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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"Also, this is technically a reincarnation isekai story now. Sort of. It's debatable."
(Please don't seriously debate it. It's a joke. Mostly.)
I hadn't planned for this to be the start of part
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My announced plan had been for there to be an EGSNP tomorrow, but my weekend was a lot more stressful than I anticipated, and I've decided to listen to the many nice people telling me I can take more time off
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EDIT: Regarding the next page being Monday, this is because I want to write something better, I'm behind on sleep, and something personal has come up that demands my time. My apologies for this
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Soldier-goblin is small because I very specifically wanted to draw Tedd holding them.
That's it. That's the explanation.
When I wrote the previous page, I just wanted to show some of Tedd and Jay's
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This coverup, and the vow not to tell anyone about Ragnarok, was planned a while ago, but not intended to be revealed until later.
When I realized that Pandora naturally would have tried to change immortal
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"Pandora! That wasn't very Fabian!"
"Hannibal for life."
Because of course she'd want that
Pandora actually pushing for the change herself was a relatively late addition, but given her
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Once one was willing to stand, others followed.
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Me while working on the previous comic: "Ooh, the hair on this dragon takes up a good amount of space! Makes
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- Diane and Noah discussing the werewolf curse (References below are older, but this has the most details)
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- "It dies to removal" - Tensaided playing against Justin in the first card game storyline.
This is why you want big monsters that do something
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Much to my delight, people did get that I named Kaphoglio's Mimic after Kaja and Phil Foglio of Girl
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I'm finally going to remember to note that I'm on Bluesky for anyone who cares.
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Wizard Hope
I considered several different options for Hope to be wearing in this visualization of their game, but no.
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"I can totally arrange for you to meet her."
"I choose the path of most resistance for personal reasons!"
"That is somehow not surprising."
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