Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for January 25, 2012

Even Gina knows the ending to this story.

ZEN, NATE, ZEN! Find another water fountain! Find a new level of water! ZEN, NATE, ZEN. Mr. Peirce, I respect your preservation of moral right. Respect, respect, respect….

…c’mon, Nate. Don’t blow it. Your friends are cheering you on. Gina is so sure that you’ll blow it.

Take that nervous need, that anxious frustration, that youthful anger, that arrogant hostility and put those energies to something creative and good.

ZEN, NATE, ZEN!

Again, Nate: keep it together, keep it together.

Gina is freaking smart!!!!This is so boring!!!!!!!Θ_Θ

Real cliff-hanger goin’ on here!! Love the way MEANWHILE is in all caps & stark white on even starker black!! Haw! HAW!! ANYTHING can happen here: (e.g. the darn “water-leveler” could have been hangin’ there on the wall just waitin’ to fall off & crash to the floor for years, just as our intrepid hero shows up for the "crash heard ’round the whooooooole school!) Haw! HAW!!

OH GOD NO NATE NO

I seriously had like 5 dreams last night about the ending to this series…I can’t take the suspense!!!

nononononononono please nate your fans r cheering 4 u

When Gina walks by Nate will leave and everyone will think it was her!

I think that didn’t have to do anything with the main story and was just a pun

This story line is so predictable. We’ve seen it time and time again. We all know Nate is going down. C’mon Lincoln, can’t you come up with something fresh?

Nate hardly ever wins…I hope he gets a break.

This storyline has a lot of suspense!

Walk away, Nate! Walk away!

As nate’s fan, i want him to make it. But which will be funnier, nate winning or losing? Oh, that makes it obvious. Poor Nate. Love this storyline.

Deep breaths Nate! DO NOT GO HULK ON THE FOUNTAIN!!!! You are so close!

Marcus: Jus shut UP, Gina.

Something’s not right about the fountain!

Yeah, I think that’s the likely outcome.

I can’t look…

Oh, crud.

go nate! you can survive gina’s wrath!

Aaannnd…Cue Mrs. Godfrey & a sudden, giant squirt from the water fountain!

Was hoping he could come out on top just once, but nope, we’re about to see a last second defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

Fake a stomach ache, kid, and get the bleep out of there. No shame taking a dive, not for this victory.

Gina’s water comment was a little fishy. Did she set Nate up?HEY BigNate are you listening? Pleease let him win.

MEANWHILE, AT THE FOUNTAIN.

Spare us the big surprise. Nate messes up at the end and we all go home happy.

What’s gonna happen?

I think this story line is great. @ Sacqueboutier: Mind yourself.

Nate keeps it under control, tries the water fountain one more time (turning the handle all the way), the temporary stoppage comes free, a jet of water erupts from the fountain, soaking a passing teacher.

Despite his truthful protestations on innocence, Nate gets a detention.

oh boy, he’s gonna blow.

We’ll have to wait until tomorrow….or friday….or saturday…..next week, even? to find out just WHAT Nate or the fountain will do!!! Haw! HAW!!!

we respected you while you were still alive, nate

Thats a nice pun

Now thats just MEAN.

Water fountain for the win

Technically Gina is wrong. A meniscus can form a sort of parabola shape.

NO!

Are YOU saying you Jammed the water?!?