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Far away on the planet Meta, Loma's going nowhere fast. She's dropped out of school, dumped her boyfriend and is bored out of her mind. She longs to feel things. That's where her idol, the lunatic poet Rac Shade, and his infamous madness coat come in. Loma steals the garment and makes a break across galaxies to take up residence in a new body: Earth girl Megan Boyer.
Surely everything will be better on this passionate, primitive planet with a dash of madness on her side and this human girl's easy life. Only now that she's here, Loma discovers being a teenaged Earth girl comes with its own challenges and Earth may not be everything she thought it'd be. Megan Boyer was a bully who everyone was glad was almost dead, and now Loma has to survive high school and navigate the consequences of the life she didn't live with the ever-growing and uncontrollable madness at her side. Not to mention that there are people back on her homeworld who might just want Shade's coat back.
Written by Cecil Castellucci (The Plain Janes), drawn by Marley Zarcone (Effigy) and overseen by Gerard Way, Shade, the Changing Girl starts a whole new chapter in the story of one of comics' most unique series.
Shockingly enough, Shade the Changing Girl is really weird. It’s kind of a sequel to Shade the Changing Man, an older Vertigo title, rather than a reboot, which is interesting for the ways that having Loma idealise Rac Shade’s life and poetry informs her character, and the ways that Rac Shade previously broke the universe having repercussions for Shade now.
Shade the Changing Girl follows Loma, a birdlike alien who steals the Madness Vest – a coat that lets the wearer harness the power of Madness, which is a tangible force that can rewrite the universe – to do what her idol Rac Shade did, and jump into a body on Earth. Unfortunately, the body she has chosen belongs to Megan, a notoriously vicious school bully who was in a coma in mysterious circumstances – and wants her body back.
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[Caution warning: bullying, drug use]
