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Through the Woods (Comic Book)

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Through the Woods is a collection of horror comics by Emily Carroll. It was published in 2014.The stories are: "An Introduction": A short introductory comic to set the mood, in which the author recalls reading in bed at night as a child. "Our Neighbor's House": In the middle of a cold, snowy winter, a father of three girls goes hunting for food, but before he leaves he tells his daughters to go to their neighbor's house if he doesn't return after three days. When he doesn't return after three days, strange things begin happening... "A Lady's Hands Are Cold": A woman enters into an arranged marriage with a wealthy man, but his fine manor holds a secret, one which may be very dangerous if discovered. "His Face All Red": When a monster starts killing the village's livestock, a pair of brothers go into the woods to hunt it. Only the younger brother returns... until a week later, when he sees his older brother whom he murdered walk out of the woods and act as though nothing had happened. "My Friend Janna": Yvonne and Janna are two close friends who have spent years pretending that they can talk to the spirits of the dead. But Yvonne actually can see what might be a ghost, and it appears to be haunting Janna. "The Nesting Place": Bell, who has been sullen and depressed since her mother's death, goes to stay with her brother Clarence and his fiancee Rebecca during a school break. But something seems slightly off about both Rebecca and the woods near the house... "In Conclusion": A story very much in the spirit of Little Red Riding Hood. A young girl confidently sets off through the woods to see her mother. She reaches her mother's house without any problems or meeting anyone, but perhaps the wolf was closer than she ever realized.Tropes are listed below by story. As His Face All Red has its own page, any tropes specific to that story should go on that page.Has nothing to do with the horror game Through the Woods.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: This story is centered around two friends, one is having an emotional/mental breakdown, no longer enjoys previous activities, is all but actively pushing old friends away, and those friends gradually start losing interest in reconnecting. Then the friend having a breakdown tries to make some last ditch plea for help at an inconvenient time, only to be turned away by people who didn't understand the urgency and vanishes afterward, gone forever. So... is that description about the story "My Friend Janna", or does it come from a PSA about suicide? The parallels aren't hard to see.
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Gone Horribly Wrong
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Gone Horribly Wrong: Posing as a psychic was a fun game, even if the girls realized it was also a little cruel and childish. They figured people would stop coming soon... except they didn't stop coming to see Janna and wouldn't take no for an answer. The two soon found themselves trapped in their lie, with no way to stop the act, and afraid to admit they had been lying all along because of how people might turn on them afterwards.
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Dead All Along
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Dead All Along: One possible interpretation of the story. The extreme winter cold and lack of food killed all of the girls sometime between when their father left and when Beth makes a last-ditch effort to travel to their neighbor's house. (Alternatively, Beth may have perished during the trek to the neighbor's house). The story then consists of the girls accepting one by one that they are dead before the man with the wide-brimmed hat (in other words, The Grim Reaper) can collect them and help them to move on (notably, the narration does say that on the third day after their father left all three girls are hit by "a strange lethargy", and did little to nothing that day, which may be consistent with symptoms of hypothermia).
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The Ghost
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The Ghost: The girls' neighbor is only alluded to by Beth and her family, with their father instructing them to go to their neighbor's house if he doesn't return from his hunting trip. Beth hopes that the neighbor will grant her and her sisters safety from the snowstorm. But after losing both of her sisters, Beth travels to the neighbor's house alone and discovers, through the presence of the man with the wide-brimmed hat, that their neighbor has already died.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Janna and Yvonne. Yvonne says Janna is like a sister to her or more, since she doesn't get along with her own sister as well as she does with her friend.
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Chekhov's Gag
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Chekhov's Gag: Done for very dark/ironic comedy. When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a mass of leech-like parasites living inside a skin suit pretending to be human, and came from a pool of water inside a cave. And as the last page of the story reveals, another mass of these parasites has taken over Clarence's body.
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TheUnReveal
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The Un-Reveal: What is actually going on with Janna? Is the ghost that Yvonne sees actually a ghost, or is it something else, as she speculates when she first sees it? (Perhaps an embodiment of some sort of trauma, grief, or loss?) And at the end when Yvonne now has one haunting her, is it the same spirit, or is it Janna's ghost haunting her?
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: The middle sister, Beth. The older sister, Mary, is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The little sister, Hannah, is just a poor kid who doesn't know what's going on.
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: After both of her sisters have disappeared with the man with the wide-brimmed hat and toothy smile, Beth flees her home to the neighbor's house, despite being without any food and the snow now being much worse than it was several days prior. After an exhausting, dangerous trek, she finally makes it to the neighbor's house... and finds the man with the wide-brimmed hat waiting for her there.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: Justified. The father of the the three girls died from the extreme cold after going out hunting for food in the woods.
