Jean AKA Jeannie AKA Jeanie is a film, book, and magazine reviewer for a national magazine. Most of Jean’s work is done through email, which means he doesn't have to go into the office.
On a trip to find a gift for his girlfriend, Jean found an empty Genie Bottle. Upon picking up this bottle, Jean became the bottle’s new genie-powered occupant. Not only was Jean turned into a genie, but the bottle turned him into what he believed a genie of the bottle should look like. Which, due to his fascination with a classic 60s TV show, turned him into a busty blonde woman.
Neil called way back in chapter 1 read it. Cause he said how Jean would act if he was the Master instead of being the Genie. But he appears to be doing pretty good for himself though.
It seems that genie Natalie is pretty top-heavy compared to regular transformation Natalie.
I guess becoming a genie added some overall improvements. Now I just wonder if Natalie ever went around transforming other people in this version of the timeline?
No, Natalie not Jeanie, she would not go around like Jeanie just arbitrarily transforming guys into girls and then forgetting what she did and not turn them back into men. So it would be no to both Natalie turning men into women or forgetting to turn them back into men.
Ye are forgetting that djinns can’t change their core form, and these forms of djinns core form is a reflection of what they think a djinn should look like, so this is less of a Jean situation and more like a Ghosts Busters “don’t think of Marshmallows situation”
Disadvantage: Top Heavy. -2 to Dexterity checks to maintain balance. -1 to Intelligence of nearby males. (Paraphrased loosely from the spoof parody game “Macho Women with Guns”)
So… either Jeanie told her younger self about the bottle, or Jean figured it out (maybe at the last second?) when he and Neil found it, and he somehow got Neil to pick it up.
Then, by the look of things, Jean used two wishes: one to have Natalie “improved” (though who knows… she might have been genie-fied like that) and a second to have her make Jean buff — or maybe just independently wealthy so he could spend time on his vanity, rather than on a job.
Time to *poof* yourself (and Neil!) back in time (again), Jeanie!
I am going with either Jeanie told her teen self about the Genie Bottle and what it will do or maybe it just slipped out of her mouth by accident and then Jeanie didn’t correct her screw up when it happened or maybe she thought it would be OK, which it isn’t and it not going to be OK, with her going back to fix thing again.
Well, I hope someone picked up that Phone.
Because I called it.
Jeanie broke the first rule of time travel, and spoke of the future most likely as the excuse as to why Jeanie wasn’t going to do it.
As an Aside, Jeanie showed no real creative thinking, She could have just gotten her younger self blackout drunk then claimed that they did it when young Jean woke up.
Remember folks… rape is always funny when it happens to a man. Don’t like this strip? Well, it’s obviously your fault for not being able to take a joke.
That is a distinct possibility of Jean trying to bang Jeanie too and yes, I see Jean trying to catch Jeanie by surprise too. But, Jeanie only hope is the Neil that still in the bottle. Like he is still technically still her Master and not Jean even now.
I think Jeanie isn’t caught by surprise. Nor is she “okay” with this future, based on her last-panel expression. And even if she’s somehow caught by surprise (though I doubt Natalie would *quickly* go along with a wish… even if she might have to go along with it) I don’t know that genie power can overcome genie power… especially Jeanie’s current level.
(Plus, Jean has to be careful… if he’s used 2 wishes, he doesn’t want to use his last one.)
Does Jean know that this is his Genie self from another time line and if he does, this is going to get real messy real quick?
We know that Jeanie is mostly all women now even if it female genie women. Will this finally decouple any idea or desire in Jeanie hart to go back to being guy or even wanting to have anything to do with guy now?
Technically, Neil didn’t know about time travel being involved until Jeanie told him, in the past. Beforehand, he thought that Jeanie was poofing them to a current location in the present.
Neil ABSOLUTELY needs to see this. What his “friend” would have made of him, had their roles been reversed. Also, extra ammunition in his position as Jeanie’s master.
I dunno.. to cut Jean a break I suspect, when dealing with infinite possibilities and timelines there’s little doubt that the worst qualities of a person can be found. How hard it must be for such an observer to be friends with anyone… such a person has to be literally made of ultimate forgiveness… (has re: zero flashbacks)
But there is no evidence yet that Jean is forcing her . I mean he must have found found the lamp long ago . Maybe Natalia accepts that and they have become a couple or so .
@Bakor true. I mean ‘forced’ might not apply to genies.. it is their nature and desire to serve a master (if they accept their genie nature) … but a master could take advantage of that nature horribly. A genies mind is known to be.. expanded and able to tolerate situations that would appall humans. (Confinement for thousands of years for example)
Being in a relationship with Jean might not seem so bad given the (unknown) alternatives …
I hate being the one to defend Jean here, but do keep in mind that this is a version of Jean that got rejected on prom night (whereas our Jean remembers scoring)
Jean has a fragile enough ego that this could be him compensating for that night, it doesn’t make any of what he’s doing okay, but it’s enough to conclude that, if Neil had opened the bottle in the normal timeline, then Jean probably wouldn’t be this bad (he’d definitely still try, but it wouldn’t be forced)
@Paradox: I think you may have that reversed. This Jean may be a version that scored on prom night. The rejected Jean was turning records at WKRP just a few pages ago.
