Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for March 12, 2024

This is going so downhill

Watches scene from afar off silently beating drum

—Strike 1 is silently approaching.

I hear Nate has quite a detention record!

What happened to him not getting detention anymore?

Wonder what Nate did this time…?

Nate, Nate, Nate…when will you learn?

If this ends with Nate and Daphne breaking up…

Please don’t ruin this relationship it’s the only one that lasted more than a few months.

Shame, he will probably be most successful. Elementary school should be fun, not detentions. A little too much. Even Nate shouldn’t be subjected to so many

Is that Randy Bettancourt’s sister?

i dont think this will lead to a breakup, Daphne is gonna defend Nate if they talk badly about him for sure! But the arc is still young haha, I hope we see Gina and Daphne talking this arc

Show them the sand dollar, then, ask them to choose their next words very carefully!

even though this is strike 1, sure. nate has given SO much to daphne im sure things wont turn out horribly

Lunch Detention is a new one.

Lay off, girls! Can’t you just leave them alone?

Nate is an overachiever

Daphne don’t listen to them.

Nate goddang it stop getting detentions it’s not helping your reputation

Great awkward smile on Daphne :)

She likes bad boys; so what?

Da ladies love da bad boys…

Please don’t be the beginning of the end, please don’t be the beginning of the end, please don’t be…

Arc Rating (so far): 4/10

Comic Rating: 2/10

What are you guys thinking is going to happen? “Hey Daphne, ur bf is dumb”“Alr ill go break up with him”Its gonna be something where they bully her and shes like “No but I love him”

Actually that is a better “punishment”.. he won’t be able to have linch with his girl friend… which is worse than having to stay after school a bit longer with some other kids serving time, than going home to an empty house, or his sister, or worse, their father!

Daphne just digs the “bad boys.”

The ladies like a bad boy.

What’s this bit about detention all the time in this strip…anyway…

In real life, when I went to school, in the later fifties, and high school in the sixties, there wasn’t such a thing as detention. In my kids’ days, there wasn’t a detention either. My grandchildren don’t have detention in their schools either…

The first panel the girl in the green shirt needs a exorcist

This doesn’t look like a good start to any arc that I’ve read so far

RIP THEM TO SHREDS

MAKE THEM EAT THEIR WORDS

She just like THE bad boy……

Daphne is just precocious, she already likes bad boys.

Daphne is going to catch them talking behind her back about Nate. So sad. BUT it is the start something juicy. So 9/10!

It’s moments like these during which I question Daphne’s morals. I mean, c’mon.

oof

daphne’s relationship with Nate is affecting her relationship with her friends lol

This Isn’t good…

Unfortunately, Nate doesn’t make a good impression.

What did he do?