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.
Agreed on what Jeanie’s plan is, but no problem forgetting Neil. He is currently playing chess, since Jeanie came back to a time *before* she grabbed Neil and *poofed* into the bottle on UltimateWish Island. That future timeline doesn’t exist yet (and hopefully, won’t ever exist).
I’m actually a bit surprised Jeanie didn’t try to keep the reality where Jean gets everything and try to reintegrate his/her two selves. Only reason I wouldn’t in her place is because I feel sorry for Neal/I-Dream-Of-Natalie.
Eh, w/e, Hope this last newest reality has Neal getting together with Zoe.
Knock him out with a bat, write down a fake note saying that it was the best sex she ever had (nothing too flattering), hope Jean buys it, and return to his timeline which finally gets fixed….
I believe it’s going to be a drunk Jean, being lead to believe he had sex. Like I pointed to a while back when this mess started.
If however Jeanie actually goes through with it, it will not end well for Neil. As I’m sure Jeanie may start to wonder about how much different Neil is considering what Belle said.
Considering she mentions how the minibar’s gonna come in handy, either her plan is to get her past self drunk until he falls asleep and forgets what happened… Or she’s gonna need to be drunk to consider sleeping with her past self.
Either way, it’ll be interesting to see what happens to Neil, since he was left in an alternate present.
I am betting that Jeanie going to get Jean bombed senseless, because, Jean didn’t remember what happened that night. That also line up with what Jean remembers what happened that night or didn’t happen that night, because, everything was foggy to him that he even didn’t remember his date name even. Evidently Jean just woke up in the hotel room and just assumed that he did it and he was going on that and was what Jeanie of the future remembered happening in the past. If this is so, then Jeanie finally got it right and the future that they came from is finally back where it suppose to be.
Maybe Jeanie hopes to get blackout drunk so she doesn’t remember what sex as a woman with a man is like. Kind of like when you get a conscious colonoscopy; the anesthetic they give you lets you stay awake to warn if something goes wrong, but you don’t remember the procedure afterwards. (I’m pretty sure that’s deliberate, but I’ve never met anyone who remembers their colonoscopy, so I don’t know what it is they don’t want you to remember!)
Perfect ending to this story really. Jeanie finally realises that she’s been somewhat cruel to Natalie and wants to take responsibility for her actions. Finally accepting she’s a woman now and taking care of the situation by herself… With herself (Not gay lol). Now she can return to Neil with nothing to prove or hide.
It’s also been established that Jean is bad at sex because he only cares about his own enjoyment, and that Jeanie is either ignorant of that or in denial about it. However, “bad at sex” is pretty much guaranteed in this case because it’s effectively the first time on both sides, and teenage Jean is undoubtedly dumb enough to think life imitates porn.
Well, that’s time when the music starts and readers see 3-10 variants of future, all failure. After that Jeannie find bravery and deal with the mess once and for all.
As Neil actually read the Kindle version of the Big Book of Genie Lore, I’d be surprised if he can’t. And that would make that timeline the one where Natalie is a genie who used to be stuck on Ultimate Fantasy Island with an abusive master.
My personal “Happy Ending” for that timeline has Neil in possession of the bottle, wishing himself (with the bottle) back in Cocoa Beach to try and pick up the life that Natalie can’t plausible fit into anymore, while his new sister makes whatever life she wants, like that one bottle genie, Asha. And Jean is still on Ultimate Fantasy Island, with none of his wants coming true anymore because there’s no genie there to grant his wants.
If there is only one timeline, then the one with Natalie the genie no longer exists. (It’s still unknown whether Jeanie has “fixed” the timeline, but she is busy altering it in the hotel room.)
If there are multiple timelines, then they all exist, and there will always be (at least) one where Natalie is a genie stuck on Ultimate Fantasy Island with an abusive master.
