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 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’ve tried to get confirmation for that spelling. “Jeannie” with 2 Ns is a valid spelling, as it’s used by characters who aren’t in on Jeanie’s secret (that she used to be Jean). But having Jeanie refer to *herself* with that spelling seems rather plot-relevant… *if* CD spelled it that way intentionally.
Unfortunately, he hasn’t responded to my requests for clarity. So I’ve left the spelling unchanged for now.
@Robert You are correct about the spelling of Jeannie. It is simply another way to spell it. My name is Stacie, although I have many spelling it Stacy or even Stacey.
My opinion, I believe this isn’t really her and the person pretending to be her used a Jeannie. Like many do me with Stacy. They don’t know me well and spell it like they would know it.
Neil, listen to your genie. She’s telling you flat out that she’s “a blonde bombshell with big tits.” She’s rubbing your face in it. Dare I say she wants you to rub your face in them?
She’s Jeanie, not Jean. She’s a she, not a he. She wants to be YOUR genie.
Jeanie is still Jean inside. No self-respecting young woman would describe herself that way, unless she is “low-class”. Most women want to think it’s their sparkling personality that people like and remember, or their bright eyes and their smile and their friendliness. Not their most prominent body features.
“Self-respecting”? “Low-class”? I can easily imagine such comment from an actress, who even this young may already be cynical enough to admit what most men see on her.
You people are overthinking it. Jeanie is just making a statement of fact here that is very obvious to anybody that is looking at Jeanie. Jeane is hot Blond with big tits. But, saying that is probably hiding the fact that Jeanie may have been there several times in the past in the past. Which is probably why she stated it that way, to throw Neil off track and so that he won’t pursue the issue of her being there before.
You must not know a lot of women then, because I have heard some highly accomplished women of all ages, up to and including an elite nationally ranked athlete and a full professor of organic chemistry, complain about “male gaze” in exactly these genuinely ironic terms. The irony may not be coming across because it’s just not possible for a comic to reproduce the right bitterly sarcastic tone of voice.
I mean irony in the literal sense: the figurative use of the words contradicts the literal meaning of the words. Jeanie is using the words men would use to objectify her to complain about being objectified by men.
Sometimes. It varies. If the proprietor of a small shop introduces themself with a name, the response is often to do the same. It’s part of the egalitarian cuture.
Also, if an employee is wearing a nametag and a customer feels the need to use that name, they might introduce themself in order to keep things even.
Also some place ask for your name if there a waiting list to be seated, like Jeanie party of one. They also may ask for a name to put on the order too as in Jeanie Kibble Burger and/or Fry’s and dinner. Then there the ask what your name approach too.
Depends on a lot of factors. At a restaurant I go to and order the same thing every time, the cashier (who is also the same guy every time) greets me by name when I get to the front of the line, and asks if I want my regular. But that’s the only place I visit where that happens.
Good restaurant workers learn their regulars names over time, its a subtle tactic employed by the restaurant industry to implant the sense of familiarity and general welcomeness so customers will later think when they’re trying to decide where to go, “oh so and so’s is always good, i’ll go there”
i used to live across the street from a chinese restaurant and the lovely couple that owned and worked there they knew us by name and soon as we walked in they knew exactly what we wanted and had it good to go in no time at all.
………of course the sounds of cats hissing and screeching late at night behind the restaurant always had me worried about what my honey chicken really was >.>;
bummer, The sun came out down here in mid MO. and the groundhog saw his shadow. Six more weeks. Jeanie, if you stand on a street corner in that outfit you will get a ticket for being a traffic hazzard.
Could be worse. The groundhog could have seen Bill Murray. That would mean six weeks of winter over and over and over in a never ending cycle.
