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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The J.A.M. said, 8 months ago
Didn’t he have a girlfriend?
beviek
said, 8 months ago
Oh Lord, I wouldn’t want to be a teenager again for anything! It’s hard enough being the age I am.
cutiepie29 said, 8 months ago
Go ahead and just assume you are, Toby my boy. If, by chance, someone thinks you are NOT, you are sure to be told in no uncertain terms soon enough.
Greg Cravens
said, 8 months ago
That’s the issue with boy teenagers. They have to pretend to know all the answers because asking a question means admitting you DON’T know, and that puts you lower in the social pecking order. Of course, that may explain why so many alpha males are ignorant, yet tall and charismatic.
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Anyone who wants to assume I was just talking about politics is free to cast a wider net now.
Tue Elung-Jensen said, 8 months ago
@Greg Cravens
Thats the issue with teenagers of both sex…
Allan said, 8 months ago
@Greg Cravens
Teenage Females “know” they know it all, and tell you they do.
Teenage Males “think” they know it all, and don’t ask, as it would appear “weak”.
Greg Cravens
said, 8 months ago
@Hardware Dept Comic Strip
Yeah, that’s right, but people are really good at self-delusion.
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Actually, I think I just gave away the secret theme of my comic strip there.
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On the other hand, We who comment here are never self-deluded. We’re too slick for that.
Number Three said, 8 months ago
You are pretty fine looking to me, Toby!
LOL xxx
Comic Minister said, 8 months ago
Keep at it Toby.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago
I knew I did not know everything and know more about how much I don’t know now than then. (The more you learn the more you know you don’t know.)
Hunter7 said, 8 months ago
@Allan
…. guess that falls under the same column as not needing a map or to ask for directions because the male already knows? While the female, not only stops for directions, but stocks up on supplies.