Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for March 23, 2024

DON’T DO IT

To be continued…

Please don’t make us wait until Monday, Peirce…

Here’s the thing…what if Daphene doesn’t want to break up with Nate?

Oh please no

Nate’s gonna blow this

Seeing how this arc is turning out to be, I’m afraid Daphne is going to break up with Nate and probably vanish forever, like all previous girlfriends.

So who will be the first to sever the ties? We’ll have to find out in the next week of this arc

If this ends here with daphne Im done 0/10

Looks like Peirce is holding the arc back a little more. I mean, not like I wanted to but it’s alr.

I suspect neither of them want to break up. But peer pressure can be hard to resist.

Maybe they’ll break up but then realize they really like each other and get back together later. And make a decision to stop listening to their well meaning friends who ought to have butted out of their business!

Lincoln Pierce’s been cooking this arc.

Of course we end it like this for this week, the classic Sunday-strip cliffhanger!

Wouldn’t Daphne inspire Nate to reform himself. No more detentions and better grades. Sam Cook sang What a Wonderful it Would be.

Uh oh. End it right there

Why did Peirce do this? I mean, really? EVERY girlfriend has to go? EVERY GIRLFRIEND? Well, I dont wanna see any other girlfriend arcs because they all end the same way.

Guys, it looks like it’s the end. Cue the “Final Hours” music. At least they’re talking.

It would be horrible if they both didn’t want to break up but both their friends told them to

My guess is a teacher has been watching this play out and will intervene teaching everyone involved a life lesson.b

There is a time for everything. Everything will eventually come to an end. Even this relationship

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Peer pressure is the worst

We may never know…

Can’t wait. The sand dollar causes earthquakes and pending eclipses

Oh no… the end is coming…

Daphne, you go first. Your friends were the ones talking to you about it, not Nate’s friends.

Strip rating: 4/10 I can’t be the only person here who thinks that they’re gonna break up. None of Nate’s past relationships lasted forever, and this shouldn’t be an exception.

This is the human condition. Letting emotions and imaginary issues dictate life, rather than being open and honest.

-10000000000000000000000/10, no. No. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Then again, I still have my fingers crossed for a possible understanding!

She does not have to do it

OK, they’re talking about it. That’s good, that’s good. Maybe they can share their worries.

Don’t do it, Nate. Leave it be.

Just like I said.

I don’t think any of them want to breakup

NO!! have you seen Nate’s poems? like “She rhymes with me” or the one he made at the beach??

Please don’t break up! You two are on of the best parts of the comics strip!

They’ll both say “Do you want to break up?” at the same time, then both say, “No!” and fall into each other’s arms and defy the nay-sayers.

Maybe somehow they’ll get back together.

I predict that they will admit to each other that they ARE their best friends and that all those other kids need to mind their own business.

Maybe they’re going to break-up, then be miserable for a couple of weeks. Only to find out neither wanted to break it off in the first place, so they get back together. That should add more time to this storyline.

I’m hoping they can talk it out and tell all their friends to go jump.

Hopefully not right now.

Guys, isn’t pain and suffering and agony for weeks at a time so much fun?

Nate, pleas tell the truth; please tell the truth, Pease!

Don’t Do This!

Drag it out LOL.

No. NO. WHY MUST YOU MAKE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL RELATIONSHIP END?

Ladies First

I don’t like where this is going

It all started on March 30, 2023…..

Why is this happening!? For once, why can’t Nate have a happy ending???

Nate / Daphne, reach for each other’s hands and to heck with all your ‘friends’ who’re just jealous anyway!

Interesting Fact: 8 years ago today, Nate broke up (or started the message) with Trudy. Is that a bad omen?

Don’t do this Peirce! I’ll stop reading Nate, I swear!

do these strips come from your on books because If they are i’ll be the first in line to buy

PLEASE DONT TELL ME IM THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS READ EVERY SINGLE BIG NATE COMIC

Strike 3, i’m ready to see you delay. N8 doesn’t deserve any of this.

Herein, lies the problem in trusting your friends to dictate your love life, even at Nate’s age. To me, those are not really true friends. They might mean well, but, then invariably end up causing more problems, and pain, than there may have been, had they butted out.

Ladies first!

What you guys need to do is break up with your “friends.”

Next week could be one of the saddest in the strip’s history, or one of the happiest.

Welp, game over.

Personally, I’m holding out hope that they both might want to, y’know, stay together! Stranger things have happened in the comics, and since it seems like this is what every commentator here wants … We shall see, likely on Monday.

They don’t want to.