@Mike: The Jean at WKRP was rejected publicly, this version of Jean was rejected privately by Jeanie, but was allowed to TELL everyone that he scored (so he has the reputation, but he knows that he’s a fraud)
I knew Jean could be kinda sleazy but I never thought he’d actually go through with the whole “have sex with your best friend after you’ve turned him into a hot girl” thing. I geuinely thought he would bottle (that was totally inadvertant) it if the oppotunity arose. I’m only hoping Jeanie is as disgusted by this as we are and takes appropriate measures.
Two other things, first is Jean rather more “buff” than usual, and second the expression the Jenatte’s face in panel 2.
As creepy as this is when you think about it, this is still perfectly in character for what we know about pre-genie Jean. And let’s face it, a lot of us would probably do the same if we had a hot magic genie.
“You have three wishes, master. Ask, and I shall obey.”
“Oh my God, you’re hot! My first wish is for you to have sex with me!”
“*Disgusted sigh* As you command, so I have no choice but to comply. Master. *Reluctantly begins to disrobe.*”
If this is a scenario that you’re comfortable with… Well, I just hope you keep it in the realm of fantasy.
I agree, though, this is pretty in-character for pre-genie Jean. He’d happily jump into the above scenario, and it would never even cross his mind that the genie in question might prefer not to do the horizontal tango.
I hope that Genie Jean, upon seeing a version of himself that’s been repeatedly raping his best friend… well, asking for bit of self-reflection might be a bit much, but I do hope she at least gets angry.
Going out on a limb, here. This is not the WKRP Jean that Jeanie dissed; this is base line Jean run amok with power. A couple of possibilities can come from this, and it depends on what the timeline considers as the owner of Jeanie’s original bottle.
If this is an alternate timeline bottle, then Jean can only command Genie-Neil (hereafter referred to as Jenatte). The extent of her powers of Jeanie are questionable since Jeanie may have far more power (of course, the entire Blue Djinn scenario may have involved Jenatte and they may be equals).
If this is the same bottle then Neil no longer owns it and Jean can command both Jenatte and Jeanie, which would be very bad for the world at large since his narcissism and ego could run unchecked (until Haji and the Genie Council gets involved).
The former scenario is possible, and Jeanie can easily escape, but the latter is more likely, and Jean just might get his sexy harem orgy started. Jeanie would be forced to comply but since Jean does not know that base line Neil is in the bottle. Jeanie can poof up a savior (buffed up like when she had that allergy) and Jean’s nose just might meet fists of steel. Neil ends up with the bottle and both genies.
What a twist. Finally, the action moved on. I just want to see a stormy session of intimate massage with copious ejaculation, as well as oral and classic threesomes too. It would be interesting to see (at least next week for sure). It would be even more interesting to look at these two concubines for him.
I can’t help but wonder if Jean has used all three of his wishes by this time. If I remember correctly, a genie is required to stay with a master/mistress until all three wishes have been granted, but they are then free to find a new master/mistress if they want to. By the look on Natalie’s face I would say she hates being forced into the relationship she is now in with Jean even though he was his best friend when they were both guys and may want to move on.
We should know the answer to this in a few more strips I imagine.
Jean was transformed by the bottle to become Jeanie because it didn’t have a genie linked to it. Back on page 9 ( https://jeaniebottle.com/archives/comic/06232009 ), Jeanie poofed Neil into the bottle, where he spent the night (with Jeanie sleeping on him) without being turned into a genie (although he did get turned into Natalie and deposited on stage when Jeanie woke up and found he had morning wood), so it’s unlikely that spending time in a genie’s bottle would transform him.
so then did anything change the future this time? or does Jean really have to “youknowhat” in order for things to not be effed up? (what a horrible decision)
I don’t think that Jean has to actually “do it”, but Teen-Jean has to believe that he did. Getting him drunk enough that he doesn’t remember, and then convincing him afterward that they had a wild night should be enough.
@Mega, we know that Jean originally didn’t want to be either a Genie or a female also. My guess is that Jeanie revealed too much of the future to Jean either on purpose or by accidentally saying something about the future to Jean that he should not have known about. Like she his future self after both Neil and he find that genie bottle. I am betting that Jean decided that rather than be geniefied himself, that he rather that Neil will become the one that get geniefied instead of himself becoming the genie.
If this is what happened, then Jeanie got her work cut out for herself when it come to undoing this mess. We just have to see what happens now in the future episodes of Jeanie Bottle.
The ultimate solution is for Jean and Neil travel back to the point where Jean originally poofed back in time to get a burger and go “NO STOP”, before explaining everything and hopefully preventing all of this at all and thus erasing (or otherwise sealing) those timelines.
The Jeannie and Neil we’ve been following would cease to exist, however, and the entire story would end up nullified. But the burger joint might still be open since no future money would end up being spent there. So that’s a good thing.
Given that Jeanie and Neil still exist currently, even though the timeline is changed, suggests that going back and stopping the time travel altogether wouldn’t erase the Jeanie and Neil from this story arc
back in #681 Natalie the genie didn’t recognize Neil as being her other self so she may not remember being male. This is the only reason I can think of for her letting Jean paw her assets. Jean, your final wish should be “Please don’t hurt me.” Yep, looks like another time travel trip.
When Jeanie granted Neil’s third wish she was about to be sent away but she and Neil argued for her to stay and guano said yes.
