Shade, the Changing Girl
DC · 2016–2017 · 12 issues
About the series
In this 2016–2017 DC series, writer Cecil Castellucci and artists Marley Zarcone and Marguerite Sauvage reimagined the ’90s cult antihero Shade as Loma Shade, a rebellious alien poet who steals a strange, sentient coat and flees to Earth, inhabiting the body of a high school girl. The result is a surreal, psychedelic journey through identity, art, and madness, anchored by Zarcone’s fluid, expressive linework and Sauvage’s dreamlike painted sequences. This twelve-issue run matters for its bold, feminist reinvention of a classic character and its deeply emotional exploration of what it means to wear another’s skin.