Murder, intrigue, and revenge with superpowers: the story of Madame Mirage takes place in a world where superheroes are man-made creations.
To most people, Los Angeles-based Aggressive Solutions Int., or A.S.I., appears to be a mere public relations firm or trouble-shooting agency, but in reality it is a front for a gang of powerful villains.
Mirage employs various degrees of superpowers including mind control, magic, and shape shifting in order to confound and defeat her enemies.
(It is worth noting that the visual appearance of Madame Mirage is based on magician and illusionist Misty Lee, Dini's wife.)
Only Harper escaped to develop the Ellison project into a tool crafted around the likeness of her dead sister Angela and to exact revenge on those who hurt her family.
The early concept was pitched to an internet animation studio that wanted an action-driven femme fatale series.
Following that, Dini put the Mirage pitch in a sketchbook where it remained for years until Jim McLauchlin came on board at Top Cow as an editor.