22: Barrel - Part 3
explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
| Barrel - Part 3 |
 Title text: A whirlpool! |
[edit] Explanation
This comic is a reference to Edgar Alan Poe's A Descent into the Maelström,where the main character scapes from drowning by using a barrel to escape The Maelström. This is the third 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 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
[edit] Transcript
- [Large vortex, spinning water covers the whole panel. A boy in a floating barrel is near the edge, apparently about to be sucked in.]
- Boy: Wow!
[edit] Trivia
- This is the twenty-third comic originally posted to livejournal. The previous was 40: Light. The next was 23: T-shirts.
add a comment!Discussion
Like the previous cartoons in this series, the theme is wonder. In a situation that would have almost all of us screaming with fear, this little boy somehow sees the grandeur and majesty before him rather than the danger.
BinaryDigit (talk) 11:12, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
