Jeanie Bottle 454
Nov02
on November 2, 2017
at 1:07 am
and modified on November 27, 2022. at 1:53 am
Chapter: Story 11: I Dream of an Escape
Characters: Jehane
Oh good. So she at least wasn’t trapped in that bottle for several years.
I did kinda expected the adult to had been Aurik all grown up at first. Hopefully she doesn’t end up having Guano as her new Genie Lord.
Shot that idea down last week. If Aurik had aged to the fisherman’s age in real time, it would have advanced the clock to about the time IDoJB started. And we know die to recent comics that Jeannie II is older than Jeanie. And isn’t the next oldest genie is Alya. That means Jeannie II is older than both them.
Maybe that could be why Jehane looked angry the first time we saw her face; she expected to be part of the ceremony and got preempted by our Jeannie.
That just might imply that the second-youngest genie-woman would become Haji’s next concubine, or at least be chosen to marry and have a child.
BTW, I refuse to call Jehane “Jeannie II” First, Jehane said “Nein” to being Barbara Eden. Second, Barbara Eden was “Jeannie” a long time ago and was probably the most popular image for a genie until Aladdin, so there was likely proper claimant to the title “Jeannie II” before Jehane. Third, while even Dan forgets sometimes, our Jean is “Jeanie”. That is, only one ‘n’, except for being Jeannie Bottle in her role as Rodge’s fiancee. I am unhappy about this, really, really unhappy!!
I’m pretty sure “Jeannie II” is just a temporary name we used for her until we learned her name. CD and I have been super busy since then, and haven’t had a chance to discuss whether I should update the tag and Character name.
Tom – I’d be calling her Jehane in my replies normally, but usually I’m posting right before bed after a long day (and in the case of yesterday, a long day, a doctor appointment, and a two hour podcast) and by that time,I can barely remember her name, much less know how to spell it. 😛
It looks like it was only a few weeks…maybe a couple months tops. Aurik looks to be the same age.
That’s my theory as well.
Could be the next morning. I’ve seen snow on the ground on many mornings when there wasn’t snow on the ground the evening before.
If it is the next day I will be thinking a lot less of Aunik as he appears to be having too much fun for someone that would have just lost his friend. But, I do feel sorry for Jehane as she has lost her childhood being remade into a teen/adult body.
GEEZE! A LITTLE GIRL in a TEENAGE body?! She’s going to be all sorts of vulnerable! Emotionally, mentally, socially… if it wasn’t outside the rating scale of this comic, I could imagine Bad Things happening to her. (Since she has no idea she’s a genie now who grants wishes or that her life shortens every wish she grants.)
She has 30-some years to adapt until the present, though, as this is all flashback.
If a person took on the image of the genie they were thinking about then how come she didn’t change into a full grown woman instead of a teenager?
Like Jean, Jehane looks like how she pictured Barbara Eden as Jeannie the genie as she opened the bottle, but retains her original personality. It’s not clear if that affected what powers she got. But Jean as a genie didn’t fold her arms or blink when using magic as I recall Barbara Eden doing nearly all the time–or using her much longer, maybe prehensile ponytail in the animated Jeannie series (which was pretty good while it lasted.) The animated Jeannie could fly, too, which Jean doesn’t–remembered how peeved Jean was when she first saw Samantha flying on a broom.
Well Barbara Eden looked fairly young during IDoJ. I had no idea she was in her 30s until I just now checked! Anyway, that plus Jehane behaving, talking, and having the mannerisms of a child might have made her appear younger. Especially if the fisherman was older.
And maybe as a young girl she envisioned Jeannie as a teenager? When you are that young you can not see anyone over the age of 20 as anything but old and decrepit. And anyone not old and decrepit must be in their teens or early 20s at most.
Perception changes with age. Which is why, when I was first called an old fart, by my lovely niece at age 21, I took much glee reminding her of it when she turned 21 herself years later! And yes, it was sweet!
Hmm.. something interesting here. This is the second time we’ve seen that a changed genie is not aware of their transformation. Maybe it’s just rule of comedy but I think there’s more going on.
I wonder if he still has the bottle or left it there..