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Parental Abandonment
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Parental Abandonment: Justified. The three girls' mother died before the story started, and their father soon follows by going out hunting in the woods during a snowstorm.
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Misplaced Retribution
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Misplaced Retribution: The first wife tries murdering the second wife out of furious jealousy, believing the second wife replaced her as the husband's wife and rightful owner of the mansion they lived in. This is despite the fact that the second wife had nothing to do with her husband's crimes and only helped reassemble the first wife's corpse out of symapthy.
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Don't Go in the Woods
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Don't Go in the Woods: In keeping with traditional tales and horror stories, going into the woods is a bad idea. Fittingly, the comic cover features a forest with a red moon, the trees' branches looking like Creepy Long Fingers. In "Our Neighbor's House", the girls' father leaves for the woods to go hunting, instructing that they leave for their neighbor's house if he doesn't come back in three days. Sure enough, he doesn't return, having died of the extreme cold. Later, after losing her sisters, Beth travels through the woods alone to her neighbor's house. Instead of the neighbor as she expected, she meets the man with the wide-brimmed hat, heavily implying that both Beth and the neighbor are dead. In "The Nesting Place", Bell is explicitly warned against the woods near the house of Clarence and Rebecca. She ignores the warnings and ends up discovering a cave pool where "Rebecca" has become a host for a monster that kills and inhabits people's bodies, and has been looking for other victims for her children to inhabit. "His Face All Red" makes frequent mention of strange things coming form the woods. Nobody bats an eye at the thought of a monster coming out of the woods to attack their livestock, and later it seems that a Doppelgänger of the murdered older brother comes out of the woods and begins trying to take the brother's place. During "In Conclusion", the young girl confidently ignores the dangers of the woods and makes it to her mother's house without incident. Actually seeing just how dangerous the woods can be, however, seems to deeply traumatize and terrify her. Much of the story in "A Lady's Hands Are Cold" takes place in an extravagant mansion that is isolated by the surrounding forest. However, the trope is reversed: The danger takes place inside the mansion itself, which is haunted. The protagonist, a young woman, unknowingly married a man who murdered his first wife out of Greed. In the end, while trying to evade her husband's first wife — now a vengeful corpse hellbent on having the husband all to herself — the protagonist flees out of the mansion and into the surrounding woods where she is safe, though understandably traumatized. The husband, meanwhile, returns home from a hunting trip in the woods to find the first wife he killed waiting for him, and he is gruesomely murdered.
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Things That Go "Bump" in the Night
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Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: Carroll recounts reading in the dark of her room at night, and being afraid to reach past the edge of the bed to turn off the light, for fear that something would reach up to grab her.
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White and Red and Eerie All Over
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White and Red and Eerie All Over: The part of the cover framed by the forest is white and red for a stark effect — the white sky and snowy ground, the red moon and wolf face, and the title in white letters on top of the red.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: The second wife survives, and her husband dies a Karmic Death by being violently murdered by his first wife, whom he killed to inherit her mansion and wealth. However, the second wife is understandably traumatized by the entire ordeal, and she proceeds to vomit out of fear-fueled stress.
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Butt-Monkey
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In "His Face All Red", the "monster" attacking the village livestock turns out to be an ordinary wolf, and the only thing the older brother had to worry about was his own younger brother, who was willing to commit murder out of envy and anger at the prospect of being humiliated one too many times.
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Gory Discretion Shot
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Gory Discretion Shot: We never see the husband's violent death upon meeting his first wife's corpse, only that one of the mansion's windows became heavily smeared with his blood after returning home from a hunt.
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Break the Cutie
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Break the Cutie: Happens to the second wife. Being nearly killed by the violently possessive corpse of the first wife and listening to her husband's dying screams as he is gruesomely murdered leaves the second wife with quite a bit of trauma. This is symbolized by her eyes turning into creepy dark eyeshadows and her previously immaculate hairstyle coming undone by the end.
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Face Stealer
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Face Stealer: The monster kills people and then inhabits their bodies, pretending to be them. "She" initially tries taking Bell with this intention, but then Bell exploits the fact that Monster Is a Mommy by telling "Rebecca" of the horrors she and her children will experience once they actually get to the city, frightening the monster so much that "she" leaves Bell alone. But then at the end of the story, Bell discovers Clarence has become a host, too...
