Jeanie Bottle 467
Phew! The copy editing on this page was a real chore.
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Well that was unexpected…. Never thought Jean would go that far.
Though I suppose at this point anything she does wouldn’t surprise me anymore.
I feel certain that is not Jeannie but rather Jehane.
Yeah, it’s entirely possible that I mucked up the character/tag for these last few pages. I asked CD if I should change it, but he hasn’t gotten back to me, yet.
OK, I’ve corrected the Character listing and tags for the previous two pages. That was definitely Jehane.
No comment on which of them is on THIS page, though. 🙂
@Robert
Could it be both? Why does a sandwich come to mind?
@Tom: Possibly because the last panel shows some buns?
WARNING! Comic rating bumped up to XXX! Jehane certainly learnt to be naughty over the years into her 50s or 60s.
I dunno. Given the way Jeannie sweet-talked Buck-tooth Willy, I have a feeling that she’s not far behind Jehane in manipulation skills.
I’m with Kattgirl on this one. Jeanie (only one “n” for our Jean, please, though CD forgets himself) didn’t just use her bod on Bucktooth Willie, she tried to seduce Neil in I Dream of Green Eyes and tried to seduce Rodge in I Dream of Verisimilitude. Admittedly it’s been a long time since Jehane was an innocent little girl, but we haven’t seen her behave anything like this yet.
And since whoever it is isn’t wearing pants, we can’t tell by the difference in their genie costumes.
I guess we’ll have to wait at least a week to find out the answer on this one. Boy, this week went by way too fast.
CD doesn’t forget how to spell Jeanie: there’s actually a rule for how it’s spelled:
1) People who knows Jeanie used to be Jean spell it “Jeanie” in their speech bubbles.
2) People who don’t know spell it “Jeannie”.
It’s possible that there are mistakes in the text sometimes, but if there are, they’re much fewer and far between than you’d think if you don’t know the rule.
Ah, but Rodge used “Jeannie” when he introduced his fiancee “Jeannie Bottle”.
@Tom: Yeah, but he was deliberately trying to make up a fake name. He’s just not very creative about it.
@Kattgir: Exactly. I’m actually not even sure if Rodge knows that Jean is generally known as Jeanie or Jeannie now. Neil only ever refers to her as “Jean”, after all.
I was talking about how Jehane is strip-teasing here, with us getting to see butt cracks and side boobs here. We’re getting to see something that’s actually erotic and not just simply kissing, cuddling and general affection in public.
Agreed, It’s definitely a radical departure from anything that Jean has been seen to do, before.
These days, butt and side-boob only rate a strong PG-13. Heck, even breasts can be shown in a PG-13 if it’s brief…very brief. Anything below the belt, however brief, gets an R. XXX??? No, this comic would have to get a LOT more graphic for that,
OK, I’m sure that all the guys here would agree that the last panel really should have been seen from a point of view behind the guard. Then we could finally settle the debate about Jeannie’s cup size.
Only if we knew it was really Jeanie and she put down her arm.
You do know there’s a fanart of what Bucktooth Willie saw, don’t you?
There’s no way you’re ever going to get *me* to believe that… never in a million years…!!!
(hint, hint, hint!)
You know, I’m getting the impression that Kazom is a real exception, and that most genies aren’t terribly bright.
It’s surprising that the guard is so easily distracted by such an obvious ploy.
Not if you’re a straight man.
Most Marines on guard duty wouldn’t be taken in by a stunt like this. Neither would most cops. It’s just way too obvious.
People in security jobs are trained to be suspicious. This guy must be a moron.
Most but not all. Back in the Cold War, several Marine guards at the Moscow embassy were seduced by female KGB agents.
@Tom: I’m sure you’re correct on that, but the KGB operatives were probably a lot more subtle about it than waltzing up to the front door of the embassy in the buff. That would have been a bit of a tip-off. (Especially if they had done so in the middle of a Moscow winter.)
@Kattgirl: Well, nobody turns out spies like the Russians, whether they’re White, Red, or some other color. Ever heard of Christine Keeler?
@Tom: Ah, but the very best spies are the ones you don’t hear about.
@Kattgirl – “A gentleman’s name should appear in the newspaper only three times: When he’s born, when he marries, and when he dies. And we are, first and foremost, gentlemen.” – Kingsman, The Secret Service
@ Ran-san: Ah, I see: when he’s hatched, matched and dispatched. Got it.
She’s been reading Modesty Blaise, i see.
