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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Buni by Ryan Pagelow
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Strod said, 8 months ago
Wasn’t Toby’s uniform polo shirt white? (No, I don’t really care about a very minor detail as that one, I’m just curious.)
capnLaz
said, 8 months ago
White doesn’t looks as neat as a color.
Gator007 said, 8 months ago
Street smarts doesn’t come from watching TV . It comes from being in the streets for a long time.
Greg Cravens
said, 8 months ago
@Gator007
You got the gag, alright!
Greg Cravens
said, 8 months ago
@Strod
I didn’t include Toby’s school ‘uniform’ on my character sheet, so Joey’s free to make those choices. If we’re trying to relate it to some reality or other, though, we can say that Toby’s school colors are read and gold, and he could therefore wear a white polo, red polo or yellow polo. (My own kids can wear white, green or grey that gets called silver)
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Or we could go with capnLaz and just say, "The warm red makes the character pop off the cool blue/green of the background.
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Either answer suffices.
Shyygirl27 said, 8 months ago
My daughters wear white, my one son green, yellow or blue and my youngest son blue, white or black.
Strod said, 8 months ago
@Greg Cravens
@Greg and @Shygirl27
Thanks, that was very informative. See, what seems like irrelevant trivia to most turns out to be fascinating to borderline OCD chaps like me.
Greg Cravens
said, 8 months ago
It seems pretty darn fascinating to us when we’re hunting all over town at the last minute trying to find hunter green polo shirts enough for the school year.
Allan said, 8 months ago
@Greg Cravens
You’re replying to Greg Cravens’s comment:
It seems pretty darn fascinating to us when we’re hunting all over town at the last minute trying to find hunter green polo shirts enough for the school year.OH, try finding “Kelly Green T-Shirt, XXXL” … not gonna happen quickly! L
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING MY FELLOW CANUCKS!
Perkycat said, 8 months ago
It’s too dangerous on the streets – I’ll stick to TV for street smarts. (TV smarts? – doesn’t work.)
Kimberly Marley said, 8 months ago
@Greg Cravens
At our old school, my kids could wear white, red, light blue or dark blue, but NOT green. We got in trouble for wearing a green polo to school. At our new school, the expensive embroidered polo shirts come in about six different colors and green is one of them.
Comic Minister said, 8 months ago
Same here.
Cartoonacy said, 8 months ago
Is everyone talking about parochial school here? I went to public school, and I’ve never heard of a school that had rules about what colors students can or cannot wear. (I have heard of school uniforms, but I thought those were always in identical colors.)
cutiepie29 said, 8 months ago
My kids go to a public school that currently doesn’t have a uniform, but they have been discussing it. We have friends who go to a public school that DOES have a uniform code, and they say it is great since the kids always know what to wear in the mornings and there isn’t a visible social/economic disparity within the student body, like there had been previously. No more “keeping up with the Joneses” mentality.
Greg Cravens
said, 8 months ago
Yep. My kids are in a public school system that does the school uniform thing. It does weed out the “Mom, I HAVE to have the $75 shirt… EVERYONE has them!” crud. It also leads to some really bizarre socks being bought around town. All for the best, I’m sure you agree.