Jeanie Bottle 857
Jun17
on June 17, 2025
at 12:00 am
and modified on June 22, 2025. at 2:24 pm
Chapter: Story 18: I Dream of... Jeannie
Jeanie remains as stubborn as ever…
Jeanie remains as stubborn as ever…
So, Barbra Eden disappeared through time so I dream of Jeanie would never happened so Jean became Jasmine instead.
Seems that way. But how could that have happened??
And when? Neil saw Jeanie white, blonde, and in her red and pink harem outfit in “I Dream of Nostalgia.” No confusion, so it has to be after that. He also saw Jeanie white, blonde, but in modern clothes at the beginning of the last storyline. That story ends before they meet back up, but I can’t see the change having happened then or in the weeks between the two storylines without them seeing each other or Neil reacting to what he thought of as a strange appearance. The change has to have happened recently, possibly the day the last few strips took place, unless time is treated like how Doctor Who often does it. We’ll see.
Of course, we already briefly saw Jeanie & Neil back in time in “I Dream of Technicolor,” and I strongly suspect we will see their side of that story very soon.
BTW, Robert & CD, I initially misspelled something early on in this post. I described Jeanie as “white, blonde, and in her red and *punk* harem outfit.” Having a blonde Jeanie in a punkified Barbara Eden style harem outfit could be a good Patreon or site bonus image.
That’s a good plan for a patreon pinup!
Sounds like some unknown person (Ice cream girl??) has been changing the past. Which means Jeannie and Neil need to back and set things straight.
I have a feeling we are finally about to find out what Jeannie and Neil were doing outside Sid and Andy’s place back in the 60’s.
One question I hope is answered is just how many genies are able to travel to or alter the past? If most or all can do it, that creates quite the problem. Or are only some, like Jeanie now, powerful enough to do travel through time? Do genies and or other supernatural beings have Star Trek style Temporal Investigators and Time Agents that work to keep time stable?
Will the Past Future Machine occasionally shown in IDoJ be shown to exist in this world?
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjvVgTYu9RE
Given that most genies aren’t terribly bright, it’s possible that very few, if any, ever think of trying time travel. Jeannie, being a former human, was certainly familiar with the concept, yet it took her quite a while before she first tried it.
Yeah, she actually had the power to do time travel way back during her possession by Blue (when she sent those two beach-jocks back to Normany, 1944 after they hassled Anderson), though she didn’t even realize she’d done that (she just thought she’d sent them to “another beach”).
She didn’t use time travel on purpose until “I Dream of a Big Ball of Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey… Stuff”, which was probably several weeks later, if not months.
We know Jean and Neil go back to investigate but it’s possible they’re both the cause and the fix. It’s possible that “genies are forbidden from messing with the past” is just one more rule Jean doesn’t know because she wasn’t raised as a genie, but it’s also possible that the genies just don’t care about messing with the past because it doesn’t affect them too much. And as long as we’re on the subject of time travel maybe ice cream girl has come back from the future to either prevent or cause the timeline shift depending upon which alternate future she’s from. She may even be Jean and Guano’s future kid. Wouldn’t that just put the sand in Jean’s bra.
There are a lot of possible magical suspects here: Ice Cream girl, Araceli, Kazom, Shula, Haji, basically the whole herd of genies, and any other magic-making creature, such as witches, etc.
But almost all of them have no particular stake in changing the course of time. Sure, it could be an unintended side-effect of some random action, but that seems like an unlikely coincidence.
But there’s one person we haven’t seen or thought about for quite a while. One who has a very personal stake in this.
Rouyaa.
She’s free now, courtesy of a falling snow globe. She was trapped in a bottle, placed there by the Blue Djinn. Who had poofed her back into youth, again, before imprisoning her. Now, suppose, in the course of making her younger, he also inadvertantly restored her magical powers?
Now, hear me out: When the bottle broke, she didn’t crawl out of the wreckage, looking like a wandering Barbie doll. She poofed back into full size, just as though she had magic, again. Suppose she does, with all her attendant genie powers?
She remembered who the Blue Djinn was, so she’s not a total amnesiac. She spent years looking for Andy, so she had some memories of him, though she was confused as to just who he was. The only thing that really stopped her from finding him was that she was now mortal, and limited in how to search.
Now that limitation may have been removed. Andy may be dead, but Rouyaa can now travel back through time, to find him again.
And remember: She was upset about how Sid had written her into a TV series. So when she heads back to the 1960s, where would she go looking? The TV show! And what would she find there? A blonde actress who’s behaving like a genie! With Sid hanging around the set! She might easily decide to switch places with the actress, to try and find Andy through Sid…
Oh, this is going to be interesting!
That’s quite an intriguing idea.
I have to agree with Jean on that one.
time trip back to 1960. what could go wrong.
They could wind up hitching a ride from Ted Kennedy.
I like this one, and the background items are very interesting. There is a Wotch poster which has been seen before but is still cool, and I saw a War Mallet boxset. Not sure what the spaceship is from.
