Read El Goonish Shive teenage coming of age, physics, science, bizarre, romance, webcomic
El Goonish Shive created entirely by Dan Shive is often categorized as bizarre with science-fantasy. These story qualities are realized especially when the teenage cast is known to break the laws of physics.
El Goonish Shive has tolerance-related issues that seem to make it an LGBTQ-friendly read, including sexual orientations such as homosexuality and bisexuality, non-traditional gender roles, and lifestyle choices. As the cast is primarily made up of teenagers, they do obsess over relationships as teenagers do, but take time away from that to immerse themselves into dealings with magic, alien technology, parallel dimensions, "superscience," and immortal beings plotting drastic changes to the world.
El Goonish Shive has its own wiki, Shiveapedia, which contains the definitive timeline of the comic, plus full arc summaries and character bios. The comic is broken down into a number of storylines, which are usually part of a long, continuous plot. Most storylines are short and follow only a few characters, but some are multi-part arcs in which the whole lead cast is involved. As a bonus to El Goonish Shive Fans, the Twitter feed is included below.
El Goonish Shive Twitter feed
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As mentioned, the next page will be Monday for personal reasons. So far, responses to this have been positive and understanding, and I thank everyone for that.
Actual comic commentary!
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Schedule note:There won't be a story page on Friday the 24th due to me taking the 23rd off for personal
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Tedd - "Sorry, but I've heard some bad things about you, and it looked to me like she was
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Rhoda Shout
I'm not sure if I get to count the first two panels as "sneaking in" a reference to the iconic "fus-roh-dah" shout from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. To me, it's far too
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I mentioned in the previous commentary that Part 3 would end here. I sometimes wonder if that's worth the minor spoiler. My intended goal is to have the break that comes with the end of the part not be a
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Part 3 will conclude Wednesday! After that, Part 4 will begin Friday, October 3rd. My hope is to consistently be at least one page ahead during Part 4.
CMD Setting
One might well assume
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- "We can't just pop out of invisibility and instantly do things"
"Okay, so, there IS a thing we can instantly do, but it's a
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Due to external factors involving me having to get up early tomorrow—it will not be "bright" and early—this page might have been postponed if not for the fortuitous
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Introduces a character who is presumably as powerful, if not more powerful, than Grace.
Has her struggle against a housecat.
Some general Mist references
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In that brief moment, it appeared there could be reconciliation.
Tragically, however, Jeremy didn't know how high fives worked.
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Aw what an adorable little HOLY HECK
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Jeremy used magic needle attack!
The opposing Po protected herself!
I considered many, many options for Jeremy's move
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Oh hey there's a sketchbook today. Neat! (Also mentioned at bottom with EGSNP)
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Greater projections are better at hiding one's true appearance, but if anyone nearby is good at sensing magic, it's also
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