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Snowed-In
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Snowed-In: This is a very real danger the girls face when their father doesn't come back and the winter weather gets worse. Beth wants to follow her father's plan and leave their house immediately, but Mary refuses to go, likely in denial about their father's fate. When Beth finally leaves several days later after both Mary and Hannah have disappeared, the conditions are much worse than they were when she first wanted to leave, but at that point she has no choice but to attempt the trip.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: What the monster does to Rebecca's body after taking possession of it. During her confrontation with Bell, the monster twists Rebecca's face into all sorts of horrible shapes in front of Bell, even stretching it back until Rebecca's face is nothing but a gigantic open mouth with worms inside full of 'teeth' at one point. While it's not quite certain if it's literally as bad as the art suggests or if what we see on the page is a way to convey the horror that Bell feels (as we see it through her eyes), the implication is that reality is at least fairly close to the artwork.
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Bookends
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Bookends: The story begins and ends with the same verse, except the last lines are changed.
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"Rear Window" Witness
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"Rear Window" Witness: Yvonne goes to Janna's house in the night, and watches through Janna's window as the ghost apparently kills Janna. Afterwards Janna's room is empty and there's no sign of Janna, so people search for her in the hope that Janna merely ran away or something.
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Snow Means Death
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Snow Means Death: The story revolves around three girls who live in a village that is hit by a harsh snowstorm. Their father dies of the cold, and later, the three girls themselves die off one by one; Beth is the last to go after she tries braving a dangerous trek to a neighbor's house in harsh conditions and without food.
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Dark Is Not Evil
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Dark Is Not Evil: From what little is shown, the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile who haunts the three sisters is dressed in black, including his hat. And every time he appears or is mentioned, the background become darker. He's implied at the end to be The Grim Reaper who comes to take the girls into the afterlife after they die during a snowstorm. Both Mary and Hannah say kind words about him, and are cheered by his presence, and furthermore he is seen tenderly hugging Hannah when he takes her. Beth is afraid of the man at first, but she accepts him putting his hat on her head when they meet at the neighbor's house, possibly symbolizing her accepting that she's dead and is now able to reunite with her dead family.
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Body Motifs
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Body Motifs: Teeth figure prominently in many of the stories, and the artwork (especially when people are eating), often associates them with blood and violence. In "The Nesting Place", the monster (who is possessing Rebecca) twists Rebecca's face into all sorts of horrible shapes, even stretching it back until Rebecca's face is nothing but a gigantic open mouth with worms inside full of 'teeth', all while stating her intentions to have her children possess Bell so they can move to the city. At the end of the story, Clarence, Bell's brother, is revealed to have been possessed by the parasitic worms as well. Hands appear in a few stories, associated with action and/or the true nature of a character. "Our Neighbor's House" has the hat-wearing man's long, almost bony hands and fingers, which heavily imply that he's actually The Grim Reaper in disguise. In "A Lady's Hands Are Cold", one of the first wife's dismembered body parts is her desiccated hands/fingers, which later reach out to the second wife with intention to kill her after she's fully reassembled. A bloody handprint later appears on a window, which is left there by the husband as he is brutally murdered by his dead first wife, whom he murdered to inherit her wealth and mansion.
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Phony Psychic
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Phony Psychic: Yvonne and Janna have played at being able to talk to the dead for years. (Janna is the person who acts like a psychic, Yvonne makes sound effects and voices from an unseen location.) It started as a joke when they were kids and was a fun game, but they found they couldn't stop people from coming to them even if they tried. Yvonne, however, can actually see what might be a ghost (or might be... something else) apparently haunting Janna that nobody else can.
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Sanity Slippage
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Sanity Slippage: Much of the story consists of Janna gradually having a mental and emotional breakdown, much to the horror of Yvonne, who can think of no way to help. The breakdown comes complete with a Diary Full of Crazy that Yvonne mentions and seems alarmed by.
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Replacement Goldfish
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Replacement Goldfish: The murdered first wife believes the second wife replaced her as lover of her husband and rightful owner of the mansion. She tries to murder the second wife in a rage, but fortunately the second wife manages to flee.
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I See Dead People
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I See Dead People: Yvonne can see something like a ghost that is haunting Janna which nobody else seems to notice. At the end of the story, after Janna has either died or disappeared, Yvonne's little sister sees one too, now haunting Yvonne instead...