Right. From which we can deduce that there is only one timeline. If there were multiple timelines, there would be no need for Jean and Neil to go through any of this. They could just *poof* from the bad alternate timeline back to their original timeline. No need to attempt to repair things since all timelines exist, and have always existed.
Except that there is no way to retrieve Neil from that timeline (since the bottle belongs to Genie Natalie in that universe).
Which means that the Neil we all know and love is stuck in that reality for good. There is only one other Neil, the highschool version of him. As prom Natalie/Future Neil was left behind on that island so she isn’t busy playing chess in another room.
I guess Guano is going to have a long talk with Jeanie after this whole mess is over….
Jeanie keeps returning to the same point in time for the do-overs. In theory, that act of returning to the moment standing at the hotel room door could mean that rather than creating branching realities based on her subsequent actions, that moment is a reset point that overwrites the other alternative timelines. (Or not– it’s CD’s call, not ours.) If so, the only person who might face the consequences of the various timelines might be Jeanie herself as she is the only one to exist in and thus experience what happened in each variation. That would save Neil from both his fate as a genie and from being left behind in the bottle of his genie counterpart. Whether it would save him from reliving the several years from prom night to the present as Natalie would be less clear, though, as Natalie in the first alternative timeline told Jeanie not to forget her. That might just mean Jeanie must always remember that the alternative timeline Natalie existed, but it might also mean that the first alternative version of Natalie has to now exist in the regular timeline. If so, both she and Neil would have coexisted from prom night through the moment that Neil and Jeanie went back in time. Once the timeline is returned to normal Natalie would still be here after the time travel adventure ends but Neil would no longer coexist in the present along with her; there would just be Natalie until she commands Jeanie to change her back into Neil. (And if that is the case, I do hope Natalie waits until after she covers her co-worker’s shift to command Jeanie to turn her back into a guy . Whether male or female, Neil/Natalie is too nice to leave someone in the lurch.)
@ the other Tom: I like this reset point theory; it can explain a way for the universe to return to normal despite Jeanie’s shenanigans. I believe your theory is best applied if the time stream is linear, though. If they are parallel universes, then all alternate timestreams are possible. But you’re right, there is too much love for Natalie in all her guises to leave her hanging in the wind, and Julia does need that shift covered.
If you look at her arm in the last panel, that shows a lot. Crossing your arms across your chest shows that you are closed off. One arm held like that usually shows that you feel vulnerable, yet resigned. I catch myself doing this every now and then. I think there’s gonna be some action in the room. 🙂
For this to be the cycle-buster, Jeanie actually has to become pregnant by Neil. She got into this fix by figuring out this is why her memory of the night got clouded.
There’s still a catch, though. If Jeanie gets so drunk she passes out before she has sex, what if Jean has enough conscience after all to not have sex without her consent? Given the older pre-genie Jean’s disgust with ex-Zoe’s drunken nastiness, this could (sort of) fit.
A more honest approach: THE TRUTH! (Feel free to use Will Smith or Robin Williams in your headcanon for the voice).
Jeanie tells Jean she is actually his future self and how screwed up she’s made things so far, and that making her pregnant may be the only way to keep things from getting even worse.
Which brings up the question: Now that Jean knows the truth, is he “up” to do his part?
Why pregnant? The most obvious solution is to try to remember as much as possible about what Jean experienced and reproduce the memory. Given that Jeannie didn’t even originally remember the name of his date, why a memory of fathering a child? The
The issue with that is that Jean would have probably remembered that he did that. Instead we saw that the memory made her wanna puke her guts out (knowing what he did with the “mysterious blonde”)
I’m betting they both get really drunk before the inevitable brief, sloppy encounter, leading to Jean having happy but hazy memories of his first time with a briefly obtainable dream girl. He’ll always know it was real but he’ll be fuzzy on the specifics. Jeanie will also know it was real but can seek some comfort knowing the alternatives were worse–and that she was also drunk enough to be fuzzy on the specifics. And who knows? Maybe they’ll prove to be so perfectly compatible that they’ll actually have a good time. Maybe whatever Lahab offered to do to fix Jeanie’s Guano problem means it’s the “who” and not the “what” Jeanie objects to.
