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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"Oh great. I guess I care about these people now."
I originally wrote "a lot of people" in the first panel, but no. Jay is more cynical than that. Most people making a generous offer like that would
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"I was going to let you stay, but I can't in good conscience reward that face Grace just made. Get out."
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I have ideas for how a seer's spellbook would work, but we don't want Hope to have to go into hibernation, so we're not finding out this story arc, at least.
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That's not useless, of course. Having a list of things one possesses can be very useful, as can having a detailed list
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- Sarah's not wrong (the "Sarah likes pineapple on pizza" incident as described by Susan)
Susan gets to explain the spellbooks because, in my
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One way or another, "soon" is the next arc.
I'd rather go ahead and say that than leave everyone wondering if "soon" is 2030 or whatever.
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Schedule stuff(will remove eventually to keep commentary light in future)
Story comics should be Mon-Weds-Friday again, though
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Pinned Bluesky post about the personal situation
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I originally wrote a standard comedic "Sarah, the
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"I strongly disagree with your hopes and dreams, but seeing as that future is probably unavoidable for reasons that have nothing to do with you, WHEE MAGIC!"
Confession: I originally imagined Tedd pointing
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A note on the previous page: Authorial intent was people reacting because Hope essentially compared Jay and Susan to Pandora and Blaike, the latter couple eventually marrying and having a kid. A mix of the
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There was a rewrite here, and it began ever so simply.
Grace's original dialogue strayed from the actual point, which is that she wants the option to tell anyone about herself. It instead sounded like she
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Regarding the next page being Wednesday:I severely underestimated how long the page would take me after a rewrite. I knew it would be late, but I thought the latest it would be up would've been about a
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- "Behold! The realness of Tedd!"
- The offer to introduce Jay to Tedd
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