Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for April 22, 2015
Transcript:
Francis: What is this? Nate: My Civil War paper, obviously! Francis: The only thing obvious about it is that you're making stuff up! Nate: It's called historical fiction, Francis! Nate: I'm building a dramatic story on top of a rock-solid foundation of factualness! Francis: There were no flying monkeys at Shiloh, you pinhead. Nate: They're a metaphor.
jackianne1020 about 9 years ago
Okay, I take back what I said yesterday. Flying monkeys kinda kill the historical buzz.
SJ The Star Wars Guy about 9 years ago
I like this comic.
CosmoFan47 about 9 years ago
Do you even know that a metaphor is, Nate?
hippogriff about 9 years ago
SailorEarth54: Grazing livestock.
Comic Minister Premium Member about 9 years ago
Francis is right about this. Sorry Nate.
ChessPirate about 9 years ago
And, as a metaphor is also defined as “a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else”, the “F” you get on the paper is also a metaphor.
orbenjawell Premium Member about 9 years ago
……the “Oz” flying monkeys did have kinda neat jackets…….like the “snazzier” outfits worn by both sides in the American Civil War.
komickat about 9 years ago
Yeah! The US Civil War ends up in the land of OZ and have to also fight flying monkeys XD
komickat about 9 years ago
Nate, there is too much fiction in your novel. You don’t want to go to summer school (with flying monkeys, haha, jk!), right?
Jim Kerner about 9 years ago
The usual “F” of course.
maxdabeest about 9 years ago
Yep. “Nuff said
rohit.veerapaneni about 9 years ago
I was there its all true
hippogriff about 9 years ago
305buckets: It is well known, because he spelled it out many times, the scarecrow is the farmers, tin woodman industrial workers, cowardly lion small businessmen, Dorothy the middle class, Toto their property, the wizard the politicians, Glinda the philanthropists, the wicked witch the predatory capitalists, so that would make the flying monkeys their blindly following multitudes of dittoheads.
peter barthemelow junior the 3rd griffin 5 months ago
yes, there was flying monkeys at siloh! its an undeniable fact!