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.
back in #681 Natalie the genie didn’t recognize Neil as being her other self so she may not remember being male. This is the only reason I can think of for her letting Jean paw her assets. Jean, your final wish should be “Please don’t hurt me.” Yep, looks like another time travel trip.
When Jeanie granted Neil’s third wish she was about to be sent away but she and Neil argued for her to stay and guano said yes.
Has Natalie granted Jeans third wish yet? If so, did she choose to stay and is regretting that decision?
Or is the upcoming wish for Jean to sleep with Jeanie? If so there will be a green poof from Natalie granting the wish, followed by a pink poof where Jeanie goes back in time and sleeps with the younger Jean to get the timeline back on track.
Jean would be wishing to sleep with himself. Jeanie could alter the wish and poof the male Jean back in time in his female form from that night. Normally wishes can’t affect free will and force the now female Jean to sleep with himself. Since he technically wished for this that might not apply. After it’s over this would reset the timeline and the other Jean would be erased.
“Normally wishes can’t affect free will”
I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that a wish could not affect a mortal’s free will, nothing was said about a genie’s free will.
After all Jean is sleeping with genie Natalie.
Jean’s not that bright and conceited enough to believe no woman could resist him. He may think Natalie the genie actually wants him even though she used to be male. In the original timeline Lord Guano threatened Jean with imprisonment for 100 years in her bottle unless she kept her master happy. Natalie may have had something similar happen.
@Marvin, If you go check, Guano threaten to imprison Jeanie 100 year if she didn’t grant Neil the third wish and complete the Mandatory three wish for her Master. Then after those three wishes it voluntary for a genie to stay with there Master if he or she want to. Guano telling Jeanie that she need to keep her master happy was kind of an after thought and wasn’t part of the original threat of imprisoning her for 100 years or so.
After everything is fixed, will Neil be angry enough to lecture Jeanie on how she screwed up, and forbid her from time travel or gender changes? And to enforce the point, cork Jeanie in her bottle for a long time?
What Neil should do and what Neil will do, are two different things here. As laid back Neil is, I don’t see him doing that and Jeanie will more or less get away with it too.
Even if Neil did do that, I don’t see Jeanie honoring what Neil has to say anyway. So the maximum that you will see here is Neil making a lot of noise and generating a lot of fluff, but, with no real substance to it and everything go back to what it use to be.
The exact quote was “Very well, you may serve this master for the remainder of his days.” Guano didn’t say anything about keeping him happy although it is kind of understood that that is a bottle genie’s nature. Neil was never very assertive and might be a borderline submissive. Giving in to Jean’s advances may be a combination of the two. Still, it’s obvious from her expression in panel 2 that she is uncomfortable with the arrangement.
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Has anyone noticed Natalie’s costume? In the IDoJ TV show, Jeannie had an evil sister (confusingly also called ‘Jeannie’) who was a brunette, and whose costume was in shades of green, rather than pink? (Jeannie’s sister)
Evidently this timeline’s Neil was thinking of that Jeannie, when he opened the bottle!
I’m not sure how to add a link properly on this thing, but I saved a panel from a while back for just such an occasion. https://i.imgur.com/0ediQEJ.jpg?1
That was when the Blue Djinn had control over Jeanie body and he or she was trying to contact his faction of the genie’s that followed him instead of Haji.
Natalie didn’t recognize Neil. Did she repress her memories, as a defense mechanism due to her current situation? But still is trying to learn to be an engineer? A sad situation.
Someone mentioned in another comment that Neil may have been behind Jeanie from genie-Natalie’s perspective, when Neil and Jeanie arrived. That might explain why she didn’t recognize herself.
We don’t know enough about genie-Neil’s story to make an assumption as to when the transformation took place. It’s unlikely to have taken place just after prom and it’s more likely that it occurred after they both arrived in Cocoa Beach, in which case genie-Neil would have been an adult and should recognize himself. The textbooks strongly indicate the latter scenario. And seriously, can you imagine Jean not using that third wish in nearly 10 years of possession?
Whatever Jeanie told Jean in that hotel room was definitely too much information, and Jean used it to get what he considers to be a better future for himself. In order to get the timeline unknotted, Jean is going to have to come out of that hotel room remembering only what Jeanie remembers about that night. Which wasn’t much (but she might be able to use magic to remember more?). However, it does look like Jeanie will have to stop thinking only of herself, and sacrifice her dignity.
A lot of people’s self-image is different from reality, and there can be quite a change from late teens to mid-twenties. I’ve always had difficulty seeing my image in photos. On top of that, G.Neal had no way of knowing about the alternate timeline, no way to know there were time travel shenanigans, and probably no way of knowing what his male adult self would look like. She has no idea who these two people are, or why one of them has her real name.
