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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It's worth noting that Pandora didn't even get a proper look at Jay's face. It wouldn't have made a difference, but "saw her face" wasn't even on her short list of things about Jill.
I didn't feel it
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As a reminder, these are Pandora's memories without any of Hope's current knowledge affecting them.
The analogy I use for Pandora being worn out here is the difference between trying to jog a mile, and trying
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- Magic pressure emanating from Jay
I haven't written it being mentioned directly in the comic itself, but the pressure from the magic is why there
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Pandora Chaos Raven.
And yes.
That is her cape full off mouths and eyes, and what might be a face in her
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- Second page of Sister three, start of Pandora's history with Blaike (even if he doesn't show up until
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I had originally planned to make both the first and second panel as blurry to readers as they were to Pandora, and maybe some of you would have actually appreciated that, but I decided I didn't want to blur either
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- Multiple no's, and "you do NOT..." from a partial echo of the memory
Hope getting some flashes of the memory probably means it didn't get through the
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- "How young was she when I awakened her?!"
The answer is six.
Alternative version: Just an entire page with the words "Twelve years
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Up next: Part 9, and memories of the past.
I would've given more of a heads up about taking Monday off due to the start of Part 9, but I felt that would have spoiled the heck out of this page by BASICALLY
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This page felt so Friday to me that I legitimately lost track of what day of the week it was for a moment while working on it.
Thank you!
I've enjoyed responses to Hope's situation if for no
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Okay, but imagine having determination-based locks in real life.
"I'ma gonna have a cookie as a midnight snack!"
"For what reason do you wish to open this cookie jar?"
"Um... For a
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Remember when I made the "why do I hear boss music" joke down here on Monday?
That might not have been a joke.
Well, I mean, the sentiment might not have been. There's probably not literal boss music
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- "I need Sarah, and only Sarah"
I had the focus of... a thing... that's... bad at... focusing? While working on this.
Anyway, my mind kept going
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"Seriously, I should be calling myself Hera and pranking foolish mortals right now. Instead, I have anxiety."
I struggled a bit earlier with who would chat after round three, and in what order.
Then I
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- Chasing thoughts away with fairy dolls
It's possible Grace has a bit of experience with "calm" people.
I considered having the discussion
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Naturally, I assumed none of you had actually read the past five pages, and felt it was time for a recap!
Not really, of course. I was actually hoping to avoid that sort of vibe, but I also wanted to go
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"You owe me at least two card games, PUNK."
And THIS is why you don't mumble things you don't want other people to hear.
They might hear you.
I know that's not exactly deep, amazing insight or
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GRACE KNOWS WHAT YOU DID
Okay, no, she doesn't, but she knows the lights were "effect", and not "cause", and Jay was looking right at you, so... She has suspicions.
Suspicions that are almost
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