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_68f95429
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That's No Moon
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_68f95429
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That's No Moon: As the girl settles down to sleep with the moon watching over her, she muses that she knew the wolf wouldn't find her. The following page reveals the "moon" to be one of the wolf's eyes.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_68f95429
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_6926506
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Revenant Zombie
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Revenant Zombie: After the second wife reassembles the corpse of the first wife, the latter possesses it and proceeds to attack the former before later exacting brutal retribution on her killer ex-husband after he returns from a hunt.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_6926506
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_69655022
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Gigantic Moon
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_69655022
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Gigantic Moon: The moon is hundreds of times bigger than it would be in real life, taking up a good portion of the cover.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_69655022
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_6adf60d1
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Hidden Eyes
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_6adf60d1
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Hidden Eyes: As she flees the wrath of the first wife's corpse, the second wife is now drawn with her eyes being replaced with creepy eyeshadows. This, combining with her previously immaculate hair coming undone, represents her trauma over her near-death experience and learning of the gruesome history between her husband and his first wife.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_6adf60d1
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_6ca72c26
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All Take and No Give
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_6ca72c26
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All Take and No Give: This is strongly implied of the husband. When the body of the husband's first wife is put back together, she claims that the estate was originally hers, and she willingly gave everything to her husband, who regardless went ahead with marrying and then murdering her to have it all for himself. Only her extremely violent and unreasonable behavior (she thinks the second wife intends to replace and "usurp" her) casts any doubts on the reliability of her story.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_6ca72c26
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_6dbd3711
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Affectionate Gesture to the Head
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Affectionate Gesture to the Head: The man with the wide-brimmed hat gently plants his hat on Beth's head when they finally meet in-person at the neighbor's house, after which he lets her in. It's likely symbolic of Beth accepting her own death and reuniting with her family, if one interprets the man as The Grim Reaper.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_6dbd3711
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_7142b38a
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The Grim Reaper
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_7142b38a
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The Grim Reaper: One of the interpretations of who the man in the wide-brimmed hat is. It's likely that the region was hit by such a hard snowstorm that many died of hypothermia, including the three sisters and their father. Death came to collect Mary and Hannah and is waiting at the neighbor's house when Beth arrives, as the neighbor has died too.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_7142b38a
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_7896ecc3
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Perpetual Smiler
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_7896ecc3
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Perpetual Smiler: The strange man with the wide-brimmed hat is always described as smiling in a way that shows all his teeth. This, combined with what is implied to be a thin, almost bony body, implies that the man is actually The Grim Reaper who comes for the girls to usher them into the afterlife.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_7896ecc3
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Red Is Violent
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_7c4fdf65
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Red Is Violent: A recurring motif in the series. Whenever the color red appears, especially in great quantities, it's usually a sign of approaching danger and death. Curiously, nearly all the characters in the various stories are depicted with a permanent blush/red cheeks.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The protagonist, a young woman in an Arranged Marriage, finds pieces of her husband's murdered first wife concealed all over the house. Wife #2 reassembles Wife #1, which Wife #2 (and the reader) assumes to be what the corpse wants. Unfortunately, now that she's reassembled, Wife #1's first goal is to kill Wife #2 so she can have her husband all to herself. However, this also turns out to be a blessing in disguise — had Wife #2 not revived Wife #1, she still would've been in danger as her husband is actually a despicable murderer who killed Wife #1 for her wealth and property.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_7fbb2a3
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_80621707
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Arranged Marriage
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_80621707
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Arranged Marriage: The story opens with the main character, a young woman, entering an arranged marriage with her husband, a wealthy man.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_80621707
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_82a51bc7
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Bad Moon Rising
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_82a51bc7
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Before going out hunting in the woods, The girls' father tells them to leave for the neighbor's house if he doesn't come back in three days. He dies on the third day due to the snowstorm outside, and Beth realizes this after seeing a blood-red moon in the sky on that day.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_82a51bc7
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_851dda8f
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Humanoid Abomination
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_851dda8f
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Humanoid Abomination: The man who haunts the three girls is described with minimal detail, his only traits being his wide-brimmed hat and his toothy smile, and only his arms are ever seen in the art. However, when Beth finally sees him she says that you can tell with only a glance at him that he isn't a man. The ending implies that he's actually The Grim Reaper (though a pretty nice one) who has come to usher the girls into the afterlife after they all die during a harsh snowstorm.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_851dda8f
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_8b04eac7
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Body Snatcher
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_8b04eac7
