Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for January 16, 2024

Poor Gina!

Yep. There definitely an item

I feel you Gina. Most people at my job are in relationships

Well Gina, to be fair, you didn’t really respect Chad’s feelings. You tried to force things

Gina, try not to think about it, the more you do it the more it will hurt!

Why is Gina overthinking

oh she’s gunna do something drastic, i can feel it coming

Somehow I imagine Chad doing Mickey Mouse’s signature small laugh when he says “Ha ha!”

Poor Gina, this is a really harsh strip on her!

5\10

THIS IS TORTUREEE LOL but her desperation is boiling, I can feel it! Great arc so far, and Chad with Kim are so so cute!

Everybody loves somebody sometimes.

Crikey! Get a room !!!!

This one made me ha ha

Why are they doing that so close to her lol

Well, now things are getting funny.

Do we need kissing 5th graders?

Hmmmm……

Oh my gosh I have no idea how to feel about this. Cringe, mostly.

Ooh! I love these segments of the strip where it turns into a zany rom-com! These always make me laugh the hardest!

Well looks like shots have been fired for Gina. Don’t start anything goofy. I don’t want a girl fight in the hallwayRating this strip for today: Creativity 20/20 Commentary 38/40 Reasoning and Analysis 39/40 Total: 97/100 A

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

What about Chester?

Anyone else feel bad for Gina?

Everybody feels sorry for Gina, but Kim has been the target of “ugly” jokes forever, so I’m happy for her.

She should be happy. I am….

Eek! Sooo cute. I remember when Gina liked Chad,

10/10 ARC!!!

Gina kinda deserves it but at the same time, she doesn’t.

I’m starting to suspect that now Kim is bragging just to drive Gina crazy. Her revenge will be terrible.

I’m baaack

Peirce has gone too far with this joke.

This is just too ridiculous.

That kind of behavior would never, ever happen in a regular middle school.

I even asked my daughter if in her school at that age kids behaved like that…she said that it might have happened at about grade 10 level, (age 15-16), but not at age 10 or 12 which is Nate’s school’s age.

…a minus ten! —10/10

Gina deserves this

Uh oh. If Gina does something that screws up Kim’s near-perfect redemption arc for the sake of “status quo”, then I am gonna punch a hole in my screen lmao

Must be a very liberal school to allow PDA in the hallway.

6/10, sorry, Gina, but the hearts want what the hearts want.

SOmebody’s angry. Overall Rating: 5/10 (But lowkey Gina didn’t deserve this strip)

It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it.

cue the dark ambient music with discordant overtones which, although broadly tonal, is inflected with chromatic and polytonal passages representing the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style without being interpreted as an overly heavy-handed metaphor within the context of the thematic material a bit on the frenetic and frantic side with interesting rhythmic devices which seem to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor utilizing a novel imaging technique known as positron emission tomography and the spontaneous nondenominational conceptions

Hmmm… Do schools allow PDAs now?

Know how it feels, Gina. 8/10

Sorry I’ve been gone.

Kim and Chad are really cute. :-)

Something disturbing about the positioning in panel 4….

This might be one of the weirdest strips in Big Nate in the last decade or so.

6/10. Like, it’s so bad, it’s actually kinda good, but it’s also really bad.

Hey Guys! And Welcome To The National Nateless Comic Strip!

Gina is gonna snap

Poll: Do you think that Ginia is a megalomaniac? I think she is a little.

ew

Ngl this is one of the funniest comic strip I’ve seen in a long time. Name the date of a better strip than this one

That’s like they are doing it in front of her on purpose