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"On the island of Here, livin's easy. Conduct is orderly. Lawns are neat. Citizens are clean shaven - and Dave is the most fastidious of them all. Dave is bald, but for a single hair. He loves drawing, his desk job, and the Bangles. But on one fateful day, his life is upended...by an unstoppable (yet pretty impressive) beard."
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"On the island of Here, livin's easy. Conduct is orderly. Lawns are neat. Citizens are clean shaven - and Dave is the most fastidious of them all. Dave is bald, but for a single hair. He loves drawing, his desk job, and the Bangles.Music/TheBangles. But on one fateful day, his life is upended...by an unstoppable (yet pretty impressive) beard."
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* SelfHelpGuru: Professor Darren Black.
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* ExpressiveHair: Except it's more expressing There than it's owner's moods.
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* ExpressiveHair: Except it's more expressing There than it's its owner's moods.
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* PrimalFear: Darkness, death, being unable to control part of yourself.
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''"The job of the skin is to keep it all in..."''
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* DarkIsEvil / DarknessEqualsDeath: How the residents of Here view There.
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* DarkIsEvil / DarknessEqualsDeath: How the some residents of Here view There.
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* SurrealHumor / SurrealHorror: A bit of both.
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-->''"They said There took his tidiness away. Swallowed his boundaries whole. Mixed his right side with his left side...his insides with his outsides...his befores with his nows with his nexts (sic). Until he became a [[NothingIsScarier nothing]]."''
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* [[spoiler: FaceDeathWithDignity]]: Dave.
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* DarkIsEvil / DarknessEqualsDeath: How the residents of Here view There.
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* {{Motif}}: The shapes of There, the Bangle's "Eternal Flame".
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* {{Motif}}: The shapes of There, most recognizable the one that looks like a thin hand; the Bangle's "Eternal Flame".Flame", things slipping through the cracks in the "skin".
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* BodyHorror: The image of the imagined fate of the boy who sailed to There.
* ExpressiveHair: Except it's more expressing There than it's owner's moods.
* LostAtSea: What happened to the boy who tried to sail across the Edge of the Sea to There.
* MessyHair: Even when all the hairstylists, dog groomers, and gardeners in the land are working on it, the beard refuses to behave.
* LostAtSea: What happened to the boy who tried to sail across the Edge of the Sea to There.
* MessyHair: Even when all the hairstylists, dog groomers, and gardeners in the land are working on it, the beard refuses to behave.
* PrimordialChaos: The Professor theorizes There is something like this.
* RapidHairGrowth: The beard.
* SelfHelpGuru: Professor Darren Black.
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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The patterns Dave sees in the chart, what other people see when they look at the beard for too long, the drawings [[spoiler: Dave sends back from There in the end]].
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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The patterns Dave sees in the chart, what other people see when they look at the beard for too long, the drawings [[spoiler: Dave sends back from There in the end]].end]].
* TraumaticHaircut: In a way, except in this case the haircuts are traumatic because they ''aren't working''.
* TraumaticHaircut: In a way, except in this case the haircuts are traumatic because they ''aren't working''.
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* {{Balloonacy}}: [[spoiler: In the end they decide to deal with the beard by attaching it to balloons so it will not take over the town, but it ends up carrying the beard - and Dave - away across the sea.]]
* DistantFinale: The last chapter, There.
* MindScrew: Everything about There.
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* ThisLoserIsYou: Dave is just like any other ordinary citizen working an office job who never challenges the status quo.
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* PyrrhicVictory: For the leaders of Here (or whomever made the rules in the first place). [[spoiler: They get rid of Dave and his beard, but Here has been changed by the experience and never returns to its neat, conforming state.]]
* ReleasedToElsewhere: [[spoiler: What happens to Dave at the end - nobody is really that surprised when the balloons carry him away.]]
* ThisLoserIsYou: Dave is just like any other ordinary citizen working an office job who never challenges the statusquo.quo.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The patterns Dave sees in the chart, what other people see when they look at the beard for too long, the drawings [[spoiler: Dave sends back from There in the end]].
* ReleasedToElsewhere: [[spoiler: What happens to Dave at the end - nobody is really that surprised when the balloons carry him away.]]
* ThisLoserIsYou: Dave is just like any other ordinary citizen working an office job who never challenges the status
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The patterns Dave sees in the chart, what other people see when they look at the beard for too long, the drawings [[spoiler: Dave sends back from There in the end]].
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''"The job of the skin is to keep it all in..."''
"On the island of Here, livin's easy. Conduct is orderly. Lawns are neat. Citizens are clean shaven - and Dave is the most fastidious of them all. Dave is bald, but for a single hair. He loves drawing, his desk job, and the Bangles. But on one fateful day, his life is upended...by an unstoppable (yet pretty impressive) beard."
!!This graphic novel contains examples of:
* BeardOfEvil: Sort of - Dave isn't evil, but his beard is considered to be.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Dave is lost to the There forever, but the citizens of Here have learned to accept change and difference and are less haunted by There.]]
* BookEnds: At the beginning of the story, we see Dave's drawings of the things outside his house. They are orderly and easily recognizable. At the end [[spoiler: we see the drawings washed up on the shore that Professor Black assumes are from Dave. They are torn and become more and more vague until they dissolve into black scribbles.]]
* TheEveryman: Dave.
* {{Motif}}: The shapes of There, the Bangle's "Eternal Flame".
* NothingIsScarier: We never see exactly what is in There.
* OrderVersusChaos: The island of Here vs the There.
* ThisLoserIsYou: Dave is just like any other ordinary citizen working an office job who never challenges the status quo.
"On the island of Here, livin's easy. Conduct is orderly. Lawns are neat. Citizens are clean shaven - and Dave is the most fastidious of them all. Dave is bald, but for a single hair. He loves drawing, his desk job, and the Bangles. But on one fateful day, his life is upended...by an unstoppable (yet pretty impressive) beard."
!!This graphic novel contains examples of:
* BeardOfEvil: Sort of - Dave isn't evil, but his beard is considered to be.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Dave is lost to the There forever, but the citizens of Here have learned to accept change and difference and are less haunted by There.]]
* BookEnds: At the beginning of the story, we see Dave's drawings of the things outside his house. They are orderly and easily recognizable. At the end [[spoiler: we see the drawings washed up on the shore that Professor Black assumes are from Dave. They are torn and become more and more vague until they dissolve into black scribbles.]]
* TheEveryman: Dave.
* {{Motif}}: The shapes of There, the Bangle's "Eternal Flame".
* NothingIsScarier: We never see exactly what is in There.
* OrderVersusChaos: The island of Here vs the There.
* ThisLoserIsYou: Dave is just like any other ordinary citizen working an office job who never challenges the status quo.
