Jean AKA Jeannie AKA Jeanie is a film, book, and magazine reviewer for a national magazine. Most of Jean’s work is done through email, which means he doesn't have to go into the office.
On a trip to find a gift for his girlfriend, Jean found an empty Genie Bottle. Upon picking up this bottle, Jean became the bottle’s new genie-powered occupant. Not only was Jean turned into a genie, but the bottle turned him into what he believed a genie of the bottle should look like. Which, due to his fascination with a classic 60s TV show, turned him into a busty blonde woman.
A former Genie Lord, Kazom is a 3000+ year old Genie who exists in the form of a witch familiar while still serving as a genie to a teenage boy in California.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think Kazom should have given that lantern to Neil instead? After all, Neil doesn’t have any magic either, but he does have brains and is thinking sort of clearly unlike Jean right now. Jean is almost comatose.
@SaylorA: [raises hand]Or at least said, “I believe you and your Master”. I have long held that genies and their Masters are a unit.
Incidentally, I don’t think I ever got around to mentioning that the Quat Ezuma reminds me of some depictions of the lantern Diogenes used in his search for an honest man.
Also reminds me of the DC Comics’ “Green Lantern” in the DC/Marvel Amalgam, where the female owner of the lantern is able to raise the dead for a short time to redeem/revenge themselves.
@SaylorA and @50srefugee: Kazom is a 3000 years old Genie Lord, not a cutesy bottle genie. He doesn’t have the patience nor the reasons to thrust a”master” he has never meet. In his own experience, if the masters are not looking for a loophole in the rules to take over the world/kingdom/the girl, they are doing something stupid with their limited wishes, to finally (in 8 of each 10 cases) waste the final wish so “turn everything back to normal, as if I never have found this -insert model of totem here-!”. After all, Kazom has not only deal with a handful of master of his own before being a lord, he has also had to deal with the Master of all the genies under his care for the last 3000 years! Kazom doesn’t even thrust Melvin that much, and he is raising the kid at this point!
Niel tried that “reset everything to normal as if we never found the bottle” back at the start of this series- it didn’t work for him, so it probably wouldn’t work for these imaginary masters kazom is remembering. While I have never been a parent, I am sure raising someone is no guarantee you can trust them either, especially when they are experimenting with things they can do. (although the classic example from TV is those drug addicts who steal from their families to get their next high)
It Jeanie and not Jean and Jeanie a she and not a he! When we first start this series, it was a he in she body and he talked and behaved like a he in a girls body. But, that been about one ago since Jean was transformed into the body of Jeanie the Genie. The transformation of Jean mind into Jeanie mind, it take a little bit longer and Jeanie series revolve around a Male Jean being transformed first physically in to Jeanie and mentally into being Jeanie too, but, over time.
It becoming natural for Jeanie to start act like a women, because, her mind has been going through a female Genie transformation in her head. She getting women heart, soul and even her very being of who she is, is slowly developing into that of women. After Jean picked up the Genie Bottle or totem, then he stopped being Jean physically on the outside forever, being transformed into the image of Jeanie or Barbra Eden look alike and was fused into his core image of who he is.
That according to Kazom, Jean body and core image will go back to a female body that looks like Jeanie as long as he lives and can’t be changed. It can be over laid with another image once Jeanie learns how to do it in say 100 years or so, but, no, her core won’t change even then.
But, this transformation of Jean into Jeanie didn’t stop with the physical side of Jean only, but, it also includes mental or internal side of Jean in his head too. When a Guy or Girl first turn into a Genie Because, they picked up an empty TOTEM and it turn them into Genie as the replacement for the Genie that not there anymore. It only turns there human Body into a Genie body and not the Head part of the person mind. At this point, the person is completely and totally a Genie now, even if mentally there not there yet, because, they can do Genie magic now. That why Lord Guano was sent to Jeanie to take care of this mater of having a new inexperienced Genie. That why she was originally sent Genie to School, to learn how to be a Genie.
