Thursday, July 06, 2006
El Goonish Shive: Squirrels, Hammers, and a Guy Named Tedd
A bit more than a year ago, I was introduced to the utterly out-there webcomic El Goonish Shive. The comic, written and drawn by Dan Shive was completely unlike any other comic I had read before. The plot is as great and can be as convoluted as Megatokyo's, and as easily discussed if you know someone that reads the comic regularly.
Even when compared with comics that feature a large cast of characters, (i.e. Dominic Deegan), most of those comics still focus on a small portion of the characters. EGS has an extremely large cast of characters, but unlike other comics the portion of the cast that could be described as the main characters is much larger than other comics.
But why am I boring you with discussion of casts? On to the discussion of the story!
The premise of the comic is the adventures, relationships, and conflicts that arise around characters, while that pretty much describes 99% of all comics on the web, it truly is the characters that make this comic shine. First off we have Tedd, a junior in high school and resident mad scientist with a flair for gender transformations via his transfomation gun. Second we have Tedd's girlfriend Grace, who can transform herself at will. And while i'm really not doing the comic justice with this description, as I don't want to give anything away about the plot if you do end up reading it.
The point i'm making here is, if you're looking for a comic that's very likely unlike anything you've probably read before, at least give EGS a look, you will not regret the choice.
Until next time, I'm addicted to webcomics.
Even when compared with comics that feature a large cast of characters, (i.e. Dominic Deegan), most of those comics still focus on a small portion of the characters. EGS has an extremely large cast of characters, but unlike other comics the portion of the cast that could be described as the main characters is much larger than other comics.
But why am I boring you with discussion of casts? On to the discussion of the story!
The premise of the comic is the adventures, relationships, and conflicts that arise around characters, while that pretty much describes 99% of all comics on the web, it truly is the characters that make this comic shine. First off we have Tedd, a junior in high school and resident mad scientist with a flair for gender transformations via his transfomation gun. Second we have Tedd's girlfriend Grace, who can transform herself at will. And while i'm really not doing the comic justice with this description, as I don't want to give anything away about the plot if you do end up reading it.
The point i'm making here is, if you're looking for a comic that's very likely unlike anything you've probably read before, at least give EGS a look, you will not regret the choice.
Until next time, I'm addicted to webcomics.
# posted by Darth Miho @ 11:16 AM 
