to give her slacks slack because the full suit would be so out of place no one would let her approach them, much less ask questions.
My gosh, she doesn’t even have a place to carry her badge, much less a duty weapon.
And yeah: Omaha Beach is way, way overkill. Besides leaving two corpses in anachronistic clothing on the sand.
There’s some fun stuff here, taken in isolation, but–sorry, my disbelief is shattered.
Well, I have a feeling that Agent Anderson is not there in an official capacity, but is pursuing her search for Natalie on her own time. Which would explain the lack of uniform or credentials. And if you’re going to the beach, then it makes sense to dress appropriately, if for no other reason than so you don’t seem out of place. Protective coloration.
And yes, D-Day is a little severe, but remember, this was around Memorial Day, so maybe Jeannie’s subconscious took over. 😉
She is on the beach. What she’s wearing is also conservative compared what most people wear at the beach.
If she was in her suit, she’d look suspicious.
Wow…… friggin harsh @__@
Say hi to Eisenhower for me, boys!
Meanwhile back with the main cast…
I’m hoping the last panel was in honor of Memorial Day, because sending two unarmed men dressed only in board shorts is almost assuredly death for both of them.
The first panel is well-drawn, but I also hope that bikini’s magical, because the first time Jean falls off the board, s/he’ll be stripped naked by the wave action. There’s a reason why most men and women surf in wetsuits beyond warmth.
Actually while a Memorial Day ref would indeed be fitting the choice of their “relocation” has to do with the events on that beach about to take place occurred 73 years ago on June 6, D-Day.
Think this might be a record for the most posts for one comic….wow
It’s a good thing that genies are magic or Jean would probably get really out of shape just poofing everywhere, and a bit of a curse also seeing as she seems to have picked up a valid but disproportionate pet peeve for cat-callers.
Do really like the whole Slats shadow fake out in the 2nd from last panel though. That’s good directing… or whatever that is.
It’s called a “match cut”. And yes, well done.
CD, I have to ask – I’m very impressed with the leaves in panels 5 through 10 – they’re REALLY good. The amount of detail makes it almost look photographic. That must have taken hours. How did you do those?
I drew one, coped, adjusting size, rotation and proportions. Then spread them around leaving space the between them. Combined the layers of leafs into one left spread.
THEN I made multiple layers of the leaf spread. Off set them and changed the brightness on the rear layers.
Reduced the over all sized, and there ya go.
That’s dark.
Still, happy to see the Agent again.