Asha is a genie who lives in LA, masquerading as a human Pop Star. Since her last master died before asking for his final wish, and being buried with Asha's Bottle. Haji has granted Asha the ability to stay in the human world without returning to her bottle.
Jeannie as the new Haji, that would be terrible, beside being an a$$hole, she is also being possessed by the Blue Djinn. Nothing good could come out of something like that. But, it would get everything into the open where everyone can see it, but, it would turn into a terrible mess in the end.
Guano has disqualified four of the possible Genie that he might choose from.
We all know that it Guano that the fool and he think that he something that he not, but, he probably the biggest fool of them all, because, he doesn’t know that he a fool and that he being played everyone else and he doesn’t know that he being played.
Just to be fair, he is working in base to the same rumors that Lahab has heard, and well, so far we are yet to met one single, truly competent genie (I do have my gripes with both, Kazom and Lahab), with Rouya being the closets and even she was blind by love and a little of personal pride, so is a little to optimistic to think that the leader of all genies is truly any better, heck, as far as we know, Guano my be one of the best options of Haji, assuming Lahab cannot take the job.
We already know that she doesn’t consider herself for job of being the new Haji, because, we her trying to convince Kazom to take over the for Haji. So far of all the Genie or the Genie Lords that we seen, Kazom is probably the best of them all. The primary reason that most of the other Genie or Genie Lords don’t like Kazom is his friendship relationship with Melvin Father and now Melvin, which are witches. There kind of a pride thing here with those other Genie when it come to having a friendship relationship with witches here, when it come to the other magic group that out there. The Genie appear to be snobs and we are better than they are, kind of thinking.
Guano means, bat shit and Guano is basically a loser who happen to be in the right place at the right time to get the credit for taking down the Blue Djinn. That why everybody thinks he so great. It was actually Melvin Dad and Kazom that actually took down the Blue Djinn, with Melvin Dad pay the ultimate sacrifice of his life to take down the Blue Djinn. So Kazom owns a debt to Melvin Dad to guide his son into being a good witch. That basically what Kazom is to Melvin a mentor.
What’s with all the comments about Guano being an idiot? If I’m gonna be completely honest, he doesn’t seem all that bad. Sure, he’s a bit egocentric and maybe a bit prejudiced and he hasn’t been all that kind to Jeannie, but he seem competent enough. And like he said, there’s only been one problematic genie under his watch so he must be doing something right.
Go back to the earlier pages tagged “Lord Guano” and check out the kinds of stupid shit he did back then. He’s been more “arrogant asshole” than “downright moron” in recent years, but those early actions really don’t bode well for his overall mental capacity.
And lets not forget that his stated goal, along with Araceli, is to lock Jeannie into her bottle for eternity, just because he doesn’t like her.
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me but I don’t see it like that. Humans and genies are completely different things, I feel like if what Guano have done to Jeannie would be unacceptable if she was a human but she’s not a human. She’s a genie and she is expected to act like one. Their earliest interaction was a bit rough, he could have handled it better but after that their disagreements could have been settled if Jeannie just acted as expected of her. I’m not saying that Guano is without fault but Jeannie not respecting his authority certainly is a big reason for their vendetta.
Some other things I thought of but couldn’t manage to fit in is that:
Since this is the first time Lord Guano meets a problematic genie he did not know how to properly react, causing the first meeting to be less than pleasant.
And Guano only ever mentioned bottling her up for a hundred years if she didn’t complete her genie duties, which she eventually did.
Araceli, on the other hand, did mention that if Jeannie screwed up big enough Lord Guano would bottle her up for eternity. But we don’t know if he actually said that of if she’s only hoping for it.
Guano didn’t mention it, but Araceli did, right here. She explicitly stated that Guano was going to bottle Jeanie up permanently if she “screwed up big enough”. And Araceli said she was looking forward to that day, so she could steal Neil from Jeanie.
I just realize that the whole deal with bottle up Jeanie was most likely in preparation for this day, If a Lord is judged by the genies under it´s care and all the the other Genies under Guano´s jurisdiction seems to be doing fine, I suppose that Jeanie is kind of a big stain on his curriculum from his point of view.
Thought I still don´t understand how we get from 60´s Guano who did not even want to talk about his promotion to present day Poophead, that scolding from Rouya truly impacted him, I wonder, If he really looked so much to her, if her exile has something to do with his eventual hostility towards Kazoon.
Yes, Araceli DID say that – but we have no way of knowing whether that was a statement of fact or just something she made up to sound threatening. Since Jeannie has, in fact, screwed up quite a bit more since and nothing has come of it except a couple of talking-tos, I think it may well have been an empty threat. Of which Jean has made more than a few, herself, as well.
