The Bear Facts

Is there a connection between New York's Death Bear and Melbourne's Apocalypse Bear?

"Love hurts. Dreams die. But when you summon Death Bear to your door, you can rest assured that help has come."

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"Reality is splintering into shards of mirror and a casual, congenial bear is showing up at people’s houses. If you’ve had a bad day at school, he’ll take you back to where it all went wrong. Or he may invite you to the woods – a place of myth, transgression and discovery, where outcasts can start again – but with grave consequences."

I think I read somewhere that Death Bear's routine of coming to take away objects with painful associations from your home backfired a bit when one of his ex-girlfriends arrived to give him back all of his stuff.