Big Nate Comic Strip, December 06, 2012 on GoComics.com

sonytv said, 6 months ago

A wizard. With sherlock holmes’s pipe. What does that make SPG?

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Agent54 said, 6 months ago

@sonytv
Not a Sherlock Holmes pipe, it is suppose to be a Gandor the Gray type of pipe.

briatollah said, 6 months ago

Picture Guy’s pipe looks like a “church warden”. In the books Sherlock Holmes smoked an old oily clay pipe, not a Calabash as is depicted in the movies.

psycho dog#1 nates biggest fan said, 6 months ago

hes not even close to being a wizard he’s too chubby

Roshan713 said, 6 months ago

@Agent54
It’s not Gandor the Gray, for heavens’ sakes! It’s GANDALF the GREY. Please go read the Tolkien books before the Hobbit comes out next week.

Feed Me Comics! said, 6 months ago

HAGRID: You’re a wizard, Harry.
I wish there were times where I could be a wizard.

Jodma said, 6 months ago

@psycho dog#1 nates biggest fan

Hagrid was a wizard and hes really fat

Jodma said, 6 months ago

Im surprised spg even has the brain capacity to read the hobbit. Isnt it like 70 years old and really long?

Barkanator77 said, 6 months ago

When it comes to people like SPG and lord of the rings or harry potter, They’ll do anything

Barkanator77 said, 6 months ago

Can someone tell me how I change my avatar?

Christopher Shea said, 6 months ago

@Jodma

My paperback edition of “The Hobbit” is a hair under 300 pages. Compared to the fantasy doorstops produced by modern writers like George R. R. Martin, Steven Erikson, and Robert Jordan, it’s nothing. I’m not even sure how Peter Jackson is going to squeeze three movies out of it…

supercubsfan01 said, 6 months ago

Mr. Pierce, how come nate’s school is the only one just called PS38? How come the other schools in his town have names, such as Jefferson?

bignate said, 6 months ago

@supercubsfan01

Well, that’s sort of a long story, but here goes: When I started the strip, I was living in New York City. In New York, many of the public schools have numbers, which I thought was kind of cool. So I gave Nate’s school a number for a name, not really realizing that NYC is really the only place in the US with school names like that. So by naming Nate’s school P.S. 38, I probably created some confusion. Some people might think that means Nate lives in NYC, which of course he doesn’t. If I were doing it all over again, I’d give his school a “real” name. Incidentally, I chose the number 38 because it was my street address growing up: 38 Coe Drive in Durham, New Hampshire.

starlilies said, 6 months ago

@bignate

Very cool! My husband went to PS 182 in the Bronx, so I picked up on that “NY” location pretty quick. You know, the school can always have a “ceremony” to change the school name to someone who has contributed a TON of money towards the school… ;)