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.
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The next EGSNP is going to be Tuesday, April 11th.Note that this is for EGSNP, and NOTthe above main storyline. This storyline continues Monday.
I want to sort
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I didn't like using narration in panel four, but this is what happens when you don't have an established B story in a storyline, and the scene change is mid-page.
You might find yourself in a situation
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"OH NO! I've angered Susan, and now she's attacking me! I have to... Wait. Wait, is this a HUG?"
"Oh ye gods she's hugging me. This is almost scarier somehow."
Susan has hugged Sarah before, but I
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Since the beginning of EGS, I've taken for granted that shared lockers were commonplace. I've always imagined certain characters sharing lockers. Grace and Ellen share a locker, Tedd and Elliot share a locker,
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At one point, I had a joke on this page in which Sarah doubted video rental stores were going anywhere, and mentioned a couple reasons why.
The flow of dialogue was structured differently, so this wouldn't
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My advice for when you want to explain a scene change without narration is the awkward Sarah solution.
First, you have a Sarah.
Then you have her suggest going somewhere more private to discuss
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I'm not sure how difficult it would be to fix a locker door like this?
I imagine the issue is that it's got a bit of
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There's not a lot I can say about this page that wouldn't be better said later.
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The tricky thing here was keeping Tensaided from overstepping boundaries.
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The behind the scenes reason why Susan got a job at a video rental store is because, when I was younger, I always imagined it would be a job I would relatively enjoy.
I know now that I wouldn't, but
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Results inconclusive.
Also, don't worry, that's a "rule of funny" fall. She's fine.
This page, and the previous two pages, were a result of me repeatedly thinking things like "then Susan thinks
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I originally considered basically having what would essentially be a three-dimensional silhouette with no discernable features as Susan's potential not-date in panel two, but I didn't find the results
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Thank you for your patience during the break, and I hope you like Susan.
I wanted to show Susan imagining specific couples, that much I knew from the start. The inspiration for this page becoming
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As one might recall, Diane is TECHNICALLY Susan's extremely distant aunt. I'm not actually sure how she'd be properly
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"Ha ha! PRANKED! I used magic to increase the weight of the phone five fold!"
"You can do magic!"
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I hadn't planned on returning to Raven's party before the end of this storyline. One reason I was avoiding showing too much with
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"You make a good point, Noah, but what if we cooked something together? That could be a fun family bonding activity!"
"No. I am actually very lazy."
Is someone angrily going to accuse me of
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Noah loves these excuses!
He's excited to be a part of making them!
Granted, everything they're saying here is pretty accurate.
"I found my biological father! He's not available right now, but
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I very nearly credited the wrong psychologist, Jean Piaget, in panel two. Piaget coined the term for schemas, and schemas are relevant, but he didn't do the "War of The Ghosts" experiment.
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One thing about feelings is that your feelings are not in words. Your feelings function on a mysterious innate logic beyond words, and all we're doing with words is trying to find words to help us make sense
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