Jeanie Bottle 815
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on October 15, 2024
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Chapter: Story 17: I Dream of Home Sweet Home
This Neil-clone is more of a horndog for Araceli than Rodge is for Natalie!
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This Neil-clone is more of a horndog for Araceli than Rodge is for Natalie!
Neil/Natalie is the only one with any sense but if they go who watches Liam and Rodge?
I can’t see why Natalie hasn’t at least tried the radio yet.
And in Panel 3, I’m not sure that taking Not-Neil along would be much of an improvement. He’s as dumb as a post.
They took that apart first, I’m guessing.
Radio is not working without electricity. No motor, no electricity.
They’ve now developed these amazing things called “batteries” that magically manage to store electricity to start engines and operate radios.
Witchcraft!
There must be electricity, or the boys’ game console would not be working.
She’s right, this is the epitome of all stupid ideas. Natalie should quietly take the spark plug out of the dinghy outboard, and then watch them try to start it.
That last line could mean several things
Why did Caley take off her shirt? And where did she get a bra? A bra that fits?
I think that’s a bikini top. Maybe Araceli or Natalie had packed a spare swimsuit?
Come to think of it, Natalie doesn’t seem to need hers any more. So maybe Caley borrowed it.
Yeah, I can see Natalie insisting that Caley have proper boob support and coverage.
Mostly coverage. Natalie’s better developed.
In fact, if you look back at comic #785 (https://jeaniebottle.com/?comic=jeanie-bottle-785) you can see that it IS Natalie’s bikini top.
Oh yeah! Good eye.
So you accept the idea of people magically changing ages and genders but draw the line at magically generated clothing? Though I admit Caley scrounging Natalie’s bikini top is a clever touch.
Well everyone was wearing the clothes they went to bed in when they woke up, I assumed they were magically altered to not be completely destroyed by the size change, but no one was wearing anything new. I don’t care if it was magically generated or not, I just want magic systems in fiction to be internally consistent lol
This is pretty funny. Natalie is so annoyed at Fake-Neil. 🙂
Aside from the two “gremlin boys” that dismantled the boat engine, Fake-Neil isn’t really doing any good by anyone except playing some fantasy romance with Araceli while she’s unconscious and aged.
The two flash-matured kids going off to find any help for their situation might be the only option they got right now, bad idea or not. Unless they got a radio of sorts.
I’m not entirely convinced she’s unconscious. In any case, Fake-Neil is french kissing her because she wants him to.
The boys didn’t dismantle the engine – they don’t have the tools, and were too busy playing their video game.
It seems obvious all this is a wish-fulfillment dream caused by Araceli being influenced by some magical object below them on the ocean floor.
Thus the appearance of “Neil” when he’s already there in the form of Natalie confirms this.
She is dreaming her ideal situation (not sure about the age reversal- maybe to remove anyone who would need her supervision or who might be competition).
Oh, gawd. The boat’s name is the Lucky Minnow.
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port,
Aboard this tiny ship.
But there were only six people… no wonder Fake-Neil appeared, that makes seven. So: which one gets to be Gilligan?
The boat’s name was established back in JB-770 (https://jeaniebottle.com/?comic=jeanie-bottle-770).
And Fake-Neil is obviously the Gilligan.
Should have made it the “New Town Minnow”. Yeah, I missed that detail.
I dunno, right now, Fake Neil is acting more like Thurston Howell.
Unfortunately, none of the guys is “Davey”
“Of all the Dinghies that sail the sea,
Davie’s is the only one for me!”
Yeah, before the appearance of fake Neil, I hoped they would reach the full seven stranded castaways by encountering Harold, the son of Haji who was played by Bob Denver. I thought maybe Araceli had fallen victim to something meant to keep Harold stuck on the island to stop him from bugging his dad.
“There, there.” Where? Where?
“There wolf. There castle.”
— Marty Feldman
It occurs to me that Caley’s “there, there” response is very much like Sheldon Cooper awkwardly trying to calm an emotionally upset Penny Barrington on The Big Bang Theory because she stuck her car keys in the door lock, hasn’t had sex in six months, and swallowed a fly.
Back at page 97 Araceli watched her TV and thought the Gilligan cast were trapped inside a box. Latter on we caught her reading a boddice ripper romance novel. Her subconscious could be generating her own Fantacy Island.
Page 532. It’s titled “Dangerous,” but CD must have an extensive collection of those books because I can’t find that cover anywhere. Who knew?
I don’t recognize the cover but I think the guy pictured is Fabio Lanzoni. Who was on about 70% of the covers, anyway.
Fun Fact: Fabio was an electrical engineering student in Italy, and was modeling to make a living while in school. He eventually made tons more money modeling than the EE would have paid, so he dropped out of school. Mark & Brian, a pair of morning zoo radio personalities in the late 1980s through the 2010s on 95.5 KLOS in Los Angeles, interviewed Fabio at one point, and that is the story Fabio told.
When you run into something dangerous on the island, be sure to tell it that you are over five feet tall.
And there’s two of us, so we are not violating the first rule of horror movies.
Just the second: “Split up the group and wander around in dangerous areas.”
Actually, there ARE some animals who would consider it difference. I heart that hyenas won’t attack anything bigger than themselves, for example.
I think I’ll watch from the vehicle while you go out on the savanna with some hyenas to test that theory.
“Sounds like a good plan, Marlin.” –Jim
In panel three, “Are you DAFT, woman.” Daft-fake Neal has to be out of a romace novel. Maybe the kids will run into Robin Hood
He’s definitely based on Araceli’s fantasy.
Fake-Neil wouldn’t probably be of nay help anyway.