Jeanie also appears to be overlooking the fact that she’s not only attractive, she’s also wearing the exact same distinctive pink and red outfit, complete with hat, that she was probably wearing last time and that this may be the second time she’s been in that day, presuming her time traveling spell uses a constant ratio. I can see Jeanie thinking, “take me back to Sartorelli’s X years in the past” without sweating the details because since when does she ever consider the possible implications of her actions? Or even “take me back to my high school hangout” which is what I hope may be happening because teen horndog Jean hitting on his future Jeanie self would be hilarious and revealing.
I suspect this may even be the origin of Jean’s “I Dream of Jeannie” fixation.
If that the case then Jean would have to be turned into a Genie so that they could have this meeting with himself and herself and so Jean could get that fixation with doing it with, I dream of Jeannie series of Barbara Eden. Because, this Jeanie is the spit ten image of the other TV series Barbara Eden, because, that what Jean was turned into after he picked up the Genie Bottle, because, he had that fixation with Barbara Eden as the Genie of the bottle and that what he became.
If that the case, then they have to meet, because, it would disrupt the current time line that we are in. But, you might say, the current time line disrupted the time line and sent it into a new reality that we are in right now and they may not be any Jean picking up the bottle and no Jeanie Bottle series.
Well, so much for foolish writing and such things as this. In a science fiction stories like this, you can do crazy things like this and get away with it.
If boy Jean in the past hits on girl Jean from the future, wouldn’t girl jean remember it and know ahead of time it’s coming. And what would she do to herself. She doesn’t really think thinks through does she?
Also remember that it would probably by 5 or more years in the past since Jean would of hit on Jeanie. Our Jeanie of the future hasn’t yet been hit on by the boy Jean of the past as of yet and any memory of it would have been from the boy Jean hitting on some Blond Bombshell with really big tits. Up to this point, there isn’t any reason for her to think of boy Jean is going to be hitting on her and pretty soon too, until he show up and start hitting on her, then she will remember that she was the Blond Bombshell with really big tits that he was hitting on in the past.
OK, now what does Jeanie do?
That the 64 dollar question that need to be answered?
“I’ve only been here once before… well, as Jeanie.”
That means that she’s been there a Jean. Will they be running into her former, MALE self. Perhaps to warn him — deliberately or by accident — about an upcoming meeting with a certain bottle? Will Jean, horndog hat he is, make a play for Jeanie, and, if he does, will she go along with it?
If she does have a chance meeting with him, it could go either way. It could be what set into motion for Jean to become Jeanie or it could go the other way and now Jeanie has to fix it or cease to exist, because, now we have a paradox of two thing that need to happen, but, they can’t both happen either. Jean has to turn into Jeanie to go back in time to warn himself that he self to not pick up the Genie Bottle. That what known as a paradox and can not happen.
Neil is not holding up his end of the genie/master deal, and Jeanie’s getting a bit tired of that. He’s Master to a fairly powerful genie, as bottle genies go, He hasn’t given her anything to do since the ham sandwich incident, and now he’s confined her to his bedroom (when she could give him a palace, if he he’d ask). Here, she’s granting him the closest thing to a wish he’s given her for months, and rather than showing enthusiasm and thanks, he’s nitpicking. She’s reduced to reminding him that he’s shacking up with a stunning babe, and hasn’t even made any moves on her. (Granted, he doesn’t much like Natalie going to the strip club. But still. How blind is he?)\
She even fixed the Mars rover for him.
Neil, you pudgy little nerd. Wake. Up. She’s more than proved her worth to him, and he’s spurned it. He needs to get busy and prove his worth to her. She’s right on the cusp of cutting herself loose.
@50sRefugee: While that is all true, perhaps Neil’s reluctance to pursue a sexual relationship has to do with his knowledge that the buxom blonde bombshell in front of him was a male friend of his. For all we know, he’s been thinking of nothing BUT bonking his formerly male friend all this time, and has been covering that desire with all the other behaviors we’ve seen from him.
It common knowledge that Jeanie a hot Blond with big tits and Jeanie know that too. The only question is, is Jeanie finally coming to terms with that what she is now and is finally accepting that she is a female and not a guy. Is she finally seeing herself as female instead of just knowing that she a female and there a different too. The first, Jeanie is starting to see herself as female Genie, but, the other one, she knows that she a female Genie, but, she still see herself as guy.
