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Just to let you know, even before this upatde I was making a comic that needed a bus as public transportation, and since there were no decent shapes to use, I made my own bus from things from the props section. It actually looked pretty real if you play with the colours a bit.Tip: The oranges/cookies/hockey pucks could be used as wheels on a bus!
| number    = 1
 
| date      = September 30, 2005
 
| title    = 1: Barrel - Part 1
 
| image    = barrel_cropped_(1).jpg
 
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| titletext = Don't we all.
 
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== Explanation ==
 
[Quote from [[Randall]]]
 
"He's fairly upbeat about the situation!"
 
 
 
This comic is mocking the optimism of people in a satirical way. The boy in the barrel has nothing to eat, drink or no way or sustenance. Yet he only wonders 'I wonders where I will go next' Munroe also makes an oblique reference to how we often become so much more optimistic even in our lives
 
 
 
This is the first in a five-part series of comics whose parts were randomly published during the first several dozen strips. The series features a [[:Category:Comics featuring Barrel Boy|character]] that is not consistent with what would quickly become the [[xkcd]] [[stick figure]] style. The character is in a barrel. The full series is:
 
 
 
* [[1: Barrel - Part 1]]
 
* [[11: Barrel - Part 2]]
 
* [[22: Barrel - Part 3]]
 
* [[25: Barrel - Part 4]]
 
* [[31: Barrel - Part 5]]
 
 
 
== Transcript ==
 
: [A boy sits in a barrel which is floating in an ocean.]
 
: Boy: "i wonder where i'll float next?"
 
: [The barrel drifts into the distance. Nothing else can be seen.]
 
 
 
== Trivia ==
 
* "First" Xkcd drawing
 
* Originally posted at [[Randall]]'s livejournal site.
 
* View archive at: http://liveweb.archive.org/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40
 
* This is the fifth comic posted on livejournal.  The previous comic is {{explain|2}}.  The next comic is {{explain|24}}
 
 
 
{{Comic discussion}}
 
 
 
[[Category:Barrel|01]]
 
[[Category:Comics posted on livejournal]]
 

Revision as of 17:26, 21 September 2012

Just to let you know, even before this upatde I was making a comic that needed a bus as public transportation, and since there were no decent shapes to use, I made my own bus from things from the props section. It actually looked pretty real if you play with the colours a bit.Tip: The oranges/cookies/hockey pucks could be used as wheels on a bus!