I think that’s a Pixie Ranger ship. That’s a comic connected to Sailor Sun that’s put on CD’s Patreon.
Yup, that’s Ranger Chrissie’s Pixie Patrol Ship, from the other weekly comic CD Rudd draws, Pixie Rangers. It’s hosted on CD’s patreon, but each page is made free to all visitors 4 weeks after release.
Maybe they should look for Larry Hagman.
After all, it worked with Richard Dean Anderson.
Strange… but maybe it wouldn’t be a good idea to try to understand what happened to Araceli during the cruise and why?
Has anyone else noticed that there are two tiny figurines on the shelf behind Neil and Jeanie? The redhead we’ve seen in the past (1st panel at the corner of The Wotch poster) and an all white one to the right of Chrissie’s Pixie Patrol Ship in the 3rd and 4th panels.
We’ve seen that background before in other strips and I suspect CD uses it as a stock “set piece” so he doesn’t have to redraw it every time they are in this room.
My point was that there are now two of them.
Go back to comic 847, there has always been two figures.
On pages 615-616, there was only the one redhead. The white one didn’t show up until after Jeanie bought Neil his new house.
The redhead is probably the Scarlet Avenger figurine from the War Mallet game that Neil plays.
Why has Neil changed along with the timeline but not Jean? The obvious answer would be that genies have some sort of “timeline inertia”, but if that was the case genie Neil from the “Jean Wish Island timeline” should still exist.
Just go with it. There’s no way to make time travel make sense. Forget ontological inertia, there would have to be some sort of universal astronomical inertia for time travel to even work because absolutely nothing in the universe is standing still. You only think you’re standing still because all of the stuff around you is moving at the same speed in the same direction. You can’t travel back to yesterday because Earth is no longer there and you’d end up floating is space. Heck, just adding up the major motions we know about (earth around the sun, sun around the galaxy, galaxy from the big bang) a 5 minute jaunt into the past or future would leave you outside the entire solar system, and that’s not accounting for the motions we don’t know about.
5 minutes would not be enough time to put you outside the solar system as that would require the solar system to be moving at several times the speed of light. After all, it takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth.
But yeah, I suspect you are right about everything else.
Five minutes might leave you floating someplace near the orbit of Venus. Not a healthy place to be without a spaceship.
Actually five minutes would not even get you outside the orbit of the Moon.
Earth moves ~66,000 MPH, so 5 minutes = ~5,500 Miles. Combine that with the Sun traveling ~514,000 MPH as it orbits the Galaxy = ~42,833 Miles.
Now the big one here is the Milky Way moves at ~1,300,000 MPH, so 5 minutes = ~108,500 Miles.
So adding these equals 156,833 Miles, so you would move about 2/3s of the distance to Moon. Now this is the most it could be, because when you include the directional vectors, it would likely be less.
Astronomy is a hobby of mine.
It’s pretty hard to calculate velocities when there’s no static frame of reference. Any movement you can name is always “compared to WHAT?”
That said, your point is valid. But even being suddenly transported just part-way to the Moon is usually kind of inconvenient unless you typically walk around all day wearing your space suit.
Actually these aren’t super hard to figure out if you know what you are doing.
Earth takes 365.25 days to orbit the Sun. It is 93 millions from the Sun. 2RPi gives us the distance traveled each year. Calculate to determine our MPH.
Orbital mechanics allows us to calculate the speed we orbit the Milky Way’s Super Massive Black Hole. I am not a physicist, so I don’t understand the math. We complete one orbit about every 250 million years.
As for determining the speed of the galaxy, we look at the other galaxies in our local group, and see how we are interacting we them based on their red shifts.
There is simple answer to that: Magic!
No, seriously. There is magic field around Earth and the time travel using magic happens relatively to this field.
What about Jehane maybe she is getting some vengeance from her prison and banish status caused by Jean and the Blue Djiin.
I’m fairly sure that banished genies have no powers, so that seems unlikely. But if I’m wrong, that’s actually a pretty good guess. Jehane might have found out what really happened, and blame Jeanie for what Blue did while possessing her.
Back to the 60s. I had to imagine Jeanie. Sandals, bell bottoms. tie dyes t-top with the crow’s foot (peace symbel) head band and love beads. When you come back bring a couple of Kibble Burgers for Robert and C D.
Let’s not forget her hair combed straight down like Julie Barnes (Peggy Lipton) on The Mod Squad.
Gunne Sax dresses, Candies clogs, go-go boots, mesh bags, hot pants, Mary Quant skirts, halter tops, hip-hugger jeans, shag hairstyles. I would love to visit that time. It must have been such an exciting time to be alive.
Don’t forget to speak in “Valley Girl” furshure,fursure.
