The Mirage was the first character I co-created with my longtime friend and collaborator Josh Workman. This was back in 2009 when we were just a couple of 12 year olds with undiagnosed ADHD and 1st period math. Every class we would spend the lesson precompleting our homework so that we could just hang out and make comics the rest of the time.
The Mirage was birthed out of my desire to be a professional magician. My grandfather and my uncle were both magicians, so it was in my blood. I had been practicing the art since the age of three.
The long missing (for better or worse) plot/character notebooks we made up were based on the low level street organized crime stories you’d see from Steve Ditko. But we mixed with it the glitz and glamor associated with stage magic.
Something that makes me shake my head and laugh is remembering the whole crime syndicate were not so subtly named after the various bullies and “bad kids” at school.
Yeah those were the simple times. A lot has changed with the state of BLAMO! Comics since those days. Practically none of the characters remain the same. As The Mirage has become a secondary character within the BLAMOverse, I don’t have a time frame on when they’ll be back. But you can be sure that when it happens, I’ll post about it.
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