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.
© Greg Cravens - All Rights Reserved.
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Agent54 said, 6 months ago
And they are very handy when playing Scrabble for the challenge part of the game.
Pacopuddy said, 6 months ago
Aw, Eddie.
Pharmakeus Ubik said, 6 months ago
It’s funny that they never mention their distant cousin Charlie, the confection magnate.
win said, 6 months ago
Best book I ever read.
whmIII said, 6 months ago
It has lots of meaning…
olddog1 said, 6 months ago
@whmIII
Unfortunately, the plot is a little thin.
Number Three said, 6 months ago
Look on the bright side, Eddie. You’ll soon be smarter than your video gaming, lazy excuse of a brother.
LOL LOL… Joke. I love Toby too.
xxx
Allan said, 6 months ago
What’s a dictionary? Is it similar to Google, and Firefox Spell Checker?
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
I didn’t get appreciation but I continued never-the-less.
kaecispop said, 6 months ago
@Agent54
However, Scrabble makes their own dictionary that you are suppose to use with the game. The problem is that it is published up north and leaves out words that are commonly used in the South and South Louisiana.
Comic Minister said, 6 months ago
Enjoy.
Allan said, 6 months ago
@kaecispop
It also mis-spells words like colour, honour, labour, neighbour …
eric sanders
said, 6 months ago
Wow.
Lucky boy.
(In first grade, the teacher would ask me to read to the class if she was called out of the room. That was 1956, before reading was found to be uneducational.)
eric sanders
said, 6 months ago
@Allan
When I consult a dictionary, I have to keep a note handy, so I can remember what I went in for, when I get lost in cross-references about words that distract me. How often does that happen in Spell Checker?
Hunter7 said, 6 months ago
Frank’s present to Eddie is time with grandpa. Cool.
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@eric sanders understand about the cross references. Try ferret, stoat, ermine….. :)