Jeanie Bottle 616
Dec26
on December 26, 2020
at 12:00 am
and modified on December 26, 2022. at 11:59 pm
Uh oh. What crazy idea has Jeanie just had?
And so ends the 2020 Christmas Marathon! We hope you all enjoyed this week of Jeanie Bottle bingeing. We’ll be back to our regular posting schedule, with the next comic coming on Tuesday.
Jean just realised with magic almost anything can be done time for the fun.
Like finding a better place to live? Like poofing a private bath for herself?
Good example of why Jeanie needs Neil: she has almost no imagination.
That is a very good point about Jeanie!
Imagine if she DID have a good imagination, though? The world would be doomed.
@Robert: “Imagine if she DID have a good imagination, though? The world would be doomed.”
I’m going out on a limb here, but it seems most of the genies we’ve met have little practical imagination. I recall the magical fight between Jeanie and the witch–crabs against lobsters. It wasn’t a serious fight, and their men just thought it was cute as the dickens. So did I.
@50srefugee: You know who got a good imagination? BLUE GENIE. Well, actually, it seems even he wasn’t THAT good, but much better than any other magic being in this comic.
She doesn’t need just a private bath since she can create an entire apartment in interdimensional space… like when she moved Neil’s apartment back on page 67.
@HKMaly: Yes. Blue Genie is very ambitious, as well as imaginative enough to be highly dangerous. But then, he’s not a bottle genie, as I recall.
Blue Genie is one of the reasons I want Neil to dedicate himself to being a good Master. Jeanie’s going to need him if it comes to a fight.
“She doesn’t need just a private bath since she can create an entire apartment in interdimensional space” Exactly what I had in mind. But she can AT LEAST conjure up a private shower.
Wouldn’t it be great if Neil WISHED for her to do that? That is, wished for his genie to do something for herself, because as much as she annoys him, he still cares for her?
I keep talking about Neil accepting his Mastership role, but that doesn’t mean making her an unloved slave. It absolutely can mean being a good leader for her, and taking care of her by giving her interesting things to do. Nothing would be better for Jeanie than for Neil to see to it that she’s too busy to be bored.
Here’s to hopefully seeing more TG transformations in the near future
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what was it that Neil didn’t wanna say in Panel 1?
Because that is what Jean was, when she was a man. It’s basically what got him into this mess.
Basically, “As if you’d be any different…”
Or even worse: “So do you”.
Jeannie may not be the horndog that Jean was (though she seems not to have noticed) but that just means she’s moved on to non-sexual ways of disrespecting women.
Oh, and Neil should say it because Jean needs to hear it, though he should probably wait for an opportunity that won’t make him late for work.
“she’s moved on to non-sexual ways of disrespecting women”
@Pilgrim *slow clap*
Technically Jeanie is a goddess now, given how powerful she is and that she’s got a next to unlimited supply of magic.
Good point–and since Genie lifespans are dictated by their magic–they die if they ever drain it completely to zero–she could potentially outlive any currently-alive Genie. Kazom speaks of being well over three thousand years old with only his own power. With the power Jean (via Blue) has stolen, ten thousand years or more is possible.
Kazom, however, was careful about using that magic. Jeanie probably wouldn’t.
Hmm, so apparently this story is happening “now”, as opposed to the timeline being anchored to the time when the series started.
The story happens in a sliding timescale. It began in 2009, but while only a few months have passed in-comic, it’s now taking place in approximately “the present”.
Or arguably, “the near future”, considering that there was a Cybertruck in the last story. In the real world today, there is exactly one of those, and they don’t just hand it out to any old random SpaceX employee (the sole prototype is kept in Hawthorne, California). It can be assumed that the Cybertruck is already under production at this point in time in the JB universe.
COVID-19 is apparently raging in the timeframe of this page, so it’s probably set during 2020-2022–note that Neil referenced a pandemic, and is wearing a mask of the type meant for blocking respiratory infections.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I just said.
Many comics take place in a perpetual present, it just makes things easier for everyone.
For who? It certainly isn’t easier for characters, who are forced to adapt to new technology even faster than we are. Imagine buying new phone every month because the previous one got obsolete.
Since Neil is putting on a facemask before leaving for work, I guess the Jeanie world’s present also has Covid-19 now.
You might’ve also noticed they are talking about pandemic.
Perhaps I did, but I did notice that in yesterday’s comic, Neil said there was always one of his housemates’ girlfriends hanging around the place. Maybe the pandemic struck between comics?
More likely the housemates consider their girlfriends to be within their limited social circles with whom they meet in-person during the pandemic.
Or their housemates aren’t as concerned with proper health protocols as Neil is.
i see the cravings have started…
Because she doesn’t want pizza? That could be explained without cravings.
pickles and watermelon ice cream?
think Jean spent too much time in the genie realm that look and those ideas in her head could be
This is not going to go well. I think that is the most repeated phraise in this comic.
isn’t this about the time the disaster movie music usually starts?
OK, Ref I can hear everyone else sighing, If you think you can do better, write your own damn story. Otherwise, quitcherbitchin
OK, fair enough. I’ve posted a rather unpolished fan fic over at Booksie. https://www.booksie.com/643110-neils-discipline
Link mangled to avoid spam trap. Let me know if you can’t see it.