In this series, when a person becomes a Genie. there mind also needs to go through the process of becoming a Genie mind too, but, the transformation process isn’t instantaneous like there body is. We know this is true in this series, because, we had three different Genie’s mention that fact, the Blue, Djinn, Araceli and Kazom. The reason that important is, Guy Genie are different from Girl Genie and the way they think is different too and they go through a slightly different mind Genie transformation process to turn there minds into a Genie mind to go with the Genie Body that they got. Jeanie’s a female, remember! This whole series revolves around that fact that Jean isn’t guy anymore, but, a female Genie.
So how does a female Genie think anyway?
1. They are motherly being when it comes to there master who they generally love.
2 They like being females and showing themselves off to there master.
3. They females at there core and desire to be curdled and may even try to seduce there Master the way Araceli tried to seduce Neil when she was masquerading a Jeanie. Araceli wasn’t suppose to do that, but, hay, Genie’s take liberties too.
This is what being put inside Jeanie head to transfer her mind into a female Genie mind. I am an eye person, that means, I see word and my mind dismantles words that way and Jeanie has been slowly sliding into thinking the way that a women thinks and acts over the one year that Jeanie been a Genie. Being a guy by the name of Jean is slowly becoming only a memory of who she use to be before he became a she by the name of Jeanie.
Jean as a man, he no longer exist or is slowly seeping away and only exist in the memories of Neil, Jeanie, Belle and a few other people that knew Jean like old girlfriends, family members and at his or her column reviews that Jeanie is still known to still be doing.
The person that to be Jean is slowly leaking out to becoming Jeanie now. So it more natural for Jeanie act like a girl, because, that who she is inside her head now and that what coming out of it too.
Then at some point we should see the “snap” as the protective mother emerges from her cowering shell and rips the Blue Djinn apart (figuratively, of course). Personally, I can’t wait to see Ripley emerge from the locker in her exo-suit shouting “Get away from him, you BITCH!”
Now would be a good time to give us a good peak into Jeanie soul after being a Female Genie for one Year. While Jeanie is still diminished mental. It would be a good time to let stuff escape her mouth. Have Jeanie all excited and overwhelmed to being a Female Genie again, that she call Neil Master and/or Kissing him a really big too.
Then Jeanie go bug eyed on us, as she realizes what she just said and did to Neil and goes on a freak out us. But, as they say: The horse has already left the barn! Before Jeanie had a chance to close the barn door too and there no way to hide her feeling for Neil now.
Even after the Blue Djinn is defeated, this is the first Jeanie Arc that going to need some clean up before going to the next Jeanie Arc. Going to have to save Araceli, annul Jeanie Marriage to Guano, redefine what Jeanie relationship to Neil is or is going to be in the future.
Is Guano “married” to Jeanie or Blue? I mean, its Jeanie’s body but its Blue’s essence inside. Speaking of which, what’s Blue’s actual name? The Blue Djinn sounds more of a title than a name.
Blue Djinn is both a title and he also goes by the name Blue Djinn. So it technically his name too.
We know that Blue Djinn acquired his womanhood from Jeanie when he took over her body and married Guano.
The question is: Will Jeanie after she assume her old body back, that the Blue Djinn used to get married to Guano still be married to Guano after Jeanie has taken it back or will the Marriage be annulled?
At this point we don’t know if he ever had another name or not. It never been revealed to us yet that I know of. So I don’t know.
Also Genie Haji the head Genie in the Genie Realm, his name as far as we know has always been Haji name from the start also. The reason why that important is, that also the Title of the head Genie in the Genie Realm too. That why Guano was talking about being the new Haji. He talking about the Title or having the position of the Head Genie spot, which is called Haji.
Maybe he was about to doze off and would’ve poofed away anyways back into his totem. Most genies apparently are drawn back into their totems if exhausted or they fall asleep and Kazom is a very elderly one as that; older people do wear out faster. Besides if not for magical exhaustion, Kazom isn’t exactly the most responsible mentor from past examples.
come on Kazom, even Obi Wan made sure Luke was at least semi conscious and responsive when he gave him the “Go to Dagobah” speech. I feel like Kazom is not putting as much effort into this as he could.