I’m not sure Kibble Burgers existed that far in the past. We know they were popular “about 10 years ago”, which was when Jeanie brought Neil back in time, but since JB runs on a sliding time scale, where “today” is “whenever the comic was posted”), I can’t say “in 2015”. So the restaurant would have had to have been around for several decades prior… which is possible, but not confirmed.
Dude….there’s definitely something weird going on here……
Only one thing to add. “Lets’ do the Time Warp again!”
It’s just a jump to the left… then a step to the right.
Yeah, who’re gon’a believe?
I’m interested in the fact that she disappeared. This may not be the klutz’s fault.
I think that Ifta swapping bodies with Kiran has something to do with this timeline change, as well as the new girl.
Hmm, interesting theory. We’re not *100%* sure what happened to “Kiran” after he left “Ifta” in the bottle. He’s presumably long dead… but with Ifta’s knowledge, he could have contacted a genie Ifta knew and gotten some instant-youth.
CD approved this passage in Ifta’s story…
“Ishaq Bux flinched as Ifta rose to her feet and the gun discharged. Pain and disbelief clouded Ifta’s features and she sank back to the muddy bank, her hand over the wound in her chest. Blood poured between her fingers. As the light faded from her eyes, her final thought was for her mate.”
We can assume Ishaq Bux fled the scene of his crime, but were there witnesses, and did they save “him” from bleeding out? The “light fading” could mean passing out, I suppose. Only CD knows for sure.
Did a totem claim Barbara Eden?
That asked, why isn’t there more concern about people disappearing? Granted it’s not many in a year and really comprehensive information on people is rather resent. But you’d expect someone to notice. I wonder if one of the lessons new genies learn is how to cover their old life so people stop looking.
Coming up with any sort of system to deal with this whole bottle thing must have taken the genies a few centuries.
well I dunno what fantasy you are in , barbara eden is 93 and still living in Tucson, Arizona..
other names are Barbara Jean Morehead, Barbara Huffman – she married Jon Eicholtz in 1991, and has a son, Matthew..
she was at 2024 comic con too!
I think Frank is commenting on “in-world” disappearances.
The Greek Captain and her adopted daughter (formerly fishermen).
Clarence (now Tiffany), who disappeared from Melvin’s school.
Agent Anderson, whose transformation is being covered up by federal law enforcement.
The stoner, Alex, who vanished into The System.
Now he’s thinking Barbara Eden may have vanished from the “in-world” reality.
I was thinking more about mortals who opened the wrong bottle. But yeah, them too. I hadn’t even thought about it.
Over in Melvin Chronicles, Clarence’s disappearance, and the subsequent appearance of “Tiffany”, were covered up by Clarence’s step-father
the mobster.Well, honestly, people disappear every day in the real world, and, depending on who they are, are either listed as “missing”, or just go entirely unreported. It’s not illegal to disappear on your own, and if you don’t have any relatives to go looking for you, there may be no notice taken. After long enough they are usually “presumed dead”.
Assuming a new identity is much harder, and takes a lot of work to create a plausible paper trail. For a genie, it would be easy; they could just poof up a birth certificate, but any human magically transformed would have a harder time – though nowadays, with the existence of gender surgery and so on, it might be possible to convince the authorities to issue new ID.
Totems making genies may not happen very often either. There are so many missing persons cases that go unsolved and the only people who care are friends, loved ones and creditors. There may be a recent upsurge in the number of people it’s happening to, then it would explain the number of new blue genies that bother Kazom. But basically, I was overthinking.
And what does a geneie need paperwork for? They have no savings, no pension, no cheking account, no security clearances, no boats. If they need to get into anywhere, they just go. You can’t do anything about them. They’d be a menace if they weren’t on such a tight leash.
In the comic, Barbara Eden “Vanished in the late 60’s”. Panel 2 of # 857.
You know, I’m overthinking this. Not only is this just a comic, I should really just relax, but we’re talking about a small number of people. Genies potentially exist for thousands of years, so one mortal every decade or so would add up to a lot of genies over time. I doubt this is really a problem. Still, it would cause distress to a new genie if there were people who needed to be told.
If one mortal is becomes a genie every 20 years or so (sometimes more, sometimes less) then no, no one would notice except the friends, loved ones and creditros.
Oh and just checked, comicon LONDON (england) is on 24 october!!!!
Bikini Jeanie… nice.
But why is she blonde and light skinned?
I figured we would get Jeanie as Jasmine for this whole story line.
I think this is just for the solstice. If our artist were in the Southern Hemisphere, she’d be wearing a sweater.
Time travel is really not a good idea, because it is inherently contradictory. it can only be played for fun. Anyone who tries to take it serious, will realise that it is simply not a serious topic for serious drama
Late to the party, but looking through the comments and nobody mentioned that the comic number on panel and the number in the title below nolonger match. I doubt this is an error. Last week the panel number was obscured and the week before it was partially obscured.
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Sorry, that was just an error. I’ve now corrected it.
Ah, I was hoping for some meta storytelling. Thank you for correcting it though 🙂
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