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| Publisher |
DC Vertigo |
| Writer |
Peter Milligan |
| Penciler |
Chris Bachalo |
| Inker |
Mark Pennington |
| Colorist |
Daniel Vozzo |
| Letterer |
Todd Klein |
| Cover Artist |
Brendan McCarthy |
| Published | July 1990 |
Shade must convince someone of his true identity before people from his home dimension can unleash madness across America. But the only one he's convinced so far is the daughter of a serial killer's victim--the same condemned killer he now inhabits.In this premiere issue of Peter Milligan's revamping of Steve Ditko's Shade the Changing Man begins with an introduction to various members of the main cast and the stage is set for the rest of the series. First we meet Kathy George, and learn that she sees hallucinations and spent sometime in an asylum after an event three years past. Her life went downhill after going home (to the South) with her African American boyfriend, Roger, only to walk in on Troy Grenzer mutilating her parent's murdered bodies. This was a shock all its own but it didn't help matters that when Roger and Grenzer were fighting on the front yard the cops shot Roger.So for three years, every night since, Kathy has been haunted by Grenzer in her dreams and when it finally came time for his execution, she decided the best day to get closure would be to travel to the penitentiary where he was imprisoned and stand outside it while he got the electric chair treatment, so that's what she did. Only things went horribly wrong, Shade crossed over from Meta through the Madness, taking over Troy's body since he was already going to die anyways.So Kathy finds herself in a crazy situation when the man responsible for the deaths of all her loved ones gets in her car and tells her to drive. She drives, he claims to be Shade and tries to explain what happened and she's so shocked she simply doesn't argue. They pull into a hotel and there Shade rests and tries to become accustomed to his new powers that stem from the M-Vest while Kathy prepares herself to silence this bogeyman once and for all.The story is interrupted at this point when we go to the Farmhouse Mental Hospital and find a student recording a tape that he hopes is found before its too late. He speaks of...
