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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"Okay, but still. What are some of the magic defense options?"
"One makes the door ask you riddles before you can get inside."
"Really? So, like, riddles you arrange for it to ask,
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I considered Voltaire having a general fondness for animals, and decided against it. He has a general neutrality for animals, some fondness for animals that cause problems for people—he once complimented
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Successfully compromising with a cat is honestly pretty impressive. They're not big on that.
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Bishop casually implying her whole deal in panel two.
In the previous commentary, I mentioned there could have been a dramatic discussion prior to choosing to touch the mirror. Panel three gets into
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Thank you to everyone for your patience and support. There was an unexpected pause in comics due to something going on in my personal life, and not a single tomato or tomato emoji was thrown in my
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At the bottom of this commentary is mostly repeated repeated commentary from the "what Mist wound up doing" reference. It has spoilers for a 2019 EGSNP storyline
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Firstly, my apologies again for putting up the wrong version of last Wednesday's page without the "I'm taking Friday off" announcement in big letters. After this incident, I don't think I'll forget to
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As mentioned, the next page will be Monday for personal reasons. So far, responses to this have been positive and understanding, and I thank everyone for that.
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Schedule note:There won't be a story page on Friday the 24th due to me taking the 23rd off for personal
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Tedd - "Sorry, but I've heard some bad things about you, and it looked to me like she was
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Rhoda Shout
I'm not sure if I get to count the first two panels as "sneaking in" a reference to the iconic "fus-roh-dah" shout from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. To me, it's far too
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I mentioned in the previous commentary that Part 3 would end here. I sometimes wonder if that's worth the minor spoiler. My intended goal is to have the break that comes with the end of the part not be a
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Part 3 will conclude Wednesday! After that, Part 4 will begin Friday, October 3rd. My hope is to consistently be at least one page ahead during Part 4.
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