Jean, however, definitely recognizes Jeanie. Prepare for some panicked time travel by Jeanie, leaving Neal stuck once again. (One of these days, Neal is going to snap.)
The only way to un-knot the timeline at this point is for Jean to poof back to the moment before she poofed back in time originally to get a hamburger. Then she explains to her past self everything that happened and to not do it, thus negating all of these timelines.
This should result in this timeline, and thus time-traveling Jean and Neil, to be erased from existence and either taking those altered timelines with them or locking them into their own timestreams that can no longer be accessed or interfered with (thus allowing Fat-Jean and Stripper Nat, or Genie Nat and Jerk Jean to continue existing).
This timeline has two significant differences to the original:
1) Teen Jean didn’t get to shag anyone on prom night, even though he might have later boasted about doing so, and
2) Neil got to spend some quality time with Zoey.
So, combining those and extrapolating, it seems likely that, instead of Neil and Jean looking for a present for his girlfriend Belle, Jean and Neil were out looking for a present, probably for Neil’s girlfriend, presumably Zoey.
And so this time, it was Neil that popped the top on the bottle, and presto, tits on a Ritz.
Therefore, for the last year-and-a-half, or so, Neil has been living as a woman, evidently controlled by adult Jean as her master, and essentially functioning as a magical sex slave. (Judging from her reluctant agreement in Panel 2.)
It’s also clear that, in Panel 4, adult Jean may not know who Jeannie is, but he immediately pegs her for a genie. (Probably the pink poof gave her away.)
Excellent theory. The one flaw might be that an egotistical Jean would certainly use all three wishes because he would assume he knows the deal and not bother asking for a manual like Neil did. If he doesn’t know three is the limit, he’s probably going to use them all. That would trigger the arrival of Guano to take his new young genie off to find a new master and “Natalie ” is not going to beg to remain as jean’s sex slave.
And I agree that Jean would key on the pink poof, but Jeanie resembling Barbara Eden would be an even stronger trigger. Remember, he said “I would so do her.”
Very awkward indeed. This timeline’s Jean is a horrible jerk, to put it very, very mildly. I see a possible Genie fight happening, if Jean the jerk orders Natalie Genie to deal with Genie Jean.
Perhaps Jean the jerk will be poofed into a a non magical version twin of girl Jean. There would be two identical blonde girl Jeans in pink harem costumes, one magical, the other not magical. To confuse things more, Genie Jean then claims to be the real Jean the jerk! There would be two twin Jean’s claiming to be the real Jean the jerk, arguing face to face with each other, and no one can tell which Jean is which Jean. A pair of identical female Jeans arguing with themselves, or is it themself, what a hoot!
If the Jeans are both fundamentally Jean, making both masters, can Genie Jean command genie Natalie too? Which Jean, is which Jean, which is the master of Natalie Genie, one, or both? When genie Natalie figures out that the other Neal is his/her non magical male version from another timeline it should be interesting. Genie Natalie is a lot smarter than Jean the jerk, so Natalie, and Neal might figure out a way to fix things.
Or to confuse things more genie Jean, or genie Natalie could turn Neal into a non magical twin of genie Natalie! Who can command the correct genie Natalie? Genie Natalie’s likely memorized the Genie instruction manual, and figured it out, allowing her to possibly escape her situation with Jean the Jerk.
Encountering her Jean the jerk, version of herself, genie Jean would have to face what a terrible person she is down deep. Having been a woman for so long has caused her to think more like a woman than a man. Genie Jean would be horrified at the realization that her male side is a really bad person! So much so that she rejects, and erases the remaining male side of her personality, becoming mentally, and psychologically a true woman!
back in #681 Natalie the genie didn’t recognize Neil as being her other self so she may not remember being male. This is the only reason I can think of for her letting Jean paw her assets. Jean, your final wish should be “Please don’t hurt me.” Yep, looks like another time travel trip.
Perhaps Natalie’s reaction is along the same line of anyone else would have meeting their doppelganger.
When Jeanie granted Neil’s third wish she was about to be sent away but she and Neil argued for her to stay and guano said yes.
Has Natalie granted Jeans third wish yet? If so, did she choose to stay and is regretting that decision?
Or is the upcoming wish for Jean to sleep with Jeanie? If so there will be a green poof from Natalie granting the wish, followed by a pink poof where Jeanie goes back in time and sleeps with the younger Jean to get the timeline back on track.
Jean would be wishing to sleep with himself. Jeanie could alter the wish and poof the male Jean back in time in his female form from that night. Normally wishes can’t affect free will and force the now female Jean to sleep with himself. Since he technically wished for this that might not apply. After it’s over this would reset the timeline and the other Jean would be erased.
