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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Seriously, the nerve of Tedd.
What's next? Making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for her, and cutting them into triangles?
HOW DARE.
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In case you were one of those people who, whenever Tedd wasn't on panel, were asking "where's Tedd?", that's where. Tedd was deliberately avoiding social interaction for a bit.
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Susan is amused, and how DARE you, Grace. For shame.
Also, I'm really looking forward to Monday.
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- Grace talking about Jay's "pony hair" even before then
Everyone knows you, Jay.
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Firstly, thank you all for your patience and words of support during the recent tech-caused delay.
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If Grace had a tail, it would be wagging.
I mean, if she had a tail RIGHT NOW. She does actually have a tail. Several, in fact. But not all the time.
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For anyone still wondering, Grace heard "Jack," thought Jay might be a trans woman, and was very worried that Susan had accidentally shared very personal information.
Which was a natural interpretation for
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I'm putting the Tuesday EGSNP note up here, because hey, EGSNP's back!
And now this page's actual commentary
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Friendly troll Justin is best Justin.
Susan's not a regular player of this game, and is playing it for reasons other than the game itself. Because of that, I knew from the beginning that she would not be the
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Whenever Sarah's not on-panel, people should be asking, "where's Sarah?"
- "I want to hang out more" (Susan to Sarah, "Our Future")
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- To be fair, her grandfather, Arthur, legitimately doesn't know anything more than she does
I enjoy Jay feeling this certain that Arthur is
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That moment when you just want to see your best friend, and suddenly your great-great-great-great-great-great-(I'm not sure how many greats)-granddaughter
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Jay's nefarious reason for being at the tournament IS... She has a couple of friends trying to get her into the game.
Diabolical.
(It can be taken as given that they're also friends with
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Grace can hold back on hugging, but her "I want to hug you" aura will persist.
When writing this and the previous page, I tried something out as a writing exercise. I wrote it as though it were in a novel in
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"My favorite thing about dating Tedd is how totally real Tedd is. Like, you wouldn't believe Tedd's realness. You'll just be sitting there, and Tedd will do something, and you'll be like 'wow, so
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