Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for March 24, 2023

We have gotten nowhere.

peirce come one man! this has been dragging one for 5 days it’s just gonna be a long filler arc

Oh yeah, Gina? Then what about the grades you keep bragging about, huh?!

this is just wrong

First Nate butts into the girls’ conversation and now this Rando kid butts into Gina’s and Nate’s conversation. I sure would like to hear Dee Dee’s explanation of Gina’s disliking.

Please tell me that I’m not the only one who had to Google “rando.”

So everyone is better than Nate.

I bet that kid even has business cards that say “Rando at Large”.

Rando kid burn!

The bar for being better than Nate is so low, it’s a tripping hazard in hell. And if Gina’s not going to accept her flaws and try to improve, then this will be a waste of possibly two weeks.

4/10 Was originally going to be a 3, but the rando made it a little funnier. Just a little.

Nate isn’t wrong…let’s see where this goes. Have some patience.

seems i’m not the only one that uses the term “rando”

Nate is right yet he does exactly what Gina does too just he brags about other things not school so Nate is not the right person to tell this to Gina.

Finally, we are getting somewhere. It is true though, and this better be a 2 week strip or longer.

That was actually going somewhere until he came in.

Huh. This might lead, or escalate to something.

Strip rating: 5/10 I kinda predicted that Nate would say something like this, so it’s not all that surprising or great.

Nate: you wanna know why people hate you?readers: tell her! tell her!Nate: I know why people hate you.readers: JUST GET ON WITH IT!!!Nate: and now, I’m going to tell you.

Have a nice day. Please. If you want to.

Aaaaand there goes another strip wasted

This arc could have been pretty interesting but so far it seems like it isn’t gonna go anywhere and it’s gonna end with Gina not learning or changing.

I was expecting Gina to be more sympathetic here and would actually be like “People really think of me that way?” or something like that.

Pleased to meet you, Rando.

Who’s this “rando” kid?

5/10 like where are we going

bruh legit get to the good stuff already it was good on the first day then Nate popped in and made this arc drag

Well he told her. He should have said “you give the appearance of being superior to everyone else”. Less accusative. He’s not far off….

YOU THINK YA BETTA DEN ME???

“Just a Rando” has become my new favorite character in every single property ever made ever. I now want Just a Rando in Smash Ultimate. I’ll go fire up the Twitter accounts…

#JusticeForJustARando

I don’t like this arc much. Pls stop making it last so long.

I’m amazed. Nate is taking it lightly and tells her only one of her flaws. He could go on listing them for half an hour. He really wants to help Gina to be a better person.

I was so eager for this week

I don’t know how to say this without sounding mean, but why doesn’t anyone know that rando is just the slang word for random?

Dear lord, that opening panel feels like self-parody. Yeah, he’ll tell you in 4 days.

I kinda like the rando joke, it’s appropriately, well, random. And it’s not like Nate is wrong here by any means.

6/10, decent gag, but still so meandering. We could easily have progressed the story by now, while still being funny. Pierce used to do that.