Jeanie Bottle 799
Jun18
on June 18, 2024
at 12:00 am
and modified on June 24, 2024. at 4:06 am
Chapter: Story 17: I Dream of Home Sweet Home
Well that was a foolish wish.
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Well that was a foolish wish.
Well, that is one way Jean can get out of being a genie.
… that’s true, if this worked with Ifta, it means Jean has a way out … which noone before mentioned, so I wonder if there would be some catch …
Wait a sec – Just because Ifta swapped bodies. doesn’t mean she didn’t retain her powers after that. And there’s no guarantee that Jean can do the same; it may well take a lot of time and practice, and Jeanie isn’t into anything that looks like work. After all, she can’t even change her own body to male, yet, for the same reason.
Genies law states Jean can’t turn back into a man, so he has to stay a woman.
The Genies have lied or been straight out wrong about lore relevant things several times.
Genie LAw says that Jean’s body can never become male again. But what about his soul? Could it be transferred to a new MALE body? If so, Jean and Lord Guano should swap bodies. As a former gay male, Lady Guano could make love to men. Meanwhile Jean would be in a male body, a magical male, body, and he’d be the future Hadji, the future “king” of the Genies. Win-win
Jeanie as ‘king’ of all genies?
That might be a ‘win’ for Jeanie, but it sounds like a loss for all the other poor genies. (shudder)
a LOOOOOOOOOOOT of Genie literature is about how people in general are fucking stupid. This seems like a “were it a snake it’d bite me” sort of oversight rather than a plot hole.
Yes, she just needs to find a master who will make that wish. Probably not that easy.
There’s always a catch. Look what happened to Ifta in Kiran’s body.
One chapter to go before number 800. Also, thanks for for another year anniversary for when I started reading I Dream of Jeanie Bottle.
How many years has it been, now?
Since June 12,2015 and still going strong.
As per the header on Jeanie Bottle 01, the first comic came online Feb 18, 2009, at 12:01 AM
Jeanie Bottle 1
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By CD Rudd on February 18, 2009 at 12:01 am and modified on October 13, 2022. at 6:10 pm
Chapter: Story 01: I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle
Characters: Jeanie, Neil
A whole Chapter to go…?
In one comic?! I’ll have to start using decimal places. Next comic, 799.0001
Another “genie” cartoon I read got to that point, and the guy said, “You’re sh—-ng me!” What a wish!
(Severus Snape voice): Mister Potter. Of all the exclamations of surprise one could make upon the accidentally summoning a Djinn, I would have to say “Well, bugger me with a Broomstick!” has to be the most unfortunate I’ve heard of.
Harry would never say something like that, but Ron would.
Early in the days of the Harry Potter craze, a toy company manufactured quiddich brooms that kids could ride. The things vibrated to give a sense of realism. Unfortunately, that made them a little TOO real for some of the older female riders, They were very quicly taken off the market.
What a shame. That would have made a great gag gift for many (female) adults.
I would’ve expected the Jafar result to that kind of wish.
Reading the short story from last week, I think a genie can interpret wishes however they want. We’ve seen this before when Jeannie turned the Greek Captain into a woman after he wished for her to bear his children, and how she turned Alex into a ‘girl friend’.
If you do have wishes, you should be specific one what it is you want. Use the movie “Bedazzled” as an example. Wishing to be rich and powerful, you could end up as a drug lord. I suppose you could just wish for a device or knowledge of how to build all components of a device for instant sex changes. Kind of surprising nobody wished for that one yet.
Go see Lahab. Is she finally doing something that makes sense.
I know I was shot down over this recently, but I am convinced Jeanie’s hair is longer. I started jumping around using the “random” button and even as recently as comic #700 where she turned the Asian guy into the ‘girl-friend’, her pony tail didn’t go past her shoulders. Now look at it today, it is down to her should blades. I think it looks good this way.
I agree with you.
I don’t think that guy’s very smart.
In other words, he’ll be fine as a genie, phenomenal comic powers, itty-bitty brains.
If the “three wishes per customer” concept is followed, wouldn’t Kiran still be due two more wishes? I’m not saying that this comic’s interpretation of the wishes rule is three per customer, but if that is in play, Ifta and Kiran have unfinished business. (I need to re-read the Ifta/Kiran side-story again to refresh my mind on what happened to Ifta.)
Ifta in Kiran’s body was killed by an angry Bedouin after she sealed Kiran in Ifta’s body in the totem and buried it to hide the bottle
Therefore IMHO no additional wishes coming.
Now Lahab has 2 idiot genies to deal with.
Three… you forgot Guano.
Who says that that was Kiran’s first wish? Maybe he had already used up two wishes.
If you read the story, you would have the answer.
Yeah, but you really shouldn’t have to turn to outside reference materials to understand what’s happening in a comic. Any more than you should have to bone up on forensic techniques to follow a murder mystery. There should be sufficient information supplied in the story itself.
We’ll have to agree to disagree. CD chose this method to reveal Ifta’s backstory as a means to provide a lot of information quickly. Even eliminating the pharos’s tomb filler, it might have taken 4 or 5 additional pages.
That’s just my opinion on the matter, he didn’t really explain his entire thought process.
I work in mysterious ways….
Look at Ifra’s clothes. Unless the genie retained her magic powers in Kiran’s body, she’s been dead for the last 2500 years.
125 years—Kiran opened the bottle in 1898, and Ifta-in-his-body was shot the following year.
I’ve seen media that genie wishes need to be very specific with zero room for interpretation, as genies take them very literally. Wish for a million bucks? Enjoy trying to house one million male deer. Wish for them to make you a sandwich? They’ll ask what toppings you want to be dressed with.
This wish, though, seems to be half literal-minded genie, half monkey paw shenanigans.
Every once in a while it screws the genie over though; Fairly OddParents did that to Norm once, and it was pretty funny.
Ifta would make a good friend for Alex. They are both super cute.
I just noticed that the real Ifta is wearing blue mascara but Kiran/Ifta is not.
Kiran will have to make a quick visit to a makep artist for some tutoring.
So what happened to her stolen body?
“He” was shot by Ishaq shortly after 1898.
How do you know you’re really stupid? When Jeannie tells you to keep your mouth shut.
ROTFL !
Believe it or not, Jeanie is acting as a sensible adult in this situation. She realizes that Ifta is not the well-respected genie Lahab was expecting and is bringing her up the chain. Advising her to keep quiet might prevent an awkward situation with any genies that might have known Ifta from before.
Can’t hide Ifta’s appearance, though, so that plan is likely to crash and burn.
“Jeanie is acting as a sensible adult in this situation.”
Oh-oh. Next up are the plagues of frogs and locusts.
Bikini Jean for the first day of summer.
As Kiran is anither guy in a female genie body, does that make him a prime candidate for Guano’s harem?
Sounds like it.
It is likely that Lehab’s solution will be for Kiran to fake being Ifta until they can bring her up to speed as a genie—“fake it till you make it”.
Hey, don’t knock it; it works for most politicians.
Maybe someone should tell her, that the original djinn turned human died of old age ages ago. And she might as well just accept that she is Ifta now
That would be to simple of a solution for this comic. Remember, Jeanie is in charge. What could go wrong.
Um, Jeanny has a flesh-colored sleeve in the last panel.
Thank you for the heads up. I have corrected that issue.
Help is good.