The Buckets by Greg Cravens for July 11, 2013

Good thinking, Dad.

One of my all-time favorite books.

one of my fave books. should be required reading/listening for all.

He’s good.

Awesome. I agree that it should be required reading but what better way to get a teenage boy to read a book.When I was a teenager they “hid” Catch-22 in a resource room rather than put it on the library shelf and you had to really search to find it, like it wasn’t supposed to be found. Of course I had to read it.

What are all these Fahrenheit books about? I’ve Seen F 9/11 and that’s it.

Allan, not sure how old you are but the title of Michael Moore’s book and movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, was merely a play on words. It was taken from the title of Ray Bradbury’s famous (iconic, classic, MUST READ) novel, Fahrenheit 451. Get ye to the library, young man. Or the Kindle store or wherever you find reading material, because it’s now on your summer reading list. ;-)

This strip reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where a bookwork, played by Burgess Meredith, accidentally survives a nuclear “end-of-the-world” and then, at the very end of the episode, breaks his glasses, rendering him unable to read all his glorious books. Putting aside the fact that he wouldn’t have survived for much longer anyway, that admittedly powerful ending never made sense to me. He could simply have found an optometrist or optician’s office and replaced his broken lenses. Certainly not just give up.

Hee hee hee! I love that eyes look on Toby in the second panel!

Yeah, Sorry, Toby. Books are not extinct yet.

LOL xxx

Hi Mister J. Drake. We seem to missing each other. I’ve always had to go by the time you replied which is why I couldn’t reply to you.Sorry about that.It’s always great to see you on here and at Andy Capp.

Very true… I love being here. To answer your question about the books. I don’t need to go to the library. My bedroom is practially a library by itself!

Remember “The Amber Spyglass” book I told you about? I borrowed that from the library about 8 years ago. Took me ages to get through it as it was such a massive book but I did it!

I think you read it too didn’t you???

It’s a pleasure to learn….

Did Toby just use the word ‘irony’ correctly?