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.
I had thought originally that Araceli had been upset over the hot dogs because they were pork and thus not halal. It was not until some time later that it became clear that she was vegetarian and not simply observing religious practices.
If I understand things correctly, one group would still consume some animal products like Milk, while the other group will refuse to do so. I don’t remember which is which though.
@Carlos – There are different variations of plant-based eaters like as with LQBTs. Some will strictly only eat plant foods while some are okay with eating animal-derived foods that don’t take the life of the animal (e.g. eggs, milk, cheese). There are also some that feel that seafood (e.g. white fleshed fish) wouldn’t count as meat since it isn’t land meat. It depends on the ethical and comfort levels one has for what they consume for nourishment and all the processes that make possible the meal from food source to consumer’s dish.
As anyone familiar with the works of Marc Miller knows, true Vegans are an extraterrestrial race originating from Muon Gwi and mostly inhabiting a small interstellar state centered around the star we call Vega. You can tell them apart from the oftimes-annoying “Vegans” infesting parts of Earth is that Earth “Vegans” generally do not have tentacles instead of fingers.
Araceli seems to get grossed out with eating meat . Either genies are herbivores (with the “No killing anyone” rule) or Araceli can’t stand consuming animal-based foods.
They are not killing anyone by eating meat, it’s already dead. Paradoxically, they ARE killing when eating fresh fruit and vegetable – because those are still alive when you eat them. However, I suspect only humans count in that “no killing anyone” rule.
I don’t really see a difference between killing someone and paying for someone else to kill it for you. Also, vegetables aren’t really sentient ( cannot feel anything because they don’t have a nervous system ) so i would argue “killing” them has the same value as “killing” a computer
That does make some sense although some will argue against that statement with edible plant materials having already been severed from the whole of the plant to allow it to continue living/growing (e.g. tree, shrub, vine, roots, stems, etc.) Genies can probably just poof up some food for themselves without taking it from other life-forms; in an eating your own leg scenario with their own magic being part of their own life source, so maybe self-cannibalistic?
Since genies have a limited amount of vitality I would assume that creating things out of cosmic dust would use up some of it more quickly than transferring the object (in Neil’s case a ham sandwich) from one place to another. Think of it as an inherent defense mechanism to prevent a genie from killing themselves off too quickly… like breathing. That sandwich might have vanished from the server’s counter at any restaurant that Jean might have ever been in, and they are still wondering where it went.
Well, maybe. But while stuck inside their vessels where they can’t interact magically with the outside world, they probably would have to make their meals out of their magic.
@mike – Well, as far as genie ‘biology’ seems to work for this comic, each one gets born/created/converted with a largely magical but finite life-source to use and live with until it’s depleted completely over a long or short amount of time. Depending how often or much they each uses theirs, afterwards when it’s all gone, they simply cease to be. That’s true for what you said earlier.
In past cases, the genies are tethered to their totems as they were conjoin vitally and at most, they act not just as homes/prisons but as pickle jars for their cores. In other words, the totems helps keep their magical essences preserved, to stay concentrated and self-sustainable within the long periods of capsulation between releases. There haven’t been any in-comic content yet that explains if the totems could give them any nourishment while stuck inside them.
So, what with myself saying that genies could be self-cannibalistic, they could be eating primordially on their own magic in the form of desired foods over and over again both inside and outside of their totems in their adaptable diets, in a somewhat reprocessing cycle.
Robert, I have a question. If I have counted my months correctly the BABY will be due on or about April the first next year. Knowing how CD likes April Fool jokes did he do this on purpose? They actually make salad out of kelp?
I had edible seaweed before. The kind I had was stringy, a bit gummy and delicious munchie with some sesame seeds. There’s lots of types of edible seaweeds that don’t usually appear in conventional groceries.
I acknowledge that I do not eat any salad for the leaves, but for the dressing, croutons, bacon bits, cheese shreds, and so forth. Kelp provides iodine, a necessary nutrient, in the form of methyl iodide.
