117: The Melvin Chronicles, with a Special Appearance by…
Mar21
on March 21, 2021
at 1:01 AM
Well well… Seems that Blue had not considered that an unconscious genie isn’t entirely helpless.
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Cast
Helen GriffinEldest of the Griffin sisters, and high ranking member of the Southeil Student Council. Melvin’s Fiancée. Comics: 6 |
KazomKazom is a 3,000 year old genie. In order to conserve power and thereby extend his life, Kazom does as little magic as possible. He is bound in the form of the Clark family's cat and mostly just lays around Melvin's Room. Comics: 157 |
UranusComics: 5 |
VerónicaYoungest member of the High Council of Witches, feared for her natural dominion of the dark arts. In truth, she is a shy and romantic girl who takes her responsibilities as a witch and a student really seriously. She attends the Southeil Academy as a student to supervise the recruitment of new witches. Comics: 7 |
she appeared via Christina Aguilera’s “Genie In A Bottle”?! also, you forgot to add Asha’s bio into the Cast List. p.s., I got a message for Kazom: Want me to notify your Next of Kin? by the way, “Oh, Son of a GOAT!” nice touch.
Asha doesn’t have a bio for the MC site for now. Depending of how many pages she ends appearing in, I may add one, but for now it’s just a plot relevant cameo.
oh. did you get what i wrote for Kazom, and what came after it?
@willis To be perfectly honest, I didn’t get anything of what you said about Kazom later, but you said “nice touch”, so I decided to stay silent, and take the credit for any compliment you were giving there! But now that the man behind the curtain has been reveal, may as well ask what are you referencing there, or what you think I did!
Oh yeah, Róni and Helen are young. Forgot about that.
Also, just thought of this, but is there a reason Róni’s not wearing her school uniform but Helen is?
@He Who Abides Verónica just allows her natural dream self to take shape without much of a thought. Meanwhile, Helen has enough problems getting into Hypnos as it is, mostly because she is still making an effort to keep her current shape in the dream world, so it’s a conscious decision on her part to look this way.
@Carlos: what i meant was.. I asked Kazom if he wanted me to notify his next of kin, because for a Cat Familiar he’s gonna be a Dead Duck. and that Son of a GOAT! line was a nice touch.
So Asha was rescued. What does that mean for the other victims of the Blue Djinn? Hopefully Jeanie was able to resurrect some of them, or at least exorcize the ghosts that were haunting her.
Well, not as much as rescued, but at least someone did find her… inside her own dream. I have been extremely slow through this storyline, but in short these events are taking place the morning after Asha’s encounter with Blue. What Blue didn’t knew when leaving Asha in a coma, is that witches would first, have any business in the dream world, and second, that they would also had some currently business with an ex-genie lord.
< goes back and rereads Jeanie's and Kazom's interaction at the time of Blue's defeat.
This doesn’t seem to mesh with what appeared in I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle #555. There, Araceli phones Kazom with her cell phone from inside her bottle… or did something interfere with that? Or did he already know?
Yes, Araceli did give Kazom a call. It’s going to be a looooooooooong day for Kazom once he is out of this meeting.
Probably the longest since the day that Thomas Clark died.
God damn! Who ever cares what happens to these random elves or whoever they are?! Where is Melvin and gang?! If you didn’t plan to continue their story, why did you ever started doing it?! Nothing about our heroes for weeks!
I actually agree, to be honest, and I am thankful for the feedback. Let me be clear, this project is far more complicated than what I expected, and being my first time ever actively writing had made it a learning experience, though I am fully aware I have make way to many mistakes along the road so far.
With that said, continuing the story as it was origibally left, wasn’t as easy as one may expect. I was very clear that at the time the new run started, all contact with the previous writing team was lost, and details about all the on going storylines were unknown. That leave me with:
– Melvin having uncontrolable outbursts of magic.
– Witch Hunters with seemingly authority over the law we knew next to nothing about.
-At least two factions of witches being after Melvin. And more implied to come.
-A magic store of unknown origin.
-A very dangerous magic book tie to Melvin’s missing father.
-Next to none supporting cast outside one adult that can’t be part of the school life, two school mates, one of which with only on page at their name, and a rival who was going to jail last we heard of him, plus the barely introduce parents.
-And a huge cliffhanger that was tie up to the then major antagonist on Jeanie Bottle.
It was just un realistic to take over all those storylines at once without a clear idea as to what was the plan for them to begin with. So, this whole and painfuly long chapter was made to settle MOST of those storylines, introduce the supporting cast, and the overall story and “rules” moving forward.
Melvin magic is under control, as well as his intentions with it. The origin an meaning of the book are reveal, some backstory about both Melvin and the story of this world were stablished, as well as most of the factions, their intentions and what it’s keeping them under control. I recognize I introduce way to many characters at once and I wish I would had handle it better but this should work as the supporting cast now, for the heroes to interact with, from either school (both of them), home or anything in between. And even then I still need to properly handle the witch hunters eventually.
Again I admit, this whole exposition chapter could and should had been handle better, and many factors outside my control get in the way as well, but even then, it was all made with the purposes of building a base to work with. I do apologize for the poor pacing, and clearly reaching the limit, but again, is a learning experience, and I had a hard task to work with.
Even then, with all the challenges and mistakes along the way, and as much as I regret some decisions I made through the story, or rather their portrayal, I am still happy and even proud with the work so far, and intent to keep improving as a writer and artist. I take this “job” bacause I care for this story, and intent to give it a proper ending some day. With that said, I won’t pretend to be perfect, and I am willing to own my mistakes. Again, thanks for the feedback. With that said, I do hope you stick around a little longer. Ironic as this may sound, we were actually just a page away (this very page, above this comments) to go back to the main gang, and the main story once and for all. After all this time, everything I wanted to establish with this de tour, from backstory to characters has been done, It is time to end this chapter already.
Aight, so I think it would be right to tell what do I expect from this comic. Magic. As much as possible. Random outbursts from Melvin. Some maybe artifacts from BJ’s mom store. More transformations of Red, suddenly growing bigger boobs or become doll-sized. As much TG-transformations as possible (just look at the last panel of jeanniebottle.com – fanservice! yes, the guy understands what we – fans – want, exactly this). You do really well on your deviantart page – funny situations involving magic and embarassment. Cool, I like it, I just wish you’ll post something like that more often there.
But this comic is disappointingly turning into looooong talks of characters I totally don’t care of. No magic, no fun 🙁
Well, that’s exactly what I want to tell from now on. There is a reason I keep making that content on DA and Patreon. Again, this chapter got a little out of hand here, but it’s purposes has been fulfil. Some of this characters may not amount ton much now, but they all were introduce to force Melvin into some magic mayhem in the very near future.
I find it interesting that Helen looks more upset than confused. I could be misinterpreting her expression but I might not be.