What screwups has Jeanie made since then, exactly? Or are you counting the time she got poisoned and then had her bottle stolen by a fat asshole, through no fault of her own? Or the time she basically didn’t feature in the story, since it was a flashback to Rouyaa? Or the time she got forcibly kidnapped to Haji’s palace?
Besides the deal with Big Blue, the worst thing she’s done that her genie superiors might care about, since Araceli made her threat, were the times she’s poofed Neil into Natalie. And those incidents had all of zero negative consequences besides mildly inconveniencing and embarrassing Neil.
I’m also not sure what “talking-tos” you’re referring to. The only times I recall Jeanie interacting with either Araceli or Guano since the threat were when she went to Araceli to ask about how to deal with her potentially fatal poisoning, and the extremely brief, neutral conversations she had with Araceli in the harem. She hasn’t even spoken to Guano since the threat, I don’t think.
Now, obviously, her agreement with Big Blue is a pretty big deal, that her superiors would care quite a bit about, if they knew. But I have two points to make about that:
1) If you’d been threatened with an eternity of solitary confinement for no apparent reason besides “My boss’s niece wants me out of the way so she can bone my friend”, wouldn’t you accept Blue’s deal to learn more powerful magic? It’s just self-defense against the horrifically corrupt genie leadership (which was evidenced even further by their railroading of poor Jehane).
2) Jeanie doesn’t know about the Blue Djinn’s true plans. If you go back and read page 483, you’ll see that he’s concealing that from her. She just thought he was gong to teach her more powerful magic in exchange for allowing him to reside in her body.
Jeannie has always been a shallow thinker and has never thought things out to a logical conclusion or where it will lead her to. That why she such an interesting character and the crap she ultimately ends up getting herself into. She a great book reviewer, but, it doesn’t translates into what going on in the real world.
It is true that Jeannie on a power craze to get more power and to be more effective at using the power she does have, which has blinded her to the dangers of what coming her way. Even though the Blue Djinn hasn’t been honest with Jeannie, the fact she has to allow him to reside in her body, it should be a warning sign that something amiss here and she not getting it. Jeannie is just going into this thing, they way she goes into almost every other thing she touches or get involved in or does.
To all, regarding LSH – Having reread his first meeting with Jean just now, I’m less inclined to think he’s stupid and more arrogant and prideful. Yes, he gets handsy and never connects the dots that Jean used to be mortal, but Jean 1) slaps him, 2) curses him out, 3) threatens him, 4) tries to crush his skull with a bat, and then 5) kicks LSH in his gentlemen’s baggage, in roughly that order. Actually, that might be why Jean gets the one week timeline to grant Neil’s last wish, now that I ponder it. We’ve never seen him interact with any subordinates other than Jean and Araceli (who he seems to dote on even though it’s making her a spoiled brat unfit for lorddom), so it’s entirely possible that he’s not quite such a putz with other “lesser” genies.
I think I see the Blue Djinn’s plan now. He wants to use Jeanie to seduce Haji, have him declare her his new heir, and take over the genies through her.
That was kind of my assumption as well. The scene where Jeannie laments not having even had a chance to meet Haji during the Hubun Jadid ceremony makes me think that Blue wanted to influence Haji in some way.
So, just because nobody else has mentioned it so far, it should be “an old fool” not “a old fool.” Sorry, it grates when I read it. Do you know what it’s like to have your eyes grated . . . ? 😉
Robert–If Santa really is that old fool up North, can I post my letter to Santa here this coming Christmas. I want one inch of fluffy white powder on Christmas eve and then 70 degrees on
Dec. 26. Jean can accidently take care of herself so don’t worry.
Only one genie under his watch that has been a problem? I wonder who that could be?
And will that problem genie with their flair for independent thought and innovative responses be the one who is selected as the new Haji
Jeannie new Haji? That would end up VERY bad.
I could potentially see Haji doing that, (temporarily, at least) JUST to piss off & humiliate Guano…
Jeannie as the new Haji, that would be terrible, beside being an a$$hole, she is also being possessed by the Blue Djinn. Nothing good could come out of something like that. But, it would get everything into the open where everyone can see it, but, it would turn into a terrible mess in the end.
Idiot up North? Santa Claus is a Genie? That explains so MUCH!
Exactly my thinking. How else could he afford all those gifts and deliver them so fast?
Guano has disqualified four of the possible Genie that he might choose from.
We all know that it Guano that the fool and he think that he something that he not, but, he probably the biggest fool of them all, because, he doesn’t know that he a fool and that he being played everyone else and he doesn’t know that he being played.
+1
“That idiot up north”? Hmm… I wonder who that is?
