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Neil is Jean’s best friend. When Jean was turned into a genie, Neil became Jeanie’s master.
Yes. Usually rendered “Scylla” in English translations of the Odyssey. Odysseus and his men had to sail between Scylla, a monster, and Charybdis, a ship-swallowing whirlpool, in the Straits of Messina. To avoid losing the whole ship in the whirlpool, Odysseus sailed closer to Scylla, who took and ate some of the sailors. (But not Odysseus, of course.)
Getting deaper into Wikipedia σκύλα is a Modern Greek word. And Araceli seems to come from a couple of milleniums ago, so she should spell it in Ancient Greek form, that by the way is Σκύλλα with a double λ.
If there’s any Greek fellow over here forgive me if I made a mistake, I just looked at Wikipedia…
Well the way it is written means bitch and comes from modern greek. The mythical montser is indeed spelled σκύλλα in both modern and ancient greek, but I am not 100% sure it might have the symbol ~ on top of υ. But I think you are over analyzing this.
So, do Areceli and Belle recognize each other? Or is that just Belle being curious and Areceli being jealous? Hmm.
And, I’m not one to complain about spelling and grammar, but it should be “Though” and “owns.” “Thou” is the old English familiar form of “you.” At first I though Neil was trying to be over formal or something.
Wow where did Araceli learn greek? That was a shock to see something written in my language and correctly.
Also σκύλα literally means bitch. Although it isn’t used as much as bitch is used in the US. I could suggest more if anyone was interested.
Neil drops the ball again. Really, the guy is clueless. He describes each woman as his “friend.” Since Araceli has romantic designs on Neil, she now figures that Belle does too. So now Araceli is convinced that Belle is her romantic rival, and will act accordingly.
I am soooo thoroughly confused here. Didn’t Belle used to be Jean’s girlfriend? Did she give up on Jean? Didn’t Jean even remotely attempt to tell Belle what happened to him/her? Surely though some times elapsed there HAD to have been SOME SORT of resolution on the Belle/Jean relationship…..
I’ve got some more questions: 1) Why hasn’t Guano & others allowed that Jean was turned into a djinni by accident? Hasn’t anyone made some manner of clearance or “oops, we think there’s been a screw-up” in the djinna world or some such? 2) IF Araceli is a ‘replacement’ until Jean learns his/her lesson, what will befall Jean if Niel decides to keep Ari instead of his old friend? 3)Why didn’t Guano or others, IF Jean is stuck as a djinni, at the least give some pointers and other helps? This webcomic would do better if there’d’ve been some interconnective back-/mid-story to at the least show something was done to help Jean accept his/her condition. Surely you can answer THAT, (if’n that ain’t askin’ too much)?
Was it an _accident_ or some kind of karmic payback, eh? This was alluded to in an earliler strip, referring to Jean’s “I would so do her.” Narcissistic Jean does not want to get the idea that she is now a djinn and supposed to serve others, not herself. Right?
Who says it is an accident? It seems to be an effective means to making new servant djinns— turn humans into the exact kind of djinns they want more of. So, beware. If the bottle is empty, you’ll be turned into its newest occupant and newest addition to the “djinn” breeds! Otherwise, if it currently has a djinn, then you get yourself a djinn.
It works. Explains the centuries of being trapped in the bottle. That gives the subject time to forget their human exist, finish changing into a djinn, and be desperate enough to be out of the bottle and a fear of being stuck back in it that few if any of their newest members would give the elders and betters trouble.
Wait… what right does she have to be jealous or catty towards this other woman, she doesn’t have any sort of claim over Neil, and doesn’t have any reason to believe this other woman does either.
Araceli has her own fantasies, from watching too much TV. Remember, she thinks Neil is going to propose to her at the end of the date. So any other woman is a potential threat and rival. (How long was she in that bottle alone, anyway? Isn’t this all happening on a single day???)
Then, when Neil _doesn’t_ propose to her at the end of the evening…well, no fury like a woman scorned, eh? Lord Guano was going to turn him into a slug, right? Araceli has already had him on the rack in the Tower of London. So what is she going to do to Neil? I’ll bet he’ll wish he were just back holding that pole in the strip club…and that he’d finished reading that book on the care and feeding of genies…
A jealous genie! XD
Also, did Neil’s hand suddenly become translucent??
Belle’s date looks like Frankenstein.
Anybody know what “Skyla” means?
it means bitch.
Wasn’t she one of the monsters in the Odyssey…?
Yes. Usually rendered “Scylla” in English translations of the Odyssey. Odysseus and his men had to sail between Scylla, a monster, and Charybdis, a ship-swallowing whirlpool, in the Straits of Messina. To avoid losing the whole ship in the whirlpool, Odysseus sailed closer to Scylla, who took and ate some of the sailors. (But not Odysseus, of course.)
