Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for March 21, 2018

8/10, I’ve stopped making Yugioh References for Now Until we get a new arc Then I’ll do Yugioh References and Nate Come On and get YOUR game on!

Why is this a rerun?Lincoln,you need to stop the reruns.Like if u agree

well, 3 months of reruns are almost done. (i Hope) but, for all big Nate fans, you PROBABLY KNOW (like i said yesterday), that this arc has a SECOND part, aprox. 2 or three weeks after the first. so what do you think? will the second arc appear, or not?

It’s definitely not going to be a problem. ;)

This is irrelevant to the strip but the world’s last male northern white rhino died and left two females to save the subspecies from extinction

When i was a kid we had a St. Bernard and believe me…there would be no problem getting DNA from that slobber machine.

Ew… A saliva sample mixed with cat poop and lord knows what other things Spitsy has been eating… Hopefully Nate uses gloves before doing getting the saliva sample….

I think getting Spitsy to drool might be to much of a problem.

Spitsy is not a good representative for the whole dog population; his hobbies are way too unorthodox.

Will there be any canine DNA from Spitsy?

me too.

Horray! Big Nate: Silent But Deadly is here! Odd…. something smells………

Am I one of the only old readers here left?

Also, I really think this is the end of Big Nate. The series is literally dead in quality.

In panel 1, Francis has his hands in his pocket which signifies that he is casual about this endeavor. Nate’s smile and raised eyebrows hint that he is excited. The green background and tree in the background shows that this is outside which means that they are most likely near spitsy. The second panel shows skepticism by Francis with a raised eyebrow and unique background colors. The third panel is setting up the punchline of the joke, which is that a saliva sample would be easy to get, considering that Spitsy drools a lot. This could hint to him being a poodle, since poodles are known for excessively drooling. Panel four goes with the joke, and has a blue oval spotlighting Nate and Francis with a white background which is common in comic strips when a character is saying something obvious. In this case, it’s with Spitsy’s excessive drooling which makes it easy to get a saliva sample for a dog DNA test. This goes with a surprise factor of a joke, because with most dogs it would be relatively difficult to get a saliva sample easily. The surprise factor is a commonly used trick in big nate, and is a key element of humor. Many people recognize is of one of the “3 elements of humor”, which goes Incongruity, surprise, and recognition.

I am crediting http://www.miltontimmons.com/ElementsofHumor.html for this piece of trivia, although you can find an interesting page of it on Wikipedia, I don’t consider it a credible source, but I’ll link it in case you want to see it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprise_factor This article talks about how knowing a punchline before being told it can nullify a joke’s surprise factor, thereof making it less funny.

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