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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Introduces a character who is presumably as powerful, if not more powerful, than Grace.
Has her struggle against a housecat.
Some general Mist references
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In that brief moment, it appeared there could be reconciliation.
Tragically, however, Jeremy didn't know how high fives worked.
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Aw what an adorable little HOLY HECK
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Jeremy used magic needle attack!
The opposing Po protected herself!
I considered many, many options for Jeremy's move
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Oh hey there's a sketchbook today. Neat! (Also mentioned at bottom with EGSNP)
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Greater projections are better at hiding one's true appearance, but if anyone nearby is good at sensing magic, it's also
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Po References. Most of which are labeled as "Mist" references because I'm totally taking most of these from another commentary, and I felt all of it was Potentially of note.
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Please forgive Hope for not repeatedly saying "Pressure Release Chopsticks".
Below the Saturday EGSNP bit
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I'm excited for part 3 to begin next, but I'm also excited to have a guaranteed two day weekend. HUZZAH!
The previous page being a dream Ellen was having was apparently less clear than I thought it
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- Magus's falling out with Pandora
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I guess she enjoyed the Star Wars!
I'm not sure which quote Hope is running off to paraphrase to Grace. It's something I could probably
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The irony being that I finished this page on a weekend.
Maternal Cousin
I probably wouldn't have thought to use "maternal cousin" to describe Nanase's connection to Tedd if not for
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I genuinely used to think "sweet summer child" was specific to Game of Thrones,and was in reference to the whole "winter is coming" thing. "Oh, they've never known the long winter. They've only
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