“Normally wishes can’t affect free will”
I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that a wish could not affect a mortal’s free will, nothing was said about a genie’s free will.
After all Jean is sleeping with genie Natalie.
Jean’s not that bright and conceited enough to believe no woman could resist him. He may think Natalie the genie actually wants him even though she used to be male. In the original timeline Lord Guano threatened Jean with imprisonment for 100 years in her bottle unless she kept her master happy. Natalie may have had something similar happen.
@Marvin, If you go check, Guano threaten to imprison Jeanie 100 year if she didn’t grant Neil the third wish and complete the Mandatory three wish for her Master. Then after those three wishes it voluntary for a genie to stay with there Master if he or she want to. Guano telling Jeanie that she need to keep her master happy was kind of an after thought and wasn’t part of the original threat of imprisoning her for 100 years or so.
After everything is fixed, will Neil be angry enough to lecture Jeanie on how she screwed up, and forbid her from time travel or gender changes? And to enforce the point, cork Jeanie in her bottle for a long time?
What Neil should do and what Neil will do, are two different things here. As laid back Neil is, I don’t see him doing that and Jeanie will more or less get away with it too.
Even if Neil did do that, I don’t see Jeanie honoring what Neil has to say anyway. So the maximum that you will see here is Neil making a lot of noise and generating a lot of fluff, but, with no real substance to it and everything go back to what it use to be.
The exact quote was “Very well, you may serve this master for the remainder of his days.” Guano didn’t say anything about keeping him happy although it is kind of understood that that is a bottle genie’s nature. Neil was never very assertive and might be a borderline submissive. Giving in to Jean’s advances may be a combination of the two. Still, it’s obvious from her expression in panel 2 that she is uncomfortable with the arrangement.
Man, how can Neil be friends with him, especially since he is touching her chest.
They are bosom buddies? (Badumtss)
If Jean wants to touch breasts so much, then he should get his own.
He has his own, they are attached to Jeanie
The strip was modded before we saw it?!
Yeah, that’s a thing that happens with this comic plugin that we use. It’ll state the release date as the time that the page goes live, even if I use the “Scheduled delivery” feature that makes it go live several hours or days after I post it. But if I make any changes to a scheduled page before it goes live, it’ll report that as the “modified” date.
Has anyone noticed Natalie’s costume? In the IDoJ TV show, Jeannie had an evil sister (confusingly also called ‘Jeannie’) who was a brunette, and whose costume was in shades of green, rather than pink? (Jeannie’s sister)
Evidently this timeline’s Neil was thinking of that Jeannie, when he opened the bottle!
Hey, that’s a good point! Brunette genie with green clothes totally does match Evil Jeannie.
Maybe Neil secretly has a thing for badgirls?
Another pic: https://i0.wp.com/jacksonupperco.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-11-11-at-11.50.48-AM.png?ssl=1
Interesting. They both have ponytails coming up out of their fezes. A hair feature that our own Jeanie does not have.
I’m not sure how to add a link properly on this thing, but I saved a panel from a while back for just such an occasion.
https://i.imgur.com/0ediQEJ.jpg?1
That was when the Blue Djinn had control over Jeanie body and he or she was trying to contact his faction of the genie’s that followed him instead of Haji.
Natalie didn’t recognize Neil. Did she repress her memories, as a defense mechanism due to her current situation? But still is trying to learn to be an engineer? A sad situation.
Someone mentioned in another comment that Neil may have been behind Jeanie from genie-Natalie’s perspective, when Neil and Jeanie arrived. That might explain why she didn’t recognize herself.
As I mentioned above, perhaps Natalie’s reaction is along the same line of anyone else would have meeting their doppelganger.
Agree with Mike above. If you see someone who looks just like you, you aren’t gonna think “You’re me!” You’re gonna think “who the H*** are YOU?!?”
Last time this Natalie was male she was a teenager, while this Neil is a full grown adult
Not hard to imagine her not immediately recognizing him, especially since she has no reason to suspect that time travel is involved
We don’t know enough about genie-Neil’s story to make an assumption as to when the transformation took place. It’s unlikely to have taken place just after prom and it’s more likely that it occurred after they both arrived in Cocoa Beach, in which case genie-Neil would have been an adult and should recognize himself. The textbooks strongly indicate the latter scenario. And seriously, can you imagine Jean not using that third wish in nearly 10 years of possession?
