Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for November 14, 2021

collection? Now thats just weird

The potato Mr. Galvin’s holding looks like clay

Aaand this one has been done before also. I understand collecting those things, but keeping them at school seems weird…

Looks like Johnny Depp’s stupid face. Fourth.

i bet nate just keeps a whole bunch of potatoes in his locker. not surprising considering how many treasures are IN his locker

No, it kind of looks like an Everlasting Gobstopper.

Also, that kind of proves that the Big Nate Novel and Big Nate comic universe are the same.

8/10 These tricks are getting more creative.

I rather like the ‘Nate distracts a teacher with an intriguing topic’ trope. It may have been done several times before, but it’s usually well-executed and has a nice new spin on it each time.

i have returned

This is a nice strip. The kids get freedom from a quiz, and Mr Galvin gets to share some of his interests. Its a win-win and a bit wholesome in a way. IMO there’s nothing wrong with some repetition here and there, but they should be good repetition.

i didnt even know who john depp was until i searched him up…..

Hmmmmm, this basic thing has been used before. 3/10 for this strip.

Hello, I am quincy’s clone. It is very hard to tell the difference. This comic proves nate’s iQ. Anyways goodbye.

That’s pretty weird. But can I just ask how old even is this god damn teacher???? I think his wrinkles also have wrinkles.

rat

Anything is better than a pop quiz I guess

This works every time. Old teachers are so easy to fool, no offense to anybody

Oh yeah the pirate hat and all really makes it look like Johnny Depp

Wait, why is his locker that clean?

Johnny Depp has been mentioned in Big Nate a few times before. I wonder if he’s Peirce’s fav actor???

https://www.gocomics.com/bignate/2019/09/03

https://www.gocomics.com/bignate/1994/09/15

7/10 cant go wrong with a pop quiz strip.

Nice to see Nate save the day

nice……………

This reminds me of when Johnnie Carson had on the Tonite Show a woman that collected unusual potato chips. She is involved in showing off her chips when Jonnie pulls out a bag of chips from his desk and very audibly crunches a chip from the bag. Her head snaps up and the shocked look on her face is hillarious!

whos Johnny Depp

ok

Ok he likes weirdly shaped potatoes. That’s strange but ok

More effective than the Distraction Dance.

Couple things:

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—The first panel reminded me of when some of us would get wind of a fire drill impending in the dorm. “Um, gee, RA, I would stick around, but I have this critical organic chemistry exam Tuesday and HAVE to go to the library and study!” Those fire alarms would wake the dead.>>—More than once in high school calculus, we could delay a test by a day by bringing in a cake. There was a high-end supermarket with a wicked bakery behind the school, and sometimes we would walk over there, order a half sheet cake, get the counter girl to decorate it with the quadratic equation, and bring it in. The teacher would relent—for one day. She liked cake, too! But never more than one day.

Well listen here mr galvin, I’ve got one shaped like mr. potato head.

I’ve seen this before!

We had a teacher like that at St Francis High School named Father Baptist. All you had to do to get him to divert his attention was to ask him any irrelevant question and he was good for 20 minutes. He had a great personality and a good heart. I know that he is smiling from heaven right now. I, as a teacher, can only be diverted for about 3 minutes……

They would rather take this than a quiz?

this is a pretty good sunday strip. but this was almost a word for word recycled joke from the time mr galvin went on about greta van susteren

Score one for our boy. Nate deserves a victory for once.

How does Nate know about Mr. Galvin being into unusually shaped potatoes? Has Nate been venting again?

For once, Nate is the hero? Amazing. Interesting that sort of fits in with today’s Big Nate: First Class, in which Nate is bragging to Francis about being street smart.

Well played Nate!

So no one knows the material? But somehow they did know a quiz was coming?

love how his box was labled spuds not potatoes

If they ever make it to college they might have to take a poop quiz in their Bio 202 class. If they ever get out of elementary school.

…funny how when Nate opened his locker to obtain the needed totem, the usual tidal wave of stuff dating back to (it isn’t out of the question, considering….) Columbus’ landing in the western hemisphere and maybe even further back then thatdidn’t thunder out of the opened door………

Pop quiz tomorrow.

This once happened but with a celebrity in a cab.

Well, that’s rather unfortunate.

Statement: I was gone and now I have returned to this.

This joke has been done before

I wonder what the next is ngl

who here funny

Imagine if he did that every class.

Well said Mr. Galvin I’m no stranger to Idaho’s best.

thats kinda smart

nothin better than a fresh pfp

Everybody gangsta untill we find out a comic is basically a clone

Potatoe potato

This is a combination of the comic where nate shows francis and teddy his cheez doodle collection, and any of the comics where nate distracts Mr. Galvin in some way

He had a potato in his locker?

And some people probably thought Nate wasn’t smart.

Mr. Galvin is actually smiling lol

The weak minded are easily distracted.

what

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There’s always a bunch of comics where Nate knows the teachers too well and takes advantage of them at the end. I think there could at least be some sort of comics where Nate ends up failing to do this to mix it up and divert the readers’ expectations. Honestly, it’s getting pretty repetitive at this point

nice one nate

somewhat reused joke, last time it was the time he shared a cab with florence henderson

NATE IS A GENIUS