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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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.
It 100% had to be her dressing up like Sarah (except a bit more modest
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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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- Tedd discovering AJ's spell (and the next page where he starts assessing it)
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I wrote thoughts for the last panel, but no.
A smile will do.
Schedule
Part 10 is going to be ending Monday! Part
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That moment when you realize you might not be the strangest person in the room.
The second set of eyes was a fairy doll, by
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Hope: "Are you kidding? I paid good money for that deck! AND there was an entry fee!"
Justin: "And your opponent is... AJ."
Hope: "I forfeit."
My brain these days is frequently in a state I'd
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OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH
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That's all I've got.
Other than thanking everyone for having patience about my back and shoulder. Making comics earlier this week
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Schedule: My back is really bothering me, and I'm going to take at least one sick day for it, so the next EGSNP will be Saturday. I'm hoping to still have a Friday story page. I'll announce here if
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Sarah is VERY politely not pointing out how stalker-like some of this sounds and/or possibly is.
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I just want to say one thing.
Actually, I want to say a ton of things, but I can't, because spoilers.
BUT the one thing I WANT to say that I CAN say is that, in this moment, it does not matter whether
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It's worth noting that Pandora didn't even get a proper look at Jay's face. It wouldn't have made a difference, but "saw her face" wasn't even on her short list of things about Jill.
I didn't feel it
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As a reminder, these are Pandora's memories without any of Hope's current knowledge affecting them.
The analogy I use for Pandora being worn out here is the difference between trying to jog a mile, and trying
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- Magic pressure emanating from Jay
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