The job of the skin is to keep things in. On the buttoned-down island of Here all is well. By which we mean: orderly neat contained & moreover beardless. Or at least it is until one famous day when Dave bald but for a single hair finds himself assailed by a terrifying unstoppable. monster! Where did it come from? How should the islanders deal with it? & what most importantly are they going to do with Dave? The first book from a new leading light of UK comics The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil" is an off-beat fable worthy of Roald Dahl. It is about life death & the meaning of beards. (We mean a gigantic beard basically)."