Giant Days
English
25 pages
Issue 1
Giant Days #1
3.2K views • Jul 21, 2023
Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends because their dorm rooms were next to each other. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive.
29 pages
Issue 2
Giant Days #2
607 views • Jul 21, 2023
When Freshers' Flu strikes the dorm, no one gets off easy. Daisy enters a one-sided relationship with an off-brand Polish cold cure given to her by Ed Gemmell, Susan is forced into nicotine withdrawal, and Esther becomes incapable of distinguishing fever dreams from reality. Death stalks the dorm halls by night!
29 pages
Issue 3
Giant Days #3
515 views • Jul 21, 2023
Following a night of "mild abandon," Esther finds herself singled out by the vile collegiate man-site Laddzone. When the university authorities are less than helpful, she vows to take down this cyber institution!
29 pages
Issue 4
Giant Days #4
526 views • Jul 21, 2023
Are drugs good, bad, or indifferent? Daisy is going to discover the truth for herself when she makes friends with the very fun Erin, who gives her some "fun" pills. Unfortunately, Daisy's Granny decides it's the perfect time for a surprise visit, and it'll be up to Esther and Susan to help her keep it together.
29 pages
Issue 5
Giant Days #5
412 views • Jul 21, 2023
During a pre-Christmas ball, Daisy kisses a boy she shouldn't have, while Susan may have done more than that with McGraw. Esther dreads going home for holiday break for fear of running into her ex.
27 pages
Issue 6
Giant Days #6
446 views • Jul 21, 2023
As everyone buckles down for exams, we get a good look into Susan's mysterious past.
25 pages
Issue 7
Giant Days #7
384 views • Jul 21, 2023
It's time for end-of-semester exams, but Esther was "too busy living" to attend most of her lectures and it's up to Daisy and Susan to help her prepare. Meanwhile, Susan goes through the schmoopy romantic phase of a new relationship.
26 pages
Issue 8
Giant Days #8
334 views • Jul 21, 2023
A brutal winter hits Sheffield, but things heat up when Esther has a fling with a faculty member! Daisy probably has a Friday Night Lights reference for this occasion...
26 pages
Issue 9
Giant Days #9
336 views • Jul 21, 2023
Ed attempts to get over his crush on Esther by working at the student paper, but stumbles into even more embarrassing romantic difficulty.
26 pages
Issue 10
Giant Days #10
334 views • Jul 21, 2023
Esther's old school friend "Big Lindsay" comes to visit with her baby, but watching the kid and being nice to the insatiable party girl begins to wear on everyone.
24 pages
Issue 11
Giant Days #11
316 views • Jul 21, 2023
Now an ongoing series! It's Susan's birthday and she receives the greatest gift at all: it's time for the medical students to start cutting up cadavers.
24 pages
Issue 12
Giant Days #12
234 views • Jul 21, 2023
In an effort to lift the spirits of her dear friends, Daisy takes the girls camping.
24 pages
Issue 13
Giant Days #13
271 views • Jul 21, 2023
Daisy visits Esther's hometown to convince her to come back to University, while Susan spends her Easter break far away from her Northampton problems.
27 pages
Issue 14
Giant Days #14
230 views • Jul 21, 2023
Esther, Susan, and Daisy start the search for a house to rent for their second year quite late, so their options leave a lot to be desired.
27 pages
Issue 15
Giant Days #15
213 views • Jul 21, 2023
Creative tensions and "mildly erotic subcurrents" proliferate as Esther and her Svengali boyfriend battle Susan and Daisy for a £5,000 Film Festival prize.
28 pages
Issue 16
Giant Days #16
249 views • Jul 21, 2023
Daisy has to draw on new reserves of inner strength after she loses control of a party of prospective students on an open day, while the "lonely, unlovable spinster" Susan tries dating again with disastrous results.
27 pages
Issue 17
Giant Days #17
237 views • Jul 21, 2023
McGraw's new girlfriend is the Anti-Susan, Esther and Ed get into hot water with a money-making scheme, and Daisy has trouble with a professor on an archaeological dig.
28 pages
Issue 18
Giant Days #18
231 views • Jul 21, 2023
The big end-of-year ball is approaching and Daisy is determined to kiss a girl, while Susan and Esther prepare for a summer of difficulty.
28 pages
Issue 19
Giant Days #19
173 views • Jul 21, 2023
After spending a dull summer apart, Esther, Daisy, and Susan attend a 3-day music festival that naturally ends in a battle for survival in an apocalyptic quagmire.
