Kevin C. Wong

Comics - Madame Mirage (2008) [+]

Madame Mirage was a 6-issue limited series comic from Image and published by Top Cow. It's set in its own universe where superhero and villains were all jailed by the government, but mostly it was heroes that turned themselves in most villains just went underground.

Aggressive Solutions International is a corporate consulting firm that uses undercover super villains in various illegal operations. They start to be threatened by the mysterious Madame Mirage, an illusion-based femme fatale-looking heroine who is bent on destroying AGI and if that means killing all its operatives then so be it.

Issue three has a cool plot twist because Madame Mirage is not all as she seems. Eventually the series climaxes with a big showdown between Mirage and the AGI executives she's bent on murdering. And finally a poignant ending as her plot is resolved even though there is no happily ever after for her...

Good art and interesting story with ok characters and I think the story was more about action sequences and Mirage doing the seemingly impossible than it was about deep character motivations. Overall pretty well done and I don't think there were any followup stories so that's it for the character.