Jeanie Bottle 607
It’s been a while since I’ve made a double-sized comic. Thought you may all enjoy it.
P.S. please don’t nit-pick too much on the rules of NASA, Space X, Space X’s compound layout, the cybertruck design, etc… I’m struggling enough to get the elements to all to make sense. Making everything 100% accurate is not high on my radar.
Dominic might not be here and you just left a couple of kids on a field trip with out notice you got Araceli in so much trouble you owe her big when she magics this whole thing from there memories tomorrow.
We will find out in a minute or so. Neil either made Araceli a hero or a complete dunes and we will soon find out in the next episode of Jeanie Bottle.
I give Dan a pass on NASA/Space X accuracy. The original I Dream of Jeannie had an episode where Tony and Rodge landed a flying saucer and were captured by hillbillies. And, of course, by the time the show started its run, all the astronauts were based at Houston, going to Cape Canaveral only for launch activities.
Why did they move to Texas, far distant from any space launch facility? Lyndon Johnson became President. Texas had 24 electoral votes in 1964; Florida, only 14. Today it’s 29 for Florida and 38 for Texas.
Uh, C.D, NOT Dan. Corn Flakes and Webcomics don’t mix, kids!
This is why I say that I Dream of Jeannie was secretly a Star Trek prequel. Flying saucers, genies, and a quasi-military NASA, that is all so Star Trek. It couldn’t have fit better if Old Gene himself had planned it.
Is funny to me…
I called it! Dominic is on chimp replacement duty. (kidding!)
I sincerely doubt that anyone is going to complain about Space X, NASA, or Cybertrucks, but hills? In Florida? Florida is about as flat as a pool table. (It’s actually flatter than my pool table, but that’s neither here nor there since I figured out how to play the warp.) The only feature on Florida taller than a sand dune is space mountain at Disneyworld.
That said, if all you had was a flat horizontal line for a background people it wouldn’t give the same sense of movement. This is a comic, it’s always a good idea to emphasize story over accuracy and what matters most are the faces. Which are great, especially Neil/Aracelli’s peevish look in the last panel. She looks half annoyed that he’d joke about such a thing and half worried that he actually did it.
This is (Loosely) based on a TV show where there were often hills in the background.
And don’t forget that Jeanie was once tricked into saying her family “climbed Mount Chicago” for picnics.
So according to the Sorting algorithm of sitcom plots little Dominic is either:
a) in the capsule, and they’re going to spend the next 20 minutes of humorous hijinx frantically trying to get him out,
b) not in the capsule, but they’re convinced he is, and they’re going to spend the next 20 minutes of humorous hijinx frantically trying to get him out,
Either way we have 20 minutes of increasingly humorous hijinx as they try to get him out,
Bonus points if we discover he’s been asleep somewhere the whole time,
Note the emphasis on hijinx. Hijinx are mandatory
Maybe those aren’t hills, but rather a very, VERY low detail forest? 🙂
> I sincerely doubt that anyone is going to complain about Space X, NASA, or Cybertrucks,
I think CD said that because I totally did complain a tiny bit about the Cybertruck on our Slack channel before this page went up. lol
I see a late date in the making for Araceli. Floyd, are you about to get lucky?
“A distant ship smoke on the horizon”, yes indeedy do.
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Is Diner Guy’s name really Floyd? That seems familiar, and not just because of the 2001 reference.
Who’s joking?
Shades of Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”!
They’ll send him cheesy movies, the worst they can find.
Well, you’re in good company on the lack-of-accuracy. Mort Walker said he just tried to get the rifles, tanks, artillery, and other military hardware in Beetle Bailey to be recognizable as such rather than accurate representations.
Good old Camp Swampie. I knew a German Soldier who had been held as a POW in camp Crowder (Camp Swampie} He had some tales to tell about that place.
Neil, you doofus, yes, that’s funny. If you weren’t such a doofus, you would return the serve.
In fact, I think he’s showing a bit of snap, certainly more than Roger has. You might like him. If you weren’t such a doofus.
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Um, does “guy from diner” have a name? Shouldn’t he have a character thumbnail, if he’s recurring?
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Also, Neil, you doofus, in the last panel, you look like you’re hiding behind the cybertruck because you’re not wearing a top. Very fetching.
back in number 594 Araceli called him Floyd Capeo. Araceli, you should get this guy. You could do a lot worse, look what Jeanie ended up with.
Isn’t that Neil disguised as Aracelli?
Neilacelli? ugh. Raneil? Hm, that doesn’t sound too bad. Raneil. Maybe even Raneili.
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But yes, thank for the pointer to 594. Floyd it is. And a bit of joshing is well within his rights, given Raneil’s earlier forwardness. I like him. I’m rooting for him. Wonder how he’s going to take to Natalie?
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And certainly, after that initial encounter, Floyd may reasonably think a jest is in order. I like him.
At this point Neal/Araceli needs a purse with a heavy weight in it, to teach so one, some manners.
Why do you think Floyd’s rather mild jest deserves such a heavy response? (Especially if, as I suspect, a gosh-wowing Dominic is riding in the robot truck.)
To teach him some manner’s. Thats all.
The+Odd+Duck: But that’s just it. Floyd’s not being unmannerly, he’s making an obvious joke. Why should he think he was being rude to the extent that violence was reasonable, or even permissible? Even for comic effect, your suggestion seems heavy handed. Even Neil’s “That’s not funny!” is disproportionate.
Welcome to the real world. You want to get on their nerves, when they are stress out, and see what happen.
My guess is that Floyd found Dominic in the truck and turned him over to the nice tour guide lady with the stun gun. Next he will invite Neil/Araceli to dinner. I wonder if Arcaceli knows what kind of trouble Neil is getting her into. Romance, wine, candy and flowers.
For what it’s worth I appreciate the effort. This chapter ended up being far more interesting than I expected it to be. And has fleshed out the characters in some interesting ways.
It’s like the IDOJ “Moon Safe” 3-parter… I wonder who won the Florida vacation offered when that was first-run…?
Is Florida hilly enough?