As probably the oldest reader of this comic, I totally understand what is going on with Kazom. He explained it in panel 1. He really had to GO. As in use the kitty litter box! The older you get, the more suddenly it hits, and he is 3000 years old. Obi Wan is much younger and could wait for Luke.
Well, as everybody has already said, that pole with that thingy hanging out on the end of it, looks like a lantern, but, we know that it actually contains the Quat Ezuma or the Chaotic Magic that no Genie can use, but, only a human can use it only. We know that it only the Chaotic Magic that can defeat the Blue Djinn that in Jeanie body and set everything right again. Hopefully Kazom also left a note to Jeanie how to use it or maybe he counting on her to know what it is when she see it or something like that. Anyway, Jeanie now has the weapon she needs to defeat the Blue Djinn.
Which means we must be getting close to the end of this Arc in this part of the Jeanie Bottle Series. Because, this is the first time something come up that had the possibility to defeat the Blue Djinn and his ability to do as he pleases. In addition to Kazom being tired and having used a lot of magic to get the Quat Ezuma or the Chaotic Magic, he probably doesn’t want the honors of defeating the Blue Djinn and every thing that would go with it. So he going to punt and let Jeanie have the honors and the responsibilities that would go with that honor, which it looks like he doesn’t want.
Only Kazom and Jeanie will know how she defeated the Blue Djinn and depending on how Kazom choose to do it, even Jeanie might not know everything about how she defeated Blue Djinn. She may just wake up or come out of tantrum of being useless and see the weapon and being a former Genie, just know how to use it and then does use it.
So now the question is how Kazom knew how to do this after Araceli called him, which alerted him to what was going on and how far things have gotten so far. Your would think that Kazom had a crystal Ball or something like that? Well in past Melvin Chronicles, he took Melvin into the bathroom and taught Melvin to look into the toilet and to chant some kind of spell over it and he could use it like a Crystal Ball. So Melvin’s toilet has some kind of enchantment on it so Kazom can see what going on. Although Melvin is coughing Kazom all kinds of problems, having witches spell on open toilet so that you can see what going on, has certain benefits which it comes to out smarting the Blue Djinn.
So there all kinds of possibilities here. My favorite theory is, that Kazom like staying in the background and is the unknown factors that most of the other Genies don’t know about. Not only will Kazom be the unknown factor for why Jeanie will wine against the Blue Djinn, he may also be the unknown factor into why Guano won too, even though he doesn’t like Guano.
Well, does anybody else have any opinion as to what going to happen next or what the ultimate results other than the ultimate defeat of the Blue Djinn, but, don’t know how it going to happen?
Kazom you should have gone fully kitty cat mode and tried to cheer her up so she’s not in a crying fit and can actually help out. I recommend curling up on top of her and just purring for a while 😀
I had a thought, are we certain this is really Jeanie? I mean it seems strange the Plant Lady is dead. Jeanie is shown controlling her in a panel. What if Jeanie somehow managed to figure a way to fake the Plants death and she isn’t there at all but still inside the other body. This person we seeing in this panel is crying and upset, we assume that this is Jeanie, yet we also have seen the Plant also upset.
Yes, we are sure that this is Jeanie in these four panels. We have the Blue Djinn that stuff Jeanie into this human body to get away from Jeanie nagging him all the time. We have Araceli confirming that this is Jeanie in the human body. Kazom reaffirmed what Araceli said that this is Jeanie in the human form and then dropped off a weapon that only human can use to defeat the Blue Djinn with.
So yes, we are reasonably sure that this is actually Jeanie here.
Were not Rodge and Neil contemplating going into Jeanie’s room? The HANDLE stick of that Lantern looks dangerously close to that door—-what if someone should open it?
Jean you need to be strong to make things right and save your friends and Guano and Arcelie to why not.
if Kazom can believe in Melvin mastering his magic, he can believe in Jean saving the world.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think Kazom should have given that lantern to Neil instead? After all, Neil doesn’t have any magic either, but he does have brains and is thinking sort of clearly unlike Jean right now. Jean is almost comatose.