Has Natalie granted Jeans third wish yet? If so, did she choose to stay and is regretting that decision?
Or is the upcoming wish for Jean to sleep with Jeanie? If so there will be a green poof from Natalie granting the wish, followed by a pink poof where Jeanie goes back in time and sleeps with the younger Jean to get the timeline back on track.
Jean would be wishing to sleep with himself. Jeanie could alter the wish and poof the male Jean back in time in his female form from that night. Normally wishes can’t affect free will and force the now female Jean to sleep with himself. Since he technically wished for this that might not apply. After it’s over this would reset the timeline and the other Jean would be erased.
“Normally wishes can’t affect free will”
I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that a wish could not affect a mortal’s free will, nothing was said about a genie’s free will.
After all Jean is sleeping with genie Natalie.
Jean’s not that bright and conceited enough to believe no woman could resist him. He may think Natalie the genie actually wants him even though she used to be male. In the original timeline Lord Guano threatened Jean with imprisonment for 100 years in her bottle unless she kept her master happy. Natalie may have had something similar happen.
@Marvin, If you go check, Guano threaten to imprison Jeanie 100 year if she didn’t grant Neil the third wish and complete the Mandatory three wish for her Master. Then after those three wishes it voluntary for a genie to stay with there Master if he or she want to. Guano telling Jeanie that she need to keep her master happy was kind of an after thought and wasn’t part of the original threat of imprisoning her for 100 years or so.
After everything is fixed, will Neil be angry enough to lecture Jeanie on how she screwed up, and forbid her from time travel or gender changes? And to enforce the point, cork Jeanie in her bottle for a long time?
What Neil should do and what Neil will do, are two different things here. As laid back Neil is, I don’t see him doing that and Jeanie will more or less get away with it too.
Even if Neil did do that, I don’t see Jeanie honoring what Neil has to say anyway. So the maximum that you will see here is Neil making a lot of noise and generating a lot of fluff, but, with no real substance to it and everything go back to what it use to be.
The exact quote was “Very well, you may serve this master for the remainder of his days.” Guano didn’t say anything about keeping him happy although it is kind of understood that that is a bottle genie’s nature. Neil was never very assertive and might be a borderline submissive. Giving in to Jean’s advances may be a combination of the two. Still, it’s obvious from her expression in panel 2 that she is uncomfortable with the arrangement.
Yeah, that’s a thing that happens with this comic plugin that we use. It’ll state the release date as the time that the page goes live, even if I use the “Scheduled delivery” feature that makes it go live several hours or days after I post it. But if I make any changes to a scheduled page before it goes live, it’ll report that as the “modified” date.
Has anyone noticed Natalie’s costume? In the IDoJ TV show, Jeannie had an evil sister (confusingly also called ‘Jeannie’) who was a brunette, and whose costume was in shades of green, rather than pink? (Jeannie’s sister)
Evidently this timeline’s Neil was thinking of that Jeannie, when he opened the bottle!
I’m not sure how to add a link properly on this thing, but I saved a panel from a while back for just such an occasion. https://i.imgur.com/0ediQEJ.jpg?1
That was when the Blue Djinn had control over Jeanie body and he or she was trying to contact his faction of the genie’s that followed him instead of Haji.
Natalie didn’t recognize Neil. Did she repress her memories, as a defense mechanism due to her current situation? But still is trying to learn to be an engineer? A sad situation.
Someone mentioned in another comment that Neil may have been behind Jeanie from genie-Natalie’s perspective, when Neil and Jeanie arrived. That might explain why she didn’t recognize herself.
We don’t know enough about genie-Neil’s story to make an assumption as to when the transformation took place. It’s unlikely to have taken place just after prom and it’s more likely that it occurred after they both arrived in Cocoa Beach, in which case genie-Neil would have been an adult and should recognize himself. The textbooks strongly indicate the latter scenario. And seriously, can you imagine Jean not using that third wish in nearly 10 years of possession?
Whatever Jeanie told Jean in that hotel room was definitely too much information, and Jean used it to get what he considers to be a better future for himself. In order to get the timeline unknotted, Jean is going to have to come out of that hotel room remembering only what Jeanie remembers about that night. Which wasn’t much (but she might be able to use magic to remember more?). However, it does look like Jeanie will have to stop thinking only of herself, and sacrifice her dignity.
A lot of people’s self-image is different from reality, and there can be quite a change from late teens to mid-twenties. I’ve always had difficulty seeing my image in photos. On top of that, G.Neal had no way of knowing about the alternate timeline, no way to know there were time travel shenanigans, and probably no way of knowing what his male adult self would look like. She has no idea who these two people are, or why one of them has her real name.
Jean, however, definitely recognizes Jeanie. Prepare for some panicked time travel by Jeanie, leaving Neal stuck once again. (One of these days, Neal is going to snap.)
The only way to un-knot the timeline at this point is for Jean to poof back to the moment before she poofed back in time originally to get a hamburger. Then she explains to her past self everything that happened and to not do it, thus negating all of these timelines.
This should result in this timeline, and thus time-traveling Jean and Neil, to be erased from existence and either taking those altered timelines with them or locking them into their own timestreams that can no longer be accessed or interfered with (thus allowing Fat-Jean and Stripper Nat, or Genie Nat and Jerk Jean to continue existing).