Has it occurred to anyone that this may be the start of Jean’s I Dream of Jeannie fixation? That Jean may have been subconsciously attracted to the show because Jeannie triggered fond memories of the girl of his dreams, not realizing that he will be the girl of his dreams? Maybe he’s gone through all of those women looking for the one who, ironically enough, was truly unobtainable until he literally “got” her, body and soul?
“Reset #2! I wonder what Jeanie’s going to do this time…?”
Unfortunately, Jeanie knows EXACTLY what she’s gonna do to past Jean, using her OWN MEMORY to do it as closely as possible.
Well, episodes 669, 676 – 677, – they can be scrolled in the second circle, but with an alternative ending and a different turn of events – is it so???
I hope these alternate timelines collapse, as if they never happened. I would feel bad for genie Natalie, betrayed and raped by her best friend.
Let’s hope the timeline is cleaned up this time!
Well, thinking about Neil in the bottle in the alternate timeline…since the genie of that bottle IS Neil/Natalie… Maybe we end up with twin genie Natalies? 😀
That’s the most likely outcome for Neil’s current situation. Since Jeanie can’t go back to retrieve Neil without Natalie’s permission to enter the bottle, so he is currently stuck in that version of reality unless someone like Lord Guano’s saves him from it.
So Original Neil’s fate will likely be the same as Natalie’s. Well….that’s only if that timeline isn’t erased in the process by the 3rd reset/retry.
I think this would count as self service since it’s essentially the same person in two bodies. Jeanie has the advantage over Jean since she already knows what turns him on. She could possibly trigger an early response from him as he is in a drunken stupor. Then again she could just go invisible and have a solid illusion take her place.
Hope Guano or her mother-in-law doesn’t find out. Then again, is having sex with yourself considered adultery or just single sex?
Guess what Jean you masturbated, sorta. LOL
The only way to solve this problem is for Jeanie to sleep with himself/herself. Which is exactly the situation he tried to get away from in the previous comic.
The definition of Irony folks, thy name is Jeanie.
Gahd, I hate time travel stories. About the only one I really enjoyed was “The Technicolor Time Machine”. Paradoxes and such plus the absolute impossibility renders my suspension of disbelief to near zero.
It looks a little like this years Easter Banner might be Ethen. Since we can’t have two genies in one bottle or maybe we can I would have to vote for Natalie the Liberian. She is so demure and sweet.
Take one for his own ego not to grow and never tell anyone. So it’s good he forgot about Neil this time.
Agreed on what Jeanie’s plan is, but no problem forgetting Neil. He is currently playing chess, since Jeanie came back to a time *before* she grabbed Neil and *poofed* into the bottle on UltimateWish Island. That future timeline doesn’t exist yet (and hopefully, won’t ever exist).
I’m actually a bit surprised Jeanie didn’t try to keep the reality where Jean gets everything and try to reintegrate his/her two selves. Only reason I wouldn’t in her place is because I feel sorry for Neal/I-Dream-Of-Natalie.
Eh, w/e, Hope this last newest reality has Neal getting together with Zoe.
I don’t think her mother-in-law would allow it she wants grand kids from her and Guano
Natalie would work just as well for that. Probably better, by the look of things.
Knock him out with a bat, write down a fake note saying that it was the best sex she ever had (nothing too flattering), hope Jean buys it, and return to his timeline which finally gets fixed….
Oh and leaving Neil behind….again.
I believe it’s going to be a drunk Jean, being lead to believe he had sex. Like I pointed to a while back when this mess started.
If however Jeanie actually goes through with it, it will not end well for Neil. As I’m sure Jeanie may start to wonder about how much different Neil is considering what Belle said.
knock Jean out leave a note that he just had sex with his future self. LOL
I guess its the only way to be sure. Now we just need to make sure Natalie is ok in the next comic.