Guano is certainly full of himself, with his automatic assumption that Haji will pick Guano as his successor. I certainly hope Haji isn’t that dumb.
Just to be fair, he is working in base to the same rumors that Lahab has heard, and well, so far we are yet to met one single, truly competent genie (I do have my gripes with both, Kazom and Lahab), with Rouya being the closets and even she was blind by love and a little of personal pride, so is a little to optimistic to think that the leader of all genies is truly any better, heck, as far as we know, Guano my be one of the best options of Haji, assuming Lahab cannot take the job.
We already know that she doesn’t consider herself for job of being the new Haji, because, we her trying to convince Kazom to take over the for Haji. So far of all the Genie or the Genie Lords that we seen, Kazom is probably the best of them all. The primary reason that most of the other Genie or Genie Lords don’t like Kazom is his friendship relationship with Melvin Father and now Melvin, which are witches. There kind of a pride thing here with those other Genie when it come to having a friendship relationship with witches here, when it come to the other magic group that out there. The Genie appear to be snobs and we are better than they are, kind of thinking.
Guano means, bat shit and Guano is basically a loser who happen to be in the right place at the right time to get the credit for taking down the Blue Djinn. That why everybody thinks he so great. It was actually Melvin Dad and Kazom that actually took down the Blue Djinn, with Melvin Dad pay the ultimate sacrifice of his life to take down the Blue Djinn. So Kazom owns a debt to Melvin Dad to guide his son into being a good witch. That basically what Kazom is to Melvin a mentor.
What’s with all the comments about Guano being an idiot? If I’m gonna be completely honest, he doesn’t seem all that bad. Sure, he’s a bit egocentric and maybe a bit prejudiced and he hasn’t been all that kind to Jeannie, but he seem competent enough. And like he said, there’s only been one problematic genie under his watch so he must be doing something right.
It boils down to Lord Guano never bothering to find out *why* the one genie was a problem.
Go back to the earlier pages tagged “Lord Guano” and check out the kinds of stupid shit he did back then. He’s been more “arrogant asshole” than “downright moron” in recent years, but those early actions really don’t bode well for his overall mental capacity.
And lets not forget that his stated goal, along with Araceli, is to lock Jeannie into her bottle for eternity, just because he doesn’t like her.
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me but I don’t see it like that. Humans and genies are completely different things, I feel like if what Guano have done to Jeannie would be unacceptable if she was a human but she’s not a human. She’s a genie and she is expected to act like one. Their earliest interaction was a bit rough, he could have handled it better but after that their disagreements could have been settled if Jeannie just acted as expected of her. I’m not saying that Guano is without fault but Jeannie not respecting his authority certainly is a big reason for their vendetta.
Some other things I thought of but couldn’t manage to fit in is that:
Since this is the first time Lord Guano meets a problematic genie he did not know how to properly react, causing the first meeting to be less than pleasant.
And Guano only ever mentioned bottling her up for a hundred years if she didn’t complete her genie duties, which she eventually did.
Araceli, on the other hand, did mention that if Jeannie screwed up big enough Lord Guano would bottle her up for eternity. But we don’t know if he actually said that of if she’s only hoping for it.
I feel like, recently, a couple of hundred years in her bottle to cool off might not be that bad a thing for Jeannie.
Guano didn’t mention it, but Araceli did, right here. She explicitly stated that Guano was going to bottle Jeanie up permanently if she “screwed up big enough”. And Araceli said she was looking forward to that day, so she could steal Neil from Jeanie.
I just realize that the whole deal with bottle up Jeanie was most likely in preparation for this day, If a Lord is judged by the genies under it´s care and all the the other Genies under Guano´s jurisdiction seems to be doing fine, I suppose that Jeanie is kind of a big stain on his curriculum from his point of view.
Thought I still don´t understand how we get from 60´s Guano who did not even want to talk about his promotion to present day Poophead, that scolding from Rouya truly impacted him, I wonder, If he really looked so much to her, if her exile has something to do with his eventual hostility towards Kazoon.
@Robert:
Yes, Araceli DID say that – but we have no way of knowing whether that was a statement of fact or just something she made up to sound threatening. Since Jeannie has, in fact, screwed up quite a bit more since and nothing has come of it except a couple of talking-tos, I think it may well have been an empty threat. Of which Jean has made more than a few, herself, as well.
@Kattgirl:
What screwups has Jeanie made since then, exactly? Or are you counting the time she got poisoned and then had her bottle stolen by a fat asshole, through no fault of her own? Or the time she basically didn’t feature in the story, since it was a flashback to Rouyaa? Or the time she got forcibly kidnapped to Haji’s palace?
