Jeanie Bottle 726
Mar07
on March 7, 2023
at 12:00 am
and modified on March 8, 2023. at 1:06 am
Chapter: Story 16: I Dream of Nostalgia
What is Jeanie up to, here…?
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What is Jeanie up to, here…?
Yup Jean forgot he had magic for several hours, but hard work pays off with an XBOX.
Jeanie es “1 buena esposa” arreglando su nuevo hogar y dándole la sorpresa a “su esposo”.
Probablemente los vecinos tengan curiosidad por la joven pareja
Wow, Neil! Just automatically assume that your friend used magic to fix the room up. You can;t believe that she did it with her own two hands, huh? Neil totally deserves to be Nathilie’d for that!
I mean, wouldn’t you? Why would Jean do anything if she had magic that could do it? I understand some people might do it the hard way for the sake of experience/keeping busy… but that’s not really Jean.
Exactly. It’s the only logical conclusion Neil could come to, given the fact that Jeanie seems to have intentionally hidden her paint-stained work clothes from him.
That, plus the telltale odor of drying paint seems to be absent.
To be fair, Jean has exhibited a lazy streak.
I think Jean went to all that work because she didn’t know what choices to make. And the hardest part of redoing a room is making decisions. It’s a very organic process. There’s no magic AI to help you.
I think that if Jeanie was fishing for a compliment, she should have kept the work clothes so that Neil would know that she did it without magic.
I figured Neil would do something, unintentionally, to annoy Jeannie. No good deed goes unpunished.
> No good deed goes unpunished.
I don’t think that’s fair. Jeanie *hid* the evidence that she’d done this as manual labor. Neil had no way to come to any other conclusion than “Jeanie magically renovated the house.”
Oh, I don’t blame Neil. I’m just smiling at the way intentions always get frustrated.
“No good deed goes unpunished” is kind of an alternate expression of Murphy’s law.
Arrgg
We have to wait until next week to find out what the poof did to Neil
Well, really, she just slapped a coat of paint over the problems with the walls (cracks as well as stains/dirt)… and who knows *what* problems the cracks were symptoms of.
And while we didn’t see it “not” done normally, there really shouldn’t have been time to install the shelf, hang the TV, add a freaking outlet(!!!) in the wall, hang artwork, bring in furniture, and replace (or at least re-paint) the entire *floor* before Neil got home. In the previous strip, it took her 2+ hours to paint part of that back wall!
And it most likely has a slew of problems. An old house, built in probably the 50’s/early 60″s (or the 80’s, going by the style), close to the seashore, in Florida, and suffered through several bad hurricanes, it’ll need a LOT of work. Damp and mold will be an issue. Maybe hidden murder victims in the basement, lawn, or walls. Electrical, plumbing, foundation problems, who knows?
> And while we didn’t see it “not” done normally
I think we did see it get done non-magically, but you have to read between the lines a bit. Notice that the room is totally barren while Jeanie is painting it in last week’s page, but in the final panel last week, and the first panel this week, there’s now a standing lamp next to her.
I think that lamp is intended to tell the reader that she hadn’t merely finished painting when she said “living room done”, but had in fact just finished furnishing.
I like the attention to detail… there’s a surge protector under the shelf.
Emplacing that sofa would have taken substantial effort for a woman of Jeanie’s build to do entirely solo by hand. Sofas like that weigh about two hundred pounds and it has no wheels underneath it.
I’ve moved big couches like that relatively easily by putting those slippery plastic discs under each foot, causing it to be a lot easier to slide the couch around.
We saw plenty of evidence that Jean did a lot of work by hand, but there’s no reason Jean couldn’t have boosted the results using magic. Magically repairing a wall by running a paint roller over it is something easily depicted in video but pretty much impossible to do in a comic, but Jean boosting the job with magic is implied by the way the trim changes color under the new paint.
I’m betting skipping the prep is simply conservation of detail. The joke is Jean went to a lot of effort to paint the room only to get upset because Neil assumes she didn’t. The audience doesn’t need an entire This Old House style episode on proper painting technique to sell the gag. And if skipping the prep does cause the paint job to fail that’s just fodder for another joke down the line.
As for two hours to paint half a wall maybe she stopped for lunch? Or switched from painting the field to painting the trim at somewhere along the way? Again the trim is changing color even though we only see Jean painting the wall.
Also there are four corners in that room and only one corner is visible in each panel so who can say the corner in the first panel is corner #1 and the corner in the later panel is corner #3 or even #4?
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Is she or isn’t she attempting to conserve magic?
There’s no reason that she needs to conserve magic now. She’s more powerful than most of the existing Djinn put together after taking all of the Blue Djinn’s magic reserves when they swapped bodies. Even with constantly using magic, it’ll be a VERY long time before she starts running anywhere close to low.
She also doesn’t know this, which could be an explanation as to why she’s trying to conserve and be more frugal with the magic usage, but again, she doesn’t actually need to do anything.
an even better punchline than anticipated!
I think Jeanie is just using magic to finish the rest of the house.
Did the entire living room by hand, forgot could use magic, then suddenly realizes it all could be one with magic with a snap of a finger.
And, optionally, turning Neil into a girl as punishment for that.
Aaaand Neil won himself another trip to the strip club.
I wish him, Ataru Moroboshi and Ranma Saotome could meet one day and talk about their girlfriends.
Wish granted,
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ARRRGGG!! Now my brain hurts.
It’s a reasonable assumption that magic was used if you have magic available. Jean was probably looking for more complements.
Fitting punishment is Natalie in a fighting game in the x-box. Actually, I wouldn’t mind seeing Nat in a bunch of different games.
Reminds me of the scene where a sleep-addled Jeanie is trying to get into Neil’s pants, and transforms into various fantasy women to entice him. Seeing Natalie as various fantasy women would certainly be fun. 🙂
I think she’s trying to impress him, the question is why? The look on her face when he say’s magic suggests she was angling for a complement after all that hard work.
Of cause with Neil being an engineer, the way to impress him would be to set up variety of paint delivery systems. One in each of the rooms and then make a chart showing their performance, speed, coverage, number of coats needed, average labour saving in mannhours, did it destroy the room etc. Then a synopsis which is the best to be optimised for full house decorating.
Only then, he’d be a little disappointed he wasn’t there to see the test or conduct the required safety review.
You are absolutely correct. Neil the Engineer would want to see those test results.
She’s getting more and more feminine I think she’s starting to like him as potential boyfriend material.
Jeanie snaps her fingers…will Neil get the bills?
hmmm seems to be a little different artwork, perhaps CD is trying a new style.
finally unlike Daring Stevens or Tony Nelson we got some one who doesn’t mind if they use magic. even if it wasn’t case here.
Gotta admit she did a good job on the living room.
Even though JEAN was originally a male he makes a damn sexy woman.
Was she subconsciously including herself in that ” Looks good, huh?”
Actually, since Neil mentioned it, I’m gonna take a guess that Jean used magic to undo the work done to Neil’s room
Given what we have seen recently, does this mean some store is missing an X-box?
dummy jean
I wonder if Jeannie’s magic fades? So, things she manually improved remain in their shape, while things she fixed with magic will snap back to their ugly state whenever she stops concentrating on keeping them nice?
If that were true then Red and Agent Anderson would have reverted a long time ago.
Jean, your blonde is showing…