Oh Jean. you could have done this to Neil back when you wanted to see if he was better than you in bed.
Jean did try pretty hard there, though:
Yeah, though as I recall, she didn’t really have much of a chance to get nekkid before Neil skedaddled.
She should’ve go for TOS and not VOY.
Yes, Jeanie was trying to seduce Neil here, but, she still had all her close on. Jeanie is still being a bit modest here even in her attempt to seduce Neil. But, the Girl up above is anything but modest and is openly flaunting it and throwing it out there for the whole world to see it. Unless something happen to Jeanie mind or something, that girl above isn’t Jeanie.
That’s because in the last two pages, it was Jehane, not Jean. The belt design is a dead giveaway.
this is if that is the real Jean
This has got to be Jehane, this is definitely out of character for Jeanie. I am not say that Jeanie can’t be manipulative. because, she can be and is when she need to be or serve her interest. But, Jeanie is usually a little bit more reserved or less open with it. This Girl Genie is acting more like a little kid would act like, which is more like what Jehane would be like, because, she still think more like what a little kid would think like.
I honestly don’t know too many grade-schoolers who would do a strip act to get the attention of a security guard.
Seems a lot more like something a scheming adult would do. And Jehane has had at least 40-some years to mature, in intellect and attitude, if nothing else.
Not to mention that it’s entirely possible that she’s being controlled by the Blue Meanie.
I don’t think the Blue Meanie would do that with the same nuance. Seems much too butch.
Something I’ve noticed is nobody is asking “why” is Jehane doing this? What reason is motivating her to get into the Forbidden Library? Also it is clear that Jehane’s personality has matured past that of a child and into an adult, so that tells me she hasn’t been stuck in a bottle for decades.
My guess is that there’s something in there that the Blue Djinn wants. I can’t think of any motivation for Jehane to be snooping on her own.
Or, the guard might be guarding the exit door to the palace. Remember, this chapter is I Dream of an Escape.
@Tom: OK, good point. I had kind of been assuming that there was some magical barrier preventing the younger genies from poofing out.
Occam’s razor: Jehane was already having an affair with this guard and is taking the opportunity to have some fun while he’s in a quiet place nobody ever goes. The rest of the castle being over run with genies as it currently is.
The joke is on her, 99% chance any guard in a harem is an eunuch. He appreciates the sight of course, but that is about his limit LOL
Yip!, my jaw just hit the ground.
I’ll bet $50 that Jehane ‘IS’ the blue djinn. Or manipulating/working-with Jehane in some way.
Starting to think this might be the other girl that looks like Jean.
Check two pages back, look sternly at her belt design and post then who you think it is. 😀
Now is she going to knock him out or wear him out? Perhaps this guard is her boyfriend, (unlikely), but I may be wrong.
Wearing him or knocking him out might a while, giving that it took 2 pebble throws to get a response from him. Must be pretty dense in the head, that guard.
At first I couldn’t figure out what those little round thing were she hit him in the head with in panels one and two and then it hit me. Oh, jahane, you naughty little girl.
… I still don’t know.
Lets just say I think she came prepared and protected.
I suppose they could be pebbles… ?
Earrings… ?
Ben-wa balls ?
How did I miss this posting? You beat me to the Ben-wa balls by six hours. What’s next, a Wascally Wabbit?
@Tom: What can I say? GMTA!
I retract my earlier assertion that Jeanie, or Jehane, or whoever the female is in this comic is, is naked.
She’s wearing her hat.
At first I couldn’t figure out what those little round thing were she hit him in the head with in panels one and two and then it hit me. Oh, jahane, you naughty little fraulein.
Enlighten the rest of us, Gary. Since her costume doesn’t have pockets and she doesn’t have a purse, I’m assuming she conjured up a couple of pebbles. I eliminated these non-magical possibilities:
(1) Can’t be jewelry; neither genie has Jewelry as part of her costume.
(2) Pieces of rock chipped from the stone wall wouldn’t be round.
(3) Ben Wa balls are spherical, not ovoid. Possible Jean might use them now, but I don’t think they’d count as part of her costume.
(4) (Deleted for grossness)
(5) (Deleted for even more grossness)
@Tom: Damn your eyes! Why’d you have to go and delete things? 😉
It’s just pebbles.
Since the guard barely noticed getting hit in the head I figured it had to be something soft and suggestive. looks like Jahane popped him with a couple of condoms. Very easy to hide in your waistband. Robert, if this word is improper please delete with my apology. Now a personal question. Do you freelance as Carl the unpaid intern on Phineas and Ferb? Just asking. If ao can you get Vanessa a cameo in Jeanie?
