Shade, the Changing Girl Vol. 1: Earth Girl Made Easy
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
"From writer Cecil Castellucci and artist Marley Zarcone, SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL VOL. 1: EARTH GIRL MADE EASY�a bold new reimagining of one of comics� maddest and most memorable characters and part of the DC�s Young Animal imprint led by rock-star Gerard Way. Loma Shade may be from another planet, but she�s still like every other twenty something who feels that their life is going nowhere fast. Bored out of her mind, her solution is to drop out of school, dump her boyfriend and leave her homeworld of Meta behind�courtesy of the infamous �madness coat� of renegade poet Rac Shade, which is not so much a garment as it is a multidimensional gateway. After stealing the coat and astrally projecting herself across space, Loma ends up in the body of Megan Boyer, an Earth girl who seems to have it all: youth, beauty and a conveniently damaged brain. Following her �miraculous� recovery, however, Loma finds there�s just one problem with being Megan: Everyone hates her. She was a bully who terrorized her enemies and her friends alike, and now Loma�s stuck with the consequences. To make matters worse, back on Meta there are dark forces that want Rac�s dangerously valuable coat for their own nefarious purposes, and they�re closing in on Loma�s vulnerable physical body. At the same time, the primal madness that the coat channels is slowly, irresistibly eroding Loma�s equally vulnerable soul. With two new lives to live, can this Changing Girl survive either one without losing her mind? Find out in SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL VOL. 1: EARTH GIRL MADE EASY. Collects issues #1-6."
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One of the best-loved heroes from Vertigo's 1990s heyday is back with a different gender and a lot of modern twists as written by YA novelist Castellucci. Alien girl Loma is sick of her home planet, Meta. She steals the original Shade's dimension-bending Madness Coat, using it to transplant herself into the body of a human girl on Earth. Sixteen-year-old Megan Boyer was the captain of her school swim team before a strange accident left her in a coma. Loma tries to slip into her life unobtrusively, but becoming Megan is not so easy; Megan's teammates hate and fear her in equal measure, her ex-boyfriend wants to patch things up, and her parents seem ambivalent, at best, about her surprise recovery. Castellucci has woven a successful tale of intrigue and identity, and the layouts by Zarcone (Effigy) are wildly experimental, reflecting the strangeness that bleeds out of Shade's coat and into every other facet of her life.