This timeline has two significant differences to the original:
1) Teen Jean didn’t get to shag anyone on prom night, even though he might have later boasted about doing so, and
2) Neil got to spend some quality time with Zoey.
So, combining those and extrapolating, it seems likely that, instead of Neil and Jean looking for a present for his girlfriend Belle, Jean and Neil were out looking for a present, probably for Neil’s girlfriend, presumably Zoey.
And so this time, it was Neil that popped the top on the bottle, and presto, tits on a Ritz.
Therefore, for the last year-and-a-half, or so, Neil has been living as a woman, evidently controlled by adult Jean as her master, and essentially functioning as a magical sex slave. (Judging from her reluctant agreement in Panel 2.)
It’s also clear that, in Panel 4, adult Jean may not know who Jeannie is, but he immediately pegs her for a genie. (Probably the pink poof gave her away.)
Excellent theory. The one flaw might be that an egotistical Jean would certainly use all three wishes because he would assume he knows the deal and not bother asking for a manual like Neil did. If he doesn’t know three is the limit, he’s probably going to use them all. That would trigger the arrival of Guano to take his new young genie off to find a new master and “Natalie ” is not going to beg to remain as jean’s sex slave.
And I agree that Jean would key on the pink poof, but Jeanie resembling Barbara Eden would be an even stronger trigger. Remember, he said “I would so do her.”
Very awkward indeed. This timeline’s Jean is a horrible jerk, to put it very, very mildly. I see a possible Genie fight happening, if Jean the jerk orders Natalie Genie to deal with Genie Jean.
Perhaps Jean the jerk will be poofed into a a non magical version twin of girl Jean. There would be two identical blonde girl Jeans in pink harem costumes, one magical, the other not magical. To confuse things more, Genie Jean then claims to be the real Jean the jerk! There would be two twin Jean’s claiming to be the real Jean the jerk, arguing face to face with each other, and no one can tell which Jean is which Jean. A pair of identical female Jeans arguing with themselves, or is it themself, what a hoot!
If the Jeans are both fundamentally Jean, making both masters, can Genie Jean command genie Natalie too? Which Jean, is which Jean, which is the master of Natalie Genie, one, or both? When genie Natalie figures out that the other Neal is his/her non magical male version from another timeline it should be interesting. Genie Natalie is a lot smarter than Jean the jerk, so Natalie, and Neal might figure out a way to fix things.
Or to confuse things more genie Jean, or genie Natalie could turn Neal into a non magical twin of genie Natalie! Who can command the correct genie Natalie? Genie Natalie’s likely memorized the Genie instruction manual, and figured it out, allowing her to possibly escape her situation with Jean the Jerk.
Encountering her Jean the jerk, version of herself, genie Jean would have to face what a terrible person she is down deep. Having been a woman for so long has caused her to think more like a woman than a man. Genie Jean would be horrified at the realization that her male side is a really bad person! So much so that she rejects, and erases the remaining male side of her personality, becoming mentally, and psychologically a true woman!
Neil called way back in chapter 1 read it. Cause he said how Jean would act if he was the Master instead of being the Genie. But he appears to be doing pretty good for himself though.
I believe you’re thinking of Page 75:
https://jeaniebottle.com/archives/comic/jeanie-bottle-75
Thats right a great Neil call back moment.
Jean, get your hands off of Neil. This will not end well. Jeanie this is what you get for not doing it in high school with yourself.
no amount of Ice Water will fix THIS!!!!
Oh, I’m hoping he gets the very justified punishment he deserves.
It seems that genie Natalie is pretty top-heavy compared to regular transformation Natalie.
I guess becoming a genie added some overall improvements. Now I just wonder if Natalie ever went around transforming other people in this version of the timeline?
No, Natalie not Jeanie, she would not go around like Jeanie just arbitrarily transforming guys into girls and then forgetting what she did and not turn them back into men. So it would be no to both Natalie turning men into women or forgetting to turn them back into men.
Ye are forgetting that djinns can’t change their core form, and these forms of djinns core form is a reflection of what they think a djinn should look like, so this is less of a Jean situation and more like a Ghosts Busters “don’t think of Marshmallows situation”
The increased bust size is probably at Jean’s insistence. Very few women would consider that an “improvement”.
Yeah, “larger than average” is good (e.g. Jeanie’s default size), but “physically awkward” would only be good for the novelty value.
Disadvantage: Top Heavy. -2 to Dexterity checks to maintain balance. -1 to Intelligence of nearby males. (Paraphrased loosely from the spoof parody game “Macho Women with Guns”)
or maybe the changes was a masters wish
So… either Jeanie told her younger self about the bottle, or Jean figured it out (maybe at the last second?) when he and Neil found it, and he somehow got Neil to pick it up.
Then, by the look of things, Jean used two wishes: one to have Natalie “improved” (though who knows… she might have been genie-fied like that) and a second to have her make Jean buff — or maybe just independently wealthy so he could spend time on his vanity, rather than on a job.
Time to *poof* yourself (and Neil!) back in time (again), Jeanie!
I am going with either Jeanie told her teen self about the Genie Bottle and what it will do or maybe it just slipped out of her mouth by accident and then Jeanie didn’t correct her screw up when it happened or maybe she thought it would be OK, which it isn’t and it not going to be OK, with her going back to fix thing again.
Well, I hope someone picked up that Phone.
Because I called it.