I’d give this an R rating. You’ll think you know why, but stick with it. I’m pretty sure it’s not what you expect.
Definitely let me know if I’ve committed Bad Fanfic. Tried not, but I can’t judge.
CD Rudd, I hope this does not offend. I’m sure it’s not your own vision, but I had to unburden myself of mine.
I would not have bothered if your own story did not amuse and compel. Thank you for having shared Jeanie and Neil with us for all these years. You’ve given us much to chew on.
Robert, If there’ a better place or way to post this, and advertise it to the fans here, let me know. If not, can you fix the link so that it works, please?
Only every few hundred years?
Haji has a fire demon sitting in his lap. Modesty is the better part of valor.
The story is a little dark for a 60’s TV sitcom, though. Very much along the lines of John Norman’s Gor philosophy of male dominance.
@Mike: Yeah, it’s a bit dark. No question, and to introduce that would change the whole tone of the comic as well.
I wrote it to address a specific problem both the TV show and Rudd’s comic give me: Neil’s failure to understand that being a genie’s Master is a serious responsibility–at least to the genie herself, if not to the fate of the world. I may have over-reacted a bit to lance the abscess, so to speak.
At the very least, I want to highlight how serious the position of Master really is, even if the Master and his Genie only have light hearted adventures.
I do feel, as I hinted in “Discipline”, that a passive Master like Neil will be unable to command the respect of his Genie. See Jeanie’s “out of your league” comment in the last comic. That was specific thing that goaded me into posting my story.
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By the way, mike, you have no idea how much I appreciate your feedback.
By the way, this statement, “She’d brought him food and drink at his office, of her own free will, happy and proud, and he’d sent her away, embarrassed by her,” captured their early interaction very well. I hadn’t considered that that exchange may have set the groundwork for all that followed.
@mike: “set the groundwork” I certainly think so.
Again, thanks for saying. Apparently I wrote that story for you.
Write more, it was interesting.
I’ve fixed the link.
Thank you!
Doesn’t somebody else have to make a wish first?
Jeanie’s done quite a lot on her own. I especially remember that time she connected her apartment to Neil’s, without carpentry. Pretty sure Neil didn’t ask to be sent to the strip club–nor did those sailors ask for their sex changes–or that one to relive her childhood.
Technically, the cap’n kinda did-ish.
@He Who Abides: Granted. I should have double checked.
He needs roommates how crappy is his job? Even a jonour engineer make 50-60 a year he clearly is not new to the feild.
How much is housing where Neil lives?
That aside, I don’t think Neil thinks much about those things. He just needs a place to sleep and shelves for his books and manuals. Everything else is a burden.
Unless he has some unknown fincial or gambling problems. a single dude with a above poverty level job should be able to afford at least one bedroom apartment.Granted we know nothing about Neil, as his character is someone things happen to and he reacts. Nothing about him has driven any story arc. Who does he love what does he want what hobbies does he have, interests, family, anything???? Heck he doesn’t even get pissed off at Jean for screwing with his life. I get four panels every few weeks does not give much space to fill out characters but after years you would think some character development would have happened.
His bank account must be bursting with all that unspent salary.
I don’t know about Cocoa Beach, but in Silicon Valley a 3-bedroom unit goes for over three thousand bucks a month. This is the land of homeless millionaires, because it costs MORE than a million to get even an average home.
Average house price in Cocoa Beach is 445,000USD according to redfin.com
https://www.redfin.com/city/3436/FL/Cocoa-Beach/housing-market
I don’t know if that helps or not?
It is up 34% from the previous year too.
Yeah, but he has a rep for vanishing during the day and falling asleep at his workstation.
If that was a problem for his work he would not be working there anymore. He clearly still gets his work done.
Ruined apartment or not, but shouldn’t Neil (nevermind Jean’s genie powers) make enough at his job to afford a place of his own, not needing to share a place with so many folk that a shower schedule is needed?
@me, 50srefugee: “Wouldn’t it be great if Neil WISHED for her to do that? That is, wished for his genie to do something for herself, because as much as she annoys him, he still cares for her?”
You know, I just realized, that’s exactly what he did, although he didn’t use the word “wish”, and he probably said it just so she’d stop whining about food choice. Second to the last panel, he reminds her, “You’re a genie. Can’t you just poof up whatever you wish?”
Good Master! You’re learning! I bet you’ll wish you’d stayed to talk it over a bit before letting her off the leash, but…that is definitely a big step forward. Go Neil!
Jennie, don’t make your Master regret his wish for you overly much. Just enough to make us all laugh.
Nice new topper. 🙂 Hope to see Jeannie in a NYE party. 🙂
That’s one of my favorite outfits of hers. I think she likes it, too.
I mean, “little black dress”, emphasis on the “little”. Classic.
THE SIMPLE SOLUTION: Jeanie poofs up a nice meal for herself.
THE MORE LIKELY SOLUTION: Jeanie poofs all the guys in the house into buxom babes to get them to stay in their rooms, but they don’t stay in their rooms and she has to escalate the plan.
I wholeheartedly support this plan.
Why not both?