Shade the Changing Man: Difference between revisions

* [[Mad Artist]]

* [[Medium Awareness]]: A movie camera infected by the American Scream shows awareness of both film and comic conventions. And the narration during 'The Great American Story' calls much attention to panel framing and transition, then at the end the writer character reveals his name to be an anagram of Peter Milligan (and is suddenly rendered much slimmer and younger), implying that he ''was'' the narrator.

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]] - in issue #39.

* [[Plausible Deniability]]: In the first ''[[Suicide Squad]]'' series, Shade told about an incredibly confusing conspiracy that was going on in his home dimension. When Shade and the Squad confronted the conspirators on Earth, one of the Squad members asked what to do when the police arrived. Shade replied to tell the police the truth and they will brush it off as a delusional fantasy.

* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Version 3 of Milligan's Shade expresses enthusiasm for the idea of being tortured, as long as it's being done by an expert.

* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Shade and his crew end up living in 'Hotel Shade', which the Angels told him would "draw madness to it like a magnet." Even John Constantine paid a visit.

* [[Who Shot JFK]]: The second and third issue give us a Sphinx with JFK's head that asks people this question and eats them when they're unable to answer. The JFK-Sphinx's madness is fueled by a Kennedy admirer-turned conspiracy theorist. In the end, he's forced to ask the question, {{spoiler|and says we're all responsible, for letting the President's death overshadow his life}}, but the real truth is {{spoiler|confronting the manifestation of his obsession allows him to come to terms with the death of his young daughter, which he can only blame on life's unfairness}}.

{{quote| '''Lenny's father:''' What is he, [[Superman]]?<br />

'''Lenny:''' If he were, his comic would probably be canceled.<br />