Considering she mentions how the minibar’s gonna come in handy, either her plan is to get her past self drunk until he falls asleep and forgets what happened… Or she’s gonna need to be drunk to consider sleeping with her past self.
Either way, it’ll be interesting to see what happens to Neil, since he was left in an alternate present.
I am betting that Jeanie going to get Jean bombed senseless, because, Jean didn’t remember what happened that night. That also line up with what Jean remembers what happened that night or didn’t happen that night, because, everything was foggy to him that he even didn’t remember his date name even. Evidently Jean just woke up in the hotel room and just assumed that he did it and he was going on that and was what Jeanie of the future remembered happening in the past. If this is so, then Jeanie finally got it right and the future that they came from is finally back where it suppose to be.
Maybe Jeanie hopes to get blackout drunk so she doesn’t remember what sex as a woman with a man is like. Kind of like when you get a conscious colonoscopy; the anesthetic they give you lets you stay awake to warn if something goes wrong, but you don’t remember the procedure afterwards. (I’m pretty sure that’s deliberate, but I’ve never met anyone who remembers their colonoscopy, so I don’t know what it is they don’t want you to remember!)
Actually I slept thru mine. Awoke enough once to see what was on the monitor and my mind Noped itself back into sleep.
So far she hasn’t felt ill so she’s still on track?
Perfect ending to this story really. Jeanie finally realises that she’s been somewhat cruel to Natalie and wants to take responsibility for her actions. Finally accepting she’s a woman now and taking care of the situation by herself… With herself (Not gay lol). Now she can return to Neil with nothing to prove or hide.
I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. Besides, it’s been established that Jean is bad at sex, so Jeanie is in for a bad time regardless.
It’s also been established that Jean is bad at sex because he only cares about his own enjoyment, and that Jeanie is either ignorant of that or in denial about it. However, “bad at sex” is pretty much guaranteed in this case because it’s effectively the first time on both sides, and teenage Jean is undoubtedly dumb enough to think life imitates porn.
> it’s been established that Jean is bad at sex
Has it? We just know that Neil is a lot better at it… as a male. We have no idea what *Jeanie* will be like in bed.
Ha, ha, good one.
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You weren’t serious, were you?
She’s created no less than two new universes.
Well, that’s time when the music starts and readers see 3-10 variants of future, all failure. After that Jeannie find bravery and deal with the mess once and for all.
Dr. Strange: Oh Swell! I’M The Guest Star, and I’ve Got To Mop Up This Mess!
Kinda sucks that genie Natalie from the other timeline is stuck with the worst version of Jean. I wish Jeanie would have saved her.
Assuming that timeline still exist, she has her own Neil now. Maybe they can figure out something.
As Neil actually read the Kindle version of the Big Book of Genie Lore, I’d be surprised if he can’t. And that would make that timeline the one where Natalie is a genie who used to be stuck on Ultimate Fantasy Island with an abusive master.
My personal “Happy Ending” for that timeline has Neil in possession of the bottle, wishing himself (with the bottle) back in Cocoa Beach to try and pick up the life that Natalie can’t plausible fit into anymore, while his new sister makes whatever life she wants, like that one bottle genie, Asha. And Jean is still on Ultimate Fantasy Island, with none of his wants coming true anymore because there’s no genie there to grant his wants.
If there is only one timeline, then the one with Natalie the genie no longer exists. (It’s still unknown whether Jeanie has “fixed” the timeline, but she is busy altering it in the hotel room.)
If there are multiple timelines, then they all exist, and there will always be (at least) one where Natalie is a genie stuck on Ultimate Fantasy Island with an abusive master.
Right. From which we can deduce that there is only one timeline. If there were multiple timelines, there would be no need for Jean and Neil to go through any of this. They could just *poof* from the bad alternate timeline back to their original timeline. No need to attempt to repair things since all timelines exist, and have always existed.
