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.
This could be the work of someone who is comfortable in any body. Just a quick check to see what sex it is, so as not to make more trouble by using the wrong restroom.
May be interisting to see where this is going.
You’ve got to feel for her though, she’s lost her original gender, been enslaved to a magical construct for no adequate reason, had a high genie send her on training against her will, gotten a couple of dud “masters” and now is stuck beign a phantasm.
Jean is a total narcissist. Remember that if it had been Neil who opened the bottle and became the djinn then Jean would have been having his way with Neil (Nell? Maybe in a future storyline?), like it or not–but Jean thinks that Neil’s natural reaction to the Jeannie body is “disgusting.” So Jean/Jeannie has just been asking for it. Jean’s idea of “helping” Melvin is just making more and more trouble, too. Note that one of Melvin’s classmates is now stuck as a girl because Jean couldn’t be bothered to pay attention. So whatever is happening to Jean seems to be just desserts, eh?
Well, I have an odd theory that Kazom may be in the Jeanie’s body. He’s been stuck in a cat body for a long time and *any* human body would be a pleasant change.
I think everyone has forgotten that Guano believes Jean is a Genie, locked in a very old bottle. The most likely explanation for this is that there was indeed a Genie locked in a very old bottle, who somehow bequeathed her body and powers to Jean. My own opinion – that Genie was thinking for a very long time about how to get out of the whole ‘slave to random mortals’ thing, and that turning Jean into her was part of a plan to hide from the wrath of Lord Guano.
I could be wrong, but from the beginning of this strip it just seemed that there was a missing party – the Genie who was originally in the bottle. Maybe she just had her grand entrance…
“it just seemed that there was a missing party – the Genie who was originally in the bottle. ”
Good catch. GOOD catch.
I think I made a comment to that effect in the forums, when the comic first started, but I don’t have time to find it now. No, wait, I lie: I think I surmised that the Bottle was vacant because the previous occupant had completed her service. Something like that.
In any event, I didn’t think to connect it with this.
I’m struck by the current genie’s immediate reaction: she checks her boobs. She likes having boobs, and is pretty satisfied with this pair. OK, I get that.
Hmm… Based on Jean’s body’s reactions I’m going to assume that the ghost is the real Jean and there is someone else in the body.
Yeah, and “my body” is a good clue as well.
Also the body occupant is perfectly comfortable and unsurprised. That suggests a thief not an accidental transferee.
This could be the work of someone who is comfortable in any body. Just a quick check to see what sex it is, so as not to make more trouble by using the wrong restroom.
May be interisting to see where this is going.
If that’s Jean’s spirit or something, then why doesn’t it look like the real (male) Jean?
Because, I think, Jean really has been turned into Jeanie. That’s who she is now.
Who’s driving?
I choose the blame Lord Guano for this. I don’t care that he has barely been in this storyline at all.
Huh, so then who’s in her body…
You’ve got to feel for her though, she’s lost her original gender, been enslaved to a magical construct for no adequate reason, had a high genie send her on training against her will, gotten a couple of dud “masters” and now is stuck beign a phantasm.
Jean is a total narcissist. Remember that if it had been Neil who opened the bottle and became the djinn then Jean would have been having his way with Neil (Nell? Maybe in a future storyline?), like it or not–but Jean thinks that Neil’s natural reaction to the Jeannie body is “disgusting.” So Jean/Jeannie has just been asking for it. Jean’s idea of “helping” Melvin is just making more and more trouble, too. Note that one of Melvin’s classmates is now stuck as a girl because Jean couldn’t be bothered to pay attention. So whatever is happening to Jean seems to be just desserts, eh?
Well, I have an odd theory that Kazom may be in the Jeanie’s body. He’s been stuck in a cat body for a long time and *any* human body would be a pleasant change.
Of course, I could be totally wrong.
Am I the only one thinking that Jeannie should’ve gotten a manual to explain the do’s and don’ts?
She did there was a big computer manual, but Jeanie didn’t want to read it.
Ah… I forgot about it, and thanks to the meds I’m taking for my broken toe, the archives for this comic looked to me like that manual did to Jeanie.
could it be that it created a new personality that controls the body while the real one is like that from a magic backfire
Yeah, it kinda looks like her body is on autopilot.
I only got one thing to say…MELVIN!!!…^_^
“Does this smoke make my butt look big?”
hmm i never thought this would happen! and ranck that would be sooo funny and awesome if that is what happened! i hope ya keep up the good work CD!
I think everyone has forgotten that Guano believes Jean is a Genie, locked in a very old bottle. The most likely explanation for this is that there was indeed a Genie locked in a very old bottle, who somehow bequeathed her body and powers to Jean. My own opinion – that Genie was thinking for a very long time about how to get out of the whole ‘slave to random mortals’ thing, and that turning Jean into her was part of a plan to hide from the wrath of Lord Guano.
I could be wrong, but from the beginning of this strip it just seemed that there was a missing party – the Genie who was originally in the bottle. Maybe she just had her grand entrance…
“it just seemed that there was a missing party – the Genie who was originally in the bottle. ”
Good catch. GOOD catch.
I think I made a comment to that effect in the forums, when the comic first started, but I don’t have time to find it now. No, wait, I lie: I think I surmised that the Bottle was vacant because the previous occupant had completed her service. Something like that.
In any event, I didn’t think to connect it with this.
I’m struck by the current genie’s immediate reaction: she checks her boobs. She likes having boobs, and is pretty satisfied with this pair. OK, I get that.
But why is having hands not confirmation enough?
Remember that she is younger than she started, maybe the hands could be confused with a boy’s hands?
I think there might be more to this than a simple accidental mind transference or possession.
okay NOW i really am enjoying this alot XD!
Ohhhhh, K. Now this is interesting. As well as everything else, but it’s also new! Which I probably should have said at the beginning.