El Goonish Shive - hope-163

Comic for Friday, Feb 7, 2025

Lies Within

Lacey

Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster

The Weave

Rennie Kingsley

A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?

Not Drunk Enough

Tess Stone

Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.

Namesake

Isa, Meg

There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!

Saint for Rent

Ru Xu

Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.

Sakana

Mad Rupert

Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.

Empowered

Adam Warren

A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.

The Messenger

indui

In a ruin-abound town cursed with bad luck, Kai and Kalla--a young boy and a fledgling dragonbird spirit--take on a quest in hopes the reward will solve all of their problems.

Angel's Orchard

Harry Bogosian

After the events in Demon's Mirror, Gerda has accepted her role as a Demon Hunter, and Cezar has traveled back to the Demon City. Demons have existed alongside humans for millennia, so things begin to return to normal. But an impossibly powerful Relic has been taken by one of the Demon Masters, and a silent war enters its final stages.

Three Panel Soul

Matt Boyd, Ian McConville

It's a pretty rigid format but we keep the content loose, you know?

Freakshow

Scotty

A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.

Sister Claire

Yamino

In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.

ARISE, YE SKELETON KING

Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black

A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.

Novae

KaiJu

A historical romance with a touch magic and a dash of astronomy. It chronicles the romantic adventures of Sulvain, a sweet tempered necromancer and Raziol, a passionate 17th century astronomer.

Cyanide & Happiness

Explosm

Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.

Nerf Now!!

Josué Pereira

A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.

Peritale

Mari Costa

A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.

Dumbing of Age

David M Willis

Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.

Edison Rex

Chris Roberson

The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.

Monster's Garden

Ash G.

Champion pit fighter Kilo Monster was content to spend the rest of his days tending to his quiet garden alone... until he met a curious robot girl and her human family.

Nigh Heaven & Hell

Scotty

Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.

Augustine

Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy

August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.

Barbarous

Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota

A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.

Guilded Age

T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina

Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!

Blindsprings

Kadi Fedoruk

Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.

Darkling Bright

Chris Hazelton

Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG. At least, he was, and that was the idea... Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.

Stand Still, Stay Silent

Minna Sundberg

A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.

Heroes of Thantopolis

Izzy Strontium Hall

A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.

Ozzie the Vampire

Eric Lide

Ozzie and her best friend Kimmy are your average everyday normal art students – except one is an immortal vampire with superpowers and the other possesses a magic talking grimoire. Also they have to save their town from a demonic invasion.

Little Tiny Things

Clover

What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?

Sleepless Domain

Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)

In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.

The Golden Boar

Magnolia Porter Siddell

A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...

Commentary

Posted February 7, 2025 at 2:13 am

Justin: Skillfully shifting the subject, and maybe, just MAYBE a little concerned about how much more secret information he just learned that he probably wasn't supposed to learn.

Panel two is a friendly reminder that Pandora could be quite terrible, actually.

And now, a whole lot of Bishop:

- Introduction of Bishop

- Silhouette of Bishop in a lineup showing height (two pages after previous reference)

- Bishop again, talking to Arthur (voice only in one panel, actually shown on next page where it's implied Bishop had an unpleasant introduction to magic)

- Comical flashback panel of Bishop rejecting Mr. Verres (taking over Arthur's job)

- Flashback of Bishop overhearing Mr. Verres talk about giving Tedd alien tech (also present on one panel of next page tapping his shoulder)

I THINK that's all the main story Bishop appearances? Probably? Maybe?!

Arthur previously implied that Bishop did not have a nice introduction to magic, and now we know what that introduction was. Very little has changed from what I had in mind back in late 2021 and now. Mostly, I don't think the connection to Jay's incident was decided until later.

- Thursday EGSNP (Next EGSNP after this NEXT Thursday)