Shade, the changing girl. Vol. 1, Earth girl made easy

Title:

Author:

Castellucci, Cecil, 1969- author.

ISBN:

9781401270995

Publication Information:

Burbank, CA : DC Comics, [2017]

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

General Note:

"Originally published in sincle magazine form as Shade, the Changing Girl 1-6"--Title page verso.

"Young Animal"--Cover.

Chiefly illustrations.

Contents:

Shade, the changing girl: Earth girl made easy: chapter 1, running off to the great blue -- Shade, the changing girl: Earth girl made easy: chapter two, school is Hell -- Shade, the changing girl: chapter 3, as bad as mad -- Shade, the changing girl: chapter 4, all apologies -- Shade, the changing girl: chapter 5, girl furious -- Shade, the changing girl: chapter 6, homecoming -- Cryll's big surprise / story, script and pencils by Natalia Hernandez ; script and inks by Gilbert Hernandez -- All we are / written by Amber Powell ' art by Mirka Adolfo -- Hero or error? / written by Tini Howard ; illustrated by Sanya Anwar -- A real life / written by Magdalene Visaggio ; art and color by Paulina Ganucheau -- Life with honey / written by Cecil Castellucci ; illustrated by Chyna Clugston Flores.

Genre:

Comics (Graphic works)

Added Author:

Castellucci, Cecil, 1969-

Castellucci, Cecil, 1969- Shade, the changing girl. 1, Running off to the great blue.

Castellucci, Cecil, 1969- Shade, the changing girl. 2, School is Hell.

Castellucci, Cecil, 1969- Shade, the changing girl. 3, As bad as mad.

Castellucci, Cecil, 1969- Shade, the changing girl. 4, All apologies.

Castellucci, Cecil, 1969- Shade, the changing girl. 5, Girl furious.

Castellucci, Cecil, 1969- Shade, the changing girl. 6, Homecoming.

Hernández, Natalia. Cryll's big surprise.

Powell, Amber. All we are.

Howard, Tini. Hero or error?

Visaggio, Magdalene. Real life.

Document ID:

SD_ILS:2265184

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Summary

A Young Adult Library Services Association Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2018 selection

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 twentysomething 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.

Author Notes

Cecil Castellucci is the author of books and graphic novels for young adults including Boy Proof, The Plain Janes, First Day on Earth and the Eisner-nominated Odd Duck . She is currently writing SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL, an ongoing comic on Gerard Way's DC Young Animal imprint. Her picture book, Granda's Gloves , won the California Book Award Gold Medal. She lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

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. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Loma's life is going nowhere, until she steals the madness coat of poet Rac Shade. The coat is a dimensional gateway allowing Loma hide out on Earth in the body of brain-dead Megan Boyer. But in life Megan was a horrible person, her friends aren't happy that she's come back to life, and, unfortunately, the coat causes intense madness to the user. Castellucci and Zarcone's reboot of DC character Shade the Changing Man is a mash-up of stream-of-consciousness weirdness with Heathers and Mean Girls. As the coat's madness bleeds into the real world of Earth, Zarcone's art adds just enough details and distortions to the settings and characters to highlight the craziness. At the same time, Castellucci deftly juggles the oddness of Loma's disjointed thoughts with a linear plotline, making sure to never sacrifice one in favor of the other. Older teens and younger adults frustrated with the routine pettiness of life will find much to appreciate in this strange tale.--Wildsmith, Snow Copyright 2017 Booklist