Jeanie broke the first rule of time travel, and spoke of the future most likely as the excuse as to why Jeanie wasn’t going to do it.
As an Aside, Jeanie showed no real creative thinking, She could have just gotten her younger self blackout drunk then claimed that they did it when young Jean woke up.
But will Jeanie realize that Neil did not do to her what Jean did to “Neil”?
No, of course not.
Remember folks… rape is always funny when it happens to a man. Don’t like this strip? Well, it’s obviously your fault for not being able to take a joke.
Who said this situation is supposed to be funny?
Rape happens to men … and it’s not funny then.
As Robert notes – it’s not supposed to be funny.
Watch out, Jeanie. Your male self has lecherous ideas. Will Jean make a wish that catches his female self by surprise?
That is a distinct possibility of Jean trying to bang Jeanie too and yes, I see Jean trying to catch Jeanie by surprise too. But, Jeanie only hope is the Neil that still in the bottle. Like he is still technically still her Master and not Jean even now.
I think Jeanie isn’t caught by surprise. Nor is she “okay” with this future, based on her last-panel expression. And even if she’s somehow caught by surprise (though I doubt Natalie would *quickly* go along with a wish… even if she might have to go along with it) I don’t know that genie power can overcome genie power… especially Jeanie’s current level.
(Plus, Jean has to be careful… if he’s used 2 wishes, he doesn’t want to use his last one.)
Isn’t the ‘three wish’ rule not applicable to this comic? I think it’s just whoever owns the bottle gets unlimited wishes.
@Contact_Lost: It was established early on by Guano that there is a three-wish rule then you find a new Master, unless you choose to stay.
There is a 3 wish rule
But if both the genie AND the master choose it, the genie can stay with the current master, but is no longer obligated to grant any wishes
I do have few question and they are:
Does Jean know that this is his Genie self from another time line and if he does, this is going to get real messy real quick?
We know that Jeanie is mostly all women now even if it female genie women. Will this finally decouple any idea or desire in Jeanie hart to go back to being guy or even wanting to have anything to do with guy now?
Maybe sexy harem party is a movie they intend to watch? Favourite positions might be slang for sitting on the couch? … Aye yai yai my head …
Well- at least in this time line Jean is quite happy. He should have a happy time line somewhere … right?
Really should have just accepted the normal burger …
Oh yeah. This did all start over a freakin’ hamburger, didn’t it? lol
But it was a Kimble burger! A Burger Neil was willing to time travel for. 😀
Wasn’t that a Kibble burger? Kimble was chasing a one-armed man at this point.
A man! With a mechanical! Arm!
Technically, Neil didn’t know about time travel being involved until Jeanie told him, in the past. Beforehand, he thought that Jeanie was poofing them to a current location in the present.
Natalie Genie seems uncomfortable.
You think? (insert sarcasm here)
I just think she’s uncomfortable with
them knowing that he’s fully embarrassed being stuck as a woman.
You are getting a little handsy there, Jean!
Neil ABSOLUTELY needs to see this. What his “friend” would have made of him, had their roles been reversed. Also, extra ammunition in his position as Jeanie’s master.
I dunno.. to cut Jean a break I suspect, when dealing with infinite possibilities and timelines there’s little doubt that the worst qualities of a person can be found. How hard it must be for such an observer to be friends with anyone… such a person has to be literally made of ultimate forgiveness… (has re: zero flashbacks)
But there is no evidence yet that Jean is forcing her . I mean he must have found found the lamp long ago . Maybe Natalia accepts that and they have become a couple or so .
@Bakor true. I mean ‘forced’ might not apply to genies.. it is their nature and desire to serve a master (if they accept their genie nature) … but a master could take advantage of that nature horribly. A genies mind is known to be.. expanded and able to tolerate situations that would appall humans. (Confinement for thousands of years for example)
Being in a relationship with Jean might not seem so bad given the (unknown) alternatives …
@Bakor
A wish cannot affect the free will of a human or make him/her fall in love. What about the will of the genie herself?
@Guardingdark
If she has no choice, that is being forced.
I hate being the one to defend Jean here, but do keep in mind that this is a version of Jean that got rejected on prom night (whereas our Jean remembers scoring)
Jean has a fragile enough ego that this could be him compensating for that night, it doesn’t make any of what he’s doing okay, but it’s enough to conclude that, if Neil had opened the bottle in the normal timeline, then Jean probably wouldn’t be this bad (he’d definitely still try, but it wouldn’t be forced)
@Paradox: I think you may have that reversed. This Jean may be a version that scored on prom night. The rejected Jean was turning records at WKRP just a few pages ago.
@Mike: The Jean at WKRP was rejected publicly, this version of Jean was rejected privately by Jeanie, but was allowed to TELL everyone that he scored (so he has the reputation, but he knows that he’s a fraud)
Just want to say that is a really nice painting in the background. I wonder if it’s Jean’s tastes or If Nat had to poof it up.
Yeah, there’s a bunch of nice art on the walls in this place.
The painting is called “Free as The Wind” by Megan Duncanson. It’s (obviously) modern abstract art. Prints are readily available.
Not sure about the multicolored one behind Jeanie in Panel 1.
Woah!
I knew Jean could be kinda sleazy but I never thought he’d actually go through with the whole “have sex with your best friend after you’ve turned him into a hot girl” thing. I geuinely thought he would bottle (that was totally inadvertant) it if the oppotunity arose. I’m only hoping Jeanie is as disgusted by this as we are and takes appropriate measures.