Besides the deal with Big Blue, the worst thing she’s done that her genie superiors might care about, since Araceli made her threat, were the times she’s poofed Neil into Natalie. And those incidents had all of zero negative consequences besides mildly inconveniencing and embarrassing Neil.
I’m also not sure what “talking-tos” you’re referring to. The only times I recall Jeanie interacting with either Araceli or Guano since the threat were when she went to Araceli to ask about how to deal with her potentially fatal poisoning, and the extremely brief, neutral conversations she had with Araceli in the harem. She hasn’t even spoken to Guano since the threat, I don’t think.
Now, obviously, her agreement with Big Blue is a pretty big deal, that her superiors would care quite a bit about, if they knew. But I have two points to make about that:
1) If you’d been threatened with an eternity of solitary confinement for no apparent reason besides “My boss’s niece wants me out of the way so she can bone my friend”, wouldn’t you accept Blue’s deal to learn more powerful magic? It’s just self-defense against the horrifically corrupt genie leadership (which was evidenced even further by their railroading of poor Jehane).
2) Jeanie doesn’t know about the Blue Djinn’s true plans. If you go back and read page 483, you’ll see that he’s concealing that from her. She just thought he was gong to teach her more powerful magic in exchange for allowing him to reside in her body.
@Robert:
Jeannie has always been a shallow thinker and has never thought things out to a logical conclusion or where it will lead her to. That why she such an interesting character and the crap she ultimately ends up getting herself into. She a great book reviewer, but, it doesn’t translates into what going on in the real world.
It is true that Jeannie on a power craze to get more power and to be more effective at using the power she does have, which has blinded her to the dangers of what coming her way. Even though the Blue Djinn hasn’t been honest with Jeannie, the fact she has to allow him to reside in her body, it should be a warning sign that something amiss here and she not getting it. Jeannie is just going into this thing, they way she goes into almost every other thing she touches or get involved in or does.
To all, regarding LSH – Having reread his first meeting with Jean just now, I’m less inclined to think he’s stupid and more arrogant and prideful. Yes, he gets handsy and never connects the dots that Jean used to be mortal, but Jean 1) slaps him, 2) curses him out, 3) threatens him, 4) tries to crush his skull with a bat, and then 5) kicks LSH in his gentlemen’s baggage, in roughly that order. Actually, that might be why Jean gets the one week timeline to grant Neil’s last wish, now that I ponder it. We’ve never seen him interact with any subordinates other than Jean and Araceli (who he seems to dote on even though it’s making her a spoiled brat unfit for lorddom), so it’s entirely possible that he’s not quite such a putz with other “lesser” genies.
…really? The idiot up north is so bad you’re going with the idiot down south?
Well, with “The Melvin Chronicles” still in hiatus, Kazom probably has some time on his hands…
I think I see the Blue Djinn’s plan now. He wants to use Jeanie to seduce Haji, have him declare her his new heir, and take over the genies through her.
That was kind of my assumption as well. The scene where Jeannie laments not having even had a chance to meet Haji during the Hubun Jadid ceremony makes me think that Blue wanted to influence Haji in some way.
“Influence” Haji? Sounded to me like it was more like, “Kill”.
I don’t think even Big Blue would risk attempting to kill Haji in his own stronghold and while he’s locked in. He’s evil, but he’s clearly not stupid.
gee I wonder which genie under his watch is the problem one. ha ha
Ooh… internal AND external politicking… that can’t be good
So, just because nobody else has mentioned it so far, it should be “an old fool” not “a old fool.” Sorry, it grates when I read it. Do you know what it’s like to have your eyes grated . . . ? 😉
Here here! It bugged me to.
Oh shoot, you’re right. How’d I miss that?
Well, it’s NOT a spelling error, per se – more a grammatical one. You’re forgiven. 😉
Hm… quite the medieval system here heh.
I wonder what Haji actually ‘does’. What happens to Haji’s harem? Does Guano inheret them too?
Robert–If Santa really is that old fool up North, can I post my letter to Santa here this coming Christmas. I want one inch of fluffy white powder on Christmas eve and then 70 degrees on
Dec. 26. Jean can accidently take care of herself so don’t worry.
Robert-You left out turning Clarence into a hot teenage girl (Red) and the Federal agent into a girl and then leaving them.
That was before Araceli’s threat.
I just can never get past the fact that his name means bird poop. HAHAHAHA, Gets me everytime, I can’t take him seriously
Bat poop, Jeffrey, bat poop is called guano. Usually I heard bird poop as bird droppings.
With that final statement on the last panel, dose that mean we are getting back to said, ” Problem Genie,” and her hapless roommate?