Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for October 22, 2023

How embarrassing

A tad reused. Still funny tho. Haha XD

Francis taking advantage of Nate’s fear, how @#£%* lovely of him, what a good friend.

0\10, HATE when he does that. If Nate did that..

Now we need a 1V1 Francis vs Pickles!

Long live the cat king

Okay this is a pretty good one.

I’ve said this before but at this point I like the Sunday strips better than the actual arcs.

Cats are Nate’s kryptonite.

I know this is meant to be funny and silly and lighthearted…

But this isn’t. By no means is this funny or silly or lighthearted imo, actually. Being a little afraid of something is one thing- having a phobia of it is more than another

I’ve never understood why Nate’s ailurophobia is always treated with such mockery, dismissiveness, and borderline cruelty. His phobia is a direct response to a traumatic attack he encountered as a child with a cat. Some outside the strip (let alone in it, as clearly seen here) mock that, discredit that as “not traumatic enough” or “too stupid/childish” to have created a real, traumatic-rooted phobia. But his body’s that was very, very real- and I hc it’s multifaceted.

I actually dive into that deeper into a fic I have planned. Nate gets the proper exposed therapy he needs to help him cope with this very real fear- and, ironically, even threatens to leave Francis behind if he doesn’t cooperate/continues to try and mock him

Poor Nate. I will kick Francis’s butt.

What a Cat-astrophe if only he had a Cat-apult to get rid of him. Of course he’d have to Cat-ch him first. Ok I’m done.

There’s a reason why a cat is nicknamed the King of the Jungle.

(Yes, I am aware lions live in the savanna. It’s a misnomer nickname)

Really like P1. How about a new comic, King Kat??

NiCe TrY, nAtE.

This is old

3.5/10 still a bit funny but old

…..way back, when I was this creepy ‘lil kid, there was a HUGE fallen tree trunk that about 20+ of us guys would play “king of”…….we’d line up end-to-end, and you’d wrestle with whoever you met in the center to stay on the tree trunk……nobody thought of a trick like playing on someone’s animal fears then……we were all “brute strength, force & ignorance” types then….amazing that nobody got seriously hurt, THAT was usually the dark, largely unspoken phantom lurking in us Cold War era kids………

Ignore the haters Pierce! I’ve been reading Big Nate since I was a boy. I’m liking your work recently.

If comics couldn’t tell their stories on the back of fears, worries and insecurities, thered be neither comics nor stories…

Wussy…..

I wonder if the cat regrets its being bloodless.

Hey, that’s cheating.

Sticking out your gyat for the rizzler, your so skibidi, your so fanum tax, I just to be your sigma

This is why Kings always keep a can of cat repellent in their back pocket.

6/10, an actually funny joke, but Francis bringing Pickles ruins it. He should not have brought her, but if she came by herself, it would be fine. Maybe this foreshadows Nate threatening to leave Francis if he keeps bullying him like this.

Yay an overused joke

Man I am seeing full on essays on why phobias should not be messed with, so this days comic is straight up cancelled

You didn’t hear Nate when he EXPLICITLY SAID NO ANIMALS ALLOWED? What’s wrong with the people of this comic? Where has my childhood gone towards? Why can’t I read this strip and laugh out loud anymore instead of criticizing it?!

Strip rating: 0/10 Sigh…

That was horrible of Francis. He’s done that so many times, but this is probably the most frustratingly passive aggressive one. I swear, I have had it up to HERE with that idiot, and Teddy honestly isn’t much better. You know what, I’m just gonna say it, Nate needs to dump these guys and get better friends.

I want another sunday strip where nate nails francis and teddy back for being jerks to him

Excuse me while I go change my shorts.

I’m giving this strip one more chance. If tomorrow’s storyline is bad, then I’m done. I can’t take this anymore.

“A cat may look at a king.”

Cats ARE king.

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the francis torturing nate joke is starting to become annoying just cruel francis knows nate has ailurophobia and instead of helping him through it he uses it for personal gain

Skill issue

Pierce, what is wrong with you? Making everyone hate each other IS NOT FUNNY. Plus, taking advantage of someone’s phobia is not slapstick, it’s cruelty. I have a phobia as well, and I could understand how nate would feel if he were a real person. Betrayed by his “best friend”.

You really had us going with the daphne strips, and now you’re ghosting her! Why? What did we do to deserve this?

IDK

Francis has gotten worse and worse. Using your best friends phobia to win a game/ prove a point is a dirtbag thing to do.