Jeanie Bottle 812
Sep17
on September 17, 2024
at 12:00 am
and modified on September 16, 2024. at 10:12 pm
Chapter: Story 17: I Dream of Home Sweet Home
Well, after this page, I bet we’ll get a good idea of how many readers live in Miami, based on the comments.
So, 4 genies let loose in the modern and only 2 may have moder world knowledge this is going to be fun day for Jean. Happy Transformers Day 40 years strong.
More like one, Ifta’s knowledge is about a hundred years out of date at least.
I think he meant Shula. And I am betting that Shula followed either Ayla or Ifta in an attempt to keep them out of trouble.
Alya is pointing at something (Or someone) before taking off. I wonder what caught her eye.
Elvis.
I just had a thought: Alya could have been talking to another genie, pointing for emphasis. Getting “poofed!” without warning could account for her surprised expression.
@Greenhornet: To me it seems more like “Ooo, Shiny!”
Alya is young and naive, thus reacting as a child would. She may not have ever freely explored a large city before. Ifta (Kiran) meanwhile is 125 years out of date, and thus is reacting as we would if dropped into the year 2150 (Wow! The high tech future!).
Miami? That’s a place right Robert?
I thought Miami was in Ohio. What’s this about Florida?
Both towns are named for an indigenous tribe that had a history in both places.
Lovely perspective. Last strip too.
So did Jeanie poof them all into more modern-day outfits, or did that happen automatically when they left? And I guess this proves there’s nothing magically stopping Jeanie from leaving the Genie Realm if she wants to.
There probably was something stopping her before, but now that she’s the mate of the new head genie, she can kind of just do whatever she wants
I don’t think that’s it. Somebody (possibly Lahab but maybe a genie Lord) brought her bottle to the palace. As demonstrated during the Blue Djinn crisis, the Lords have the power to keep the genies in the palace (page 438), but that doesn’t mean they exercise that power 24/7. That having been said, after the initial shock of a makeover from hell, Lahab told her that the palace was now her home. I don’t think Jeanie actually thought about leaving until now.
I’m surprised poof is a genie word. I thought it was a mortal made up term
It’s onomatopoetic.
Yeah, it sounds like that, too.
I thought it was a “ging-goyng!” sound?!
I think Jeanie has lost track of what she’s doing. She has to get ‘Ifta’ to Lahab, p.d.q.
I guess we’ll all find out since Miami IS going to fall into the ocean in the next 10-20 years.
I thought that was Los Angeles. Robert, do you have your go bag ready?
Nah, it’s NOT gonna fall into the ocean.
The ocean IS RISING to submerge it. The highest land in all of Florida is, I think, <100 m above current sea level.
The highest point in Florida is 625 miles NW of Miami. Miami’s high rises are going to go down like dominos once the waves start tearing into their foundations. Florida is responding by pretending it’s not going to happen until it’s too late to do anything about it.
As a Florida Cracker, I have to ask: Do the genies have anything to do with all the rain we’ve been having?
There’s four of them in one spot. Oh Lord, it’s raining genies!
Jeanie did poof into a different outfit.
I’m impressed the Jeanie poofed them all into new outfits that are their old outfits updated to meet modern sensibilities.
Don’t be too impressed. She probably didn’t even have to think about it. Her magic kind of takes care of stuff like that on its own.
is the barbra eden header avail to look at mine nver loaded
Now did they rush off to enjoy the sights or is this somehow connected to our other storyline?
After she gets them all rounded up she will poof them to Coco Beach and find Araceli’s bottle. Rub the bottle and Aracelli will poof still in the coma.
What’s just as likely to happen is that rubbing the bottle will summon the imitation Neil.
Theme for this comic–What could go wrong.
Well, now this ark seems to become interesting! Hope there would be some incontrollable use of magic with transformations!
Speaking of outfits…phasers on stunned?
Bright shinny distractions everywhere. Good thing Jean didn’t “poof” them to Las Vegas.
Yeah, that would be interesting. But one question, where are all the normal people? Those streets are empty.
Silly! There are no normal people in Florida.
Well, where are all of the humans?
I hope Jeanie remembered to poof them some credit cards.
It’s unlikely any of them would know how to use one
Shula might. She’s pretty sharp.
Although, come to think of it, you’re right, she probably wouldn’t – what use would a genie have for credit cards? Anything she could possibly want to have, she could just poof up.
Shula likely knows enough about the modern world to know that poofing up banknotes is asking for trouble, and she may know that people don’t accept gold and silver any more. But given that genie magic is mostly subconscious, she may only need to think “you have already been paid”, and the magic will come up with something that the cashier will consider acceptable. If a bank is involved in any way, then it will probably have a phantom deposit on its records that will balance its books, just like how IDOJ Jeannie altered Tony’s bank account to have four million dollars in it in one episode.
Exactly. It seems ike it’s only inexperienced genies like Jeannie that tend to get things in obvious ways – like poofing in a pile of marked money from a FBI sting, rather than the more elegant method that she later came up with, of finding out winning lottery numbers ahead of time. It seems like she’s gradually developing some magical expertise. And none too soon.
I used that concept in a fanfiction titled Relations…. Jeanie simply exchanging dirty diapers for clean ones at a local laundry.
One wonders why (besides narrative convenience) Jeanie’s magic poofed that specific load of cash rather than say, taking it from the vault of a much closer bank. I am thinking that she subconsciously wanted to get those two guys in trouble for being jerks about their wishes, which is why she stole the stuff instead of fabricating it—we saw with the General Lee that she can create any nonliving, nonmagical item of reasonable size if she just knows enough about what it should be like.
That’s a slightly different scenario. She’d already vanished the General Lee and simply brought it back in factory condition.
Haven’t seen any posts from Miami yet. Where are you people?
Too busy playing golf, surfing, and trying not to melt in weather where the heat index has been over 100 for two months
Where is everyone? And wasn’t she getting Lahab?
I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
BTW this series is awesome. Thank you. Thank you for your other stuff too. I quite enjoyed it.
Nice to see you here. Give our regards to Ottawa!
Welcome WillowD. Glad to see another Canadian from Canada’s Capital who reads the comic.
also in the ottawa area….yay
Remember how Aracali acted when she first showed up. Hot dogs, anybody?
It’s going to be a case of how recently each of the other djinn had visited the “real world.”
Well, we know that Kiran/Ifta’s experience with the real world ended in 1898 just outside of Luxor on the Nile. Shula “had” been locked in her bottle for an undisclosed period of time and escaped just in time to meet Jeanie (whom she’s apparently adopted as a daughter… “Your Mumzie’s here now, to make it all better.”). Alya has probably never been to the mortal world at all.
Willow, welcome to the show. When I saw your picture I thought you had kidnaped Terri but now it looks more like a lizard. No offence Terri. What is that on your head? And does it talk?
how come there was no new page
Check the top of the page
I was wondering that, myself!
So, here’s a question. Why Miami? Why not Cocoa Beach, where she lives?
More shopping malls?