The way that Jeanie phased it, would indicate that she starting see herself as a female and not as a male.
@Larry and etc: Jeanie’s beginning to realize she’s a female bottle genie, not a male human being. She’s got powers, yes, including those of hot human babes–but those powers come with obligations and, I suspect, compulsions that do not apply to humans.
She done that in the past, but, this is the first time that we have actually seen her do this in a relaxed mode as though it was normal for her to do this way and it was not pushed or forced on her to do it either and is coming across as though it is part of who she is now. This is a very settle change in how Jeanie chooses act now. It not much, but, it there.
I would like to see this story go one of two ways and preferably both ways if at all possible.
1. I would like to see a back story of how younger Neil and Jean meet and how they interact together before Jean became Jeanie. It would be an interesting and different kind of story line for Jeanie Bottle.
2. I would like to see Jean hit on Jeanie and Jeanie loses it and does something she should not have done, principle eliminate Jean, which eliminate the future Jeanie too. Which leave Neil in the past without a ride back to the future where he belongs. Remember the Pond Shop or the Antic Dealer where the was Genie Bottle was, because, there no Jean there and nobody to pick up that Genie Bottle, we see Neil holding it instead of Jean who not there. Neil is either turned into a Geniefied Natalie or another Jeanie look alike, but, it Neil inside instead of Jean in different time line, but, not the one we are in. Natalie or Jeanie has to pop back in time to make contact with her other self from another time line and straighten this mess out that the original Jeanie created with her outburst against Jean. After they get Jean back, the last thing we see in the Arc is them standing out side the Pond Shop or Antic Shop where both Neil and Jean are standing in the shop and Jean is holding the Genie Bottle and other Neil and the Geniefied Neil are standing outside the shop looking in at the other two and the Geniefied Neil crosses her arms and does the Genie Blink and transfer the magic back to Jean turning him into Jeanie again. The Genie copy of Neil disappear and is never seen again and other Neil back to the future like one year where he belongs.
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name
And they’re always glad you came
You want to be where you can see
Our troubles are all the same
You want to be where everybody knows your name
Does anyone else remember Teen Angel? I vaguely recall an episode with multiple time travel involving the sandwich that initially caused his death. For some reason this kinda reminds me of that 🙂
Oh, yes, the death burger. Everyone that died, because, he didn’t eat the death burger. Finally, he conceded to eat the death burger to save everybody else.
the grandfather paradox-If Jeanie warns himself to not open the bottle then he never becomes Jeanie. If he never becomes jeanie he cannot go back and warn himself to not open the bottle. So he opens the bottle and starts the cycle all over again. If he does not open the bottle and gives it to Belle she will open it and become the genie.
Panel 3 – and he REMEMBERS you
Whoops. Was in a rush (thus the slight lateness), and I forgot to run a basic spellcheck. lol
Though you did miss the spurious space inside of Jeannie’s name. The spellcheck caught that, too. hehe
Except that Jeanie has only one N…
I’ve tried to get confirmation for that spelling. “Jeannie” with 2 Ns is a valid spelling, as it’s used by characters who aren’t in on Jeanie’s secret (that she used to be Jean). But having Jeanie refer to *herself* with that spelling seems rather plot-relevant… *if* CD spelled it that way intentionally.
Unfortunately, he hasn’t responded to my requests for clarity. So I’ve left the spelling unchanged for now.
@Robert You are correct about the spelling of Jeannie. It is simply another way to spell it. My name is Stacie, although I have many spelling it Stacy or even Stacey.
My opinion, I believe this isn’t really her and the person pretending to be her used a Jeannie. Like many do me with Stacy. They don’t know me well and spell it like they would know it.
That’s the most logical thought out answer I think I’ve ever heard from Jeanie.
yea, and also doing a much better then usual job at donging another point.
where she did admit to being here more then once before but not as Jeanie.