Little kids are like cats, they never miss anything. Caley knows something is different. Also, how did Liam know Araceli’s name without being introduced and how did he know to order the salad and not a burger. Me thinks he has a crush on Araceli.
Well, Jeanie been a Genie for just over a year and Araceli has been around almost as long with most of the time as Caley Nanny. He could have met her at open house at the school where the parents were invited in. Araceli could have gone over his house to Caley several time and he doing the same thing too. This may not have been the first school outing either. There could have had school plays or kids musical, little league base ball at school. They could have met in a grocery a few time if they live in the same neighborhood or they could live next door to each other or just down the street from each other. Depending on how far CD want to carry this out and where those live in relationship to each other, there no telling what kind of relationship they may have with each other. He obviously doesn’t know that she a Genie, but, other than that, he could know her fairly well.
We will just have to wait and see how well he really know Araceli.
Since when is Araceli a virgin, she ate a hotdog on her first date with our clueless protagonists.
She should be more like the elf in “How not to summon a demon lord”
(the elf is a girl with two enormous -, that in the dinner scene is seen stuffing her face with a frankfurter of equally ridiculous proportions)
Well every viewer agreed that she deserved the meat, poor girl was hungry
Maybe she became a vegan *because* of that incident with the hotdog? Or maybe she was before, but hot dogs were *so* foreign to her, that she didn’t have a clue it had meat in it until after she’d taken a bite (and, if you recall, retched violently). I mean, hotdog doesn’t exactly resemble meat in terms of visuals *or* texture, so it’s entirely possible to eat a bite or two without noticing that it’s meat, and having to be told.
Cultural misinterpretation. It isn’t like Genies get to upkeep with current events, inventions and discoveries while encapsulated in their portable prison homes. Thank goodness for us having the internet with this ongoing pandemic, huh ?
Well the thing is, vegetarianism is early a 20th century invention (famously champion by the German politician Adolf Hitler)
Its more radical form veganism is much never (from the late part of the 20th century) and didn’t reach mainstream attention until the reign of Angela Merkel (another German politician)
The thing about veganism is, that it is an extremely unhealthy diet that it is impossible to survive on long term (for humans at least)
@Alastir – That’s not really a truthful answer, a farce at best. While as omnivores, we can get nourishment from various edible foods (meat, fish, dairy, grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, sugar, starches, chemically-named processed foods, etc), some of the more healthier people on Earth are eating regularly plant-based, natural foods with a few exceptions occasionally over thousands of years. And all the while, getting about all the nutrients they need for their bodies.
@Jenny
Veganism isn’t just mostly eating plant based foods, it is exclusively eating plant based food. We do not require much meat to eat healthy, and in the west, we by and large do eat too much of it, but veganism is like going to the other extreme. Like when Siddartha Gautama became ascetic to an extreme and almost starved himself to death, gluttony is a sin, but so is its opposite. Like with everything else in life, a good diet is balanced.
Yep! It those little details that don’t sound right and just stand out like mole on the face or something that just doesn’t quit fit together properly. OK, who are You? I know your not Araceli!
Araceli vegan thats pretty cool to see vegan webcomic characters.
I had thought originally that Araceli had been upset over the hot dogs because they were pork and thus not halal. It was not until some time later that it became clear that she was vegetarian and not simply observing religious practices.
Blue outfit, now vegan. What more signs to you need that Araceli is evil.
Not killing animals or raising them for their flesh alone is usually seen as a virtue, ironically.
Vegan or vegetarian?
There’s a difference?
If I understand things correctly, one group would still consume some animal products like Milk, while the other group will refuse to do so. I don’t remember which is which though.
Most vegetarians will consume animal byproducts like milk and eggs. Vegans will not.
@Carlos – There are different variations of plant-based eaters like as with LQBTs. Some will strictly only eat plant foods while some are okay with eating animal-derived foods that don’t take the life of the animal (e.g. eggs, milk, cheese). There are also some that feel that seafood (e.g. white fleshed fish) wouldn’t count as meat since it isn’t land meat. It depends on the ethical and comfort levels one has for what they consume for nourishment and all the processes that make possible the meal from food source to consumer’s dish.
