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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Tedd just needed the right context.
And yes, Tedd is immediately sad he has no way of documenting this.
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Tedd has gained access to the single most powerful ability in fiction: The ability to have a flashback that excuses whatever
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I looked up the archetypical Comedy and Tragedy masks as the basis for that Jester mask, and my goodness do I find them creepy. "Comedy" looks downright sinister on a lot of the detailed masks I saw.
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My apologies if panel three awakens anything in anyone.
I, too, have a metaphorical on-camera mode. YOU THINK YOU KNOW ME?! Well, the ACTUAL me wouldn't raise their voice like that unless actually really
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