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.
Unfortunately, one aspect of genie-hood that hasn’t come up yet in the comic, but which did in the TV show, is that genies can’t be photographed or recorded. See the Information page (linked at the top) for more trivia like this.
Yeah, but the tv show also said Genies can be filmed because Jeannie once got into trouble at a car lot when they were shooting a live commercial for Carl Tucker’s used car lot in Season Four’s ‘The Used Car Salesman’.
I think that in the TV show, it was that Genies could not appear on actual film (i.e. the kind where the image is fixed via chemical reactions, both the develop-in-a-darkroom kind and the instant-photo kind), but could be seen by non-film cameras (TV cameras or videotape in the 1960s, possibly extends to digital imaging nowadays). CD however has decided that in IDOAJB they can not be seen by electronic cameras either.
“Rodge *becomes* Jeanie”
And remember when Jean fiddled with Natalie’s brain chemistry so she had the hots for Rodge.
Will any lingering effect mean Neil having the hots for for Rodge-Jeannie.
I think Jeanie would stay Jeanie and Rodge would only have the body of a girl. No geanie powers but a hot body. Serves him right for not being switches yet.
I got it, Rodge is twirling the Genie Bottle in his hand while making that statement and it interpreted as a wish and both Jeanie and Rodge trade places. Jeanie in Rodge body and Rodge is in Jeanie bottle. Then poor Neil has to figure out how to undo it, because, one Genie generally doesn’t undo another Genie magic. Jeanie is no longer a Genie and Rodge is no longer a mortal either.
It’s been months in-story since page 1, so that is rather a long time in-between buying a ticket and the winners being announced. As for claiming the prize, Jean could always do the “make Neil or Rodge into a male-Jean lookalike” plan again.
“Once Jean had become his genie, [Neil had] never given her anything to do other than misbehave.”
–from my fanfic, “Neil’s Discipline”, currently on Booksie dot com/643110-neils-discipline , wherein Neil realizes that he’s been a dangerously weak master.
You can imagine my glee upon reading the third frame here.
I think that’s been dealt with. The sudden appearance of wealth these days sets off all kinds of alarms. Neil can’t have that and keep his job, which he loves and does not do for great wealth.
The trick would be how to justify it, like maybe buying a huge quartz paperweight from a new age store and then having it appraised and it turns out to be a diamond. That generates a papertrail to give an explanation, or a box of old crap at a junk store which turns out to contain a lost manuscript of a lost Shakespeare play or a bunch of rolled up old masters. As long as you get the receipt, you are covered for when the tax authorities show up looking for their cut. Course, there is a limit of the number of times you could pull that stunt so you gotta go for the big score right off the bat.
Yes, I have put a disturbing amount of thought into that. Why do you ask?
I’m going for fifty white painted bricks in a salvage yard for if I get my wishes, which upon closer inspection and a little bit of paint scraping will turn out to be solid gold bars. That should see me clear for the rest of my natural.
That’s why you wish for a number of stable, trustworthy investments that will accrue at a respectable rate over the course of several years and not cause said alarms to go off. It is not instant wealth, but it is the fastest, safest way to get there in regards to genie wishes.
“I’m going for fifty white painted bricks in a salvage yard”
Ah yes, the Maltese Falcon gambit… only this time it actually is a black-painted golden bird.
A variant on the investments thing: Since time travel is allowed in the IDOAJB world, I would want to know which stocks or other investments will grow the most and when, over the next couple of decades. For example, Bitcoin has soared to over $10k per coin, but was only like a couple bucks per coin back when they first were publicly available, so if I had known back then that they would increase so much, I would have scraped together ten grand or so to buy them when they were at their cheapest, which would be worth several million by now.
If Jeanie can’t entertain her self she has no imagination. She is a all powerful Genie with the power of many other Genies in her. She could poof her self anywhere and have fun. She could Poof away the CCP virus in her if she is even able to get sick from it. Food is just a poof away, and as for her needing to be near her master she could Poof some thing up so he can call her if he needs her.
It’s been established that Genies are not allowed to influence world events and human history. As bad as it is, the Covid-19 pandemic is part of human history and regardless of her new power, she is not aware of the power she actually has (hence why the older genie at the end of the previous storyline threatened her if she didn’t marry Guano). All she knows is that disobeying Genie rules ends with her getting punished, and she is scared of said punishment.
@guest – and those conspiracy nutters need to shut up. I’ve already had to shout down a few people who want to harass her about it, and she’s Japanese.
As said by Contact_Lost, altering world events is forbidden, though she could probably cure or protect specific individuals from the virus, especially if a wish is used for it.
Alright, that’s it. You’ve now ignored my first warning not to spew racist conspiracy theories in these comments, Badtaiming. You are no longer welcome to comment here. Take your insane racism elsewhere.
Rodge gets poofed, but not Neil, they sleep together, Rodge gets pregnant and stuck while Jean and her bottle mysteriously vanishes. Comic ends. Distant epilogue finale of them having a dozen kids and one of them finding a bottle….
