Jeanie Bottle 247
Feb11
on February 11, 2014
at 12:00 am
and modified on October 29, 2022. at 12:02 am
Chapter: Story 06: I Dream of a B-Witch
Orange’s brand new oPad is all the rage these days for browsing the Witchernet.
Try on the Magenet.
Maybe she just used Dimension Door.
Dimension Door? Is that a D&D spell? I’m basically GURPS guy. Or are you referencing a series like Harry Potter? Enquiring old farts want to know.
Yep, Dimension Door is a fourth level spell in D&D. Teleport is a fifth level spell.
Dimension door is best for escape or tactical redeployment.
5th level spells are not gained at 5th level probably 7-8th level and are very powerful.
also with D.Door you cant tport into a wall, floor etc.
Dimension Door is a D&D/Pathfinder Spell of 4th level, Teleport is a 5th level spell. 5th level spells are gained at 9th character level.
For some perspective, a level 9 character is usually middle-aged, and by the time you reach maximum level at around level 20, your character is usually starting to go grey at least.
Old for a Klahd, not for a Perv–ah, Pervect!!
Too bad it’s not a Banana bPad. Those are slick.
I prefer my Kumquat qPad. There is just something about the qPad that makes me love it.
Now there’s a computer name I haven’t heard in many years. Back in the old 8 bit days there was a computer called Orange. It was a knock-off of the Apple II.
And one of the reasons why Apple never licensed the Mac or its OS. Apple ended up paying a lot of money supporting poorly made clones from companies that made and sold all their clones, then closed their doors.
It seems to me most likely that the guys will get together and work things out while the girls are fighting, then they’ll stop the fight.
I was going to guess the guys work things out, then get turned into girls via the dual only to have the dual broken up by either Guano or Endoria in such a way that one if not both guys are stuck (for a while) as girls. (though that would only be in effect if either 1. witch and genie powers can’t undo each other’s spells or 2. spells from only one of them can counter the other, but not the other way around, meaning only one of the guys would be turned back till the others are able to meet up again)
Nice, now their both afraid of each other. Kicking back and savoring the irony…
Didn’t her mother just use a teleportation spell inside a moving car earlier that very same day?
Yeah, and her mother is an extremely powerful witch. Sam would not want to go up against a witch like her in a duel, that’s for sure.
Yes, Endora in the TV series pretty much scared the crap out of any other witch, including Sam’s father. She’s quite old and experienced and powerful. Not to be trifled with, or even annoyed if possible.
Oh shit, is she a witch rather than a genie? :O
On further reflection I just realized Jean is neither smart or skilled! 🙂
I see Jean as fairly smart but lazy, impulsive, and overconfident. Remember, he/she makes a living writing for a magazine and makes enough money to afford a much nicer apartment than Neil. Considering the print market these days, Jean must have been talented and/or lucky as hell to get where he was pre-genieficaction.
Jean might have unusually powerful magic. He was doing magic unconsciously early on. Maybe it’s because of his bottle, or maybe he has some genie ancestry.
I’m also thinking that just maybe Jean can’t really hurt anyone with her magic. After all, what’s so bad about being changed into a girl? That old Greek fisherman (or fisherwoman? That was a pretty bulky jacket he/she was wearing) seemed quite happy to be a young girl the last time we saw her, riding in the back of a limo. That restriction really fits the trope of the magic in I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched.
I point anyone that thinks you need to be smart to be a successful reviewer to Rex Reed and Richard Roeper.
Looks like they’ve moved beyond male bonding if the dialog is any indicator…
This is Derick and Sam, not Neil and Jean(ie). Openly gay characters are definitely not in the tropes of 1960s sitcoms. Okay, you really didn’t need great gaydar to spot Uncle Arthur (Paul Lynde) in Bewitched, but both Darrins played it butch, even if both of them were gay.
Alas, you’re right. That’s what I get for squinting at it too early in the morning…
I heard Dick Sargent came out as gay but Dick York was married to a woman so I’m pretty sure he wasn’t.
Being married didn’t mean anything with regards to being gay in those days. I’m not suggesting Dick York was gay, mind you. I have no idea, nor do I really care. Just saying that i wouldn’t use marriage as proof he wasn’t.
Since both of them are feeling nervous about the duel, they may just forgo a magical duel and decide on a non magical one. Surfing perhaps.
My vote is for a slap fight!
I’m now wondering when Sam is going to spot her mother’s real spy and realize that it isn’t Jean. I figure that will happen either late in the duel or just after its conclusion.
That’s a most likely assumption to happen
Do we know that there is a real spy for Sam’s mom? It could just be Sam being paranoid.
We don’t actually, but considering how Endora acted in the TV series, I’d be surprised if she didn’t.
I suspect she doesn’t need a spy. She just spies on them with a mirror or something.
I wonder if the rules for a witch duel are different then the rules for a genie duel?