Neil didn’t know about it, because Rodge is leading him into their doom.
@SaylorA: [raises hand]Or at least said, “I believe you and your Master”. I have long held that genies and their Masters are a unit.
Incidentally, I don’t think I ever got around to mentioning that the Quat Ezuma reminds me of some depictions of the lantern Diogenes used in his search for an honest man.
“some depictions of the lantern Diogenes used in his search for an honest man.”
But only in daylight 🙂
Also reminds me of the DC Comics’ “Green Lantern” in the DC/Marvel Amalgam, where the female owner of the lantern is able to raise the dead for a short time to redeem/revenge themselves.
You mean the lantern Diogenes WAS USING in his search for an honest man until someone stole it?
@SaylorA and @50srefugee: Kazom is a 3000 years old Genie Lord, not a cutesy bottle genie. He doesn’t have the patience nor the reasons to thrust a”master” he has never meet. In his own experience, if the masters are not looking for a loophole in the rules to take over the world/kingdom/the girl, they are doing something stupid with their limited wishes, to finally (in 8 of each 10 cases) waste the final wish so “turn everything back to normal, as if I never have found this -insert model of totem here-!”. After all, Kazom has not only deal with a handful of master of his own before being a lord, he has also had to deal with the Master of all the genies under his care for the last 3000 years! Kazom doesn’t even thrust Melvin that much, and he is raising the kid at this point!
Niel tried that “reset everything to normal as if we never found the bottle” back at the start of this series- it didn’t work for him, so it probably wouldn’t work for these imaginary masters kazom is remembering. While I have never been a parent, I am sure raising someone is no guarantee you can trust them either, especially when they are experimenting with things they can do. (although the classic example from TV is those drug addicts who steal from their families to get their next high)
“He doesn’t have the patience nor the reasons to thrust a”master””
And the masters are very grateful for that 🙂
Interesting that Jean is behaving like a woman.
It Jeanie and not Jean and Jeanie a she and not a he! When we first start this series, it was a he in she body and he talked and behaved like a he in a girls body. But, that been about one ago since Jean was transformed into the body of Jeanie the Genie. The transformation of Jean mind into Jeanie mind, it take a little bit longer and Jeanie series revolve around a Male Jean being transformed first physically in to Jeanie and mentally into being Jeanie too, but, over time.
It becoming natural for Jeanie to start act like a women, because, her mind has been going through a female Genie transformation in her head. She getting women heart, soul and even her very being of who she is, is slowly developing into that of women. After Jean picked up the Genie Bottle or totem, then he stopped being Jean physically on the outside forever, being transformed into the image of Jeanie or Barbra Eden look alike and was fused into his core image of who he is.
That according to Kazom, Jean body and core image will go back to a female body that looks like Jeanie as long as he lives and can’t be changed. It can be over laid with another image once Jeanie learns how to do it in say 100 years or so, but, no, her core won’t change even then.
But, this transformation of Jean into Jeanie didn’t stop with the physical side of Jean only, but, it also includes mental or internal side of Jean in his head too. When a Guy or Girl first turn into a Genie Because, they picked up an empty TOTEM and it turn them into Genie as the replacement for the Genie that not there anymore. It only turns there human Body into a Genie body and not the Head part of the person mind. At this point, the person is completely and totally a Genie now, even if mentally there not there yet, because, they can do Genie magic now. That why Lord Guano was sent to Jeanie to take care of this mater of having a new inexperienced Genie. That why she was originally sent Genie to School, to learn how to be a Genie.
In this series, when a person becomes a Genie. there mind also needs to go through the process of becoming a Genie mind too, but, the transformation process isn’t instantaneous like there body is. We know this is true in this series, because, we had three different Genie’s mention that fact, the Blue, Djinn, Araceli and Kazom. The reason that important is, Guy Genie are different from Girl Genie and the way they think is different too and they go through a slightly different mind Genie transformation process to turn there minds into a Genie mind to go with the Genie Body that they got. Jeanie’s a female, remember! This whole series revolves around that fact that Jean isn’t guy anymore, but, a female Genie.