Two other things, first is Jean rather more “buff” than usual, and second the expression the Jenatte’s face in panel 2.
As creepy as this is when you think about it, this is still perfectly in character for what we know about pre-genie Jean. And let’s face it, a lot of us would probably do the same if we had a hot magic genie.
Not really, no. Jean was sleazy, but this has implications of coercion.
Go check out Page 75 to see exactly what Jean himself thought he’d do if Neil had become the hot female genie instead of him.
https://jeaniebottle.com/archives/comic/jeanie-bottle-75
Speak for yourself. I would hope most here wouldn’t force themselves on people.
“You have three wishes, master. Ask, and I shall obey.”
“Oh my God, you’re hot! My first wish is for you to have sex with me!”
“*Disgusted sigh* As you command, so I have no choice but to comply. Master. *Reluctantly begins to disrobe.*”
If this is a scenario that you’re comfortable with… Well, I just hope you keep it in the realm of fantasy.
I agree, though, this is pretty in-character for pre-genie Jean. He’d happily jump into the above scenario, and it would never even cross his mind that the genie in question might prefer not to do the horizontal tango.
I hope that Genie Jean, upon seeing a version of himself that’s been repeatedly raping his best friend… well, asking for bit of self-reflection might be a bit much, but I do hope she at least gets angry.
Going out on a limb, here. This is not the WKRP Jean that Jeanie dissed; this is base line Jean run amok with power. A couple of possibilities can come from this, and it depends on what the timeline considers as the owner of Jeanie’s original bottle.
If this is an alternate timeline bottle, then Jean can only command Genie-Neil (hereafter referred to as Jenatte). The extent of her powers of Jeanie are questionable since Jeanie may have far more power (of course, the entire Blue Djinn scenario may have involved Jenatte and they may be equals).
If this is the same bottle then Neil no longer owns it and Jean can command both Jenatte and Jeanie, which would be very bad for the world at large since his narcissism and ego could run unchecked (until Haji and the Genie Council gets involved).
The former scenario is possible, and Jeanie can easily escape, but the latter is more likely, and Jean just might get his sexy harem orgy started. Jeanie would be forced to comply but since Jean does not know that base line Neil is in the bottle. Jeanie can poof up a savior (buffed up like when she had that allergy) and Jean’s nose just might meet fists of steel. Neil ends up with the bottle and both genies.
> This is not the WKRP Jean that Jeanie dissed; this is base line Jean run amok with power.
Not quite. It’s Jean after being told by Jeanie to lie about scoring on prom night.
A subtle difference, but it might explain the change.
What a twist. Finally, the action moved on. I just want to see a stormy session of intimate massage with copious ejaculation, as well as oral and classic threesomes too. It would be interesting to see (at least next week for sure). It would be even more interesting to look at these two concubines for him.
I can’t help but wonder if Jean has used all three of his wishes by this time. If I remember correctly, a genie is required to stay with a master/mistress until all three wishes have been granted, but they are then free to find a new master/mistress if they want to. By the look on Natalie’s face I would say she hates being forced into the relationship she is now in with Jean even though he was his best friend when they were both guys and may want to move on.
We should know the answer to this in a few more strips I imagine.
Unless one of the wishes was “I wish you to become my devoted love slave.”
I think a devoted love slave’s reaction would be something other than oh crap!
If she didn’t want to get it on with her younger (male) self, it’d be so much worse getting it on with her older (male) self.
It’s Biff Tannen all over again!
Jeanie can always send her old self to the Harem Club-on stage.
So how do we get Neil out of that bottle?
How long can a human live in the bottle is my question. I hope they don’t forget him like last time …
hopefully if not left in bottle too long the person doesn’t become a genie themselves
@paul that is the most optimistic outcome …
Jean was transformed by the bottle to become Jeanie because it didn’t have a genie linked to it. Back on page 9 ( https://jeaniebottle.com/archives/comic/06232009 ), Jeanie poofed Neil into the bottle, where he spent the night (with Jeanie sleeping on him) without being turned into a genie (although he did get turned into Natalie and deposited on stage when Jeanie woke up and found he had morning wood), so it’s unlikely that spending time in a genie’s bottle would transform him.
so then did anything change the future this time? or does Jean really have to “youknowhat” in order for things to not be effed up? (what a horrible decision)
I don’t think that Jean has to actually “do it”, but Teen-Jean has to believe that he did. Getting him drunk enough that he doesn’t remember, and then convincing him afterward that they had a wild night should be enough.
@Mega, we know that Jean originally didn’t want to be either a Genie or a female also. My guess is that Jeanie revealed too much of the future to Jean either on purpose or by accidentally saying something about the future to Jean that he should not have known about. Like she his future self after both Neil and he find that genie bottle. I am betting that Jean decided that rather than be geniefied himself, that he rather that Neil will become the one that get geniefied instead of himself becoming the genie.
If this is what happened, then Jeanie got her work cut out for herself when it come to undoing this mess. We just have to see what happens now in the future episodes of Jeanie Bottle.
The ultimate solution is for Jean and Neil travel back to the point where Jean originally poofed back in time to get a burger and go “NO STOP”, before explaining everything and hopefully preventing all of this at all and thus erasing (or otherwise sealing) those timelines.