I just made an interesting observation that was never explained when it occurred. Way back in story 8: I Dream of a General, Jeanie’s costume turned white and what, lavender? (Awesome filler between pages 331 and 332 by the way.) When she’s close to her new hubby, Guano, the top turns white while normally its pink (and she seems to like it that way, too). Any thoughts on this?
The white color that Jeanie’s costume took on during I Dream of a General was due to her (temporarily) being Boss Hogg’s genie. Boss Hogg is all about that white color scheme, so it affected Jeanie’s outfit.
Her bandeau turning white when she’s near Guano is confirmed to be due to proximity to one’s mate. The same thing happens to Guano’s parents.
Jeanie Bottle # 75, Neil said to Jeanie “What if our situation was reversed?”. Followed by two panels of Jeanie imagining an alternate history as his original male self and master of Neil, the one turned into the beautiful IDOJ female Jeanie.
So do a story based on an alternate version.
Neal is now Jeanie and Jean is original unchanged Jean. After a set time, a day or week, the alternate timeline vanishes, restoring the original timeline, preventing a violation of the space time continuum. Only Neal and Jean remember the experience.
There’s actually a pinup on CD’s Patreon that acts as a followup to that old page of the comic. It’s from April 2018, and should be accessible to anyone who signs up to the “Honey” tier.
Jean Natafied him and have a girls night out Neil will love it.
I approve of this suggestion!
This is what everyone needs to blow off some steam.
Gender bend both Neil and Rodger. A Real girls night out then.
Knowing Neil’s luck from previous situations, I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what is going to end up happening….
Though, I suppose there is always the chance that something unexpected might happen instead.
Give her a laptop with a webcam and she’d have a way to make money.
Unfortunately, one aspect of genie-hood that hasn’t come up yet in the comic, but which did in the TV show, is that genies can’t be photographed or recorded. See the Information page (linked at the top) for more trivia like this.
Yeah, but the tv show also said Genies can be filmed because Jeannie once got into trouble at a car lot when they were shooting a live commercial for Carl Tucker’s used car lot in Season Four’s ‘The Used Car Salesman’.
But.. if they can’t be recorded how was the original i dream of jeannie filmed? Clearly involved a stunt double …
Robert, you’ve forgotten about I Dream of Versimilitude, when Jean’s old girlfriends tried to photograph Jeanie but couldn’t. It’s in canon now.
Genies cant be videoed? what about all those reruns? LOL
Other 4th-Wall Universes that would read/watch other ones for entertainment purposes don’t count! 😀
I right, I forgot about that, Tom. Thanks.
I think that in the TV show, it was that Genies could not appear on actual film (i.e. the kind where the image is fixed via chemical reactions, both the develop-in-a-darkroom kind and the instant-photo kind), but could be seen by non-film cameras (TV cameras or videotape in the 1960s, possibly extends to digital imaging nowadays). CD however has decided that in IDOAJB they can not be seen by electronic cameras either.
Rodge should NEVER of said “I know what I would be doing if I was her.” That is just asking for it.
Now *that’s* an interesting idea! Rodge *becomes* Jeanie, and Neil is now Rodge-Jeanie’s master. Hijinks would definitely ensue.
“Rodge *becomes* Jeanie”
And remember when Jean fiddled with Natalie’s brain chemistry so she had the hots for Rodge.
Will any lingering effect mean Neil having the hots for for Rodge-Jeannie.
I think Jeanie would stay Jeanie and Rodge would only have the body of a girl. No geanie powers but a hot body. Serves him right for not being switches yet.
I got it, Rodge is twirling the Genie Bottle in his hand while making that statement and it interpreted as a wish and both Jeanie and Rodge trade places. Jeanie in Rodge body and Rodge is in Jeanie bottle. Then poor Neil has to figure out how to undo it, because, one Genie generally doesn’t undo another Genie magic. Jeanie is no longer a Genie and Rodge is no longer a mortal either.
“Again”? You mean he stopped once?
don’t suppose he go home to have Jean tell him he one of the lotto winners
Or perhaps Jean is the winner (ticket purchased before comic number 1)
And is now incapable of claiming said prize
It’s been months in-story since page 1, so that is rather a long time in-between buying a ticket and the winners being announced. As for claiming the prize, Jean could always do the “make Neil or Rodge into a male-Jean lookalike” plan again.
“Once Jean had become his genie, [Neil had] never given her anything to do other than misbehave.”
–from my fanfic, “Neil’s Discipline”, currently on Booksie dot com/643110-neils-discipline , wherein Neil realizes that he’s been a dangerously weak master.
You can imagine my glee upon reading the third frame here.
Whatever happened to the old “wishes for riches” trope?
I think that’s been dealt with. The sudden appearance of wealth these days sets off all kinds of alarms. Neil can’t have that and keep his job, which he loves and does not do for great wealth.
The trick would be how to justify it, like maybe buying a huge quartz paperweight from a new age store and then having it appraised and it turns out to be a diamond. That generates a papertrail to give an explanation, or a box of old crap at a junk store which turns out to contain a lost manuscript of a lost Shakespeare play or a bunch of rolled up old masters. As long as you get the receipt, you are covered for when the tax authorities show up looking for their cut. Course, there is a limit of the number of times you could pull that stunt so you gotta go for the big score right off the bat.