Jean finally makes sense with his logic. But time travel to buy a hamburger must be the best burger in the world to be worth it.
Neil, listen to your genie. She’s telling you flat out that she’s “a blonde bombshell with big tits.” She’s rubbing your face in it. Dare I say she wants you to rub your face in them?
She’s Jeanie, not Jean. She’s a she, not a he. She wants to be YOUR genie.
Hmm, she does seem to be owning that self-description, doesn’t she?
So you are saying Jeannie is baiting for a Motorboat?
@Elfguy: >snrk< At the very least.
I think she'd settle for a little attention.
Well she has brought him lunch before and got huffy when he didn’t appreciate it.
Jeanie is still Jean inside. No self-respecting young woman would describe herself that way, unless she is “low-class”. Most women want to think it’s their sparkling personality that people like and remember, or their bright eyes and their smile and their friendliness. Not their most prominent body features.
“Self-respecting”? “Low-class”? I can easily imagine such comment from an actress, who even this young may already be cynical enough to admit what most men see on her.
You people are overthinking it. Jeanie is just making a statement of fact here that is very obvious to anybody that is looking at Jeanie. Jeane is hot Blond with big tits. But, saying that is probably hiding the fact that Jeanie may have been there several times in the past in the past. Which is probably why she stated it that way, to throw Neil off track and so that he won’t pursue the issue of her being there before.
You must not know a lot of women then, because I have heard some highly accomplished women of all ages, up to and including an elite nationally ranked athlete and a full professor of organic chemistry, complain about “male gaze” in exactly these genuinely ironic terms. The irony may not be coming across because it’s just not possible for a comic to reproduce the right bitterly sarcastic tone of voice.
I mean irony in the literal sense: the figurative use of the words contradicts the literal meaning of the words. Jeanie is using the words men would use to objectify her to complain about being objectified by men.
those tits are unforgettable
Do people really introduce themselves by name to service staff in America? I’ve never once seen that happen in my country.
Sometimes. It varies. If the proprietor of a small shop introduces themself with a name, the response is often to do the same. It’s part of the egalitarian cuture.
Also, if an employee is wearing a nametag and a customer feels the need to use that name, they might introduce themself in order to keep things even.
Also some place ask for your name if there a waiting list to be seated, like Jeanie party of one. They also may ask for a name to put on the order too as in Jeanie Kibble Burger and/or Fry’s and dinner. Then there the ask what your name approach too.
Depends on a lot of factors. At a restaurant I go to and order the same thing every time, the cashier (who is also the same guy every time) greets me by name when I get to the front of the line, and asks if I want my regular. But that’s the only place I visit where that happens.
Good restaurant workers learn their regulars names over time, its a subtle tactic employed by the restaurant industry to implant the sense of familiarity and general welcomeness so customers will later think when they’re trying to decide where to go, “oh so and so’s is always good, i’ll go there”
i used to live across the street from a chinese restaurant and the lovely couple that owned and worked there they knew us by name and soon as we walked in they knew exactly what we wanted and had it good to go in no time at all.
………of course the sounds of cats hissing and screeching late at night behind the restaurant always had me worried about what my honey chicken really was >.>;
He does remember you with two “N”s and not one.
The girl does have a good point.
bummer, The sun came out down here in mid MO. and the groundhog saw his shadow. Six more weeks. Jeanie, if you stand on a street corner in that outfit you will get a ticket for being a traffic hazzard.
Could be worse. The groundhog could have seen Bill Murray. That would mean six weeks of winter over and over and over in a never ending cycle.
Jeanie also appears to be overlooking the fact that she’s not only attractive, she’s also wearing the exact same distinctive pink and red outfit, complete with hat, that she was probably wearing last time and that this may be the second time she’s been in that day, presuming her time traveling spell uses a constant ratio. I can see Jeanie thinking, “take me back to Sartorelli’s X years in the past” without sweating the details because since when does she ever consider the possible implications of her actions? Or even “take me back to my high school hangout” which is what I hope may be happening because teen horndog Jean hitting on his future Jeanie self would be hilarious and revealing.