I would like to point out that in the second panel it should be “[u]Though[/u] I think the guy who [u]owns[/u] the cinema…”
Just trying to help with grammar an dspelling 😉
What is it that Araceli says, anyway?
And I would accept her apology. She’s so adorable. XD
σκύλα = “bitch”
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/σκύλα
But you could probably guess that from the context. ^_~
Getting deaper into Wikipedia σκύλα is a Modern Greek word. And Araceli seems to come from a couple of milleniums ago, so she should spell it in Ancient Greek form, that by the way is Σκύλλα with a double λ.
If there’s any Greek fellow over here forgive me if I made a mistake, I just looked at Wikipedia…
The real question would be, “Why Greek?” Djinni are Arabic mythology, not European at all. Shouldn’t she be resorting to Arabic, rather than Greek?
Greek probably because we’re about to see a mash of mythology.
Well the way it is written means bitch and comes from modern greek. The mythical montser is indeed spelled σκύλλα in both modern and ancient greek, but I am not 100% sure it might have the symbol ~ on top of υ. But I think you are over analyzing this.
gargamuza, she’s from classical Hellenistic times, not Arabian. [My theory is late Roman Syria.]
So, do Areceli and Belle recognize each other? Or is that just Belle being curious and Areceli being jealous? Hmm.
And, I’m not one to complain about spelling and grammar, but it should be “Though” and “owns.” “Thou” is the old English familiar form of “you.” At first I though Neil was trying to be over formal or something.
Wow where did Araceli learn greek? That was a shock to see something written in my language and correctly.
Also σκύλα literally means bitch. Although it isn’t used as much as bitch is used in the US. I could suggest more if anyone was interested.
i smell a dramatic twist here
hmmm this doesn’t seem what aceli would do but i think she might turn belle to a guy .-.
Neil drops the ball again. Really, the guy is clueless. He describes each woman as his “friend.” Since Araceli has romantic designs on Neil, she now figures that Belle does too. So now Araceli is convinced that Belle is her romantic rival, and will act accordingly.
I am soooo thoroughly confused here. Didn’t Belle used to be Jean’s girlfriend? Did she give up on Jean? Didn’t Jean even remotely attempt to tell Belle what happened to him/her? Surely though some times elapsed there HAD to have been SOME SORT of resolution on the Belle/Jean relationship…..
I’ve got some more questions: 1) Why hasn’t Guano & others allowed that Jean was turned into a djinni by accident? Hasn’t anyone made some manner of clearance or “oops, we think there’s been a screw-up” in the djinna world or some such? 2) IF Araceli is a ‘replacement’ until Jean learns his/her lesson, what will befall Jean if Niel decides to keep Ari instead of his old friend? 3)Why didn’t Guano or others, IF Jean is stuck as a djinni, at the least give some pointers and other helps? This webcomic would do better if there’d’ve been some interconnective back-/mid-story to at the least show something was done to help Jean accept his/her condition. Surely you can answer THAT, (if’n that ain’t askin’ too much)?
Was it an _accident_ or some kind of karmic payback, eh? This was alluded to in an earliler strip, referring to Jean’s “I would so do her.” Narcissistic Jean does not want to get the idea that she is now a djinn and supposed to serve others, not herself. Right?
Who says it is an accident? It seems to be an effective means to making new servant djinns— turn humans into the exact kind of djinns they want more of. So, beware. If the bottle is empty, you’ll be turned into its newest occupant and newest addition to the “djinn” breeds! Otherwise, if it currently has a djinn, then you get yourself a djinn.
It works. Explains the centuries of being trapped in the bottle. That gives the subject time to forget their human exist, finish changing into a djinn, and be desperate enough to be out of the bottle and a fear of being stuck back in it that few if any of their newest members would give the elders and betters trouble.
Wait… what right does she have to be jealous or catty towards this other woman, she doesn’t have any sort of claim over Neil, and doesn’t have any reason to believe this other woman does either.
Araceli has her own fantasies, from watching too much TV. Remember, she thinks Neil is going to propose to her at the end of the date. So any other woman is a potential threat and rival. (How long was she in that bottle alone, anyway? Isn’t this all happening on a single day???)
Then, when Neil _doesn’t_ propose to her at the end of the evening…well, no fury like a woman scorned, eh? Lord Guano was going to turn him into a slug, right? Araceli has already had him on the rack in the Tower of London. So what is she going to do to Neil? I’ll bet he’ll wish he were just back holding that pole in the strip club…and that he’d finished reading that book on the care and feeding of genies…