Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for July 13, 2011
July 12, 2011
July 14, 2011
Transcript:
Okay, kid, into the water. I'll pretend to be drowning, and you pull me to shore. Uh... Okay, I'll try. You'll try? Listen, champ, if you want to be a junior lifesaver, you can't just try! You've got to do! And besides, it won't be as tough to rescue me as you think. For some reason, I'm unusually buoyant.
The best example of this involves Nate’s nemesis, Gina. At one point several years ago, in the context of a particular strip, I had to give her a last name. So I called her Gina Hemphill. Then, only a couple years later, I needed to refer to her last name, and I completely forgot I’d already given her one…so I named her Gina Toms. Now I’ve finally got it figured out. Her name’s Gina Hemphill-Toms.