We can see her holding her bottle in panels 1 and 4.
Well, that answers one question that’s been wondered about – yes, a genie CAN carry around their own bottle. Which means they could (in theory, at least) also put it somewhere safe from being stolen.
@Kattgirl
Jean carried her own bottle to New York in I Dream of Verisimilitude.
@Tom: I know she had it there, but I wasn’t sure if Rodge might have physically carried it in.
I wonder if that little boy’s last name is Goldfinger.
ROTFLMAO! Maybe she’ll poof him up his first few million in gold.
Well, she’d also have to poof him back in time, because Goldfinger was a middle aged man in 1964, at least 8 years or more earlier than this vignette.
@Ranck: Well, she could do just that! At least, as soon as she realizes that she has magic. 😉
Ian Fleming named that villain after a real person. I wonder how many people named “Goldfinger” have legally changed their names to stop all the jokes or the singing of the theme song, the catchiest one of the entire Bond series.
Go-o-old-fin-gaaah!
He’s the man, the man with the Midas touch,
A spider’s touch.
Such a co-o-ld-fingaaaah…
“Do you expect me to talk?”
(evil laughter) “No, Mr. Bond! I expect you to die!”
Proctologist?
@Robert Nowall
No, the proctologist was Dr. No. He gave up medicine for rocket science as a better way to study Uranus.
The talk is that this is Aurik and As I also thought he was. But, if he pop the Genie Bottle in 2012 or 2014 the way some people are saying and it was 1972 when she went into the bottle and they were both about 12 years old at the time. That would make him about 50 or 52 years old. Because, she been in the Genie bottle for 40 or 42 years and has absolutely no clue what going on or that she even in a teenage body or young lady body. She still thinking she twelve years old and that forty years have passed.
Now we go through the discovery phase where they find out who each other are and see how they respond to the new reality that there both in. Now would be a good time for him to make a wish and have Jehane answer the wish. Then they look at each other with a puzzled look on there faces of what happened. That when they figure out that she a Genie.
So, on a plus side, she was always girl, on a minus side, she lost most of childhood … although, childhood in orphanage is usually not that great …
Honestly depends on the orphanage.
And next week, of course, we find out that the little boy who Jehane thinks is Aurik is actually Aurik’s lookalike grandson.
Or maybe not, but then again, maybe so.
At this rate, by Christmas we’ll have more backstory for Jehane than for Jean before he was a she.
Seems implausible to me. Why would Aurick’s lookalike grandson also be an orphan? Unless he’s secretly a Disney Princess, it’s unlikely that “parent death” runs in the family.
I was just kidding, but look-alike grandchildren happen, and some of them are abandoned. For instance, my half-sister.
Why, Tom! You abandoned your half-sister? For shame! 😉
@Robert – Not all the main Disney characters were orphan-ized like Anna or Elsa; some had single parents while others still had both of them.
@Kattgirl: My mother.
@Tom: WHAT??!! You abandoned your mother? That’s even worse! 😉
@Kattgirl
Please stop with the smiley emoticons for a bit. I shouldn’t have illustrated my example of a look-alike grandchild and started this line. If you want to know more, I’m on Facebook as Tom Sewell; send me a personal message, and I’ll get back to you.
@Tom: I’m sorry, I was kidding; I knew what you meant, to start with. Sometimes it’s really hard to inject the correct tone into a written post. Please accept my apologies; I meant no offense.
@Kattgirl: I go over the line sometimes too. My best friend once nearly broke my jaw over a remark I made about what were still called “mongoloids” back in the sixties. I didn’t know he had a cousin with Down’s syndrome. That did, however, permanently change my attitude.
A really subtle touch is hiding in the second and third panels. Look at the nun. In the second panel, she’s looking at the fisherman. But CD has made one change in the nun in the third panel: The one eye we can see is now glancing at Jehane. Am I the last to notice it?
No. I noticed it. It is a very nice and subtle touch.
With no better place to take Jehane, I think the post will be at Aurik house and them deciding on what they can do with Jehane and where she should go from there. That where I bet they find out that she a Genie and they figure out that there old friend from way back during the time that they both went to that orphanage together.