Jeanie Bottle 411
Welcome to the final day of the 2016 Christmas Week of Updates! The regular update schedule will resume next week on either Tuesday or Thursday (depending on how quickly CD and I recover…).
Happy New Year, everyone!
I wonder what secret they think they know?
Whatever it is, it is not what Jeanie fears they know.
I am thinking, that they thinking that Jeanie’s pragnat. I think that there operating on a false assumption here as to what really going on here.
If I were to guess I’m gonna say the “secret” is they think she writes the stories that “jean” publishes and let’s him take credit.
That would be my guess, too.
That a good guess, especially after they hear Jean speak and see how ignorant he is about the job he suppose to have. Some girls seem to have a sixth sense to be able to pick stuff like that up.
Sixth sense, like hell. Morons are easy to identify, as soon as they speak.
Jeanie’s going to be particularly chagrined to find that everyone thinks “Jean” is way too dumb to possibly be the real author.
Come to that, these women have probably all met Jean before (Note: Jean knew Debbie’s name!) and he probably hit on them. No wonder they dislike him.
Considering how “Jean” is acting at the party, “Jeannie” being the real writer is a perfectly good suspicion, and it looks like the other women making up the rest of the “we” in “we all know” agree. Actually it could work out well for Jeanie to go along with it except for:
(1) Jeanie doesn’t have a solid identity–you know, birth certificate, tax records, driver’s license, etc. Maybe magic can cover it–but that kind of magic could attract unwelcome attention from Araceli and Guano.
(2) Becoming Jeanie means trashing “Jean’s” reputation. This may not hurt Jean/Jeanie’s career, but it’s going to matter to Jean’s family.
(3) If Jean doesn’t come clean to Belle, she’s going to be be mad at both Jean and Jeanie.
How to solve this dilemma? Well, giving Debbie the Agent Anderson treatment won’t do. How about turning Debbie into a Daryl?
Play it cool Jeanie and act like you don’t know what going on and let them tell you what they think they know. Like Jeanie needs to do the dumb blond number, that is if she being smart.
But, I am guessing that she going to blow it and say something that she should not say.
They probably think “Jeannie” is pretending to be a guy to get higher pay and got somebody else to pretend to be Jean.
I figure they’re all ex-girlfriends.
Notice that Jeannie knows Debbie’s name before Debbie introduces herself.
I think so too! Would explain her knowing her name. As well as the fear in his eyes when they all converged!
This could be some scare tactic of Debbie to get Jean to spill the beans here or some sort of juicy intel out of her. I mean, how much could she possibly know as of now from a few hours ago since Jean and Rodge’s arrival? Or from a while ago maybe?
Jean’s unfortunately already lost “her” composure here from the last panel, showing that “she” is hiding something.
Maybe they all dated Jean and think the only reason he’d ever get engaged would be if he got her pregnant.
Peroxide in the hair?
“Does she or doesn’t she?”.
And all those years of being a womanizer come back to haunt him.
I’m hoping for this. Excuse me folks, but I don’t want it to be that the girls think Jeanie’s the writer and Jean’s the front. If nothing else, the others will know that Jeanie is new in Jean’s life.
No, I want this to be about Jean the man and Jeanie the woman, and I want it to be Jean’s old ways biting her hard in the ass.
I would love for the fate that made her a genie make her here nothing but Jean’s current woman.
And wouldn’t it be grand if Jean discovered a talent for writing, while Jeanie gets blocked? She’s a bottle genie now–her purpose in life is to please her master. What does she need a keyboard for?
Hehe, I like this idea. From womanizer to womanized. 🙂
I think the secret is Belle
Now I’m wondering if they’re all going to be ka-boyed and sent to the local fire department, or something equally silly and frivolous.
Your wotch is showing…
Mind rubs, mind rubs all around!
This one made the switch back to weekly releases extremely painful!
Well, we can stop doing the annual week of updates, if it would be easier.
Prefer the bonus updates, thanks very much CD.
Nice cliffhanger 🙂
That wasn’t a criticism, CD. Just an appreciation of your art & storytelling. 🙂
Yes! What she said!
I look forward to this every year.
Even if when it is over it feels like, when you realize the holiday turkey or ham is gone!
Not a criticism! but only a forlorned cry of someone going through comic withdrawals!
I would at least not extend the bonus pages–two weeks and we’d be breaking into artist colonies in the middle of the night, jonesing.
I love that look of contained-panic she exhibits in the last panel!
Yaa I think Jean knows all these women. But being clueless as he is he is worring about the wrong thing.
Thanks for the extra comics CD. We all wish you can do more but understand you have a live besides making comics.
Best wishes for 2017.
Welp, Jean got found out pretty quickly.
I’m guessing these are all ex-girlfriends or hookups who were dumped by Jean showing up with a “fiancée” later discovered to be a paid escort just playing the part.
This is all nice and amusing and everything but uh… I wanna know what happened in the second grade now 😛