I think Peirce is still working on this strip because since Peanuts and Charles Schultz heavily inspired him, he wants to make Big Nate go for as long as Schultz did with Peanuts, which was fifty years straight.
It wasn’t even a good idea for Schultz to make it go on for that long since even his strip had a drop in quality in its later years.
I’m saying it’s not that funny anymore because we’ve all come to realize the dangers of toxic masculinity that discourage males from being open about their feelings, worried about being seen as not masculine enough and deserving to be bullied for it like being called gay, even though the only thing that makes you gay is if you like guys or not.
April 02, 2004