Dr. Mirage wants to hold up destruction … she just needs to figure out how first . As the latest hero resurrect by the novel Valiant comics , the extrasensory investigator has been reborn as the publisher ’s first pass lady , and her dangerous undertaking set about in this massive exclusive comic preview !
Written by Jen Van Meter and with arresting art by Roberto de la Torre , the new Death - Defying Dr. Mirage is clearly inspired by the original ’ 90s comic , but re - reinterpreted for modern hearing — something Valiant has been doing exceedingly well , and to swell success . So meet the new Dr. Mirage :
Doctor Mirage talks to the dead … but the only spirit Shan Fong ca n’t find is that of her late husband , Hwen . Instead , America ’s preferent semi - retired extrasensory research worker is haunted and unsanded , using her giving to solve homicides and bring public security to the lately bereaved . But when a big - time occultist with a classified military past times hires her for a particular job , Shan expose a lead that might shut the greatest mystery she ’s ever tackle – how to get Hwen back . Now , Doctor Mirage must record the unexplored country and cross all the realms of the Hell , if she has any hope of rescue the man she loves … or be forever lost beyond the earthly woodworking plane .
Here ’s the trailer !
The Death - Defying Dr. Mirage is one of those rare of superhero funnies – one starring an grownup , mature woman . “ What I have n’t seen much of is stories about matured adults , especially women , really being changed or learn something Modern about themselves in the course of a pursuit — so much of our fiction implies that we ’re kind of done growing or changing after thirty , you know ? ” says Van Meter . “ That ’s what I desire for Shan — she ’s got an expert ’s trust about her unearthly job dealing with ghosts and monsters and such , but she really feel incomplete and lost since the destruction of her hubby — she feels like she ’s done . ”
But that barely think Dr. Mirage is n’t also pop off to have a kick - screwing adventure , too . “ At first I think this was just going to be a story about the dangerous undertaking and mystery of essay to rule him , and it is that , but as we ’ve operate on it , it ’s also become about how the journey itself changes Shan and challenges her to look at herself in a new light . Plus she has to deal with creepy paramilitary wizards , lay aside our plane of creation from a demonic encroachment force , and barter story for survival of the fittest tips in a series of freaky underworlds — that part is cool too . ”
Check out The Death - Defying Dr. Mirage # 1 when it polish off laughable stores on September 3rd !
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