200: For a Bright and Messy Future!
And what a messy future it appears to be!
Sorry for another extended delay on this one. I only realized this week that the incoming milestone of 200 pages of my run on the Melvin Chronicles was approaching, and I wanted to do something slightly special to celebrate.
It’s crazy to think how long this has been going (it’s actually slightly more than 200, counting Red’s little side story). I know the journey has been kind of rocky, between the delays, hiatuses, and me losing the plot a couple of times. Still, it has been a learning experience all the way through. One where I want to believe I have grown as an author, and have come to make a modest living off these goofy characters I’ve grow to love, after literal years of making them “my own”.
I really owe a lot to CD for giving me this chance, and to Robert for keeping up with my bad grammar (I’m making this post behind his back, so he probably will need to touch it up later (Robert’s edit: yup!). This comic would be illegible without his help
I really want to thank you guys for sticking with me on my convoluted ride; both through the lows, and what I hope may have been some highs. I wouldn’t be here without your support. Now to make another 200 pages, so we can figure out what even is going on in this vision of the future!
Panel 1: not mess up MY future any further?
Who is pink hair? And why do Red and Holly have two different colored eyes?
The pink haired girl is JJ, BJ’s sister.
Normally, Holly has blue eyes, while Red’s are green. Probably some magic going on there.
Really? I thought she was Rose, the succubus.
I dunno – I’m pretty sure Rose didn’t have glasses.
But a little magic could turn JJ into a succubus-wannabe.
Hollum says she has no name yet.
OK, I’m wrong. Hollum says that the catgirl to the left of Holly is JJ.
The pink haired girl is untagged and has no name yet.
Way to go Carlos and congratulations for hitting 200 comics.
It’s been a real pleasure to get to know you, Hollum, and help you ride this train for an amazing 200+ pages! Here’s to many hundreds more. 🙂
I feel like we missed something. How is Barbara Eden an excuse for Kahin to have mucked up saving the Blue Djinn in the 1960’s??
He can’t be talking about Ms Eden, since she (Rouyaa) hadn’t been made mortal yet. And he can’t be confusing our Jeannie with the TV character, since Jeannie hadn’t yet been genie-fied by the bottle.
Guano is the one that was credited in the 60s with defeating Blue, and we never did find out exactly how he did that, save that he, himself, said that it wasn’t any big deal, implying that it was some sort of lucky accident.
So… just what all did this backstory cover? And how does Barbara Eden fit in to it?
The answer as to how Barbara Eden is involve on the fall of the Blue Djinn it’s simple and kind of sad. Mel’s reaction says it all.
It obviously (to me) has something to do with Jean obsessing over Barbara Eden and becoming Jeanie. Blue then decides to take over Jeanie’s body which eventually leads to her becoming an infant. Thus ending Blue’s ambitions and Kahin’s plans.
I think Kahin was the one obsessed with Barbara, and thus with Blue-Jeanie. He wanted the genderbendering to happen.
If you recall, first thing Kahin did when meeting his “Queen” was grabbing her hooters. That’s how much of an infatuated leecher he is.
Except that all happened in the post-2000 period. Melvin was referring to the (first) defeat of the Blue Djinn, back in the 1960s, before the TV show with Barbara Eden even started.
Yes, but Kahin sees potential futures, and would have seen these timelines many decades in advance.
So Melvin’s question is still valid, and unanswered: How, and why, with 800 years to plan, did Kahin still manage to screw up back in the 1960s, and allow the Blue Djinn to be defeated by (of all people) Guano?
OK, I have a guess. Hollum can tell us whether I’m close.
Apparently, in the first episode of Season 2 of “I Dream of Jeannie”, Tony releases the evil Blue Djinn, (played by Michael Ansara, Barbara Eden’s real-life husband!) and Jeannie tricks him back into his bottle. (I never saw this episode, I’m reading the synopsis from Wikipedia.)
Now, my guess is that, in this comic, [somehow] the (real) Blue Djinn teleported himself onto the set of the actual IDoJ TV show, and [somehow] Barbara Eden, the human actress, managed to defeat him, while posing as a genie. And [somehow], all the genies thought that Guano did it.
And Kahin wasn’t able to stop this, because his ability to predict the future isn’t all so great as he likes to make it sound, plus he gets distracted any time beautiful women (like Barbara Eden) are around.
This accounts for Rouyaa’s comment to Guano (back in the 1960s) about how he defeated the Blue Djinn, his response that he really didn’t do much; Kazom’s subsequent poor opinion of Guano, and also now Melvin’s comment about how Barbara Eden screwed up Kahin’s plan.
OK, Hollum, how’s that?
Up to the moment Kahin introduced himself to Melvin, everything has been going according to plan. That’s really all I can said, as stated by the information given in each page.
On the plus side, BJ has a guaranteed reunion with his feline love interest.
Yeah. Maybe Melvin can turn BJ into a cat, and they can have some fun together.
So I wonder how JJ gets horns and pink hair.
Hair color and some Halloween props. Probably from the same place that Holly got the samurai sword.
Speaking of props, I can’t help but notice a certain ring on Red’s right hand ring finger. I wonder if that is the same ring she picked up a couple of strips ago.
And Holly has a brilliant green eye and a dark presence behind.
Add the possibility of JJ being under Rose’s influence, and Melvin gets an harem of possessed girlfriends.
There are nine characters but only eight tags. JJ is behind Holy. Crystal has made a crossover?
No, JJ has glasses, and dyes her hair. I think the pink-haired one is JJ.
The one to the left of Holly is a catgirl. Saachi, cat-ified, I think? The hair is the right color.
Hollum, he’s right – there’s one untagged character. Who is it?
The Pink Haired girl is un tagged. JJ is a cat girl. Sorry for letting the speculation train derail for this long, I usually don’t like to mess up with fan speculation, but this is starting to feel like a mistake on my part :sweat:
Maybe tag her as “Pink-Hair” ??
As a side note, Holly’s sense of fashion is improving.
A black crop top, a trench coat, and a katana – she looks like she’s ready to be in an episode of Highlander.
That would be cool, if she was an Immortal.
I forgot about Saachi
I think I can answer Melvin’s question about how Barbara Eden messed up the time line. It is in “I dream of a promotion” panel 515. Kahin got a little bit naughty.
Do links work here in comments? https://jeaniebottle.com/?comic=jeanie-bottle-515
Also, I think this didn’t actually happened yet, that it’s future from this point of time.
This actually looks as quite interesting future …
… will we have it or do they succeed in preventing it?