Sorry about the double post. Had to edit.
Way to get his attention…way to get part of him to stand at attention, too.
It’s probably Jahane, a genie fifty years, she’s mentally an adult. I doubt it’s Jean.
Or she might be the Blue Jinn in disguise?
“Jinn” is actually a better transliteration, but I use “djinn” because I think it looks cooler.
So, let me get this straight: Here we have a very masculine, male guard in a place filled with phenomenally attractive, (apparently) young women with a reputation for doing what their masters tell them to do.
And the guard squad is not specifically trained to resist the blandishments of these young women? On duty, a magical geas is not laid upon them to protect them from temptations? They are not, perhaps, provided with a comfort detachment to make sure that their sexual desires are satisfied off duty? Guards in a hidden station do not monitor the visible guards in case of attacks, either like this one or with more conventional weapons?
Sorry, my disbelief suspenders just snapped and popped me in the eye. This is perhaps the worst narrative error I can remember CD making.
I know, right? A genie guard that is used to seeing multiple scantily-clad female genies wandering around on a daily basis, is so easily distracted by a single come-hither enticement? There’s not even a trace of suspicion, as to why this gal would be trying to get him away from his post?
I think the only way out of this is if the Blue Meanie has cast some sort of spell on the guard, to make him unusually susceptible. Which raises the question: Can a genie’s magic affect other genies?
@Kattgirl: Yes, a genie’s magic can affect other genies. Remember all the things Guano did to Jean? I don’t think Kazom turned himself into a cat. I think it’s a matter of power. Probably the rest of the genie lords had to join their powers to cat-agorize Kazom, since he was the oldest and probably the most powerful genie lord–probably more powerful than Haji himself.
But not more powerful than the Blue Djinn; remember that Kazom worked with Melvin’s dad to defeat the Big Bad Blue Meanie.
Anyway, the real reason that Kazom got screwed over was that Haji saw him as a threat to his own rule. As I’ve said at least once before, the Blue Djinn has a point or two, at least in his campaign promises.
@Tom: I don’t actually recall Guano doing much to Jean, beyond yelling at her. He worked some magic on Neil/Natalie, while believing Nat was Jean. What are you thinking of?
That’s why eunuchs were invented.
I’d be awfully cautious about trying to do that to a super-powerful cosmic being with magical abilities. Besides, couldn’t he simply ‘poof’ them right back, again?
If you wanted a Male Genie Guard to be a eunuch, you would have to make them a eunuch. before you make them a Genie so it would be part of there eternal core being of who they are. The same way the Jeanie will be a female blond Genie as her core being instead of the man she use to be.
Weather it safe or not, that another question altogether. Don’t know!
Who says the guard is a genie?
@Robert
I say. How could a guard who isn’t a genie stop another genie?
As I mentioned in my other, longer comment, I imagine that the actual purpose of this guard post is purely ceremonial. The magical barrier is keeping out all the undesirables, after all.
I disagree that this is a narrative error. I think the previous page with Kazom ranting at the other guard makes it clear that the genies are not, perhaps, the brightest bulbs in the shed. Not accepting the advice of someone who actually assisted in the defeat of Blue Djinn last time is monumentally stupid, grudge against witches or not.
Besides, who is this guy guarding against in the first place? This is presumably past the magical barrier that kept Kazom out, so why would the guard need to have been carefully trained? They wouldn’t expect him to ever be confronted by someone who’s not supposed to be there, so that’s probably just a ceremonial/traditional/token position created back before they figured out how to make a semi-permissive magical barrier.
And on top of that, there is loads of information that we don’t have. Maybe this guard knows Jehane, perhaps even as a lover. If that’s the case, he would hardly expect her (or someone who looks just like her) to be there with malicious intent.
I think we need to wait for the next Haji’s Palace page to potentially explain what’s really going on here. And I’m not speaking from a position of knowledge here. CD hasn’t created the next page yet, so I don’t know what’s really going on, either.
That’s fairly good reasoning, Robert, but it does hinge on one assumption – that the magical barrier was, in fact, created by Haji and/or the other genies, and only keeps out Kazom and/or witches. Which we don’t actually know, and which seems a little unlikely – if they wanted to keep out witches, why not just put the barrier around the whole palace? Surely there are plenty of other places you don’t want strangers / enemies wandering into.