So how does a female Genie think anyway?
1. They are motherly being when it comes to there master who they generally love.
2 They like being females and showing themselves off to there master.
3. They females at there core and desire to be curdled and may even try to seduce there Master the way Araceli tried to seduce Neil when she was masquerading a Jeanie. Araceli wasn’t suppose to do that, but, hay, Genie’s take liberties too.
This is what being put inside Jeanie head to transfer her mind into a female Genie mind. I am an eye person, that means, I see word and my mind dismantles words that way and Jeanie has been slowly sliding into thinking the way that a women thinks and acts over the one year that Jeanie been a Genie. Being a guy by the name of Jean is slowly becoming only a memory of who she use to be before he became a she by the name of Jeanie.
Jean as a man, he no longer exist or is slowly seeping away and only exist in the memories of Neil, Jeanie, Belle and a few other people that knew Jean like old girlfriends, family members and at his or her column reviews that Jeanie is still known to still be doing.
The person that to be Jean is slowly leaking out to becoming Jeanie now. So it more natural for Jeanie act like a girl, because, that who she is inside her head now and that what coming out of it too.
Then at some point we should see the “snap” as the protective mother emerges from her cowering shell and rips the Blue Djinn apart (figuratively, of course). Personally, I can’t wait to see Ripley emerge from the locker in her exo-suit shouting “Get away from him, you BITCH!”
Now would be a good time to give us a good peak into Jeanie soul after being a Female Genie for one Year. While Jeanie is still diminished mental. It would be a good time to let stuff escape her mouth. Have Jeanie all excited and overwhelmed to being a Female Genie again, that she call Neil Master and/or Kissing him a really big too.
Then Jeanie go bug eyed on us, as she realizes what she just said and did to Neil and goes on a freak out us. But, as they say: The horse has already left the barn! Before Jeanie had a chance to close the barn door too and there no way to hide her feeling for Neil now.
Even after the Blue Djinn is defeated, this is the first Jeanie Arc that going to need some clean up before going to the next Jeanie Arc. Going to have to save Araceli, annul Jeanie Marriage to Guano, redefine what Jeanie relationship to Neil is or is going to be in the future.
Is Guano “married” to Jeanie or Blue? I mean, its Jeanie’s body but its Blue’s essence inside. Speaking of which, what’s Blue’s actual name? The Blue Djinn sounds more of a title than a name.
Blue Djinn is both a title and he also goes by the name Blue Djinn. So it technically his name too.
We know that Blue Djinn acquired his womanhood from Jeanie when he took over her body and married Guano.
The question is: Will Jeanie after she assume her old body back, that the Blue Djinn used to get married to Guano still be married to Guano after Jeanie has taken it back or will the Marriage be annulled?
Don’t know.
If Blue Djinn is a title, and also a name that he uses, what was his real name? We know Guano has a real identity, Alwatwat. What was Blue’s?
At this point we don’t know if he ever had another name or not. It never been revealed to us yet that I know of. So I don’t know.
Also Genie Haji the head Genie in the Genie Realm, his name as far as we know has always been Haji name from the start also. The reason why that important is, that also the Title of the head Genie in the Genie Realm too. That why Guano was talking about being the new Haji. He talking about the Title or having the position of the Head Genie spot, which is called Haji.
Kazom couldn’t even stick around long enough to make sure Jeanie got up? Based on panel 4, she didn’t seem to acknowledge that he’d even been there.
Maybe he was about to doze off and would’ve poofed away anyways back into his totem. Most genies apparently are drawn back into their totems if exhausted or they fall asleep and Kazom is a very elderly one as that; older people do wear out faster. Besides if not for magical exhaustion, Kazom isn’t exactly the most responsible mentor from past examples.
Yeah, that’s why I’m pretty sure Kazom has no idea what he just did. Jeanie may not have even been paying attention to a thing he just said.
come on Kazom, even Obi Wan made sure Luke was at least semi conscious and responsive when he gave him the “Go to Dagobah” speech. I feel like Kazom is not putting as much effort into this as he could.
