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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An odd quirk of writing something without narration can be looking for places for names to be said. Most people reading this comic will, of course, know that Grace is Grace, Tedd is Tedd, etc.
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- "I'm stupid. I'm weak." (Hope talking to Sarah outside the comic shop)
The pants of immortals get increasingly smarty as they age, though
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I described Pandora giving Edward his first spell as "convenient". One reason for that is because it helps keep part of this first meeting with Hope brief:
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- Another early morning grumpy Mr. Verres (when Grace left a note about magic's not-change)
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- Relevant Pandora / Hope flashback
It was on this day, April 18th, 2025, that cookies rained from the heavens.
Meteorologists were stumped.
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- Hope practicing card games with relevant assistance
Voltaire does not believe in using towels or dry cleaning to clean up messes.
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This story arc will end Friday, and EGSNP returns next week on Tuesday. Assuming no complications, story comics will have a full two week break, plus a Monday, with story comics returning Wednesday, May
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"But seriously, thank you for inviting me into your home."
- Susan talking to Mr. Verres about the immortal rules change as hinted (presumably) by
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General update post on Patreonabout comic schedule stuff. The short of it is at least still a week to go before new EGSNP, and much thanks and
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"Oh great. I guess I care about these people now."
I originally wrote "a lot of people" in the first panel, but no. Jay is more cynical than that. Most people making a generous offer like that would
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"I was going to let you stay, but I can't in good conscience reward that face Grace just made. Get out."
There was a time when Hope was actually hoping the outcome would be secretly setting up the room in
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I have ideas for how a seer's spellbook would work, but we don't want Hope to have to go into hibernation, so we're not finding out this story arc, at least.
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That's not useless, of course. Having a list of things one possesses can be very useful, as can having a detailed list
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- Sarah's not wrong (the "Sarah likes pineapple on pizza" incident as described by Susan)
Susan gets to explain the spellbooks because, in my
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One way or another, "soon" is the next arc.
I'd rather go ahead and say that than leave everyone wondering if "soon" is 2030 or whatever.
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Schedule stuff(will remove eventually to keep commentary light in future)
Story comics should be Mon-Weds-Friday again, though
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