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Body Snatcher: The monster has taken over Rebecca's body... and is looking for new hosts for its children as well. Bell is nearly taken, but she scares the monster into leaving her alone by telling her stories about what the city will do to its children once their presence is discovered. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said of Clarence, who was revealed to be a host by the story's end.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_8b04eac7
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_8c41d6e9
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Nameless Narrative
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_8c41d6e9
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Nameless Narrative: None of the characters are named.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_8c41d6e9
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_8e3b5b4d
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Minimalist Cast
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_8e3b5b4d
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Minimalist Cast: Pretty much all the stories have an absolute bare minimum of characters who are depicted, named, or have spoken lines.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_8e3b5b4d
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_90839b9d
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Ripping Off the String of Pearls
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Ripping Off the String of Pearls: The first wife tries murdering the second wife, but the second wife flees, so the first wife ends up ripping the fancy necklace and brooch she once wore in life from the second wife's neck. It likely symbolizes the second wife's discovery of the grisly truth regarding the first wife's intentions, and her subsequent loss of her innocence.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_90839b9d
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_90984c54
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Glamour Failure
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_90984c54
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Glamour Failure: It's implied something is off with Rebecca when their teeth seem to undulate while eating at dinner. We eventually learn this is because the worms wearing her skin have replaced all the flesh beneath it, and the teeth are suspended in place by individual worms. Bell learns that they got to her brother Clarence when she sees his teeth do the same.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_90984c54
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_90d44f44
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Karmic Death
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_90d44f44
comment
Karmic Death: It's heavily implied that the husband murdered his first wife to have her wealth and mansion all to himself. He eventually dies a gruesome death at the hands of his first wife after his second wife reassembles her dismembered corpse, the first wife having become violently possessive of the husband after death.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_90d44f44
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_91672d3e
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Children Are Innocent
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_91672d3e
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Hannah wears a white dress and a yellow cloak, which emphasizes her youth and innocence. Of the three sisters, she doesn't really understand everything that's going on, including the importance of surviving a heavy snowstorm and the ramifications of their father's death.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_94e4b975
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_94e4b975
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Happens at the end of the story: After managing to evade being killed by the first wife's vengeful corpse, the second wife flees the mansion and listens to her husband's dying screams as he meets a bloody end at the hands of first wife, whom he murdered years before. The sheer fright and trauma of the ordeal understandably causes the second wife to vomit on-panel.
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More Teeth than the Osmond Family
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_9a5ae2a2
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More Teeth than the Osmond Family: As a girl, Bell's mother would tell her stories of such monsters. Bell never believed them.
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_9a5ae2a2
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_9a5ae2a2
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1
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Foreshadowing
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1
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Foreshadowing: Bell is warned away from the forest with a story that Rebecca fell down a cave and was lost for three days surviving on a pool of fetid water. Pools of water, especially standing pools, are often the breeding ground for parasites.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_9e4ed124
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Mundanger
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_9e4ed124
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Mundanger: All of the stories have at least elements of the supernatural and/or monsters that are dangerous, but it's often much more mundane dangers that are less focused upon that are actually the biggest threats to the protagonists. "Our Neighbor's House" spends a lot of time and focus on the mysterious man with the wide brimmed hat, but the real danger to the children was lack of food supplies, the cold, and the snow storms that cut them off from possible safety/rescue. This goes double if you believe the implication that the man with the hat is in fact The Grim Reaper, and only shows up to collect the children after they are already dead or dying. In "A Lady's Hands Are Cold", the first wife is truly terrifying when her body is reassembled, but would never have been a danger if not for having been murdered in cold blood by the wealthy man. Furthermore, if the main character had never reassembled the first wife's body, she would have still been in mortal danger because the husband is a murderer, possibly a serial killer, who almost certainly would have killed her and hidden her body once he got tired of her. In "His Face All Red", the "monster" attacking the village livestock turns out to be an ordinary wolf, and the only thing the older brother had to worry about was his own younger brother, who was willing to commit murder out of envy and anger at the prospect of being humiliated one too many times. "My Friend Janna" has a mysterious ghost (if it isn't something else entirely), but is primarily about Yvonne's best friend having a mental breakdown while Yvonne is unable to help in any way. Janna's behaviors and eventual death or disappearance has many of the hallmarks of someone becoming suicidal. "The Nesting Place" actually reverses this. The only threat to Bell is one that is not mundane (unless you count her depression as a threat to her), but she uses the threat of everyday, mundane people and the world they live in to scare the monster into backing down, causing it to spare Bell and other people who might become potential victims.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_9e4ed124
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_9ed6761e
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Death by Woman Scorned
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_9ed6761e
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Death by Woman Scorned: The husband dies at the hands of his first wife, who is furious with him for murdering her and became violently possessive of him after her death. It also counts as a Karmic Death, since the husband murdered his first wife to possess her wealth and estate.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_9ed6761e
