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Revision as of 18:58, 17 August 2012

Barrel - Part 5
Too good not to happen.
Title text: Too good not to happen.

Explanation

This is the fifth and last in a five-part series of comics whose parts were randomly published during the first several dozen strips. The series features a character that is not consistant with what would quickly become the xkcd stick figure style. The character is in a barrel. The full series is:

The flying ferret is from 20: Ferret.

Transcript

[Boy floating on barrel in ocean]

[Zoomed out view of boy floating on barrel in ocean]

[Ferret with airplane wings and tail above the ocean]

[The empty ocean]

[Flying ferret carrying the boy to safety]

[Ocean with ferret carrying boy in distance, sun on the horizon]

Trivia


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Discussion

this series feels like a homage to "The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry". the sketches have the same - quality ( for want of a better word) Arjunsharma (talk) 07:52, 25 March 2013 (UTC)jun

This was also my first thought today when I did look at this comic again. Maybe the Barrel is just the Meteor from "The Little Prince".--Dgbrt (talk) 21:50, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

I have to wonder if the flying ferret has anything to do with Richard Bach, a noted aviation author who published a series of flying books called "The Ferret Chronicles" in 2002-2003? --144.92.241.6 21:56, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Should the last trivium be put in the explanation section? 0100011101100001011011010110010101011010011011110110111001100101 (talk page) 04:38, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Last panel reminiscent of http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/4 141.101.81.87 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)