Shade the Changing Man
DC/Vertigo.
The
American Scream (1-6; w Peter Milligan; a Chris Bachalo & Mark Pennington).
[From DC Comics: A strange visitor from the dimension of Meta, Rac
Shade has been given the task of trying to stem the growing tide of Earth's
insanity, which has created an interdimensional "Area of Madness"
threatening both Meta and Earth with chaos. But upon breaching the barrier
between worlds, Shade is trapped in the body of serial killer Troy Grenzer
and finds himself on the run from the law as an escaped murderer.. Unable
to return home, Shade must rely on the help of the one person crazy enough
to believe his story—Kathy George, the daughter of Grenzer's last victims—as
he heads towards a confrontation with the growing embodiment of national
psychosis: The American Scream. As one of the founding titles of the Vertigo
line, Shade, the Changing Man exploded all the preconceptions of what a
superhero comic could be and launched the now-legendary careers of writer
Peter Milligan (Human Target, Enigma, X-Force, X-Statix) and artist Chris
Bachalo (Death: The High Cost of Living), Steampunk, Excalibur). The American
Scream collects the first six issues of this long-demanded series and reintroduces
the remarkable, hallucinatory world that it brought to life.] 