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Part of Gerard Way's new imprint, DC's Young Animal! Faraway 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 coatcome in. Loma steals the garment and makes a break across galaxies to take upresidence in a new body: Earth girl Megan Boyer. Surely everything will bebetter on this passionate, primitive planet with a dash of madness on her sideand this human girl's easy life. Only now that she's here, Loma discovers beinga teenaged Earth girl comes with its own challenges and Earth may not beeverything she thought it'd be. Megan Boyer was a bully who everyone was gladwas almost dead, and now Loma has to survive high school and navigate theconsequences of the life she didn't live with the ever-growing anduncontrollable madness at her side. Not to mention that there are people back onher homeworld who might just want Shade's coat back. Written by CecilCastellucci (The Plain Janes), drawn by Marley Zarcone (EFFIGY) and overseen byGerard Way, SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL starts a whole new chapter in the story ofone of comics' most unique series. Collects SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL #1-6.SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL is a part of DC's Young Animal--a four-book grassrootsmature-reader imprint, creatively spearheaded by Gerard Way, bridging the gapbetween the DC Universe and Vertigo, and focusing on the juxtaposition betweenvisual and thematic storytelling.