Shade the Changing Man Omnibus Volume 2

Reviews Tom Shapira | August 18, 2026 … Or, to use its full name, Shade the Changing Man by Peter Milligan and Chris Bachalo Omnibus Volume 2. That is a mouthful. That is also as clear a case of caveat empetor and caveat lector rolled into one. This collection, the first time the well-regarded Vertigo reinvention of an old Steve Ditko concept has been fully composed between two covers, contains a major lie right there on the cover. There is, comparatively, little Chris Bachalo in this volume. This isn’t anything new in comics, the previously-reviewed Daredevil by Nocenti and Romita Jr. Omnibus was only about 60% Romita Jr., and is the inventible result of American superhero comics "deadlines first" approach to publishing. Still, one cannot ignore the fact that Chris Bachcalo’s presence in the series shrinks as it goes on: Starting with a lot of alternating issues with fill-in-artists, continuing to whiplash-inducing several-artist-per-issue (Bachalo and Steve Yowell, Bachalo and Mark Buckingham, Buckingham and Michael Lark) and ending with a complete takeover by Richard Case. A series in search of an artist that is also a series in search of direction. Let us turn back the clock fo...