Jeanie Bottle Christmas Special – Page 8
More like a Christmas genie. 🙂
And by the way, I had intended to post this on Christmas Day, but I forgot. Here’s the traditional “Festive Natalie” pic for this year, with bonus appearance by two other gender-bending characters from CD’s recently finished comic, SailorSun.org.
Well it all worked out but is there going to be any any Natalie this christmas week update?
There is, actually! In fact, I had intended to post it as an extra for the Xmas day page, but it seems I forgot. I’ve added it to this page’s description.
In addition, there will be a festive Natalie comic, but it’s going to take a while to finish. I’ll post it as a filler for the hiatus once it’s done.
Is there an audio clip or video available for that “Imperial Death March Ringtone” online anywhere?
Use your imagination:
Doom, doom, doom. Doom, doom doom. Doom, doom doom.
(Repeat as needed)
🙂
You could just insert the words from the Birthday Dirge.
Death, destruction, and despair
People dying everywhere,
(Chorus) Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom
May the cities in your wake
Burn like candles on your cake,
(Chorus)
May your deeds with sword and axe
Equal those with sheep and yaks,
(Chorus)
Your servants steal, your wife’s untrue,
Your children plot to murder you,
(Chorus)
They stole your sword, your gold, your house,
Took your sheep but not your spouse,
(Chorus)
This one lesson you must learn,
First you plunder, then you burn;
(Chorus)
Hear the women wail and weep
Kill them all, but spare the sheep;
(Chorus)
May the children in the street
Be your barbecueing meat,
(Chorus)
Indigestion’s what you get
From the enemies that you et.
Does anyone knows why Star Wars or just Darth Vader gets associated with Christmas?
I had seen blow-up balloon standees of him on lawns with other Christmas Decor…
That does seem a bit odd. I have no idea why.
@Robert:
Isn’t it obvious? The Death Star looks exactly like a Christmas tree ornament!
@Robert – because Wookie Life Day, that’s why.
Also, awesome holiday picture. I always did want to see more of Dawn at some point.
Because once upon a time there was a child who was immaculately conceived, and we mark his birth from the humblest abode in a far off sandy place a long time ago.
Look, take it up with Lucas but Jesus and Darth Vader have the exact same origin story.
@He Who Abides Every passing year I try to convince myself tjat special was just a fever dream, I thing is, it my as well be, just that someone actually made a scrip out of it and film it!
Also, yeah, I would have love to see more of Dawn and the sirens back in the day, heck, If the MC wouldn’t have been already there asking for a new artist/writer, I may as well tried my luck selling CD an Idea for a Siren island spin off comic!
@Doug: Both Jesus and Darth are supposed to have been born to virgins.
I would, but site blocks comments with just URL.
If I recall, the site just holds them for moderation. (Robert or myself to check to see it’s not spam or something) and it’s blocks with more then one link in the comment. So one should be fine.
Yup, that’s what happens. If you try to post a comment and it doesn’t go up, it’ll appear in our moderation queue. I try my best to check the queue every time I read the comments.
You never disappoint with Natalie every year by the way any news about CD RUDD condition?
CD’s just in a location with crappy internet. Makes it impossible to send the large original comic files which I use for copy editing, so it’s not feasible to make the comic on any regular basis. He’s coming back home around April, after which IDoJB will resume.
Could be Kansas, could be Afghanistan, no way of telling the difference. Well, not based on internet access anyway.
Still kicking… haven’t died yet. Doctors Say I have anywhere between 40 to 60 years left.
Well, it’s your funeral.
@Brandon – CD RUDD Condition? Is that some sort of disorder? An odd compulsion to draw cat-girls and gender-swapped characters, perhaps?
Donate to spread CD RUDD Condition today! Seriously, we need more of it, immediately.
A thought just occurred to me. The rover better not turn around. Even if Jeanie no longer appears in photographs, her foot prints in the Marian soil would raise all kinds of questions. 😉
I wondered about that, too. But if Jeannie doesn’t need air, then she probably doesn’t weigh anything, either.
I am so envious.
Everyone weighs less on Mars; surface gravity is only about half that of Earth’s.
However, Jean being Jean, her massive ego would probably weigh her down anyway.
Nah, we’re good at conjuring up reasons why obvious things are not obvious when we’re trying to prove we’re not one of *those* conspiracy nuts. Just look at all the explicit signs of alien life both on Earth and photographed by probes and rovers this year alone. Honestly, an alien spaceship could detonate a bomb over NYC and we’d find a way to try and pretend it was something else. Her footprints will be written off as virtually anything except footprints, random rocks possibly.
