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The premise of this web comic is that a guy opens a genie bottle and turns into a female genie outwardly resembling the one portrayed by Barbara Eden in the 1960s sitcom.
I hacked an animated GIF that C.D. Rudd posted on his Deviant Art page. I used the Beneton program to make the new version. It has a height limit of 320 pixels, but the moving parts of the gif pretty much fit in this band, so I made a transparent called ”Top_Bottom.png“ to show the sections which don't change from frame to frame. However I couldn't make the bottom layer of Beneton.gif transparent; that's the black rectangle.
The background image big.jpg is take from a shot of the Cocoa Beach pier. Like IDOJ, Bottle is set in Cocoa Beach, a small town just south of the Kennedy Space Center on Florida's east coast. Pretty good for 50% quality.
Jeanie Bottle is still going strong with more than 400 comics now. It's continued the connections with vintage television with two story arcs featuring a witch named Sam and a visit to Hazzard County, and even the discovery that an old lady living next door to Jean's apartment is actually the former genie of the bottle and that the TV series was inspired by her adventures—one of the characters is “Sid” which is a reference to Sidney Sheldon, who created the actual TV Series.
I've put a small fanfic and a couple of fanpics at my little corner of Deviant Art
Jeanie can change her appearance and costume easily—but can't become a man, as she was before rubbing that bottle. Jeanie has still managed to keep the identity of his former self, Jean Nessman, because he's a freelance writer who does most of his work through email. However, on two occasions, Jeanie transformed male friends into fascimiles of Jean Nessman. This has had some downsides, the more recent one is there is actually an organization of former girlfriends of Jean Nessmen dedicated into digging up dirt on him and warning other women--and Jean's last girlfriend and the one he was going to gift the bottle to before it zapped him--finally found that site--just before Haji the king of the Genies called brought all the bottle genies back to his fortress palace, where both Barbara Eden lookalikes discovered each other. They can't leave until Haji releases them, if he ever does, and Haji is looking for yet another concubine (The previous holder of Jean's bottle was one.) And as I write, it's looking even worse...