She os going to turn him into a Jennie, hence why the wet bar would be so handy! She needs a bottle.
A 2-oz miniature? Now THAT’S really pushing the “Amazing Cosmic Power/TINY little living space” meme.
That’s the 3rd time she’s left Neil behind right? If we count times left in the future ..
Is a version of Jean still taking Nat to the bad future or has reality collapsed? Nat is also changing history with the chess game …
Except that there is no way to retrieve Neil from that timeline (since the bottle belongs to Genie Natalie in that universe).
Which means that the Neil we all know and love is stuck in that reality for good. There is only one other Neil, the highschool version of him. As prom Natalie/Future Neil was left behind on that island so she isn’t busy playing chess in another room.
I guess Guano is going to have a long talk with Jeanie after this whole mess is over….
Jeanie keeps returning to the same point in time for the do-overs. In theory, that act of returning to the moment standing at the hotel room door could mean that rather than creating branching realities based on her subsequent actions, that moment is a reset point that overwrites the other alternative timelines. (Or not– it’s CD’s call, not ours.) If so, the only person who might face the consequences of the various timelines might be Jeanie herself as she is the only one to exist in and thus experience what happened in each variation. That would save Neil from both his fate as a genie and from being left behind in the bottle of his genie counterpart. Whether it would save him from reliving the several years from prom night to the present as Natalie would be less clear, though, as Natalie in the first alternative timeline told Jeanie not to forget her. That might just mean Jeanie must always remember that the alternative timeline Natalie existed, but it might also mean that the first alternative version of Natalie has to now exist in the regular timeline. If so, both she and Neil would have coexisted from prom night through the moment that Neil and Jeanie went back in time. Once the timeline is returned to normal Natalie would still be here after the time travel adventure ends but Neil would no longer coexist in the present along with her; there would just be Natalie until she commands Jeanie to change her back into Neil. (And if that is the case, I do hope Natalie waits until after she covers her co-worker’s shift to command Jeanie to turn her back into a guy . Whether male or female, Neil/Natalie is too nice to leave someone in the lurch.)
@ the other Tom: I like this reset point theory; it can explain a way for the universe to return to normal despite Jeanie’s shenanigans. I believe your theory is best applied if the time stream is linear, though. If they are parallel universes, then all alternate timestreams are possible. But you’re right, there is too much love for Natalie in all her guises to leave her hanging in the wind, and Julia does need that shift covered.
The next arc will involve dealing with the Trans-Dimensional Council of Neils.
If you look at her arm in the last panel, that shows a lot. Crossing your arms across your chest shows that you are closed off. One arm held like that usually shows that you feel vulnerable, yet resigned. I catch myself doing this every now and then. I think there’s gonna be some action in the room. 🙂
For this to be the cycle-buster, Jeanie actually has to become pregnant by Neil. She got into this fix by figuring out this is why her memory of the night got clouded.
There’s still a catch, though. If Jeanie gets so drunk she passes out before she has sex, what if Jean has enough conscience after all to not have sex without her consent? Given the older pre-genie Jean’s disgust with ex-Zoe’s drunken nastiness, this could (sort of) fit.
A more honest approach: THE TRUTH! (Feel free to use Will Smith or Robin Williams in your headcanon for the voice).
Jeanie tells Jean she is actually his future self and how screwed up she’s made things so far, and that making her pregnant may be the only way to keep things from getting even worse.
Which brings up the question: Now that Jean knows the truth, is he “up” to do his part?
Why pregnant? The most obvious solution is to try to remember as much as possible about what Jean experienced and reproduce the memory. Given that Jeannie didn’t even originally remember the name of his date, why a memory of fathering a child? The
@Tom Sewell: I don’t understand where this “Jean’s disgust with ex-Zoe’s drunken nastiness” comes from.
