She is Beautiful

The world of takes place in a world where superheroes are man-made creations through advances in technology or bio-engineering, to turn people into metahumans and metahumans into gods. But when there are heroes, there must be villains. As people took advantage of the mega-tech for personal gain, the technology was banned, the superheroes became outlawed and the real outlaws went underground. Aggressive Solutions Int. or A.S.I., is run by a cabal of villain groups. To the people, they are some kind of Los Angeles-based public relations firm or trouble-shooting agency. But they are a front for a gang of powerful villains. All has gone well, until A.S.I. finds itself as a target of a relentless and violent vendetta by the mysterious woman calling herself Madame Mirage. This series has since stopped production; there is a trade paperback of the same title that collects issues #1-6. All Minutemen scans.

Superstar writer, Paul Dini (DETECTIVE COMICS, LOST) makes an explosive return to Top Cow when he brings brand new character Madame Mirage to the Top Cow Universe! But who is this beautiful woman who appears out of the mist? As deadly as she is beautiful, she is cutting a bloody path through the city's villains, who now wear suits and have "legitimate" businesses. But who is her ultimate prey? And how does this Mirage take form? And why is her destiny and that of her sidekick Harper so irrevocably entwined? These and many other questions will be asked along with the most pivotal question of all – Who is Madame Mirage?

This is the dazzling first five-issue miniseries from Warren Ellis and new talent Facundo Percio. Don't look now but we will surely see a movie based on this character. “She floats and leaps around the city like she’s Daredevil, Lara Croft and a character from all rolled into one,” Warren Ellis says, shedding (just a little) more light on his title character, “but no-one can get a good look at her. A lot of people don’t even think she’s real... She’s real,” Ellis confirms. “It’s the city of New Ataraxia that might not be real. And yet there she is in this weird retropolis out of American 1950’s science fiction magazines, disrupting the activities of the War Department, Magnetic Science and the Metropolitan Police, apparently working for no-one but herself… because no-one living there would believe who she’s working for.” Also included is the Artbook, "The New Ataraxia Mission" released April 2009.