Ife knows she should feel privileged to be attending the exclusive Nithercott Academy, with its sprawling grounds, beautiful buildings and high expectations. But attending on the Urban Achievers Program on an art scholarship hasn't been what she'd expected.

a b c d e "Fiction Book Review: SHADE, THE CHANGING MAN: The American Scream". Publishers Weekly. June 30, 2003 . Retrieved April 3, 2018. Rac Shade lived on the other-dimensional world of Meta, where he was a top agent in the secret service. For some time, Meta had sent individuals to Earth to study it. Those who made the journey from the "Meta Zone" to the "Earth Zone" had also to pass through the dimension of the "Zero-Zone." Shade became an expert in Earthly things and was assigned to train Mellu Loron as an agent for the secret service on Earth, and the two of them became lovers. Mellu was the daughter of Mira Loron, who was secretly Sude, the Supreme Decider, head of a criminal conspiracy to take over both Meta and Earth. Standard '50s Father: Shade once encountered a cult led by a man who was obsessed with normalcy, which to him meant forcibly turning everyone in the neighbourhood into '50s nuclear family stereotypes. Wearing a suit and tie and smoking a pipe was mandatory for men. After completing Skreemer, Milligan went on a brief hiatus from writing [8] and began traveling across the United States. [9] Berger asked Milligan to start writing a new series. [10] Milligan chose to write a series about Shade, who he was fascinated by: "I thought, 'My God, to take on this character'... I liked the idea of changing. I liked the idea of madness. I liked the idea of madness almost like a force for change. ... I heard someone say a really good thing about schizophrenics... that, ah, for most people, schizophrenia is a break down, every now and again it's a breakthrough. The idea that madness can be a breakthrough". [8] Milligan also thought the character was "nebulous enough for me to really put my stamp on". [10] Split Personality: Peter Milligan's reboot has this in droves, with Shade, his heart, his suit, his skin, his alter-ego Hades, and others all forming, taking control, leaving, and rejoining the hero.

Curiosity Killed the Cast: Shade traps a Celestial in a statue of the mythical Pandora (with box), and she comes to life. Kathy and Lenny find "Pandora's" box and give in to temptation by opening it. The box is empty, but it turns "Pandora" into dust. Me's a Crowd: As fractured as Shade is on the inside, it was probably badly advised for him to split up physically. After generating an Evil Clone who escaped and attempted to supplant the original, Shade stopped deliberately duplicating himself.

Gender Bender: Shade's consciousness leaps into the body of a recently murdered woman. Unfortunately, he was unable to alter her body to resemble his old one until he solved her murder and put her soul at rest. This led to various comical scenes with Shade experiencing the Male Gaze, his first period and sex as a woman. Last Request: On her deathbed, Kathy in Shade, the Changing Man makes Shade promise to care for their baby.

As the the members of Justice League Dark arrive in Gotham City to aid in the fight against Cain, Shade's regrets about Kathy and his fear upon encountering vampires for the first time cause him to lose control of the M-Vest. He suffers a major mental breakdown, after which he finds himself in the Area of Madness again. Kathy appears there with him, and the two appear to reconcile as Shade says that he will not be returning to Madame Xanadu's team. Major Story Arcs Bronze Age: Shade in Prison Doctor Z.Z. If it was left to her, Ife Adebola wouldn’t be starting at Nithercott School. Because despite her being in the Urban Achievers scholarship program, her parents can barely afford the tuition. No matter who is trying to be friends with her, like her classmate Bijal, or how much the prestigious boarding school tries to pull her in, Ife is determined not to get caught up in any of it.

According to the Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths hardcover book, the events of the second series originally took place on Earth-85 in the DC Multiverse before its destruction. Marked Change: The madder incarnation of Shade would have swirls and concentric circles appear on his face and hands when activating his madness powers. Extreme Justice · Justice League America · Justice League Antarctica · Justice League Dark · Justice League Detroit · Justice League Elite · Justice League Europe · Justice League International · Justice League Odyssey · Justice League Queer · Justice League Task Force · Justice Legion Alpha · Justice League Unlimited · Super Buddies

A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school’s decades-old legend, in this debut Young Adult speculative thriller by Tomi Oyemakinde

Sarcastic Confession: This was how the Metans operated in Ditko's version of Shade, the Changing Man: their outpost on Earth was disguised as a conspiracy theory insisting Metans were among us. Alien Alliance · Amazo · Amos Fortune · Anti-Justice League · Anti-Monitor · Appellaxians · Aquarius · Aryan Brigade · Atomic Skull · Axis America · Barbatos · Cadre · Crime Champions · Crime Syndicate of America · Darkseid · Dark Knights · Demolition Team · Demons Three · Despero · Doctor Light · Epoch the Lord of Time · Extremists · Felix Faust · Floronic Man · Freedom Fighters of China · Hyperclan · Injustice Gang · Injustice League · Kanjar Ro · Key · League Busters · League of Ancients · Legion of Doom · Lex Luthor · Libra · Mad Maestro · Manga Khan · Mongul · Mister Nebula · Queen Bee · Queen of Fables · Rama Khan · Red King · Royal Flush Gang · Secret Society of Super Villains · Starro · Steppenwolf · Weapons Master · White Martians When the Changing Man myth- or legend- (however it gets defined, if it does, by the end) begins to intersect with Nithercott; when Ife sees that the director of the school, Dr. Butterworth, wears a flower symbol on his lapel that appears on other suspicious adults in positions of power, a bigger mystery begins to unfold- one where the Changing Man, in the end, could be a scapegoat for something bigger that is going on. The clues begin when the kids find a hidden room in the library that is said to exist that no one knows about (and is in none of the building plans)- where the Changing Man is supposed to live. Deadpan Snarker: Lenny. This is such a defining characteristic of hers that when her ability to snark was stolen (along with her sex drive,) she attempted suicide. The Change on Channel 4 review: come for the menopause, stay for the druids..." Evening Standard. 22 June 2023 . Retrieved 13 July 2023.Alternate Universe: Shade comes from a realm with very different dimensional properties called the Meta-Zone. Dogged Nice Guy: Shade's earliest incarnation, called sweet and sensitive, faces disappointments with Kathy and abuse from Lenny.