Art holds a mirror up to Nature. The Buckets come along, turn the mirror on Art and say, “Look how goofy you’re acting. Now get to work, Art. Your kids need an Xbox 360.”
The Buckets comic strip isn’t a parody of family life. Parodies are filled with hearts and rainbows or enraged tirades and dramatic confrontation. The Buckets, though? Nope. Real life, baby. It’s funny because it’s on a page and not in your house at the moment. Next week, when it’s happening to you, you’ll thank us for reminding you that it’s supposed to be funny.
Greg Cravens looks in the mirror and see not himself, but all of us. And then he draws up the silly, grand, goofy, thrilling, utterly human things we do and calls it The Buckets.
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ODDBALL
said, almost 2 years ago
Thinking and worrying about the future,is futile at best.
Concentrate on the things you can control or change.
And except that the rest is in Gods hands,and you will find peace of mind.
Sorry for the sermon.
ODDBALL
said, almost 2 years ago
Love the look on Larry’s face in the last panel.
Number Six said, almost 2 years ago
I always cross bridges when I come to them, and believe the answer’s not at the bottom of a glass, but half way down……
Lewreader said, almost 2 years ago
I find when I think or plan the future, God is laughing in Heaven
frumdebang said, almost 2 years ago
@Lewreader
At the moment, he’s laughing at the mess your new puppy is making.
Leon said, almost 2 years ago
Half of America has that same look , all the time, Larry.
Doctor Toon said, almost 2 years ago
I try not to spend any more time than necessary over worry
If there is nothing I can do about a situation then I have to learn to deal with that and if there is something I can do, I do it
Neo Blakkrstal said, almost 2 years ago
@Number Six
“Burn the bridge behind you, leave no retreat. There’s only, one way home!!!”
Number Six said, almost 2 years ago
@Neo Blakkrstal
But Rover always shepherds me back to the fold……
Allan said, almost 2 years ago
Don’t worry about the future, or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind: the kind that blindsides you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
“Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997
Hunter7 said, almost 2 years ago
Long time ago a friend told me to “Not borrow troubles”
Saucy1121
said, almost 2 years ago
90% of the things you worry about, never happen. 90% of the things that happen, you don’t worry about. So, you do the right amount of worrying, but about all the wrong things.
Ather said, almost 2 years ago
You just ahd to ask, Sarah.
Comic Minister said, almost 2 years ago
Not good Larry.
jOhndrAkE (vowelsUP,consonantsdown): Vulcan: Live long and prosper. Romulan: Live strong and dominate. said, almost 2 years ago
She should take a lesson from Ignatius Reilly and make Larry wear a hat with ear flaps – flaps down when he is thinking of nothing and flaps up when he is thinking of something else.