The Jeannie and Neil we’ve been following would cease to exist, however, and the entire story would end up nullified. But the burger joint might still be open since no future money would end up being spent there. So that’s a good thing.
Given that Jeanie and Neil still exist currently, even though the timeline is changed, suggests that going back and stopping the time travel altogether wouldn’t erase the Jeanie and Neil from this story arc
can’t escape this situation with himself can he
back in #681 Natalie the genie didn’t recognize Neil as being her other self so she may not remember being male. This is the only reason I can think of for her letting Jean paw her assets. Jean, your final wish should be “Please don’t hurt me.” Yep, looks like another time travel trip.
Perhaps Natalie’s reaction is along the same line of anyone else would have meeting their doppelganger.
When Jeanie granted Neil’s third wish she was about to be sent away but she and Neil argued for her to stay and guano said yes.
Has Natalie granted Jeans third wish yet? If so, did she choose to stay and is regretting that decision?
Or is the upcoming wish for Jean to sleep with Jeanie? If so there will be a green poof from Natalie granting the wish, followed by a pink poof where Jeanie goes back in time and sleeps with the younger Jean to get the timeline back on track.
Jean would be wishing to sleep with himself. Jeanie could alter the wish and poof the male Jean back in time in his female form from that night. Normally wishes can’t affect free will and force the now female Jean to sleep with himself. Since he technically wished for this that might not apply. After it’s over this would reset the timeline and the other Jean would be erased.
“Normally wishes can’t affect free will”
I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that a wish could not affect a mortal’s free will, nothing was said about a genie’s free will.
After all Jean is sleeping with genie Natalie.
Jean’s not that bright and conceited enough to believe no woman could resist him. He may think Natalie the genie actually wants him even though she used to be male. In the original timeline Lord Guano threatened Jean with imprisonment for 100 years in her bottle unless she kept her master happy. Natalie may have had something similar happen.
@Marvin, If you go check, Guano threaten to imprison Jeanie 100 year if she didn’t grant Neil the third wish and complete the Mandatory three wish for her Master. Then after those three wishes it voluntary for a genie to stay with there Master if he or she want to. Guano telling Jeanie that she need to keep her master happy was kind of an after thought and wasn’t part of the original threat of imprisoning her for 100 years or so.
After everything is fixed, will Neil be angry enough to lecture Jeanie on how she screwed up, and forbid her from time travel or gender changes? And to enforce the point, cork Jeanie in her bottle for a long time?
What Neil should do and what Neil will do, are two different things here. As laid back Neil is, I don’t see him doing that and Jeanie will more or less get away with it too.
Even if Neil did do that, I don’t see Jeanie honoring what Neil has to say anyway. So the maximum that you will see here is Neil making a lot of noise and generating a lot of fluff, but, with no real substance to it and everything go back to what it use to be.
The exact quote was “Very well, you may serve this master for the remainder of his days.” Guano didn’t say anything about keeping him happy although it is kind of understood that that is a bottle genie’s nature. Neil was never very assertive and might be a borderline submissive. Giving in to Jean’s advances may be a combination of the two. Still, it’s obvious from her expression in panel 2 that she is uncomfortable with the arrangement.
Man, how can Neil be friends with him, especially since he is touching her chest.
They are bosom buddies? (Badumtss)
If Jean wants to touch breasts so much, then he should get his own.
He has his own, they are attached to Jeanie
The strip was modded before we saw it?!
Yeah, that’s a thing that happens with this comic plugin that we use. It’ll state the release date as the time that the page goes live, even if I use the “Scheduled delivery” feature that makes it go live several hours or days after I post it. But if I make any changes to a scheduled page before it goes live, it’ll report that as the “modified” date.
Has anyone noticed Natalie’s costume? In the IDoJ TV show, Jeannie had an evil sister (confusingly also called ‘Jeannie’) who was a brunette, and whose costume was in shades of green, rather than pink? (Jeannie’s sister)
Evidently this timeline’s Neil was thinking of that Jeannie, when he opened the bottle!
Hey, that’s a good point! Brunette genie with green clothes totally does match Evil Jeannie.
Maybe Neil secretly has a thing for badgirls?
Another pic: https://i0.wp.com/jacksonupperco.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-11-11-at-11.50.48-AM.png?ssl=1
Interesting. They both have ponytails coming up out of their fezes. A hair feature that our own Jeanie does not have.
I’m not sure how to add a link properly on this thing, but I saved a panel from a while back for just such an occasion.
https://i.imgur.com/0ediQEJ.jpg?1
That was when the Blue Djinn had control over Jeanie body and he or she was trying to contact his faction of the genie’s that followed him instead of Haji.
Natalie didn’t recognize Neil. Did she repress her memories, as a defense mechanism due to her current situation? But still is trying to learn to be an engineer? A sad situation.
Someone mentioned in another comment that Neil may have been behind Jeanie from genie-Natalie’s perspective, when Neil and Jeanie arrived. That might explain why she didn’t recognize herself.
As I mentioned above, perhaps Natalie’s reaction is along the same line of anyone else would have meeting their doppelganger.
Agree with Mike above. If you see someone who looks just like you, you aren’t gonna think “You’re me!” You’re gonna think “who the H*** are YOU?!?”