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_a195310a
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Red Is Heroic
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_a195310a
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Red Is Heroic: Beth is the middle-born daughter who wears dark red clothes, and the story is narrated from her perspective.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_a6cda066
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Rule of Three
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Rule of Three: Certain things happen three times throughout the story. Before going out hunting in the woods, The girls' father tells them to leave for the neighbor's house if he doesn't come back in three days. He dies on the third day due to the snowstorm outside, and Beth realizes this after seeing a blood-red moon in the sky on that day. While their father is gone, the girls play games on the first day, do chores on the second, and spend the entire third day in a state of lethargy (implied to be due to hypothermia). Unfortunately, that's when things start going bad for the girls, starting with the realization that their father died hunting. Over the course of three more days, the girls' basic necessities (food, water, kindling, and matches) run out. It's on the third day that they're completely gone. The girls themselves also die one by one after meeting the man with the wide-brimmed hat, which is represented by them suddenly disappearing along with their traveling cloaks. Mary is the first to die, followed by Hannah, then lastly Beth when she travels to the neighbor's house alone in the middle of a snowstorm.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_aa79bac
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Parting-Words Regret
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_aa79bac
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Parting-Words Regret: Mary's denial over their father's death and stubborn refusal to leave for the neighbor's house sparks a heated argument between her and Beth that lasts into the night, and they go to bed angry with each other. Two days later, Mary dies, leaving behind Beth and Hannah. Hannah doesn't take it well and cries until the afternoon, while Beth silently braids her hair with a regretful look on her face.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_b4754f84
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The Worm That Walks
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_b4754f84
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The Worm That Walks: The monster is a mass of red worms wearing Rebecca's skin.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_b5f7b739
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Evil Overlooker
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_b5f7b739
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Evil Overlooker: A giant, wolf-like face with one glaring eye can be seen in the sky.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_b869b5b1
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Color Motif
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_b869b5b1
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Color Motif: All prominent characters have specific colors assigned to them. Hannah wears a white dress and a yellow cloak, which emphasizes her youth and innocence. Of the three sisters, she doesn't really understand everything that's going on, including the importance of surviving a heavy snowstorm and the ramifications of their father's death. Mary is a brunette who wears brown colors, which represents stability and a down-to-earth nature. Being the oldest sister, she was put in charge of looking after Beth and Hannah by their father before he left to go hunting. Ironically, it is Beth who takes charge, especially after Mary sinks into denial when they realize after the third day that their father died in the snowstorm. Beth wears red, her dress being dark red and her cloak being bright red. Of the sisters, it is she who later takes charge of looking after the family, considering Hannah is a young girl who can't fully grasp the situation and Mary is in denial over their father's death/disappearance. And when Mary goes missing after meeting the man with the wide-brimmed hat, Beth immediately searches all over the house for her. She also tries to brave the snowstorm while traveling to the neighbor's house alone, though by the time she reaches her destination, both she and the neighbor are already dead. The man with the wide-brimmed hat is dressed entirely in black, including his hat. Combined with his scant appearances, it gives him an aura of mystery and foreboding. Black also symbolizes death, and certain scenes (especially those that feature the man with the wide-brimmed hat) are either heavily shadowed or depicted with completely black backgrounds, implying his presence. Fortunately, he's not a malicious character and only wants to usher the three sisters (who are all implied to have died during the snowstorm) into the afterlife.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_b9f6cc0a
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The Bluebeard
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_b9f6cc0a
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The Bluebeard: The premise of the story draws on the legend of Bluebeard. After an Arranged Marriage, the second wife finds pieces of the first wife hidden all over the house (the husband's Dark Secret), then reassembles her. However, instead of the husband attacking like in Bluebeard, it's the first wife, who is not as grateful to someone restoring her as one might expect.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_bbb3a5a0
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Splash of Color
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_bbb3a5a0
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Splash of Color: A tiny figure in blue can be seen crossing the snowy field, contrasting with the limited palette of black, white, and red.
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Irony
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec
comment
Irony: When thinking of the people who come to see her and Janna, Yvonne is disdainful of them because of how much emotional energy they spend on dead people, who can no longer appreciate it and for whom it does no good. At the end, after Janna has possibly been killed and her body disappears, Yvonne is clearly thinking and feeling about Janna in a very similar way. It's implied that it's this kind of outpouring of energy that allows the "ghost" or "ghosts" to haunt first Janna and then Yvonne. Furthermore, Yvonne had been growing increasingly distant from Janna before her disappearance. As soon as Janna disappears, Yvonne shows much more passion about her friend.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_c4b09e97
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Doppelgänger
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_c4b09e97
comment
"His Face All Red" makes frequent mention of strange things coming form the woods. Nobody bats an eye at the thought of a monster coming out of the woods to attack their livestock, and later it seems that a Doppelgänger of the murdered older brother comes out of the woods and begins trying to take the brother's place.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_c4b09e97
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_c547f08d
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Ghostly Chill
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_c547f08d
comment
Ghostly Chill: Yvonne notes that the "ghost" haunting Janna exudes a "terrible chill".
