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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- Hope becoming visible after being invisible, and it is, indeed, a bit flashy (close to the end of the
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- Susan reporting on the coded messages
- Hope's surprise at them not knowing
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- Pandora Chaos Raven (a page from Sister 3 with all three "default" forms)
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Edward originally said "you, however" instead of "and you", which would have implied what Edward was saying didn't apply to Hope before the last panel. By the law of last panel twists, however, I had to
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My apologies for the delay! As mentioned last commentary, I'd hoped to avoid any delays, but I decided it was the least bad option at the moment.
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I MIGHT take a day off soon to work ahead some more. If I can, though, I'm going to reach the end of this part uninterrupted, and take a more natural break between parts.
"I get confused about who I
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I'd say that would be pretty awkward, yes indeed.
- Diane and Noah talking about Raven and where he's been
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- Sarah entering the comic shop last night
I'm not actually certain what all differences there would be between a housecat kitten and a tiger
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Lespuko stuff:
- Lespuko talk from waaaay back in Painted Black (found inÂ
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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:
The matter of Hope proving her identity to
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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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