As anyone familiar with the works of Marc Miller knows, true Vegans are an extraterrestrial race originating from Muon Gwi and mostly inhabiting a small interstellar state centered around the star we call Vega. You can tell them apart from the oftimes-annoying “Vegans” infesting parts of Earth is that Earth “Vegans” generally do not have tentacles instead of fingers.
that woman needs more meat
he should have taken her to eat a sausage
A gladiator from ancient Rome whose diet would have mostly only plant-based foods would say differently.
Araceli seems to get grossed out with eating meat . Either genies are herbivores (with the “No killing anyone” rule) or Araceli can’t stand consuming animal-based foods.
They are not killing anyone by eating meat, it’s already dead. Paradoxically, they ARE killing when eating fresh fruit and vegetable – because those are still alive when you eat them. However, I suspect only humans count in that “no killing anyone” rule.
I don’t really see a difference between killing someone and paying for someone else to kill it for you. Also, vegetables aren’t really sentient ( cannot feel anything because they don’t have a nervous system ) so i would argue “killing” them has the same value as “killing” a computer
That does make some sense although some will argue against that statement with edible plant materials having already been severed from the whole of the plant to allow it to continue living/growing (e.g. tree, shrub, vine, roots, stems, etc.) Genies can probably just poof up some food for themselves without taking it from other life-forms; in an eating your own leg scenario with their own magic being part of their own life source, so maybe self-cannibalistic?
Since genies have a limited amount of vitality I would assume that creating things out of cosmic dust would use up some of it more quickly than transferring the object (in Neil’s case a ham sandwich) from one place to another. Think of it as an inherent defense mechanism to prevent a genie from killing themselves off too quickly… like breathing. That sandwich might have vanished from the server’s counter at any restaurant that Jean might have ever been in, and they are still wondering where it went.
Well, maybe. But while stuck inside their vessels where they can’t interact magically with the outside world, they probably would have to make their meals out of their magic.
Since the vessel itself is magical, perhaps it provides for them.
@mike – Well, as far as genie ‘biology’ seems to work for this comic, each one gets born/created/converted with a largely magical but finite life-source to use and live with until it’s depleted completely over a long or short amount of time. Depending how often or much they each uses theirs, afterwards when it’s all gone, they simply cease to be. That’s true for what you said earlier.
In past cases, the genies are tethered to their totems as they were conjoin vitally and at most, they act not just as homes/prisons but as pickle jars for their cores. In other words, the totems helps keep their magical essences preserved, to stay concentrated and self-sustainable within the long periods of capsulation between releases. There haven’t been any in-comic content yet that explains if the totems could give them any nourishment while stuck inside them.
So, what with myself saying that genies could be self-cannibalistic, they could be eating primordially on their own magic in the form of desired foods over and over again both inside and outside of their totems in their adaptable diets, in a somewhat reprocessing cycle.
She must have turned vegan after having been offerd that hot dog 🙂
https://jeaniebottle.com/?comic=jeanie-bottle-133
To be fair I don’t think she knew what it was made of.
Wow I never noticed the jump in quality until right now. Great work CD.
Has anyone ever tried a kelp salad?
Yep! They’re good. Go try one, at your closest sushi restaurant or exotic grocery shop!
Always up for trying new things. Hadn’t seen it listed at any of the sushi places I frequent.
Maybe a supermarket with a sushi section?
I think that the place my Uncle and I stop in to eat when we went to the space center last Christmas.
Well, they are at the space center
the order area makes the restruant look like the place my uncle and I went to when we toured the place
no fun having someone else doing the ordering
Robert, I have a question. If I have counted my months correctly the BABY will be due on or about April the first next year. Knowing how CD likes April Fool jokes did he do this on purpose? They actually make salad out of kelp?
You’re still assuming that genie procreation even remotely resembles human pregnancy. We have absolutely no evidence of that.
As for kelp salads, I have no idea. It sounds like it might be a joke.
Wait–isn’t Araceli NOT Araceli? No wonder everyone around her is a bit confused.
And now Neil is going to have eat a kelp salad. Yummy.
