I don't have much to say about this, I didn't really care for it. Didn't really understand what was going on. I think I read that this is actually continuing a previous Shade comic, which I didn't know going in. I don't really have the desire to look the original up and read it though. Not for me.

This is a DNF for me. I gave it a valiant try and made it over halfway. Megan has had her body taken over by an alien life form. She was the mean girl in school and after taking too many drugs and drowning, she was declared brain dead. Enter our birdlike alien, who takes over her body and intends to live her life. But her life, is not all he thought a human life would be like. Part of what keeps this graphic novel flowing is our alien thinks in poetry, and interrupts himself in Shades poetry. There are constantly two to three conversations going on, plus then what is happening in the Alien’s home world. It’s all a big mess. Others will probably like it, but I don't.

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Great illustrations and really enjoyed the story line.

The first thing that captured my attention was of course, the beautiful cover, and I absolutely love reading good comics with an amazing female lead. Bonus, the female lead is in fact a humanoid alien! I reckon this might capture the interest of Doctor Who fans and shows/books alike.

I'm very much in love with how colourful this one is! While reading this, I was reminded of John Green's characters Alaska (Looking for Alaska) and Margo (Paper Towns). Loma has that spunky, free-spirited attitude that you can see in both of the characters mentioned. Like Margo, Loma has a favourite poet whose poems she used as a form of guidance whenever she felt lost. Margo used one of Walt Whitman's poems as a clue to find her, while Loma used Rac Shade (Shade, the Changing Man).

I would definitely want to continue this series. I thoroughly enjoyed it, especially the bits and pieces of Rac Shade poems across the chapters.

This has been, by far, the best Young Animals book I've picked up. I was unfamiliar with Shade (though I've learned from other reviews that Shade was already an existing character, though in a different context) and came in with no expectations, but really enjoyed the interesting characters and story. It's really interesting to see what it like to inherit the life of somebody who is hated for being a bully.
I had a lot of fun with this and definitely recommend picking it up.

I'm honestly not entirely sure how I feel about this one. It's a really cool concept [I never read the original series so I can't say how similar it is] and I feel like I SHOULD love it but something just isn't clicking. Also the thing that happened at the very end of issue 6 kind of has me rolling my eyes. That is not the kind of drama I enjoy. But the plot is intriguing and I could see it getting really interesting once it actually gets going. Also the art is great and I love how Shade can make things change color to look the same as the coat.

This is a fantastic continuation to Shade, and more than anything it is BEAUTIFUL. When I say this, what I mean is that every single page is a masterpiece. You could close your eyes and flip through, and wherever you landed, you could blow it up and frame it on your wall and it would look magnificent.

The writing is strong, the plot is strong, the characters (and their names--Teacup? Hello yes) are strong; but what this does so astonishingly well is tell its story simultaneously through imagery and words. And yeah, all graphic novels should do that--but this is on another level. It's not just worlds that the art creates, and it's not just a point of view. It's a state of mind.

It's philosophical, it's poetic, it's aesthetically stunning, and it transports you to a whole new mindspace. 5 stars.

A fun psychedelic graphic novel. Lots of good use of color and a fun story line.

Interesting premise and scintillating artwork however, parts of the story were completely lost on me. This reminded me of a cross between Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and the film 'Brazil'.

Shade the Changing Girl is a rebooting of an earlier Shade comic series that I haven't read, so this review won't be comparing them.

In this series, Loma lives on Meta, a planet far away from Earth. One night she tries on the coat of the poet Rac Shade and is thrown into its madness. The next thing she knows she's waking up in the body of a teenage girl on Earth who had been in a coma after a near-drowning incident. At first Shade wants nothing to do with the school, family, or friends who think they know her (obviously they think they're seeing and speaking to the teenager, Megan.

Shade just wanted to feel things and thought that being a human teenager would be easy. Instead it seems the people in her life aren't too happy she's out of the coma. What really happened the night Megan almost drowned? Should she stick around and puzzle it out, or is she better off going back to Meta? Would anyone even believe her if she explained that she's an alien? And what could be happening on Meta in the aftermath of her theft and disappearance?

This is one of the weirdest and most exciting comics out right now. Whether we're getting flashes of the original Shade's poetic words or we're rooting for the new Shade trying to make sense of her new life--I'm on board!

I was hoping for more from this title, but I found it to be disjointed (and not in a good way), and the storytelling just didn't grab me.