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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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
...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
...- Tedd's history with creating forms (Part 2 of Layers)
Logically, Lavender hasn't
..."Who are you talking to? No one's in here! The light's are out and everything!"
"What is the light source in there, anyway?"
"Magic? It radiates from the middle of the ceiling if and when I
...- KITTY! (from way back in 2003)
For the record, that was a squeaky floorboard outside of Hope's room making a squeak.
Hope's
...JEREMY! (Applause)
I like to imagine that this isn't the first time Jeremy has noticed the new room, but that he refused to enter while Hope was sleeping in there.
My experience with cats is
...It is NOT required reading for this story arc, BUT! They're referencing a canon event from the EGSNP storyline ...
Other universe Napoleon reportedly went under the Alps using elephant moles.
...Okay, so maybe there's a minimum number of things Hope should be informed of before left unsupervised in the house.
..."It wouldn't be a business meeting, Grace."
"Are you sure? Because if it were, I'd wear a suit."
"Business meeting it is!"
...- Edward talking about that one foolish immortal
There's one more page (Wednesday) in this part, and then a short break before part 2. I'm still
...Take THAT, physics!
I'll have more to say on this nonsense in the next page's commentary.
Also, that loophole you just thought of for moving things on purpose "by accident" while invisible?
...- Hope becoming visible after being invisible, and it is, indeed, a bit flashy (close to the end of the ...