Yes, I have put a disturbing amount of thought into that. Why do you ask?
I’m going for fifty white painted bricks in a salvage yard for if I get my wishes, which upon closer inspection and a little bit of paint scraping will turn out to be solid gold bars. That should see me clear for the rest of my natural.
That’s why you wish for a number of stable, trustworthy investments that will accrue at a respectable rate over the course of several years and not cause said alarms to go off. It is not instant wealth, but it is the fastest, safest way to get there in regards to genie wishes.
“I’m going for fifty white painted bricks in a salvage yard”
Ah yes, the Maltese Falcon gambit… only this time it actually is a black-painted golden bird.
A variant on the investments thing: Since time travel is allowed in the IDOAJB world, I would want to know which stocks or other investments will grow the most and when, over the next couple of decades. For example, Bitcoin has soared to over $10k per coin, but was only like a couple bucks per coin back when they first were publicly available, so if I had known back then that they would increase so much, I would have scraped together ten grand or so to buy them when they were at their cheapest, which would be worth several million by now.
Perhaps a visit from an IRS agent.
If Jeanie can’t entertain her self she has no imagination. She is a all powerful Genie with the power of many other Genies in her. She could poof her self anywhere and have fun. She could Poof away the CCP virus in her if she is even able to get sick from it. Food is just a poof away, and as for her needing to be near her master she could Poof some thing up so he can call her if he needs her.
It’s been established that Genies are not allowed to influence world events and human history. As bad as it is, the Covid-19 pandemic is part of human history and regardless of her new power, she is not aware of the power she actually has (hence why the older genie at the end of the previous storyline threatened her if she didn’t marry Guano). All she knows is that disobeying Genie rules ends with her getting punished, and she is scared of said punishment.
Not really sure why you called it the CCP virus.
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Conspiracy theorists claim they developed it as a weapon and accidentally released it.
@guest – and those conspiracy nutters need to shut up. I’ve already had to shout down a few people who want to harass her about it, and she’s Japanese.
As said by Contact_Lost, altering world events is forbidden, though she could probably cure or protect specific individuals from the virus, especially if a wish is used for it.
Alright, that’s it. You’ve now ignored my first warning not to spew racist conspiracy theories in these comments, Badtaiming. You are no longer welcome to comment here. Take your insane racism elsewhere.
I have been forced to delete a “conversation” (if you can call it that…) between myself and a racist troll. He has now also been banned.
Ya know, Rodge has never been turned into a girl, i think it’s about Time!
CD’s apparently saving that for something special. Even I don’t know what.
Hopefully we will see a big pink poof on the other side of the room divider next Tuesday.
Rodge gets poofed, but not Neil, they sleep together, Rodge gets pregnant and stuck while Jean and her bottle mysteriously vanishes. Comic ends. Distant epilogue finale of them having a dozen kids and one of them finding a bottle….
Calling it now.
@ Doug Rouge and Neil doing the nasty? That’s just ew.
@mike – tell the Natalie/Rodge shippers that.
Here is an idea magical doll house that works as a regular house so Jean can shrink down and have his own place and won’t bug Neil as much.
Do we have an image of what rodge looks like as a girl?
Nope, CD has never drawn “her”.
About the lottery ticket. Does Agent Anderson also work with the IRS Nice to see her back in uniform or a bikini?
Agent Anne Anderson was never in a uniform, she was plain clothed FBI. Now, a bikini would be nice to see, the one piece on page 433 was just a tease.
Maybe if we beg Robert will put in a good word for us.
If you’re a member of CD’s Patreon, there are a number of pretty sexy pics of Anderson that you can access.
I just made an interesting observation that was never explained when it occurred. Way back in story 8: I Dream of a General, Jeanie’s costume turned white and what, lavender? (Awesome filler between pages 331 and 332 by the way.) When she’s close to her new hubby, Guano, the top turns white while normally its pink (and she seems to like it that way, too). Any thoughts on this?
The white color that Jeanie’s costume took on during I Dream of a General was due to her (temporarily) being Boss Hogg’s genie. Boss Hogg is all about that white color scheme, so it affected Jeanie’s outfit.
Her bandeau turning white when she’s near Guano is confirmed to be due to proximity to one’s mate. The same thing happens to Guano’s parents.
Jeanie Bottle # 75, Neil said to Jeanie “What if our situation was reversed?”. Followed by two panels of Jeanie imagining an alternate history as his original male self and master of Neil, the one turned into the beautiful IDOJ female Jeanie.
So do a story based on an alternate version.
Neal is now Jeanie and Jean is original unchanged Jean. After a set time, a day or week, the alternate timeline vanishes, restoring the original timeline, preventing a violation of the space time continuum. Only Neal and Jean remember the experience.
There’s actually a pinup on CD’s Patreon that acts as a followup to that old page of the comic. It’s from April 2018, and should be accessible to anyone who signs up to the “Honey” tier.