Latest El Goonish Shive comics and news
New comic! Today's News: - Gandpa Sciuridae from Part 5 of Painted Black - Sciuridae (skwur-uh-dey, or so past me claimed) from Squirrel in the classroom - Mist's excuse for standing around (not wanting to upset "the old lady") - Seer sight seeing through Mist's illusion I've wanted to simplify Grace's last name since pretty much the moment I had her introduce herself with it, which was way back…
New comic! Today's News: - "...it gives me some self defense options." (Tedd meeting Rhoda) - Panel 3 Tedd chose the shrinking spell for the reasons implied here: It halves the scale of a threat without doing anything else. As far as transformation goes, it's minimalistic and relatively ethical as a defensive option. Also, it's fun that it winds up being a pun. Tedd chose this option well before…
New comic! Today's News: "Also, I think I saw her fly up there." "Oh. So she's not stuck up there." - They could have parked a lot closer to the pancake place Tedd originally went over how someone planning to ambush them would expect them at the parking lot by the pancake place. As soon as you allow for Mist and Po to somehow knowing Tedd and Grace were going out (or had gone out), however, you…
New comic! Today's News: - Rhoda's concerns - People calling things in - When last we saw these 4 - Protecting a weird bird from a pie tin I didn't originally start Part 9 with checking in on these four, but I decided we really should. This also meant we could have them go over what people witnessed instead of Bishop. TIME! While EGS is ahead of us in terms of magic technology, our world has…
New comic! Today's News: Writing has been afoot, and I decided I only need the one day off before part 9 begins. Huzzah! Story resumes Friday. - "So long as you can work on that... far away from danger..." (Bishop in response to Tedd's declaration of figuring out how to detect royal auras) - How the heck Bishop is already there (people reporting Grace and Po flying) This is Elliot's first…
New comic! Today's News: There's one more page to this part, then a short break before part 9 (I'll have figured out how short by the next page. Writing is afoot). - Why Elliot was there - Hasn't done much while there, but did learn a thing Who was that? "Um, Po?" "What?" "Who was that up there?" "Don't know, don't want to know." "Shouldn't we at least try to find out who--" "No." Tuxedo…
New comic! Today's News: - "Your friend just flew after my friend!" - Mist being "detained" (and let go on the next page ) Just assume Mist was keeping a strategically respectable distance off to the side since around the time that giant fist showed up. "I should probably do something, but I don't know what. Also, yeah, I wasn't sure before, but that's definitely another lespuko seyunolu over…
New comic! Today's News: Fortunately, Po was not offended by the idea of not being weapon. This would have gone very differently if Po took pride in how amazingly weapon she was. -- - Thursday EGSNP
New comic! Today's News: - Grace created, and given Lespuko DNA, as a counter to Damien (from Part 5 of Painted Black ) I know you don't want to be a therapist , Grace, but if you could turn into a competent one right the heck now, that would be great ( start of the Grace and therapy sequence ). A slightly different Grace If Grace were just a slightly different character, she would have began…
New comic! Today's News: Now that's a word punch. - Grace first transformation with the horns (also in previous commentary, added for angry Grace convenience) - Correcting transformations - Start of Grace's conversation with Po I didn't want to suggest that Grace only attacked Damien because of the form. As far as AUTHORIAL INTENT (imagine sparkles) is concerned, the chicken and the egg order…
New comic! Today's News: - Grace first transformation with the horns (from Part 6 of Painted Black , not actually seen until the title page two pages later ) - "She already has a three-tailed part-lespuko form, so maybe she's more experienced than I was..." (thought by Grace while approaching Po) I don't know about you, but I'm thinking Po is fine. She's relaxed, calm, and knows exactly where her…
New comic! Today's News: - Liam Tyrant Slayer phantom arm introduction - Introduction of Po phantom arm - Grace managing a much smaller phantom arm (after accidentally copying Po ) - When last we saw Po Action sequences giveth pages with lots of panels, action sequences taketh pages with lots of panels. I was actually plotting to have more panels on this page, but when I got to the moment, I felt…
New comic! Today's News: For the record, I did not plan this page with the intent of cackling with glee at it being a cliffhanger. I only have so much room per page. Though, now that I've got this cliffhanger I'm stuck with, I may as well partake in a cackle or two. -- - Saturday EGSNP
New comic! Today's News: - Discussion of an unknown immortal plotting against Elliot back in part 4 of Sister 3 - Voltaire vows to "not attempt to have Elliot killed" - Voltaire is annoyed by Edward into vowing to "not do anything with the intent of Elliot getting killed" (next page) - Elliot not overreacting One can fairly argue that the maids should be able to break that vow without it being on…
New comic! Today's News: - One (in action, pretty much just open handed attacks) - Three (spinning! That's a good trick!) The third maid is not angry. The third maid is not capable of anger, joy, or sadness. It was the creator of the maids, an immortal who wanted them to be good, who chose this angry face for aggression level five. Also, the ridiculously giant blades. It's enough to make one…
New comic! Today's News: EDIT: Grace used to think "darn sun..." while looking up in panel seven. She is, in fact, STILL thinking that, but actually showing it was an unnecessary detail that affected people's interpretations of what was happening. That noted, the sun being overhead MIGHT come up again. -- Past me: "Yeah, this needs to be ten panels. It's okay, several of them are simple." Closer…
New comic! Today's News: NEW EGSNP! (New yesterday, anyway.) - Nose scratching and one-way telepathy (also, keeping up appearances in case Voltaire is watching ) - Previous Whooshing away from the scene by Po And with this latest decision, Agent Bishop's future frustration headache doubled in magnitude. Granted, at the time of my writing this, I don't know what reader reactions to this will be.…
New comic! Today's News: TOMORROW: A new EGSNP storyline begins! - "...it gives me some self defense options." (Tedd meeting Rhoda) - "You figured out I was the copper, didn't you?" - "Aggression Level One" Okay, who ordered the two cliffhangers? (Also, yes, if anyone has EVER wanted to criticize how my comics look, enjoy the last panel! It has been served to you upon a silver platter.) Part of…
New comic! Today's News: - Start of the last action nonsense Grace was involved in (Griffin meetup in Balance ) - Hope's maid making absolutely CERTAIN Grace and pals understood this "Why did you bother asking first? I am told the previously summoned me was very clear about that." "You CHECK before doing something like that!" Tail Whip I prioritized showing one specific action and its aftermath,…
New comic! Today's News: - "I want to meet her as soon as we're done here." - When last we saw Hope and Ellen "Elliot turned into Cheerleadra and flew away." "Not again." "He does that a lot?" "At this point, I think he just likes flying around." Under my previous comic planning approach (in which I wrote page by page instead of writing everything out and THEN figuring out pages), I'm pretty sure…