32 pages
Issue 20
Giant Days #20
203 views • Jul 21, 2023
The second year begins! When Esther, Daisy and Susan discover that every piece of furniture in their new home was destroyed by the previous occupants, they head to IKEA, where things get complicated.
29 pages
Issue 21
Giant Days #21
163 views • Jul 21, 2023
The girls come home to find that they have been burgled, so Susan decides to employ her street smarts in order to retrieve their stolen items. Daisy and Esther, against their better judgement, decide to help.
29 pages
Issue 22
Giant Days #22
148 views • Jul 21, 2023
Daisy struggles with the persistent advances of Ingrid Oesterle, Esther gets the call from Dark Nebula to be a comic shop employee, and Susan finally saves up enough money to buy a scooter that she's too afraid to ride.
29 pages
Issue 23
Giant Days #23
145 views • Jul 21, 2023
The next-door neighbor calls the police on what may be the most sedate dinner party of all time, causing Susan to deliver a furious and extremely unkind - but totally justified - opinion on the matter.
29 pages
Issue 24
Giant Days #24
152 views • Jul 21, 2023
As the Christmas break looms, Susan's endless cold refuses to go away, Daisy is in the honeymoon period of her relationship with Ingrid, and Esther is working all hours at the comic shop.
32 pages
Issue 25
Giant Days #25
164 views • Jul 21, 2023
Special oversized issue celebrating two years of Giant Days! Susan goes home for the holidays and attempts to repair the rift between her parents with the help of her six older siblings!
30 pages
Issue 26
Giant Days #26
155 views • Jul 21, 2023
Ed and McGraw's home has become a no-go zone with the addition of Dean Thompson, and the impending visit of his girlfriend Posy is anticipated with a mixture of morbid curiosity and dread.
31 pages
Issue 27
Giant Days #27
160 views • Jul 21, 2023
Esther gets caught up in the influence of a "super-woke" colleague, and Susan grows frustrated with Ingrid's presence in their home.
32 pages
Issue 28
Giant Days #28
170 views • Jul 21, 2023
What's the secret of the shed in the back of the girls' house, and why are strange men visiting it in the middle of the night?!
30 pages
Issue 29
Giant Days #29
152 views • Jul 21, 2023
Esther feels guilty when she befriends McGraw's girlfriend and leaves Susan out in the cold, while Daisy thinks she's found the perfect girl for Ed Gemmell.
30 pages
Issue 30
Giant Days #30
150 views • Jul 21, 2023
As Easter break looms, Esther and Susan are forced to address Ingrid's constant crimes against household decency.
31 pages
Issue 31
Giant Days #31
165 views • Jul 21, 2023
Daisy has abandoned (friend)ship after the apocalyptic falling out from last issue, so McGraw (whose own reputation is in shambles) takes it upon himself to mend things.
31 pages
Issue 32
Giant Days #32
167 views • Jul 21, 2023
McGraw puts faith in his and Daisy's "unique understanding" while trying to deal with the fact he is a low down double-dealing dirty cheat whose name is now mud in the influential Spanish community.
31 pages
Issue 33
Giant Days #33
177 views • Jul 21, 2023
Daisy and Susan betray the sacred coven, leaving Esther to try - at high speed and under considerable pressure - to claim her dream home.
31 pages
Issue 34
Giant Days #34
144 views • Jul 21, 2023
Ed’s mysterious past is revealed! There may be alcohol involved.
31 pages
Issue 35
Giant Days #35
156 views • Jul 21, 2023
With the prospect of living apart for the first time since they all met as first years just over the horizon, Daisy, Esther, and Susan spend their last summer together before beginning their third year of university.
30 pages
Issue 36
Giant Days #36
170 views • Jul 21, 2023
Heading into their third year at university, Esther, Daisy, and Susan are living apart from each other for the first time, and it’s definitely going to be absolutely fine and not weird at all.
30 pages
Issue 37
Giant Days #37
192 views • Jul 21, 2023
Introducing your girlfriend to your family can be difficult, but it’s much worse when that girlfriend is Ingrid.
30 pages
Issue 38
Giant Days #38
131 views • Jul 21, 2023
It’s moving day, and each girl has their own set of challenge to face! Not least of which is McGraw’s… unique idea of what a lovely home should be.
31 pages
Issue 39
Giant Days #39
127 views • Jul 21, 2023
It’s the Sheffield University Graduate job fair! It’s definitely fun and not a terrifying reminder of Daisy, Susan and Esther’s encroaching future as Real Adults.
