31: Barrel - Part 5
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| Barrel - Part 5 |
 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 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
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
- Original Randall comment: "The ferret got to fly, in the end!"
- This is the thirty-third comic posted to livejournal. The previous was 28: Elefino. The next was 32: Pillar
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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
