Shade, the changing man. The American scream

"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 interdimensinal "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"--P. [4] of cover.