As probably the oldest reader of this comic, I totally understand what is going on with Kazom. He explained it in panel 1. He really had to GO. As in use the kitty litter box! The older you get, the more suddenly it hits, and he is 3000 years old. Obi Wan is much younger and could wait for Luke.
Well, as everybody has already said, that pole with that thingy hanging out on the end of it, looks like a lantern, but, we know that it actually contains the Quat Ezuma or the Chaotic Magic that no Genie can use, but, only a human can use it only. We know that it only the Chaotic Magic that can defeat the Blue Djinn that in Jeanie body and set everything right again. Hopefully Kazom also left a note to Jeanie how to use it or maybe he counting on her to know what it is when she see it or something like that. Anyway, Jeanie now has the weapon she needs to defeat the Blue Djinn.
Which means we must be getting close to the end of this Arc in this part of the Jeanie Bottle Series. Because, this is the first time something come up that had the possibility to defeat the Blue Djinn and his ability to do as he pleases. In addition to Kazom being tired and having used a lot of magic to get the Quat Ezuma or the Chaotic Magic, he probably doesn’t want the honors of defeating the Blue Djinn and every thing that would go with it. So he going to punt and let Jeanie have the honors and the responsibilities that would go with that honor, which it looks like he doesn’t want.
Only Kazom and Jeanie will know how she defeated the Blue Djinn and depending on how Kazom choose to do it, even Jeanie might not know everything about how she defeated Blue Djinn. She may just wake up or come out of tantrum of being useless and see the weapon and being a former Genie, just know how to use it and then does use it.
So now the question is how Kazom knew how to do this after Araceli called him, which alerted him to what was going on and how far things have gotten so far. Your would think that Kazom had a crystal Ball or something like that? Well in past Melvin Chronicles, he took Melvin into the bathroom and taught Melvin to look into the toilet and to chant some kind of spell over it and he could use it like a Crystal Ball. So Melvin’s toilet has some kind of enchantment on it so Kazom can see what going on. Although Melvin is coughing Kazom all kinds of problems, having witches spell on open toilet so that you can see what going on, has certain benefits which it comes to out smarting the Blue Djinn.
So there all kinds of possibilities here. My favorite theory is, that Kazom like staying in the background and is the unknown factors that most of the other Genies don’t know about. Not only will Kazom be the unknown factor for why Jeanie will wine against the Blue Djinn, he may also be the unknown factor into why Guano won too, even though he doesn’t like Guano.
Well, does anybody else have any opinion as to what going to happen next or what the ultimate results other than the ultimate defeat of the Blue Djinn, but, don’t know how it going to happen?
Jean needs to re-embrace his usual inner a-hole so that he’ll be fueled by feelings of revenge XD
One would hope he isn’t overly optimistic.
Kazom you should have gone fully kitty cat mode and tried to cheer her up so she’s not in a crying fit and can actually help out. I recommend curling up on top of her and just purring for a while 😀
You might want to check on the title logo there CD. It’s flickering again, even on default view setting.
I had a thought, are we certain this is really Jeanie? I mean it seems strange the Plant Lady is dead. Jeanie is shown controlling her in a panel. What if Jeanie somehow managed to figure a way to fake the Plants death and she isn’t there at all but still inside the other body. This person we seeing in this panel is crying and upset, we assume that this is Jeanie, yet we also have seen the Plant also upset.
Yes, we are sure that this is Jeanie in these four panels. We have the Blue Djinn that stuff Jeanie into this human body to get away from Jeanie nagging him all the time. We have Araceli confirming that this is Jeanie in the human body. Kazom reaffirmed what Araceli said that this is Jeanie in the human form and then dropped off a weapon that only human can use to defeat the Blue Djinn with.
So yes, we are reasonably sure that this is actually Jeanie here.
Were not Rodge and Neil contemplating going into Jeanie’s room? The HANDLE stick of that Lantern looks dangerously close to that door—-what if someone should open it?
They already left back on page 557.