The issue with that is that Jean would have probably remembered that he did that. Instead we saw that the memory made her wanna puke her guts out (knowing what he did with the “mysterious blonde”)
This part… ex-Zoe’s
I’m betting they both get really drunk before the inevitable brief, sloppy encounter, leading to Jean having happy but hazy memories of his first time with a briefly obtainable dream girl. He’ll always know it was real but he’ll be fuzzy on the specifics. Jeanie will also know it was real but can seek some comfort knowing the alternatives were worse–and that she was also drunk enough to be fuzzy on the specifics. And who knows? Maybe they’ll prove to be so perfectly compatible that they’ll actually have a good time. Maybe whatever Lahab offered to do to fix Jeanie’s Guano problem means it’s the “who” and not the “what” Jeanie objects to.
Has it occurred to anyone that this may be the start of Jean’s I Dream of Jeannie fixation? That Jean may have been subconsciously attracted to the show because Jeannie triggered fond memories of the girl of his dreams, not realizing that he will be the girl of his dreams? Maybe he’s gone through all of those women looking for the one who, ironically enough, was truly unobtainable until he literally “got” her, body and soul?
Interesting idea, Jeanie is Jean dream girl.
Jeanie’s going to have to tell Jean how bad he was in bed. Oughta be easy ’cause it’ll be true.
“Reset #2! I wonder what Jeanie’s going to do this time…?”
Unfortunately, Jeanie knows EXACTLY what she’s gonna do to past Jean, using her OWN MEMORY to do it as closely as possible.
I believe I am going to throw up now.
Well, episodes 669, 676 – 677, – they can be scrolled in the second circle, but with an alternative ending and a different turn of events – is it so???
I hope these alternate timelines collapse, as if they never happened. I would feel bad for genie Natalie, betrayed and raped by her best friend.
Let’s hope the timeline is cleaned up this time!
Well, thinking about Neil in the bottle in the alternate timeline…since the genie of that bottle IS Neil/Natalie… Maybe we end up with twin genie Natalies? 😀
That’s the most likely outcome for Neil’s current situation. Since Jeanie can’t go back to retrieve Neil without Natalie’s permission to enter the bottle, so he is currently stuck in that version of reality unless someone like Lord Guano’s saves him from it.
So Original Neil’s fate will likely be the same as Natalie’s. Well….that’s only if that timeline isn’t erased in the process by the 3rd reset/retry.
I think this would count as self service since it’s essentially the same person in two bodies. Jeanie has the advantage over Jean since she already knows what turns him on. She could possibly trigger an early response from him as he is in a drunken stupor. Then again she could just go invisible and have a solid illusion take her place.
Oh no you mean she will fake it LOL
You mean like in part 71 when she duplicated Neil.
Hope Guano or her mother-in-law doesn’t find out. Then again, is having sex with yourself considered adultery or just single sex?
Guess what Jean you masturbated, sorta. LOL
what this 4th time the charm
Is this just a big time loop?
“Third times the charm…”
-old genie proverb.
The only way to solve this problem is for Jeanie to sleep with himself/herself. Which is exactly the situation he tried to get away from in the previous comic.
The definition of Irony folks, thy name is Jeanie.
Gahd, I hate time travel stories. About the only one I really enjoyed was “The Technicolor Time Machine”. Paradoxes and such plus the absolute impossibility renders my suspension of disbelief to near zero.
But magic genies, witches, and (semi?) permanent gender changes are well within your suspended belief? 🙂
I agree with you regarding time travel! It breaks my enjoyment of any story, hard science fiction, fantasy, etc.
A pretty good time travel story was Sailer Sun. Berry and Honey were both travelers and got to stay in the time line. We can still keep Natalie.
Which one?
I like em both.
Good call… today you win the internet.
It looks a little like this years Easter Banner might be Ethen. Since we can’t have two genies in one bottle or maybe we can I would have to vote for Natalie the Liberian. She is so demure and sweet.
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