Jeanie Bottle 412
Jan03
on January 3, 2017
at 12:01 am
and modified on November 27, 2022. at 1:24 am
Chapter: Story 10: I Dream of Verisimilitude
Characters: Jeanie
Robert is away, so I get to post this week’s comic.
Oh, and Happy 2017!
EDIT: Robert’s back! This page is now properly copy-edited.
Here’s the script for another might-be conversation:
Jean’s editor has taken Rodge, who’s disguised as “Jean” was before Jean became Jeanie the genie, away from the main room into a small, empty conference room.
“JEAN”: So, what do you want to talk to me about?
EDITOR: When’s the wedding?
“JEAN”: Wedding?
EDITOR: You and your fiancee.
“JEAN”: Oh. You mean Jean.
EDITOR: I thought it was ‘Jeannie’.
“JEAN”: Well, she’s got the same name as me, really. First name, I mean.
EDITOR: And her last name? I’ve never heard of anyone named ‘Bottle’ before.
“JEAN”: Well, that’s her name.
EDITOR: So you’ll have the same last name, too.
“JEAN”: I will?
EDITOR: After you’re married. Unless she keeps her family name. There are women who do that these days. As a matter of fact, my daughter was planning to do that.
“JEAN”: She was?
EDITOR: Yes. So, how is the other Jean in the sack? I mean, compared to the other women you’ve slept with. Like, for instance, my daughter.
“JEAN”: Oh carp!
I have written upthread and elsewhere about Jeanie unconsciously showing signs of affection towards Neil, as a bottle genie should; and even being ever so slightly submissive, when Neil asserts himself, as a master should.
I’ve also mentioned the possibility that Jeanie has made Rodge more like Jean in personality as well as appearance–note the smoothly told lie that Jeanie is his fiancée.
And note that when he gave Jeanie a direct order, she got a slightly stunned expression, and then did as she was told despite resenting it.
What if it is in the nature of bottle genies to grow affectionate towards dominate males?
I am now envisioning Jeanie being torn between her magical master Neil, and the man she has inadvertently made her romantic master.
Step up, Neil! You must save your genie from falling in love with her evil twin by being her master in fact and not just name!
When Jeanie transformed Rodge into a look alike of her former male self, she changed the outer physical appearance of Rodge to look like Jean and not the inside of Rodge to look like Jean. Inside of Rodge head, is all Rodge and there no Jean anywhere around. Only reason that Jean appears to look like Jean, is because Rodge thinks act the same way that act like Jean. There like twin spirit that think the same way. Besides, I don’t think Genie are allowed to do that and probably cause Guano to show up, because, she did something that she should not have done.
I know you might come up with the Greek Captain, but, he was trying to pull something he had no business trying to pull and Jeanie was just defending herself. But, other wise Genie’s can’t do that.
There is no fear of Jeanie falling in love with Jean (alias Rodge), because Jeanie will see a self-centered jerk that she not interested in. Jeanie won’t fall in love with Rodge for the same reason that those other women didn’t fall in love with Jean or alias Rodge. The thing about people like Rodge and Jean is that there vain people and they can be cute for awhile, but, it get old after awhile. Also Jeanie is around other women now and she will have a tendency to identify with them instead of identifying herself as a guy.
Ultimately Jeanie not going to like what Rodge is putting out and will run back Neil for protection, which is also Girly thing too. I see Rodge causing a lot problem her and maybe even turning Jeanie on, which she doesn’t want and then turning to Neil guard her emotions from going wild and ending in a kiss for Neil and developing a relationship with each other in a more romantic setting. Even in the TV series, Rodger Healey made a play for Jeanie, but, finally concluded that Jeanie belongs to major Nelson and that Jeanie would never be his. Which might be another twisted direction that this story could go too.
I admit I am enthralled by the idea of Jeanie and Neil both having to accept roles they are naturally inclined against to keep the genie magic from blowing up in their faces.
Anyone want to bet against Guano showing up in this arc? We know he can find Atlantic City.
Won’t bet against him, no.
I just hope he doesn’t. I want Jeanie to suffer the natural consequences of her actions.
How about this one? We know that Guano is a fuck up when it comes to being a Genie Lord. He has a tendency to make mistakes.
1. Guano show up and finds Jean getting his reward like he suppose to, but, Guano detects Genie magic on Jean (alias Rodge).
2. Guano uses his magic to complete the transformation of Rodge into Jean and now Rodge or Jean isn’t sure whether he Rodge or Jean. Because, Guano doesn’t know that that is Jeanie’s former male self and he just assume that she using her magic in a way that she shouldn’t.
3. Jeanie can’t tell Guano that Jean is actually Rodge and that Rodge is actually covering for her as a man or Jean which is her old male self. There no way that Jeanie could or would tell Guano that this is her old self or image of herself, especially in public too.
4. She go back to get Neil to come up with a plan to Rodge back to being Rodge without divulging that she use to be Jean and that she working on the side in her old job, when she suppose be a full time Genie.
Just thought of something—hope it’s not in the comments above (gets harder to sift through the more there are and I miss things with just a few on the page.)
Jean’s there ’cause she as a former he was nominated for some sort of award for writing, right? But the meaning of “Lothario” momentarily eludes her…
Or Jean’s just playing dumb.
Well, “playing”. I’m not sure Jeanie has to play dumb, exactly.
OK, OK, she’s not stupid, either. But like Jean, it seems, her impulse control is a bit loose.
I doubt the meaning of the word eludes Jeanie–Jean just never thought of himself that way.
I don’t think it was just momentary. I suspect that the kind of books and films that Jean reviews, don’t usually use big words, like “Lothario”. The vocabulary is probably more like, “oooh”, uhhhh!”, and “Give it to me, baby!”
As I suggested quite a ways above, the magazine Jean writes for is probably more like Playboy than The Atlantic. “Lothario” is an antique term now, although I knew what it meant because I’m an antique myself. (It’s references a character buried in Don Quixote, at least according to Wikipedia.)
The only time we’ve actually seen Jean working on his/her own was reading a book he had to review for his magazine. While Jean is no Einstein or even a Shakespeare, he/she isn’t a complete dummy. Jean is just careless; she’s gotten by so far on charm and talent and maybe pheromones. But she’s serious enough about writing to work at it without being forced. And, again, as I’ve said before, Jean’s a genie now; she doesn’t need the money, although she still acts like she does–flying instead of poofing to claim it as an expense.
Actually, I can think of several real-world writers with similar profiles. My girlfriend was a mistress to one of them.
A sailorsun.org crossover thought: Could the magazine be Playpen, the magazine which once published nude pictures of Bay’s twin sister Heather?
Playpen? That sounds like a magazine for pedophiles. No wonder Jean works remotely.
I have to say Playpen is a poor choice in names for a skin mag. CD must have use the frst thing that came to mind. Since it is a throw away plot point.
It’s Playpen because CD didn’t want to use a registered trademark. Anyway, Playboy is Playboy because Hugh Hefner originally was going to name it Stag Party but Stag magazine threatened legal action. So Hef changed the name to Playboy the mascot stag became a rabbit, and his does became bunnies.
I name the magazine Bay was posed in as Play-pen for 2 reasons. 1 it’s similar to Playboy; 2 the world Bay and cast live in a world of internet media… so a cartoon or a pen’d in character wouldn’t seem odd in that world.
@Tom, CD: Sure. The explanation is obvious. But at the same time, it’s inadvertently funny, because the term “playpen” has a second meaning that, in the context of a skin mag, would be considerably darker. (But still funny, as long as you like dark humor. And don’t have a thin skin or feel a need to be politically correct, which I don’t.)
Last panel is still missing some context