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El Goonish Shive 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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    "I was going to let you stay, but I can't in good conscience reward that face Grace just made. Get out."

    There was a time when Hope was actually hoping the outcome would be secretly setting up the room in

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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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  3. New comic!

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    - Creating Justin's spellbook

    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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  4. New comic!

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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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  5. New comic!

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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.

    - Hope

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  6. New comic!

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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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  7. New comic!

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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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    - The "gangly guy" (Camdin)

    - Start of Grace's talk with Sam (About ten pages before

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  9. New comic!

    Today's News:

    "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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  10. New comic!

    Today's News:

    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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  11. New comic!

    Today's News:

    - Blaike

    Hope, you made GRACE facepalm.

    GRACE!

    How did you even do that?!

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  12. New comic!

    Today's News:

    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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    Today's News:

    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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  14. New comic!

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    Justin: Skillfully shifting the subject, and maybe, just MAYBE a little concerned about how much more secret information he just learned that he probably wasn't supposed to learn.

    Panel two is a friendly

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