Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for January 05, 2025

First, and happy first Sunday strip of 2025

Talk about karma

How to deliver payback!

Wow, It’s uh… 1 AM and… uh… it’s probably a good idea to sleep… and… uh… there’s church in the morning… and… uh… uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

U cannot escape Francis

Francis’ first ever checkmate against Nate! The former chess master rises again

With a board that big it’s hard not to find a winning move somewhere.

Decent first Sunday of the year, love how we get so many different looking panels! Probably should have seen that coming, Nate XD 7\10

Every Sunday, I’ll update you all on the appearance tracking, the overall number of appearances now, and my thoughts on the passing arc.

January 1st-5th:

Nate: 5 (now has 11,445, still 1st place in appearances)

Miranda: 4 (now has 49, passed Moe Mentum, who had 46, to be the 47th placed character)

Francis: 4 (now has 4,258, still 2nd place)

Teddy: 3 (now has 3,007, still 3rd place)

Marty: 1 (now has 1,567, still 4th place)

Miranda Momopoly arc: an 8\10 overall, for a monopoly arc it was actually pretty fresh and miranda was more funny than jerky, plus the tired Nate cheats gags weren’t used!

Peeps smirk

How did he get in!?

Outflanked!! And of course, the Holden Caulfield hat once again!

Cold play?

He outsmarted you Nate.

Only just noticed Francis is a southpaw.

You could call this….’cold war’

Francis should have put the snowball in the freezer until July.

Paraphrasing Bill Cosby

Sorry Nate, but you just got King’d

what is the snowball… a queen, pawn, rook?

…..I wonder IF Marty even knew Francis was in there…….

How did he even get in?

dear frens, 2025 is a good year. but even as a yung lad, i still COMPREHEND HOW 2020 WAS HALF A DECADE AGO!!!!

Snowball g7 check, with mate the next move.

At least Nate was mature enough to realize he had been out played.

What is Nate’s expression at the top between the B and the I that spell Big Nate. It’s like he’s jumping back in surprise, but also mad.

Bragging……way too soon!!!!!

Nate’s dad is going to have a fit about all the snow on the floor.

So Francis is left-handed?

Nate is a good sport!

Francis’s castled and regrouped

Nice move francis

nah thats crazy bruh

moral of comic: pride comes before a falllesson learned: never let your guard down

Good for Francis

That’s gotta be cheating. He’s not even wearing his snow stuff!

lmao

10/10 strip icl

The one time francis beats nate in ’’chess’’ is in chess metaphors

Surprise checkmate attack!