31 pages
Issue 40
Giant Days #40
210 views • Jul 21, 2023
Ed Gemmel returns to Sheffield after a summer spent healing bones and also his heart. Esther does her best to welcome him back, but neither of them have forgotten his drunken confession.
31 pages
Issue 41
Giant Days #41
170 views • Jul 21, 2023
Everything’s coming up Daisy! Her residents are flourishing, classes are great, and she might even go on a date soon. She is 1000% over Ingrid. It doesn’t bother her at all that Ingrid has already moved on. Not even a little.
30 pages
Issue 42
Giant Days #42
185 views • Jul 21, 2023
Nominated for a 2018 Eisner Award! With the air still clouded with weirdness in Esther and Ed’s shared house, Esther contemplates what it is that’s still standing between them and making everything feel…icky. The question is, does Esther want to kiss, or just to make up?
31 pages
Issue 43
Giant Days #43
185 views • Jul 21, 2023
Attempting to raise funds for Christmas presents, Daisy and Ed Gemmell take a job at a “Winter Village” that turns out to be a borderline-illegal shambles. Can Daisy save Christmas? Or should she just go home?
30 pages
Issue 44
Giant Days #44
172 views • Jul 21, 2023
Esther becomes fixated on Valentine’s Day as a marker of her romantic failure, and decides to fully activate her drama field for the first time in a long time, in an attempt to “Win Big At Love”. It’s going to be great. No, really.
30 pages
Issue 45
Giant Days #45
185 views • Jul 21, 2023
Ed and his girlfriend Nina may have bonded over bone breaks and PT, but now that the casts are off, Nina is going back to her partying ways—making Ed wonder if he ever knew her at all.
31 pages
Issue 46
Giant Days #46
174 views • Jul 21, 2023
A thief is targeting the Dark Nebula comic book shop where Esther works, and it’s up to Susan to put her amateur detective skills to work… emphasis on amateur.
30 pages
Issue 47
Giant Days #47
154 views • Jul 21, 2023
It’s time for Daisy to get her driver’s license, but she may not really be a natural behind the wheel. Can she overcome her nerves to become the ultimate motorist, and (for everyone’s safety) should she be allowed to?
29 pages
Issue 48
Giant Days #48
156 views • Jul 21, 2023
Susan and McGraw attend his brother’s wedding, and we meet the family that put the iron backbone in Giant Days’ most moustached male.
30 pages
Issue 49
Giant Days #49
172 views • Jul 21, 2023
It’s time for Esther to finish her final dissertation on “The Liminal Spaces Of The Great American Novel 1959-1980” but when inspiration dries up, she heads home to Tackleford for Easter. It’s not America, and it’s not 1959, but her now deserted small town is beginning to feel distinctly liminal.
32 pages
Issue 50
Giant Days #50
167 views • Jul 21, 2023
In times of a disastrous norovirus outbreak in McGraw’s for-fun cricket team, Susan, Esther, and Daisy are called upon to defend McGraw’s sportly honor. Taking up the bats of his fallen mates and donning their cricket whites, it’s a sporting adventure the girls had literally never anticipated! Can Susan be genteel and sportsmanlike? Can Esther stop goofing off? Will Daisy prove the greatest cricketer of all time?
30 pages
Issue 51
Giant Days #51
193 views • Jul 21, 2023
When McGraw’s father dies unexpectedly, the small friend group is shaken. Susan struggles to be there for McGraw, but his usual stoicism has turned into a solid wall. With McGraw at home and Susan in their empty apartment alone, Esther and Daisy have to help Susan deal with someone who doesn’t seem to be dealing. What do you do for someone you love when you have no idea what they’re going through?
29 pages
Issue 52
Giant Days #52
166 views • Jul 21, 2023
In a follow-up to Holiday Special 2017, Esther goes for a job interview in London and reunites with her old friend Shelley Winters. While Esther covets Shelley’s metropolitan existence, Shelley is already tired of the rat race and her high pressure civil service job, and longs to publish brain-rotting books. So while Shelly tries to prepare Esther for her interview, Esther steers Shelley towards a glittering future among the literati!
30 pages
Issue 53
Giant Days #53
172 views • Jul 21, 2023
Final exams, final friendship times, and some final goodbyes for Daisy, Esther, and Susan before the summer term wraps up, and it’s suddenly time to say goodbye to Sheffield!
30 pages
Issue 54
Giant Days #54
247 views • Jul 21, 2023
Summer is ending, and so are Daisy and Esther’s days at university (Susan still needs to finish medical school, of course). These last days together are worth their weight in gold, but soon it will be time for pomp, circumstance, and silly hats, as the girls head out into the world and face their futures!
