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Is this Fable ? give me fable vibes
gotta eat your crunchy chicks

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It is absolutely fable, specifically 2

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I'll be honest, I never expected to see EGS on here. particularly as this isn't porn, and you can already read it all for free on https://ouo.io/qI5zdG

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A complete package of something you like will always be better then playing 52 card pickup with it and hoping that you got them all.

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My biggest gripe with Dan is that he never allows anything to play out. It's like watching a roulette of fetishes only for the ball to never stop rolling. Passing by all the fun options available.

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No, it's *not* porn. It's a lot closer to an ecchi slice of life, which is just damn fine, because it's not supposed to be porn. It's supposed to be an omake about a silly, insightful, and funny online comic about magic, transformation, and finding new ways to be true to yourself. It is, in fact, as SFW as a comic can be, while still including fetishy transformations.

I repeat, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PORN! Complaining because it's not sexy is as silly as complaining that a steak isn't sweet. Being sexy isn't the damn point, because first and foremost it's a comedy.

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The sad thing is, that back in the day this would have been interesting, but between the almost surgically sterile state of it, the extremely dated references, and the utter lack of focus, this is just trash.
It's amazing that EGS is still going, especially since it started as a bland genderhopping version of the stock "Hip and with it" webcomic of the late 90s and early 2000s that was already tired when it was created.

It's not a matter of it not being sexy, or even titillating, it's just dull as fuck.

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@onipuck

Not too surprising really. The comic itself peaked back in 2005 during the genderswap birthday party. During that story arc, the characters were emotionally challenged by the event and emotions, that had been bottled up, poured out and everyone had to work their way through their own, and other people's, built-up angst. Since then, Dan won't let his own characters have any emotional catharsis. If it ever seems like one of the characters will start to cry, another character will hug them and then they'll just not be upset anymore. It makes me think that Dan doesn't want to see other people sad just because that would make him feel sad. Which is a massive problem for a slice of life/drama comic.

I stand by my first comment though. Even with how I feel about Dan's writing, El Goonish Shive would still be a guilty pleasure of mine if Dan didn't flick between fetishes like someone flicking between channels.

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Most recent ark I liked was the card game tournament, when Tedd figures out he's genderfluid. Which prior to looking it up I thought was only two or three years ago, but was actually way back in '14. I guess it just feels recent 'cause very little has happened since then besides the gradual introduction of Ashley and Diane into the main cast. Also wasn't there supposed to be a villain somewhere?

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@Pregnant: Blah blah blah, magic change, blah blah blah, Voltaire, blah blah blah, We're the real gods, and that's about all we have at this moment.

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When dd this even came out? I know the comic is old but what about this spinoff? Because the last Fables was like 10 years ago. So if this is new its beating a the soil that a long time ago had a dead horse on it.

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where's genderbender?

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it's a between-panel 'poof'

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画风还可以，就是不懂讲了什么

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So that's why she wasn't super THICC.
She took curves reduction potions...
I wonder how she will look at hign lvl, without the potions ;3

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This hairstylist is surprisingly self-aware...
Hit another vein of genre-savviness, have we?

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@funkwolf: Good points, but I don't think that EGS died because it's just a flipbook of fetishes; it started out that way. Tedd was the willing, Elliot the unwilling, TG standi-in for Shive.

Shive always had a mania for stopping the comic and explaining things. But when trans went mainstream, suddenly Shive had to over-explain one half of his entire comic: innocently pervy thoughts about shrink sodas and surprise genderswaps. He was actually coming up with new situations and difficulties (the, God help me, Magic the Gathering parody was actually looking interesting), but I think he's been intimidated from doing things like examining Susan's feminism critically. If he did the same to trans characters (who aren't real life TGs, but try explaining that to SJWs), he'd be burned alive.

Which is to say, once you got rid of pervs with ethics, critiques of feminism, and flaws in characters, EGS was reduced to nothing but flipping through empty fetishes. And, of course, over-explaining all the jokes.

@onipuck: You must be mad: EGS was never "with it", it was by and for nerdy loners all the way. But it had some real emotional depth in between the cheesy action and fetish scenes.

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Kicking that dogs wouldn’t have been evil. It would have been monstrous.

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You know, looking back, I completely forget a lot of times that my username here is Tess Verres, completely ripped from EGS in it's entirety. I feel very comparable to both the canon Tedd Verres and the non-canon EGSNP Tess Verres so I took it for many things back in the day. I go by a new handle now, but for here it's always been this since early 2014 I believe, if not WAY earlier.

Back on topic, I was re-reading some of the comments and realized the irony of my username and posting a comment about this comic on here. Like Conan_Edogawa (which is another character I 100% adore and would have made my username back then) said, I'd never though I'd see EGS on here. I've seen like fan porn of it, but nothing of ACTUAL EGS content posting ever crossed my mind.

It looks like we're starting to steal mechanics from other games, based on the notes he posted under the EGSNP. The story will still be Fable 2, just with stolen stealth mechanics from some other game(s).

Today has been a day for me.

Last edited on 09 July 2020, 11:57.

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I want to see more of guard, holy shit

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Page 139: "Lex, you're having a difficult day. Well at least I can learn the Flash's secret identity!" *takes off mask* "I have no idea who this is."

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Nice

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Yay ! Back to evil form

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So they are in the dream that has gone haywire?

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I remember playing Fable 2 with the three heroes plot

And it looks like Grace is playing Reaver and she hated Reaver

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Always funny

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Waiting for the bard guard to become the hero of music and the team to become a barber shop quartet.

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Mostly my thing with El Goonish Shive, and pretty much everything Dan Shive does, is that he has all these kinks and is obviously desperate to enjoy them, and yet he's completely and utterly hampered by his concern over what other people think of him.

And I'm not even talking about as far as porn is concerned, though that's part of it... he has all these porny interests, yet is clearly so afraid of being seen as a full-on pervert that he's actually become uncomfortable with the idea of actual sex happening (by his own admission), he has all these interests in nonconsensual TF and mind control but is so afraid of being seen as a bad person that he always just dances up to the edge of doing it and when he does do it there's never any real consequences, someone's just flustered for a few and then moves on, and on and on... it's that he's letting it hamper his writing.

Like some of the other comments said, he's obviously desperately afraid of invoking the wrath of his audience and so he becomes bogged down in overexplaining, watering down subject matter, and virtue signaling, among other things. The comic, which already had glacial pacing, has become completely bogged down by him either being afraid of his audience or desperately writing what he thinks they want him to write, instead of what he wants to write.

The comic was better when he was just writing it for himself. He was still always obviously skittish about stepping over certain lines, but it was more sincere, even if the art was worse.

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