Considering Jeannie has no idea on the rules for a genie duel it’s kind of beside the point. That’s assuming such a thing as a genie duel even exists.
Most genies seem to be patient and prefer to wait until bad things happen to their enemies. This is evidenced by Kazom and Araceli.
Considering that genies have a lifespan tied to their magic (the more they use = the shorter they live) I’d say they’d avoid dueling as much as possible because even if they win they lose.
Good point, ai vin. When you use your lifeforce for magic, I guess both genies would ultimately losing out in a duel.
Um…Samantha is more than capable of teleportation. She did it all the time in the TV series.
These aren’t precisely the same characters. This strip is inspired by IDOJ, and this particular chapter is inspired by Bewitched, but they’re not direct clones.
Maybe Bottle-Sam is younger and hasn’t had time to learn all the spells Bewitched-Samantha used all the time.
Let’s face it, teleportation is an easy and cheap special effect to do; all you do is stop the camera and have everyone but the porter stay on their marks until you start the camera again. This is the reason Gene Roddenberry invented the Transporter in Star Trek: He didn’t want to shoot a whole bunch of scenes showing the Enterprise taking off and landing on new planets.
Similarly, Jean has been able to do teleportation and object creation/summoning/snatching from the very beginning because C.D. Rudd decided he didn’t want to spend time explaining how he/she did it or why.
But decisions made on the fly at the start of things tend to have lasting and surprising consequences. The French have a saying: Nothing lasts like a makeshift. Roddenberry had to make up reasons to keep the landing parties from just porting out of danger, so he gave the transporter a limited range–if it could reach across the galaxy, who needs starships? And he decreed it couldn’t work with shields up. And he and successive directors and writers have come up with all sorts of transporter glitches like scrambled body parts, switching to parallel universes, duplication (there have been duplicate Kirks and duplicate Rykers–the latter being made permanent so that Ryker is his own twin brother.
One thing that could be down the road is that maybe all that teleportation is using up Jean’s magic at a fearful rate! Of course, Lord Kazom might have lied to Jean, or at least left out ways for genies to refill their magic tanks, and if C.D. Rudd decides it will serve the story, there will be.
Tom, part of the question is just how much juice a genie has in the tank. Yes, we know they use up their lifespan on magic, but what is a genie’s lifespan, and how of it does a spell cost. I’m guessing everything Jean does is pretty cheap.
Kazom’s story was a warning about magics that shaped the history of the world. From a story perspective, it is a good rule to have around. It keeps the story at the level of hijinks of its sitcom inspiration. CD doesn’t need to worry about readers asking why Jean doesn’t end world hunger or cure cancer. The answer is that doing stuff like that would kill her.
Well, it seems that both Jeanie and Sam seem to be panicking over each other for the same reason, but for different magical races!
…Pfwahahahahahaha!!! Smart and skilled? That one got me!
So, now here’s the question. Jean became Jeanie with that particular appearance in part because of his recollection of the TV show. That means they live in a universe that has that show but not the one that Sam and her partner are from.
Also: Pizza? On a honeymoon?
Exactly! Why isn’t Sam cooking 🙂
Sam might be a great witch but a lousy cook. Also, motels don’t tend to have much more than a microwave, and many don’t allow cooking at all.
But there’s a possible plot point lurking here: Derick can afford a honeymoon cruise, but won’t spring to take his new wife out to a decent restaurant?
They’re newlyweds, they want to stay in (wink, wink), not go out for dinner. Besides, just imagine a pizza bikini . . . 😉
I’d point out, they are waiting for the cruise. AND Sam is studying. I think it’s a safe bet this isn’t Derick’s first plan
Given he bought the finest wine the corner store had I’d say that’s a safe bet.
Maybe Samantha should specify “No wands or talismans” for the duel.
#1: No mineral or vegetable, only animals.
#2: No make-believe things (like pink dragons and stuff).
#3: No disappearing.
#4: No cheating.
Interesting development! I think we have two very spooked gals, neither willing to “through the first punch” come sunrise.
How I think the next few comics are going to go down: Jean and Neil’s version of this one, then Neil and Derick some how figure out this is a big misunderstading, then them trying to tell Jean and Sam that they are having a misunderstanding, using the “two people saying the same thing at the same time, and cut between them to show this” cliche, and it doesn’t work, and finally a big fight seen from behind Neil and dericks heads, and all we can see is that it involves something ith tentacles, three zebras, several flashes of light, a clown car, and something exploding. Oh, and both neil and derick would have been tg’ed.
Don’t forget bunny ears for Neil.
I think, Neil is getting used to it.
There is a major flaw with this strip… I’m suprised no one else noticed it or is reality just a little warped…. Wine with pizza? whats up with that?
I’ve drunk wine with pizza, but beer is much better.
Two-for-two on the WRONG-O! chart in the third panel. Heh heh heh… 😉