I’m guessing that the barrier was instead created on the spot by Jehane, to prevent her being surprised by anyone entering after her, and disturbing her at whatever she has planned. Which probably involves a lot more than just the seduction of some random guard.
However, given that genies are (as in Jean’s case) at least sometimes chosen randomly by being whoever picks up a bottle, you can safely assume that there are some percentage of genies so created, who are from the lower end of the bell curve. Presumably, this guy is one of them.
Lastly, if this guy knew Jehane, then there would be no reason to toss pebbles; she could just walk up to him. Clearly, she’s trying to get him away from his post. The fact that he does so, so readily, doesn’t speak to his being the sharpest knife in the drawer.
And yes, the next page should clear up a lot of the mystery.
@Kattgirl: Putting up an anti-witch barrier around the whole palace would use more magical energy. Remember what Kazom said and Araceli restated: Genies have only so much energy, and they die when they use it all up. That might not be true, but most genies seem to believe it.
@Robert: Story-wise, the guard is there so J(whomever) can strip for him. But maybe the guard has another purpose. If the whole palace has a barrier to keep the genies inside, how will Haji get out if things go pear-shaped? The exit could be a secret only Haji really knows about.
BTW, are these windowless stone corridors above ground or below? Escape tunnels are a common feature of real palaces and castles.
@Tom: Maybe. But remember that the barrier was news to Kazom, and he’s the oldest genie around. Why would the council suddenly decide that they need to be concerned about witches (but NOT genies) just at the exact moment when the biggest threat happens to be a rogue genie? That would be one heck of a major coincidence.
Whereas, if the barrier was erected by Jehane / Whoever, to cover her actions, and/or escape route, that makes complete sense, and explains why even the oldest genie lord has never seen it before.
Once again, I say she’s just there playing a little game with her lover. That easily explains it all, erecting a barrier so as not to be disturbed, tossing the “pebbles,” stripping down and the guard’s smile at seeing her. No, the guards probably aren’t too bright even by genie standards (which do appear a bit low to begin with), but that is why they are guards and not members of the council or whatever.
The best part of being a guard is when you get seduced away from your post.
I do hope you’re speaking from experience. 😉
On a completely different note.
Avast is giving me a trojan warning on this page, it might be a false positive but could someone else check. This is the only page I get get it on.
I’m getting warned about “JS-Miner-C[Trj]” which actually isn’t a trojan but is a crytocurrency miner.
It’s probably coming in from whatever service CD uses to put ads on the site. Which I *think* is Project Wonderful. You might want to contact them about it to complain, because that’s definitely malware.
*facepalm* Letting a muscle-man with his brain in his loincloth guard a critical area alone?! Either the elder genies are morons, or Big Bad Blue has an ally on the council.
And how is anyone idiotic enough not to realize this is a setup still employed as a guard?!
Nepotism? Maybe he’s Haji’s dumbass nephew.
“Haji’s dumbass nephew”
‘Twould serve em both right….
But… but… but…
No. Just one butt.
That has to be Jahane, or maybe its the evil one in her body.
Robert, I have a question. According to comic 454, the adults thought Jahane was a teenager. Does this mean that Jeanie and Jahane have the bodies of a teenager and if not, just what are their “physical” ages? Barbara Eden was in her early thirties when she did the show back in the sixties, so I always figured Jeanie and Jahane were physically similar to her, but the nun in 454 clearly thought Jahane was in her teens.
I can’t speak from any actual knowledge of the plot (that’s all in CD’s head), but if I had to guess, it would have something to do with Jehane’s childhood outlook.
She was 7 or 8 when she got changed, right? She may not have had any particular concept of how old Jeannie was on the show, so her mental image that got used to build her genie body may have been closer to her own physical image than it was to Barbara Eden’s. Thus making her into a very young version of Jeannie.
But she’s been a genie for decades now, and unlike our Jeanie, has learned how to alter her base form. Which is why she now looks like a fully adult version of Barbara Eden.
That’s my theory, at least.
I can give an answer this. Basicly, there’s some leeway with the whole Human to Genie process. Considering it’s not an exact science and it’s dependant on the mental image of the idea Genie form.
Jehane was a kid when she became a Genie. So she turned into a Barbara Eden version of a Genie closer to her own age, but also with a Barbara Eden-ish figure.
Jean turned into a Genie version physical closer to his own age. So Jean is a slightly younger version then Jeannie was in the TV series.