Liked it a little less than the first volume, but it's still a solid plot with lots of supernatural happenings to keep things rolling.

Continuación del anterior pero leíble de forma independiente. Entretenido. Me gusta la historia, el estilo de los dibujos y el coloreado. Si lo encuentras barato merece una lectura.

I really like Doctor Mirage. She's one of my favorites in the Valiant U by far, and I loved her debut graphic novel deeply. I was stoked to hear we would be getting a second entry with the same creative team, though by this entry's end, that excitement had been deflated. This volume was simple. It was just another beat in the usual string of super-heroism, but managed to make Doctor Mirage and her world less interesting than it was before. The magic never stuck with me, and the presence of ghost...

Apparently, when things go bad for Shan Fong-Mirage, they go bad fast. Really fast.Never mind the shapeshifting beast on the Other Side and the warmth-feasting demons eager to escape said realm. Never mind all that. Just in general, whenever Shan screws up while trying to do herself right by others, things tend to go bad. Fast.In DOCTOR MIRAGE: SECOND LIVES, it's Shan's effort to bring her ghost husband Hwen to a more corporeal form that lands both Mirages in a bit of a bind. Not to say that une...

Just as fun as the first volume.

Jen Van Meter's Dr. Mirage and her ghost husband Hwen actually work more cohesively in this outing because Van Meter has limited the scope. This leads to a story that is markedly less confusing than the first. However, I still found many of the secondary characters to be far too genetic. Shan's ability to interact with Hwen gives her more to work with, and the storyline here is more of an occult mystery than epic world-building and far, far less reliant on flashbacks. The color is actually used

Make no mistake: even though this is a star lower than the first Doctor Mirage story, "Second Lives" still contains much of the magic that enchanted me the first time around. I would compare this to Ghostbusters 2, not in terms of disappointing in any way, but just not being as novel. The first Mirage story used each chapter to extend suspension of disbelief a little more and build toward a fantastic climax. This story, just as beautifully rendered by its team as before, plays within those rules...

I absolutely loved this second volume of Jen Van Meter's Doctor Mirage! I didn't realize that Doctor Mirage used to be a dude called Hwen Fong. I think it's cool that they rebooted Mirage as a woman named Shan Fong who can see ghosts, including her dead husband Hwen. They were paranormal investigators who had their own reality show before his death, and still are if her manager and an actor he has found to play Hwen on tv have anything to say about it. Shan, however, is more focused on finding a...

Second Chances. Unfortunately, the second volume starts off just as slowly as the first, and is additionally troubled by muddiness. Worse, it never catches on like the first volume did. There's still a great ghost-hunting feel to this book that's quite unique, but much of the four issues seem to be spent preparing and conducting rituals, which just doesn't have the excitement and interest of the magical mystery tour of the first volume. So, perhaps it's just as well that there's not more of this...

I didn't love this volume as much as the first.I thought there could have been some more clever ways to tell the story that would have made it drag less. One of the instances being that the main character's dead husband is working with her, but she's the only one who can communicate with him, so we occasionally get fed the same information twice as we see the original conversation, and then her reiterating it to someone else. It would be way better if we couldn't understand what her husband said...

Massive disappointment. To bring her husband back to flesh, Dr. Mirage studies an ancient spell... and an accident releases an evil ghost into the world. Predictable battles and happy end ensues.Way too verbose, way too little of the charm of the first volume.

Shan Fong-Mirage is back in her second mini-series, and she's bringing her ghost of a husband with her. Reunited after the events of the first volume, Doctor Mirage finds herself battling a centuries old spirit trapped inside the one scroll that she could potentially use to bring her husband back to the land of the living.It feels like almost no time has passed since the first volume of Doctor Mirage; this could easily be the second arc in an ongoing series, especially given the cliffhanger endi...

great intertwining of noir sensibilities with the Eldritch. Wonderful interpersonal relationship writing. interesting ideas regarding the Hollywood portions. covers are stunning. interior artwork is nice, but they switch artists a good deal and that's a bit jarring.Roberto de la torre's style best fits the narrative in my opinion. a bit wordy(telling, not showing) in places, but overall a wonderful little series.

I enjoyed the first volume of this a lot. This second volume didn't tickle me as much.The plot ideas are pretty cool, and it's still got it's own feel, but the use of supernatural "techno-babble" was too common and unconvincing.The artist is Roberto De La Torre and his style is scratchy, life-like and has bags of authentic character. Two of the issues contained in here have pages drawn by three other folk, for some reason. They are OK but don't really fit and this destroys the atmosphere.I reall...

My favorite of the Valiant spiritual books. But the Valiant spirit world just doesn't do it for me.

Shan Mirage is a medium (she can talk to ghosts as well as see them) experienced in magic. Her husband used to be skilled magic-user before his death during one of their adventures. After Shan literaly went to the afterlife to bring his spirit back to our plane, they've done their best to maintain life as they knew it. But being a happily married couple isn't so great when you can't touch, share physical experiences or be intimate. But they thought they found a way to give Hwen physical form, th...

A solid second installment. Hope there’s more of this story to come!