The Buckets by Greg Cravens for September 03, 2018

Toby is not as educated as Calvin?

He’s getting closer, that was almost a coherent thought in panel two

Don’t worry. Alanis Morissette apparently didn’t know what it meant either.

Ironic: That’s how you flatten the wrinkles in the “ic”.

From the online dictionary: “happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this.”

There’s nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. Robert De Niro

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. Rollo May

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child – which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were. Berkeley Breathed

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. Errol Morris

In contrast to @Doctor Toon, I think No-Eyes hit the nail on the head in panel two. Each of these boys, including the teenagers, has moments when he suddenly shows some insight and you realize there is still hope. They have learned a few things in spite of themselves.