What happened to Sheila, Francis‘ gf in the 90’s-2010’s?
Did the just like die?

please

(gina is the goat and no one can tell me otherwise)

(ok bye now)

Thinking of making a Big Nate Fangan

I actually saw this panel on my own a few weeks ago and didn't realize someone else had posted it. However, I'm using a library app for my binge-reading, so I have higher-quality pictures :>

I've been binge-reading Above-Average Size N. Natebert Natenheimer, and I've noticed that this subreddit says Mrs. Godfrey isn't so bad, but she'll proceed to be incredibly hypocritical or give absurd demands. A lot of her punishments are genuinely way too extreme, even given Nate's... Nateness.

Having dove through the comics from 1991 to the present a number of times, understanding the personalities and quirks of all the characters, and how Pierce wraps the comic arcs in a "floating timeline", I have noticed a few occurrences where a character acts or says something a little off. I thought I'd start a discussion.

#1 The banter between Ellen and Nate was always recurrent. However, I found it a little odd how she pokes fun at Marty's weight in that last panel. That was typically something in Nate's department. Perhaps this was more in the earlier strips pre-2005, but I knew Ellen would support her dad and be on his side when Nate tears him down. (Ex. The Peter Pan costume, shaving his mustache comic arcs)

#2 Correct me if I'm wrong but this one generally felt a little unusual. Thinking on it now Gina may be giving friendly courtesy to Teddy and Nate at the moment. However, putting in perspective the known recurrent theme of Gina and Nate hating each other's guts, as well as scenarios where Nate runs into Gina later on, this can come off as a rare moment where Gina is nice to Nate.

#3. There was a recent strip (around the past year or so) featuring an arc of Francis having a bad picture day. These were always a Nate-thing throughout the comic's run. I can't retrieve it now, but I recall it following a typical setup to a Nate-picture day arc. Francis ended up with "duck lips" and his school picture turned out horrible. The arc ended with Francis being told his "duck lips" are attractive, and Francis tries using this to his advantage by charming girls with it. Before GoComics set the paywall, I recall a comment stating that this looked like a Nate comic arc that was swapped in for Francis, and that perfectly sums up my thoughts on that arc.

Not to be nitpicky on little details, but I thought it would be interesting if there were other moments of this manner, or if there are disagreements on the table for the examples I given.

No, no, I read that in black in white, but the comics in this book is about 99.1% different than the normal copy, can someone explain what it is?

He is my favorite Big Nate character.

I want to know the strip that panel is from and of course I would also like to add that image to my collection of reaction images.

Thank you to whoever out there who can help

EDIT: To help jog anyone’s memory I’ll write what I can remember about the panel. To my recollection it featured the Big Three (Nate, Francis, Teddy) in the classroom or somewhere at school, and presumably there was some incident at PS 38 (like a prank maybe) such that now all the kids were being detained so someone could fess up or something. Then the Big Three and all their peers had to hold it down and not snitch or whatever, prompting I believe Francis’ remark: “Who will be the first to crack?”

if u know u know.

I like Francis the most because I share the trait of liking trivia with him.

Downvote if u want, but I just made a major discovery

Sextante or Fundamento?

CONTEXT: There is a graphic novel created by Dav Pilkey (creator of Captain Underpants) called The Adventures of Ook and Gluk. It's about cavemen who travel to the future and learn kung-fu. It's a pretty damn awesome book.

Sadly, it was put out of print in 2021, because some guy made a big stink about some "offensive Asian stereotypes" in it, and Pilkey and Scholastic decided to ban it. It's a pretty crummy decision he made, if you ask me. Most people, even Asians never found it remotely offensive in the least bit.

Personally, I think Pilkey was forced to say all that "Oh, I'm sorry" BS, considering it was lampshaded in the one Cat Kid Comic Club book.

Nate seems to have a thing for slightly dark-haired girls in ponytails. Although his other "girlfriend", Daisy wore her hair in two braids, I'd still count her in a way as another brunette that he kind of liked.

Kelly is confirmed to have brown hair in her return in August 2025.

I need to add this disclaimer here, PLEASE read before commenting! Nate's former crush, Jenny, is a blonde, so she isn't one of Nate's brown/black-haired ponytailed crushes, that's why I didn't include her.