I suspect this may even be the origin of Jean’s “I Dream of Jeannie” fixation.
> teen horndog Jean hitting on his future Jeanie self would be hilarious and revealing.
I definitely hope we get to see this, too. 🙂
If that the case then Jean would have to be turned into a Genie so that they could have this meeting with himself and herself and so Jean could get that fixation with doing it with, I dream of Jeannie series of Barbara Eden. Because, this Jeanie is the spit ten image of the other TV series Barbara Eden, because, that what Jean was turned into after he picked up the Genie Bottle, because, he had that fixation with Barbara Eden as the Genie of the bottle and that what he became.
If that the case, then they have to meet, because, it would disrupt the current time line that we are in. But, you might say, the current time line disrupted the time line and sent it into a new reality that we are in right now and they may not be any Jean picking up the bottle and no Jeanie Bottle series.
Well, so much for foolish writing and such things as this. In a science fiction stories like this, you can do crazy things like this and get away with it.
If boy Jean in the past hits on girl Jean from the future, wouldn’t girl jean remember it and know ahead of time it’s coming. And what would she do to herself. She doesn’t really think thinks through does she?
Also remember that it would probably by 5 or more years in the past since Jean would of hit on Jeanie. Our Jeanie of the future hasn’t yet been hit on by the boy Jean of the past as of yet and any memory of it would have been from the boy Jean hitting on some Blond Bombshell with really big tits. Up to this point, there isn’t any reason for her to think of boy Jean is going to be hitting on her and pretty soon too, until he show up and start hitting on her, then she will remember that she was the Blond Bombshell with really big tits that he was hitting on in the past.
OK, now what does Jeanie do?
That the 64 dollar question that need to be answered?
“I’ve only been here once before… well, as Jeanie.”
That means that she’s been there a Jean. Will they be running into her former, MALE self. Perhaps to warn him — deliberately or by accident — about an upcoming meeting with a certain bottle? Will Jean, horndog hat he is, make a play for Jeanie, and, if he does, will she go along with it?
I wonder.
this is exactly what I was thinking, and that is a good question. it sure will cause some crazy fun if it happens.
If she does have a chance meeting with him, it could go either way. It could be what set into motion for Jean to become Jeanie or it could go the other way and now Jeanie has to fix it or cease to exist, because, now we have a paradox of two thing that need to happen, but, they can’t both happen either. Jean has to turn into Jeanie to go back in time to warn himself that he self to not pick up the Genie Bottle. That what known as a paradox and can not happen.
If only Jeannie knew the word “buxom”, she could’ve stretched the alliteration further.
“I’m a buxom blonde bombshell babe” would certainly have rolled off the tongue better. 🙂
Plus, “buxom” has an X in it, so it sounds cool.
And if you ever need a synonym for “thicc” with a Z in it, keep “zaftig” in mind.
Actually she has “two” points, well rounded but very fine points.
If only Fearless Leader would add them!
Neil is not holding up his end of the genie/master deal, and Jeanie’s getting a bit tired of that. He’s Master to a fairly powerful genie, as bottle genies go, He hasn’t given her anything to do since the ham sandwich incident, and now he’s confined her to his bedroom (when she could give him a palace, if he he’d ask). Here, she’s granting him the closest thing to a wish he’s given her for months, and rather than showing enthusiasm and thanks, he’s nitpicking. She’s reduced to reminding him that he’s shacking up with a stunning babe, and hasn’t even made any moves on her. (Granted, he doesn’t much like Natalie going to the strip club. But still. How blind is he?)\
She even fixed the Mars rover for him.
Neil, you pudgy little nerd. Wake. Up. She’s more than proved her worth to him, and he’s spurned it. He needs to get busy and prove his worth to her. She’s right on the cusp of cutting herself loose.