I had edible seaweed before. The kind I had was stringy, a bit gummy and delicious munchie with some sesame seeds. There’s lots of types of edible seaweeds that don’t usually appear in conventional groceries.
I acknowledge that I do not eat any salad for the leaves, but for the dressing, croutons, bacon bits, cheese shreds, and so forth. Kelp provides iodine, a necessary nutrient, in the form of methyl iodide.
Anyone else notice Neil/Araceli’s rapid hand movements in panels 2 and 4?
The dismissive wave-offs? Have we ever seen Neil do that?
Not that I recall.
Little kids are like cats, they never miss anything. Caley knows something is different. Also, how did Liam know Araceli’s name without being introduced and how did he know to order the salad and not a burger. Me thinks he has a crush on Araceli.
Well, they are in the same kid group. The there kids are friends. It’s a safe bet they’ve met before.
Well, Jeanie been a Genie for just over a year and Araceli has been around almost as long with most of the time as Caley Nanny. He could have met her at open house at the school where the parents were invited in. Araceli could have gone over his house to Caley several time and he doing the same thing too. This may not have been the first school outing either. There could have had school plays or kids musical, little league base ball at school. They could have met in a grocery a few time if they live in the same neighborhood or they could live next door to each other or just down the street from each other. Depending on how far CD want to carry this out and where those live in relationship to each other, there no telling what kind of relationship they may have with each other. He obviously doesn’t know that she a Genie, but, other than that, he could know her fairly well.
We will just have to wait and see how well he really know Araceli.
“Vegetarian” Indian word for “Lousy Hunter” LOL
Since when is Araceli a virgin, she ate a hotdog on her first date with our clueless protagonists.
She should be more like the elf in “How not to summon a demon lord”
(the elf is a girl with two enormous -, that in the dinner scene is seen stuffing her face with a frankfurter of equally ridiculous proportions)
Well every viewer agreed that she deserved the meat, poor girl was hungry
Maybe she became a vegan *because* of that incident with the hotdog? Or maybe she was before, but hot dogs were *so* foreign to her, that she didn’t have a clue it had meat in it until after she’d taken a bite (and, if you recall, retched violently). I mean, hotdog doesn’t exactly resemble meat in terms of visuals *or* texture, so it’s entirely possible to eat a bite or two without noticing that it’s meat, and having to be told.
Didn’t she think they were made of actual dogs, though?
Cultural misinterpretation. It isn’t like Genies get to upkeep with current events, inventions and discoveries while encapsulated in their portable prison homes. Thank goodness for us having the internet with this ongoing pandemic, huh ?
Well the thing is, vegetarianism is early a 20th century invention (famously champion by the German politician Adolf Hitler)
Its more radical form veganism is much never (from the late part of the 20th century) and didn’t reach mainstream attention until the reign of Angela Merkel (another German politician)
The thing about veganism is, that it is an extremely unhealthy diet that it is impossible to survive on long term (for humans at least)
@Alastir – That’s not really a truthful answer, a farce at best. While as omnivores, we can get nourishment from various edible foods (meat, fish, dairy, grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, sugar, starches, chemically-named processed foods, etc), some of the more healthier people on Earth are eating regularly plant-based, natural foods with a few exceptions occasionally over thousands of years. And all the while, getting about all the nutrients they need for their bodies.
> Didn’t she think they were made of actual dogs, though?
No, not at all. She retched after Neil explained that they’re made from pig and cow meat.
@Jenny
Veganism isn’t just mostly eating plant based foods, it is exclusively eating plant based food. We do not require much meat to eat healthy, and in the west, we by and large do eat too much of it, but veganism is like going to the other extreme. Like when Siddartha Gautama became ascetic to an extreme and almost starved himself to death, gluttony is a sin, but so is its opposite. Like with everything else in life, a good diet is balanced.
It’s the little details that trip you up.
Yep! It those little details that don’t sound right and just stand out like mole on the face or something that just doesn’t quit fit together properly. OK, who are You? I know your not Araceli!
Can’t break her vibe.