I've been reading the second year of Shade The Changing Man. I've read six issues and I still don't know what's happening.
If you want to hear how insane this story is, keep reading. It's worth it.
From what I can gather, Shade was an alien from another planet who got a magical jacket that allowed him to change reality. He ticked off some people on his planet and had his essence teleported off the planet to Earth where he and his jacket took over the body of a man who killed a girl's boyfriend. Shade and the girl whose boyfriend was just murdered fall in love and Shade develops an alternate personality who is evil named hades. At the same time, shade is being chased by a human agent working on behalf of Shade's home planet to kill Shade. Then, there is The American Scream who was apparently evil, did something bad and then died. Shade's alternate personality takes over for awhile and does stuff that Shade can't remember.
It gets better. Shade and his girlfriend and his girlfriend's friend take a road trip which brings them continually to a junkyard no matter where they try to go. In the junkyard, Shade's girkfriend becomes lovers with her friend and Shade travels to the past to fight something that's trying to eat his younger self and to the future to be grossed out by his future old girlfriend. When shade and crew try to use one of he junk yard cars to escape, the car gives them a shared vision of its previous owner and how they died, and the road brings them back to the junkyard. They try several other cars wih the same result. At this point, the crew decide the road is alive. In the meantime, shade has been trying to figure out what his alternate personality did when he was in control of Shade's body, but he can't remember and hades himself had forgotten. Eventually, shade decides that the living road is actually made by shade himself because he is subconsciously trying to keep himself from going back to the previous town to discover what his alternated did. Shade and Hades then split in two different pieces, and hades is forced to rediscover what he saw that made him forget. It must be hades who leaves because shade is trapped in the junkyard. After battling giant monster bugs, Hades sees that the horrible thing that happened was that Shade was actually killed by the agent from the alien planet, so hades and shade combine and are both barely kept alive by the jacket. Now, shade needs to find a new host body, and he keeps turning into anything he sees because he can't hold his form. At one point, he turns into bedsheets and his girlfriend and girlfriend's girlfriend have sex underneath him. That's the last issue I read.
The writer must have been on some serious drugs, but I can't claim that it's boring.
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