El Goonish Shive/Awesome
- Tedd, fighting school uniform policy. As the strip title says "You'd Have to be Han Solo to Look Cooler in a Vest". Hell yes. It gets even better in the next comic. One of the greatest Glasses Pulls ever.
- Grace's scene of Unstoppable Rage [1].
- Imagine Spot or not, this is Elliot's Crowning Moment of Awesome.
- You're sure you don't mean CMOF? Because I laughed for ten minutes straight.
- "You are trespassing." I suspect this will only be the beginning of something epic. The comic's title sums this up: "Bravest. Hall Monitor. EVER."
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"Have you no honor?" "The lives of my students are more important." |
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- The following comics proceed to escalate the awesome, as if Dan is trying to outdo himself.
- Elliot standing up for Ellen, even though she's spent her entire existence so far as a Card-Carrying Villain.
- Matched in the same strip by Mr. Verres proving a Reasonable Authority Figure.
- Ellen versus goo
- X-Men have taught me better than that
- Tedd explains (and defends) his pervertedness
- It's hard to look bad ass when using fairy powers, but Nanase manages.
- Nioi's forcefield
- Susan makes an entrance
- Leading directly into Tedd's Crowning Moments Of Awesome, mentioned above
- Mr. Verres has investigated. Awesome because it makes perfect sense, but you totally don't see it coming.
- Nanase never stops fighting
- Chaos takes care of everything, without actually doing anything.
- Nanase has proven she is willing to die for Ellen. Her resolve stuns even Abe. Hell, everything between the 2009-10-09 comic and the 2009-10-29 comic is a Crowning Moment of Awesome for Nanase.
- Mr. Verres goes Uncle Wolf here, disproving everyone who thought he was just a Bumbling Dad.
- Elliot and Noah's race through Swedekea. One panel has them somehow blowing up a large section of the sale floor, although that probably didn't happen.
- Susan hesitates, then fails, to pull out a Hyperspace Mallet to punish two hilariously rude comic book geeks speculating about her being an alien. Then Catalina gets them from behind with a plastic toy of Thor's hammer.
- Another one for Susan occurs during Grace's genderbender-themed party. After too much thinking into the fact that she is a man, Susan flashes back to her childhood trauma, begins to freak out, and looks for a place where she can be alone. She goes to the basement and finds Justin, who is on the verge of tears over his own issues. Her mind is being bombarded by painful childhood memories, but she manages to toss them aside so she can listen to Justin and try to help. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
- And keep in mind, she pushes through ALL the memories of her father without missing a beat, which was one of the most tramatic events in her life that defined her personality (her alternate didn't experience it, and they're on two completely different sides of the spectrum), ignoring her past prejudices to help a friend in need.
- Another one for Susan occurs during Grace's genderbender-themed party. After too much thinking into the fact that she is a man, Susan flashes back to her childhood trauma, begins to freak out, and looks for a place where she can be alone. She goes to the basement and finds Justin, who is on the verge of tears over his own issues. Her mind is being bombarded by painful childhood memories, but she manages to toss them aside so she can listen to Justin and try to help. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
- Debatably, Dan can get one himself, for recognizing his own Cerebus Syndrome, and actually making efforts to counteract it. As far as it can be told so far, quite successfully.
- Also, Justin gets one here--Dan even says as much in the author commentary.
- Dunkels-parents provide steady supply of Crazy Awesome whenever they both appear. Especially when trying to make a point. "Supper and alibis"...
- Their explanation of Swedekea is EXTREMELY Crazy Awesome. Their sole purpose in the series might just to be Elliot and Ellen's awesome parents.
- Melissa getting promoted from a mad limpet to a Girl With Guts, instead of Holding Out for a Hero standing against the... uh... dracobulldog who knocked out the local "superhero" right before her eyes and trying first to stare it down and then to make it disappear in a Puff of Logic.
- Also, her epic one-liner as the cavalry arrives.
- Two one-liners, really, one of them an You Are Already Dead. With a Slasher Smile to boot!
- Also, her epic one-liner as the cavalry arrives.
- Abe vs. Raven, all the way. It's hard to make a swordfight badass at three pages a week, but Dan manages.
- "Damien..is a dead man..."
- The "Death Sentence" arc has one for Catalina and Rhoda: Catalina for making a Big Damn Heroes entrance to rescue Rhoda from a charging boar, then using her camera flash to scare it off; and Rhoda for managing to stop panicking, remember her own camera and join in on Catalina's plan rather than lie and wait for the all clear.
- So. Somewhere in the universe there is something called a 'Deathless Army of Rage', and said army apparently had its sights set on Earth. Past tense, because this happened. Apparently, all that's needed to protect the world isn't magic or force, but a whiteboard and some Verbal Judo. It's the nonchalant hands-in-the-pants-pockets (whilst staring up a ...thing twice his size and half again as many limbs) that clinches it, though.
- Qualifies as a Funny Moment in its timing, and maybe a Heartwarming Moment in its use of words to solve a problem.