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_c547f08d
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_c5835f29
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Ghostly Goals
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comment
Ghostly Goals: The main character who got married to the wealthy man in an Arranged Marriage hears a ghostly voice singing every night about giving everything to her love only to be murdered by him, and how she will never know peace until she is whole again. So she would seem to be the benign version, simply looking to have her body reassembled and perhaps buried properly or possibly vengeful against her killer, since her song mentions being unavenged. When the second wife collects the piece of the first wife's body and puts them together, it turns out the first wife is still violently obsessed with the man she loved, and attacks the second wife for "replacing" her.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_c5835f29
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_cad80e66
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Blame the Paramour
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comment
Blame the Paramour: A young woman is put into an Arranged Marriage with a rich man, but soon discovers that the man murdered his first wife, cut her to pieces, and then scattered the pieces throughout the manor. The second wife finds and gathers all the pieces of the first wife and ties them together with string, at which point the first wife comes back to life as a vengeful and angry Revenant Zombie and attacks her, calling the second wife a usurper. Fortunately the young woman manages to escape and the first wife then turns her anger on the husband instead.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_cad80e66
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_cbaa9102
type
Signature Headgear
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comment
Signature Headgear: The strange man who haunts the three girls is frequently described as having a wide-brimmed hat, but little else, adding to the overall mystery of his presence. It's used to imply that the man is something else, as once it's described by others or shows up on-screen, someone is going to die. At the end, Beth accepts the strange man planting his hat on her head, symbolizing her acceptance that she is dead and is able to reunite with her dead family.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_cbaa9102
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_cf48c17
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Nightmare Face
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comment
Nightmare Face: The wolf’s face in the final panel
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_cf48c17
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_d028ca10
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Deliberately Monochrome
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Deliberately Monochrome: Save for a tiny splash of blue, the cover uses a limited palette of black, white, and red.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_d986d0ed
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Evil Only Has to Win Once
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Evil Only Has to Win Once: The story features a version of Red Riding Hood (implied to be a semi-autobiographical of Carroll herself as a child). The girl passes through the woods without incident to her mother's house, and as she's settling down to sleep she remarks that she knew the wolf wouldn't find her.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_dadf222
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Minor Living Alone
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comment
Minor Living Alone: Three young girls are living alone in their parents' house during a heavy snowstorm after their father died while hunting in the forests outside, and they are faced with the decision of either staying put at home or braving the harsh cold to travel to a neighbor's house for safety. Not only that, a strange man with a wide-brimmed hat is haunting them for some reason. Beth, the middle-born sister, is convinced the strange man kidnapped her sisters after losing both Mary and Hannah in quick succession, and once they're gone, she has to make the dangerous trek alone. Then it turns out the neighbor also died sometime before.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_dadf222
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_dbbaed55
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Monster Is a Mommy
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_dbbaed55
comment
Monster Is a Mommy: "Rebecca" is actually a mass of worms inside Rebecca's stolen skin and wants Bell's skin for her children, so they can leave their spawning pool. Bell seizes on this and saves herself by horrifying the monster with stories of the dangers its children would face in the city.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_dbbaed55
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_dcd29760
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They Would Cut You Up
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_dcd29760
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They Would Cut You Up: Bell tells the monster that its children would be at danger of being captured and experimented on (among other things) if they went to live in the city. This leaves the monster so afraid that it changes its mind and decides to stay away from the city to protect its children.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_dcd29760
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e13156e1
type
Mama Bear
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e13156e1
comment
Mama Bear: Despite her horrifying intentions for Bell (and possibly the rest of humanity), "Rebecca" dearly loves her children and wants to move them to the city so they'll grow outside the spawning pool. She quickly changes her mind once she learns from Bell what'll happen to her children if they were to actually go, like being used as lab experiments or being exposed to the city's pollution.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e52a0cac
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He Who Must Not Be Seen
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e52a0cac
comment
He Who Must Not Be Seen: The man with the wide-brimmed hat never appears in-person, only showing his hat, arms, and hands, to create an aura of foreboding and build up tension as to what his true intentions for the girls are. Fortunately, he's actually a very nice man who is implied to be The Grim Reaper ushering the girls' souls to the afterlife.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e6521611
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Creepy Long Fingers
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e6521611
comment
Creepy Long Fingers: Having been dead for some time now, the first wife possesses extremely boney, shriveled fingers as a consequence of her advanced decay.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e6521611
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e8491efa
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Don't Fear the Reaper
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e8491efa
comment
