Castelucci manages to create a comic that feels totally original, but is nonetheless a match in tone and style for the classic Vertigo Shade, the Changing Man. It's a rather magnificent trick. 
 The joy of Shade, the Changing Girl may be that it's so mundane. It's about a girl trying to live her life in a high school full of mean girls, bullies, and victims. The catch is that she's one of those bullies, or at least used to be. It's a pretty magnificent match for the story of how Rac possessed a murderer all these years ago, but if anything bully Megan is a more dangerous force! 
 As for the rest, there's a joyful story here of an awakening, a great cast of characters, and some fun madness as well.