The Buckets by Greg Cravens for March 31, 2016
Transcript:
Bumbada bum bum blam bwoom! Now in theaters... And why are we trying to make a funny-book space alien wearing a trapeze artist costume, shooting x-rays out of his eyeballs seem realistic and gritty? Grandpa! They're not called funny-books anymore now they're comic books. Totally different.
My grandmother called them funny books (I’m in my sixties, she’s long since passed on). I’d have thought you’d need to be a generation or two older than Grandpa Bucket to use that term, or even to spot the fact that Superman dresses like an old-time trapeze artist.