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I was really looking forward to this three-part series after reading the blurb in my advance order catalogue from AnotherUniverse.com, in late 1999. Finally a story about real Jinn! The evil Arabic shape-changing, often evil folklore entities known to most westerners as jinnis-nothing at all like the comedic blue and blonde blinking jinnis of Hollywood.
Ok, so I got a little too excited. Teaches my behind for not getting more information before I purchase something. Unfortunately, Jinn was a story that totally confused me; I am still debating whether there was even a story at all. The characters were vague, and there were about two seconds of jinn.
The story begins near the Giza pyramids in Egypt, where a rouge archaeologist, named Damion Jackson, is on the verge of being laughed out of history, literally. Up until recently every theory Damion has proposed and sought to prove has been a failure. Damion needs to find a piece of antiquity that will give him the credibility and fame he wants and where else to find some mystical artifact than in Egypt? But then the story abruptly takes the reader to San Francisco, California.
Enter Karen, a pretty, young, professional cat burglar, and the proud mistress of Roland, her own jinni. But before any character development and bonding can occur, the story switches back to Egypt to Damion who (before the reader is interrupted) is sucked into another dimension and finds himself amongst beings of myth and science fiction. The end-until issue two.