Don't Fear the Reaper: The man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile is implied to be The Grim Reaper, but he's a completely non-malicious entity who only seeks to usher in the souls of those who died during an extreme snowstorm, including the three girls. Mary and Hannah are happy when they speak of him and even wait for him when he approaches, and in one panel Hannah is seen hugging the man like old friends. Beth is afraid of him at first. But once they meet at the neighbor's house, Beth comes to accept the man when he kindly plants his hat on her head and lets her enter the house, where she reunites with her dead parents and sisters.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e8491efa
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e92841f
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Talking the Monster to Death
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e92841f
comment
Talking the Monster to Death: Bell saves herself from the monster by convincing it that its plan to use Bell as a host and move to the city, where there would be many more hosts available, would end terribly for its children.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_e92841f
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_ea2e9f2d
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No Ending
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_ea2e9f2d
comment
No Ending: Bell manages to save herself and stop Rebecca from stealing her body with some quick thinking and Talking the Monster to Death, but afterwards when her brother Clarence is driving her to the train to leave their house, she suddenly realises that he has been taken over by the same parasites inside Rebecca. The story abruptly ends there. Is "Clarence" aware that she has noticed the truth? What are the long-term implications for Bell? Will "Clarence" talk "Rebecca" into revisiting the plan to steal more hosts for the "children" and move into the city or stay out in the countryside? If Bell gets away, will she try to take any action against them to stop more people from getting taken over? It's all left up to your imagination.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_ea2e9f2d
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_eaa3f1a5
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Helpless Window Death
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_eaa3f1a5
comment
Helpless Window Death: The story "My Friend Janna" climaxes with Yvonne watching helplessly from outside Janna's house as Janna is apparently murdered in front of her window by the "ghost" that has been haunting Janna.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_eaa3f1a5
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_ec40626
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Love Martyr
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_ec40626
comment
Love Martyr: The murdered wife was one. She willingly gave everything she had to her lover, who murdered her after marrying her in order to take her wealth for himself. Tragically deconstructed, because once the second wife finds the pieces of her body hidden throughout the manor and puts the first wife's body back together, the first wife is still a Love Martyr to the husband, and tries to kill the second wife so she can have him all over again.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_ec40626
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f068cba
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Oddball in the Series
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comment
Oddball in the Series: "The Nesting Place" clashes with the rest of the stories in the trade in a number of ways. All of the rest happen in a vague past, likely the 1800s or earlier. "The Nesting Place" pretty obviously takes place during the 1920s, maybe the 1930s. Most of the stories are either a Nameless Narrative or have an absolute minimum number of named characters, while every character who speaks in "The Nesting Place" has a name that is mentioned. In many of the stories there is at least an element of Mundanger that is an equal or greater threat to the protagonists, while the only threat to the protagonist in "The Nesting Place" is a fantastic one.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f51c5f3c
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Never Say "Die"
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f51c5f3c
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Never Say "Die": The story itself never directly mentions death after Beth realizes that her father has died, only alluding to it via characters suddenly disappearing after meeting the man with the wide-brimmed hat.
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f51c5f3c
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f51c5f3c
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f5241839
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Braids of Action
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f5241839
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Braids of Action: Beth wears her hair in braids, and is seen braiding them herself twice. She's depicted as the most reasonable of her sisters, looking out for their well-being and trying to convince them it is better to go to the neighbor's house where they have better chances of surviving the snowstorm.
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f5241839
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f8248d95
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Dying Candle
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f8248d95
comment
Dying Candle: The "ghost" haunting Janna appears to kill her just as candle that Yvonne was carrying goes out.
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f8248d95
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Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f8248d95
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f8d24fbb
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BigSisterInstinct
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_f8d24fbb
comment
Big Sister Instinct: Beth, despite being the middle sister, is convinced that Mary was taken away by the man with the wide-brimmed hat, and searches for her all over the house. Unfortunately, while she's busy looking for Mary, the man with the wide-brimmed hat takes Hannah, too.
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 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_fb7faf98
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Exhausted Eye Bags
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_fb7faf98
comment
Exhausted Eye Bags: As Janna's breakdown progresses, she develops bags under her eyes.
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Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
 Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_ff7e9adf
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Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Little Hannah has blonde hair to show her childish youth and innocence compared to her brown-haired older sisters.
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Dead All Along / int_99ee6dbe
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Don't Go in the Woods / int_99ee6dbe
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Ghostly Goals / int_99ee6dbe
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Little Dead Riding Hood / int_99ee6dbe
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Nameless Narrative / int_99ee6dbe
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"Rear Window" Witness / int_99ee6dbe
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Red Riding Hood Replica / int_99ee6dbe
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White and Red and Eerie All Over / int_99ee6dbe