A junior engineer working for a small engineering firm in Cocoa Beach. The firm focuses mostly on NASA projects.
Neil is Jean’s best friend. When Jean was turned into a genie, Neil became Jeanie’s master.
Let’s review. When Jeanie turns Neil into Natalie, it is for some selfish reason of Jean’s. There is no clear evidence that Neil’s transformation was done by Jeanie this time. In fact it appears that Jeanie may not even have been there but had already been zapped to Haji’s castle. So this is a different kind of transformation:. Previously, Jean made Neil wear a girl body. This one makes Neil BE a girl. And some other djinn did it for some reason we don’t yet know. And maybe Jeanie, when she escapes from Haji’s palace, won’t be able to reverse it. And the plot thickens…
But using genie magic to change the way Neil thinks means going against his will, doesn’t it? We’re talking here of the kind of change Ann Onymous pulled on the four jocks who became the four (girl) cheerleaders of Cheer and eventually four more bridesmaids for Bay.
There’s only one genie in Jean Nessman’s universe that we might have seen bending human will, and that one is Big Bad Blue.
ANY change in circumstances would change how someone thinks. Like Jeanie shipping those goofs to Omaha Beach on D-Day. Natalie being hormonal isn’t the same thing as altering free will. Otherwise, magic would be forbidden altogether.
@tramline, there is abundant proof in our own world that people can have their circumstances changed drastically without changing how they think. Kazom explained to Jeanie that even he couldn’t make Holly fall for Melvin. This suggests that there is a specific limitation in the nature of the magic of genies on changing what people feel and believe. Or maybe all genies except Big Bad Blue.
Have you ever read Isaac Asimov’s classic Foundation series? The premise is that a scientist named Hari Seldon has developed a new science, psychohistory, which can predict the behavior of societies containing very large numbers of people–in this case, a galactic empire. He predicts that the empire will collapse in a few centuries to be followed by a very long dark age. But he also calculates that by using psychohistory a new empire might be created in a much shorter time. He establishes two foundations to try to make this come about.
Everything goes more or less according to his predictions for a few centuries, but then The Mule appears. The Mule is a mutant human who can use telepathy to change the will of other people. He rapidly begins to take over large sections of the galaxy. He’s a random element Hari Seldon’s theory failed to allow for. Arguably this could lead to what Seldon wanted to achieve, a new, stable galactic empire instead of a galaxy of warring petty empires, outright pirates, and technological and cultural decline. But the Mule is sterile, so there can be no new dynasty.
Well, the logic behind that is questionable, but the Mule is one of the great villains of science fiction, particularly because he doesn’t turn out to be personally very scary at all–until he uses his power.
All this leads me to this idea: The Blue Djinn is a mutant genie, one whose magic doesn’t have the same inability to directly mold human minds that all or nearly all the other genies have.
I agree Big Blue is a special case. He can bend lesser genies to his will, “outside of Haji’s domain”. What if, he influenced Jennie to change Neil to Natalie with enhanced hormones. It would be up to Neil’s own, strength of will, to resist those bodily influences. Blue gets himself, in disguised form, pulled to haji’s domain along with Jennie. Neither have power there, but now Neil is hostage on the outside, giving Blue leverage over Jennie on the inside. Jennie could lose her friend and master to an other man. Blue could use that to force Jennie to complete what ever his nefarious scheme is, on the inside. He would be taking a chance that Jennie will say ” Screw you! Niels on his own. Guards its Big Bad Blue! get him !!”
It’s all good. It isn’t like you have been teasing us and holding us in suspense these past few weeks with delicious plot twists, cliff hangers and strange happenings that keep us fiending like a dope addict for the next fix! Now, is it?! Lol!
Let’s review. When Jeanie turns Neil into Natalie, it is for some selfish reason of Jean’s. There is no clear evidence that Neil’s transformation was done by Jeanie this time. In fact it appears that Jeanie may not even have been there but had already been zapped to Haji’s castle. So this is a different kind of transformation:. Previously, Jean made Neil wear a girl body. This one makes Neil BE a girl. And some other djinn did it for some reason we don’t yet know. And maybe Jeanie, when she escapes from Haji’s palace, won’t be able to reverse it. And the plot thickens…
But using genie magic to change the way Neil thinks means going against his will, doesn’t it? We’re talking here of the kind of change Ann Onymous pulled on the four jocks who became the four (girl) cheerleaders of Cheer and eventually four more bridesmaids for Bay.
There’s only one genie in Jean Nessman’s universe that we might have seen bending human will, and that one is Big Bad Blue.
ANY change in circumstances would change how someone thinks. Like Jeanie shipping those goofs to Omaha Beach on D-Day. Natalie being hormonal isn’t the same thing as altering free will. Otherwise, magic would be forbidden altogether.
@tramline, there is abundant proof in our own world that people can have their circumstances changed drastically without changing how they think. Kazom explained to Jeanie that even he couldn’t make Holly fall for Melvin. This suggests that there is a specific limitation in the nature of the magic of genies on changing what people feel and believe. Or maybe all genies except Big Bad Blue.
Have you ever read Isaac Asimov’s classic Foundation series? The premise is that a scientist named Hari Seldon has developed a new science, psychohistory, which can predict the behavior of societies containing very large numbers of people–in this case, a galactic empire. He predicts that the empire will collapse in a few centuries to be followed by a very long dark age. But he also calculates that by using psychohistory a new empire might be created in a much shorter time. He establishes two foundations to try to make this come about.
Everything goes more or less according to his predictions for a few centuries, but then The Mule appears. The Mule is a mutant human who can use telepathy to change the will of other people. He rapidly begins to take over large sections of the galaxy. He’s a random element Hari Seldon’s theory failed to allow for. Arguably this could lead to what Seldon wanted to achieve, a new, stable galactic empire instead of a galaxy of warring petty empires, outright pirates, and technological and cultural decline. But the Mule is sterile, so there can be no new dynasty.
Well, the logic behind that is questionable, but the Mule is one of the great villains of science fiction, particularly because he doesn’t turn out to be personally very scary at all–until he uses his power.
All this leads me to this idea: The Blue Djinn is a mutant genie, one whose magic doesn’t have the same inability to directly mold human minds that all or nearly all the other genies have.
I agree Big Blue is a special case. He can bend lesser genies to his will, “outside of Haji’s domain”. What if, he influenced Jennie to change Neil to Natalie with enhanced hormones. It would be up to Neil’s own, strength of will, to resist those bodily influences. Blue gets himself, in disguised form, pulled to haji’s domain along with Jennie. Neither have power there, but now Neil is hostage on the outside, giving Blue leverage over Jennie on the inside. Jennie could lose her friend and master to an other man. Blue could use that to force Jennie to complete what ever his nefarious scheme is, on the inside. He would be taking a chance that Jennie will say ” Screw you! Niels on his own. Guards its Big Bad Blue! get him !!”
Sorry all. Been very busy lately. Next comic should be on Thrusday
Robert…..You want to fix that?…..
I’m just the editor, dude. I don’t write or draw the comic.
LOL. wasn’t about the comic. it was (Thrusday)
Take your time, we don’t want you to end up like Bach-mann.
It’s all good. It isn’t like you have been teasing us and holding us in suspense these past few weeks with delicious plot twists, cliff hangers and strange happenings that keep us fiending like a dope addict for the next fix! Now, is it?! Lol!
And we’ll forgive you if you give Rouya the happily ever after she deserves!!!
I want to see Natalie wearing little bikini
when the next ?
Definitely got some tongue action there. Gonna be interesting when Neil reasserts himself.