Last time this Natalie was male she was a teenager, while this Neil is a full grown adult
Not hard to imagine her not immediately recognizing him, especially since she has no reason to suspect that time travel is involved
We don’t know enough about genie-Neil’s story to make an assumption as to when the transformation took place. It’s unlikely to have taken place just after prom and it’s more likely that it occurred after they both arrived in Cocoa Beach, in which case genie-Neil would have been an adult and should recognize himself. The textbooks strongly indicate the latter scenario. And seriously, can you imagine Jean not using that third wish in nearly 10 years of possession?
Whatever Jeanie told Jean in that hotel room was definitely too much information, and Jean used it to get what he considers to be a better future for himself. In order to get the timeline unknotted, Jean is going to have to come out of that hotel room remembering only what Jeanie remembers about that night. Which wasn’t much (but she might be able to use magic to remember more?). However, it does look like Jeanie will have to stop thinking only of herself, and sacrifice her dignity.
A lot of people’s self-image is different from reality, and there can be quite a change from late teens to mid-twenties. I’ve always had difficulty seeing my image in photos. On top of that, G.Neal had no way of knowing about the alternate timeline, no way to know there were time travel shenanigans, and probably no way of knowing what his male adult self would look like. She has no idea who these two people are, or why one of them has her real name.
Jean, however, definitely recognizes Jeanie. Prepare for some panicked time travel by Jeanie, leaving Neal stuck once again. (One of these days, Neal is going to snap.)
I’m still not 100% convinced that Jeanie was actually stupid enough to tell teen-Jean about the future, but you certainly make a strong case.
The only way to un-knot the timeline at this point is for Jean to poof back to the moment before she poofed back in time originally to get a hamburger. Then she explains to her past self everything that happened and to not do it, thus negating all of these timelines.
This should result in this timeline, and thus time-traveling Jean and Neil, to be erased from existence and either taking those altered timelines with them or locking them into their own timestreams that can no longer be accessed or interfered with (thus allowing Fat-Jean and Stripper Nat, or Genie Nat and Jerk Jean to continue existing).
I’d say this is exactly as I predicted, but my comments on the previous pages show I predicted something else.
Also, I’ve never hated Jean so much as I do now.
So Tg jean so he could learn a listen or just for fun. But would Jean learn from that at all?
I think it’s fairly obvious what happened here.
This timeline has two significant differences to the original:
1) Teen Jean didn’t get to shag anyone on prom night, even though he might have later boasted about doing so, and
2) Neil got to spend some quality time with Zoey.
So, combining those and extrapolating, it seems likely that, instead of Neil and Jean looking for a present for his girlfriend Belle, Jean and Neil were out looking for a present, probably for Neil’s girlfriend, presumably Zoey.
And so this time, it was Neil that popped the top on the bottle, and presto, tits on a Ritz.
Therefore, for the last year-and-a-half, or so, Neil has been living as a woman, evidently controlled by adult Jean as her master, and essentially functioning as a magical sex slave. (Judging from her reluctant agreement in Panel 2.)
It’s also clear that, in Panel 4, adult Jean may not know who Jeannie is, but he immediately pegs her for a genie. (Probably the pink poof gave her away.)
Excellent theory. The one flaw might be that an egotistical Jean would certainly use all three wishes because he would assume he knows the deal and not bother asking for a manual like Neil did. If he doesn’t know three is the limit, he’s probably going to use them all. That would trigger the arrival of Guano to take his new young genie off to find a new master and “Natalie ” is not going to beg to remain as jean’s sex slave.
And I agree that Jean would key on the pink poof, but Jeanie resembling Barbara Eden would be an even stronger trigger. Remember, he said “I would so do her.”
Very awkward indeed. This timeline’s Jean is a horrible jerk, to put it very, very mildly. I see a possible Genie fight happening, if Jean the jerk orders Natalie Genie to deal with Genie Jean.
Perhaps Jean the jerk will be poofed into a a non magical version twin of girl Jean. There would be two identical blonde girl Jeans in pink harem costumes, one magical, the other not magical. To confuse things more, Genie Jean then claims to be the real Jean the jerk! There would be two twin Jean’s claiming to be the real Jean the jerk, arguing face to face with each other, and no one can tell which Jean is which Jean. A pair of identical female Jeans arguing with themselves, or is it themself, what a hoot!
If the Jeans are both fundamentally Jean, making both masters, can Genie Jean command genie Natalie too? Which Jean, is which Jean, which is the master of Natalie Genie, one, or both? When genie Natalie figures out that the other Neal is his/her non magical male version from another timeline it should be interesting. Genie Natalie is a lot smarter than Jean the jerk, so Natalie, and Neal might figure out a way to fix things.
Or to confuse things more genie Jean, or genie Natalie could turn Neal into a non magical twin of genie Natalie! Who can command the correct genie Natalie? Genie Natalie’s likely memorized the Genie instruction manual, and figured it out, allowing her to possibly escape her situation with Jean the Jerk.
Encountering her Jean the jerk, version of herself, genie Jean would have to face what a terrible person she is down deep. Having been a woman for so long has caused her to think more like a woman than a man. Genie Jean would be horrified at the realization that her male side is a really bad person! So much so that she rejects, and erases the remaining male side of her personality, becoming mentally, and psychologically a true woman!
I wonder if this Natalie went through all of Jeanie’s adventures.