@50sRefugee: While that is all true, perhaps Neil’s reluctance to pursue a sexual relationship has to do with his knowledge that the buxom blonde bombshell in front of him was a male friend of his. For all we know, he’s been thinking of nothing BUT bonking his formerly male friend all this time, and has been covering that desire with all the other behaviors we’ve seen from him.
Agreed… Neil definitely knows that Jeanie is female. Page 11 panel 4, Page 78 panels 5-6 and Page 80 panels 2-4. Yup, he knows.
It common knowledge that Jeanie a hot Blond with big tits and Jeanie know that too. The only question is, is Jeanie finally coming to terms with that what she is now and is finally accepting that she is a female and not a guy. Is she finally seeing herself as female instead of just knowing that she a female and there a different too. The first, Jeanie is starting to see herself as female Genie, but, the other one, she knows that she a female Genie, but, she still see herself as guy.
The way that Jeanie phased it, would indicate that she starting see herself as a female and not as a male.
@Larry and etc: Jeanie’s beginning to realize she’s a female bottle genie, not a male human being. She’s got powers, yes, including those of hot human babes–but those powers come with obligations and, I suspect, compulsions that do not apply to humans.
And that was the very comment that I was scrolling down here to make! Well played, sir!
Heh, what comment did you *intend* to reply to, here? It seems your comment ended up at the top level, instead.
Drat! The one about Jeannie having “two points”
But Neil, Greg died S I X Y E A R S A G O …
Jeanie seem to have start enjoy working the body to her advantage
She done that in the past, but, this is the first time that we have actually seen her do this in a relaxed mode as though it was normal for her to do this way and it was not pushed or forced on her to do it either and is coming across as though it is part of who she is now. This is a very settle change in how Jeanie chooses act now. It not much, but, it there.
I would like to see this story go one of two ways and preferably both ways if at all possible.
1. I would like to see a back story of how younger Neil and Jean meet and how they interact together before Jean became Jeanie. It would be an interesting and different kind of story line for Jeanie Bottle.
2. I would like to see Jean hit on Jeanie and Jeanie loses it and does something she should not have done, principle eliminate Jean, which eliminate the future Jeanie too. Which leave Neil in the past without a ride back to the future where he belongs. Remember the Pond Shop or the Antic Dealer where the was Genie Bottle was, because, there no Jean there and nobody to pick up that Genie Bottle, we see Neil holding it instead of Jean who not there. Neil is either turned into a Geniefied Natalie or another Jeanie look alike, but, it Neil inside instead of Jean in different time line, but, not the one we are in. Natalie or Jeanie has to pop back in time to make contact with her other self from another time line and straighten this mess out that the original Jeanie created with her outburst against Jean. After they get Jean back, the last thing we see in the Arc is them standing out side the Pond Shop or Antic Shop where both Neil and Jean are standing in the shop and Jean is holding the Genie Bottle and other Neil and the Geniefied Neil are standing outside the shop looking in at the other two and the Geniefied Neil crosses her arms and does the Genie Blink and transfer the magic back to Jean turning him into Jeanie again. The Genie copy of Neil disappear and is never seen again and other Neil back to the future like one year where he belongs.
I think this would be an interesting story.
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name
And they’re always glad you came
You want to be where you can see
Our troubles are all the same
You want to be where everybody knows your name
Does anyone else remember Teen Angel? I vaguely recall an episode with multiple time travel involving the sandwich that initially caused his death. For some reason this kinda reminds me of that 🙂
Great comic as always!
Oh, yes, the death burger. Everyone that died, because, he didn’t eat the death burger. Finally, he conceded to eat the death burger to save everybody else.
the grandfather paradox-If Jeanie warns himself to not open the bottle then he never becomes Jeanie. If he never becomes jeanie he cannot go back and warn himself to not open the bottle. So he opens the bottle and starts the cycle all over again. If he does not open the bottle and gives it to Belle she will open it and become the genie.