That explosion was a transformer substation blowing up! 😀
See, we’re being invaded by Cybertron. They admit it.
Does everyone realize what happened?
ONE OF JEANNIE’S PLANS ACTUALLY WORKED ( ! ! ! )
I believe this is one of the signs of the Apocalypse. Stay tuned for the plagues and the locusts.
OMG you’re right! Maybe *that’s* the Christmas miracle?
So does Dawn get the Siren gene just to be a hot chick sometimes? Thats pretty badass
I mean, counting his day as Crystal, David only had between four or three days to enjoy the Perks of being a Siren, and contrary to Jeanie an her genie powers, he didn’t even give it a try to being an almost eternal, beautiful and powerfull Siren! It was truly a shame. So I guess he wouldn’t mind try it out from time to time on filler pics or Fan art.
Ethan can body-swap with Crystal whenever they want, and she doesn’t seem to mind being the man from time to time. He’s probably gotten the chance to play with her powers more than we saw.
did any one notice neil is changing gaining weight and the girl next to him is slimming down
It’s all of those Christmas cookies and fudge. The lady is sticking to carrot sticks
I’d chalk it up to drawing 10 comics in a short amount of time. :0
It’s the Santa Clause. He’s gaining weight for the role.
So, everybody wondering if Jeanie’s getting the smackdown for boosting the space program: No.
Thing is, she wasn’t doing it for the purposes of national pride.
She did it so Neil can stay and be Santa for the children. [Everybody say DAW. “DAAWWW!”]
How does what Jeanie did compare to what Neil’s neighbor did in funding the NASA exploration of the moon? Would she not also risk losing her powers by aiding Earth’s exploration of Mars by fixing the problem with the rover?
See the post immediately above.
It’s a difference in goals, motivation, and scale.
Nice little black number the top logo is wearing these days.
I know, right!
Though I prefer the red look
i.imgur.com/JAuS3oI dot png
Oh my, that does look good!
Ok, two pages left, I wouldn’t have counting on this a couple of pages ago but after all the trout les she just went, I do wonder if Jeanie will indeed play the role of the Santa’s helper elf just to be part of the fun!
> after all the trout les she just went
I’m not sure how Jeanie could have encountered any fish on Mars…
I hate the autocorrect so much, but that glorious awful pun makes the pain it worth it!
She took a side trip to Neptune
Sooooo, did 15 minutes already passed since Jenny unstuck the rover or is the rover equipped with FTL communication? Or DID she traveled in time?
It’s… a… Christmas Miracle?
But no, seriously, I think there’s a canon explanation for this, and you hit on it with that time travel conjecture. As has been mentioned in previous pages, the way Jeanie’s powers seem to work is that she imagines that something happens, and then even with no knowledge of how to actually bring that thing about, it happens. Her powers work purely on her intent.
And since her intent here is to prevent Neil from needing to leave for work, she unconsciously traveled back in time far enough for the call Neil gets on this page to arrive before he leaves. We’ve seen her use time travel twice before, so we know she’s capable of it.
Guys, a Genie did it.
Well, as I see it, you have 4 options.
1) Earth is a lot closer to mars in the JB universe, then ours…
2) Neil’s company built a rover with a super fast communication system
3) Robert’s Time travel explanation; or
4) While making the comic, I realized this issue, and decided to allow the minor plot hole in lieu of have the story flow being ripped by having to explain the time lag in communication between Earth and Mars which would also throw the rest of the story timeline completely to cr@p.
You be the judge.
Yup, even more powerful than wizards: The Artist did it.
“While making the comic, I realized this issue, and decided to allow the minor plot hole…”
Well worth it, CD. Well worth it to get “He deserves it” out of Jeanie in the next strip.
The time lag is only about 14 to 60 light minutes depending on where it is in it orbit in relationship with the Earth in it orbit. If the earth and mars are on the same side of the planet, then it about 20 minutes to receive communication. It take light about 9 minutes to reach earth from the son which is how fast the radio signal is going.
1) If Earth would be closer to Mars, neither’s orbit would be stable.
2) Not really that likely.
4) Don’t you read Strange Candy? Plotholes are dangerous … and minor plot hole is like minor extinction event.
… I was thinking that Jeanie actually listening when Neil was talking about communication delay would be even less likely than the FTL communication, but Robert has good point, Jeanies gennie powers works on intent, so time travel would be quite good explanation.