Whatever Jeanie told Jean in that hotel room was definitely too much information, and Jean used it to get what he considers to be a better future for himself. In order to get the timeline unknotted, Jean is going to have to come out of that hotel room remembering only what Jeanie remembers about that night. Which wasn’t much (but she might be able to use magic to remember more?). However, it does look like Jeanie will have to stop thinking only of herself, and sacrifice her dignity.
A lot of people’s self-image is different from reality, and there can be quite a change from late teens to mid-twenties. I’ve always had difficulty seeing my image in photos. On top of that, G.Neal had no way of knowing about the alternate timeline, no way to know there were time travel shenanigans, and probably no way of knowing what his male adult self would look like. She has no idea who these two people are, or why one of them has her real name.
Jean, however, definitely recognizes Jeanie. Prepare for some panicked time travel by Jeanie, leaving Neal stuck once again. (One of these days, Neal is going to snap.)
I’m still not 100% convinced that Jeanie was actually stupid enough to tell teen-Jean about the future, but you certainly make a strong case.
The only way to un-knot the timeline at this point is for Jean to poof back to the moment before she poofed back in time originally to get a hamburger. Then she explains to her past self everything that happened and to not do it, thus negating all of these timelines.
This should result in this timeline, and thus time-traveling Jean and Neil, to be erased from existence and either taking those altered timelines with them or locking them into their own timestreams that can no longer be accessed or interfered with (thus allowing Fat-Jean and Stripper Nat, or Genie Nat and Jerk Jean to continue existing).
I’d say this is exactly as I predicted, but my comments on the previous pages show I predicted something else.
Also, I’ve never hated Jean so much as I do now.
So Tg jean so he could learn a listen or just for fun. But would Jean learn from that at all?
I think it’s fairly obvious what happened here.
This timeline has two significant differences to the original:
1) Teen Jean didn’t get to shag anyone on prom night, even though he might have later boasted about doing so, and
2) Neil got to spend some quality time with Zoey.
So, combining those and extrapolating, it seems likely that, instead of Neil and Jean looking for a present for his girlfriend Belle, Jean and Neil were out looking for a present, probably for Neil’s girlfriend, presumably Zoey.
And so this time, it was Neil that popped the top on the bottle, and presto, tits on a Ritz.
Therefore, for the last year-and-a-half, or so, Neil has been living as a woman, evidently controlled by adult Jean as her master, and essentially functioning as a magical sex slave. (Judging from her reluctant agreement in Panel 2.)
It’s also clear that, in Panel 4, adult Jean may not know who Jeannie is, but he immediately pegs her for a genie. (Probably the pink poof gave her away.)
Excellent theory. The one flaw might be that an egotistical Jean would certainly use all three wishes because he would assume he knows the deal and not bother asking for a manual like Neil did. If he doesn’t know three is the limit, he’s probably going to use them all. That would trigger the arrival of Guano to take his new young genie off to find a new master and “Natalie ” is not going to beg to remain as jean’s sex slave.
And I agree that Jean would key on the pink poof, but Jeanie resembling Barbara Eden would be an even stronger trigger. Remember, he said “I would so do her.”
Very awkward indeed. This timeline’s Jean is a horrible jerk, to put it very, very mildly. I see a possible Genie fight happening, if Jean the jerk orders Natalie Genie to deal with Genie Jean.
Perhaps Jean the jerk will be poofed into a a non magical version twin of girl Jean. There would be two identical blonde girl Jeans in pink harem costumes, one magical, the other not magical. To confuse things more, Genie Jean then claims to be the real Jean the jerk! There would be two twin Jean’s claiming to be the real Jean the jerk, arguing face to face with each other, and no one can tell which Jean is which Jean. A pair of identical female Jeans arguing with themselves, or is it themself, what a hoot!
If the Jeans are both fundamentally Jean, making both masters, can Genie Jean command genie Natalie too? Which Jean, is which Jean, which is the master of Natalie Genie, one, or both? When genie Natalie figures out that the other Neal is his/her non magical male version from another timeline it should be interesting. Genie Natalie is a lot smarter than Jean the jerk, so Natalie, and Neal might figure out a way to fix things.
Or to confuse things more genie Jean, or genie Natalie could turn Neal into a non magical twin of genie Natalie! Who can command the correct genie Natalie? Genie Natalie’s likely memorized the Genie instruction manual, and figured it out, allowing her to possibly escape her situation with Jean the Jerk.
Encountering her Jean the jerk, version of herself, genie Jean would have to face what a terrible person she is down deep. Having been a woman for so long has caused her to think more like a woman than a man. Genie Jean would be horrified at the realization that her male side is a really bad person! So much so that she rejects, and erases the remaining male side of her personality, becoming mentally, and psychologically a true woman!
I wonder if this Natalie went through all of Jeanie’s adventures.
I was afraid of that. <8(