Barrel - Part 2
Barrel - Part 2
[A boy sits in a barrel which is floating in an ocean.] Boy: none of the places i floated had mommies.

Like in the previous comic in the Barrel series, the boy is floating in the ocean in a barrel. The previous comic made a point about the uncertainty of life; here, the boy's lament at not finding a mother is pure sentimentality, as accentuated by the title text.
According to Freud, the first stage of psycho-sexual development is the Oral Stage, which relates to a baby's relationship with its mother.  The realization that 'mommy' cannot be found is the first point at which a person learns to stop trusting the world and realizes that the world is not always comforting and safe.
This is the second in a six-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.
After Randall released the full The Boy and his Barrel story on xkcd, it has been clear that the original Ferret story should also be included as part of the barrel series.
The full series can be found here . But below they are listed in the order Randall has put them in his collection linked to above:
[A boy sits in a barrel which is floating in an ocean.] Boy: none of the places i floated had mommies.
