Community Activity:When do you think the decline of Big Nate was?

If you think Big Nate is dying, why? And if its not dying, tell me why in this article

Scout
Personally, I think Big Nate started dying the day after Peirce came back from vacation, his jokes became more dull and his arcs more boring, they had potential, but they were boring, and he seemed to stretch them out a bit, we had a 1-2 month arc on Francis leaving Nate.