Shade, the Changing Man, Vol. 1: The American Scream
Shade is back in this new printing of the groundbreaking Vertigo trade from writer Peter Milligan. Collecting the first six SHADE issues, beginning with Kathy George's encounter with Shade's arrival on Earth from his home dimension of Meta – in the body of her parents' killer. From there, Shade...
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Shade is back in this new printing of the groundbreaking Vertigo trade from writer Peter Milligan. Collecting the first six SHADE issues, beginning with Kathy George's encounter with Shade's arrival on Earth from his home dimension of Meta – in the body of her parents' killer. From there, Shade and Kathy journey into America's collective unconscious to find the evil known only as The American Scream.These are the classic Vertigo stories written by Peter Milligan, so if you've been digging the acclaimed writer's work on GREEK STREET and HELLBLAZER, be sure to pick up this new printing of Milligan's earlier work!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781401200466 (140120046X)
Publish date: December 1st 2009
Publisher: Vertigo (DC Comics)
Pages no: 168
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Politics,
Horror,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comix,
Comic Book,
Superheroes
Series: Shade, the Changing Man (#1)
Absolutely one of the weirdest comics I've ever read. The writing is quite good, and Milligan really put in some extra effort in developing the characters, especially Kathy. But I kind of feel like the entire point of the series was weird just for the sake of weirdness, and maybe I'm just full up on...
An alien named Shade wins up in the body of a killer while he's being executed in the electric chair. Shade and Kathy, daughter of two of the killer's victims, go on a strange odyssey and combat the American Scream...When people talk about British comic writers, Peter Milligan is usually an afterth...
Peter Milligan's 'Enigma' I loved, but this was just noisy and pretentious.
I bought these as individual issues (1-6) ...not the collected "graphic novel", sometime in the late 1980's... early '90s. Every single one is precious to me.
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