Assassin's Creed Mirage: A Soar of Eagles

by Michael Avon Oeming, Mirko Colak (Illustrator), Lauren Affe (Illustrator)

Years before the events of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, a young Fuladh must return to his homeland to investigate political unrest that could point to a secret Order of the Ancients' stronghold. But in uncovering what’s behind the chaos and violence in Adulis, Fuladh and Roshan discover a brutal cult oppressing the local peoples, and set out to defeat it.

Fuladh and Roshan, prominent characters from the Assassin’s Creed Mirage game, return to Fuladh’s homeland of Adulis in North Africa to investigate reports of a possible Order of the Ancients’ stronghold. In reality it turns out that a brutal cult has taken over the region under the leadership of a crazed and paranoid leader who worships an elder snake god. He’s determined that since the Christian god could not protect their people from war and hardship, they must put their faith in the snake god instead. Fuladh and Roshan partner with some locals to infiltrate the mighty fortress that the cult has taken over to rescue the slaves and end the cult’s reign of terror.

Collects Assassin's Mirage #1–#3.

Kindle Edition

Published November 18, 2025

About the author

Michael Avon Oeming is an American comic book creator, both as an artist and writer.

His 1998 comic book Bulletproof Monk was made into a film of the same name.

The previous mentioned collaborations are The Mice Templar from Image Comics, which he draws and co-authors with Bryan J.L. Glass,[1] and Powers from Icon Comics which he draws, and sometimes co-authors, with Brian Bendis. His creator-owned projects include Rapture, on which he collaborated with his wife, Taki Soma,[2] and The Victories, both for Dark Horse Comics.

As of 2010, he is employed as a staff member of Valve Corporation, working on Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2 and Portal 2 webcomics.

Reviews

[Thomas Scholtes · Rating 4 out of 5]

This artwork is...interesting. There were a few times when I pulling the comic right up to my eye, to try and glean some extra details. I like the style, but sometimes it's almost too dark. Good start to the story, and look forward to what else might happen in the next two!

[Online Eccentric Librarian · Rating 2 out of 5]

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This fairly short comic set in the time before the events of Assassin's Creed: Mirage feels more like a standalone comic than anything in the continuum. As a premise it is not bad but with this one I feel that had I read it without the title and some of the logos, I might not have noticed it is set in the overall Assassin's Creed universe.

Story: Two young Assassins are traveling to their homeland to investigate a potential Ancients base but encounter war, slavery and a strange cult with a fallen general at its head. The plot feels at the same time very linear, unsurprising and obtuse with parts where I was not sure what is actually going on. Almost all scenes are set as if they were very profound but mostly fall flat or just boring.

The main killer in this one for me is the art. As what I assume is a stylistic choice, everything is shown as if backlit, meaning you get a light background and all characters are just shades of black. For a while this looks pretty nice even if the art is pretty rough but rather soon it becomes impossible to tell who is who or even what is going on. The action sequences are just people jumping lots and I counted no less than ten chopped off heads flying in panels, presumably because otherwise you can't tell if someone died. Even when I got to the end I could not comfortably tell which of our two protagonists was which.

I'll be frank - while I've played and completed most of the Assassin's Creed games over the years, I have never found a second medium where it is successful, whether it's a comic, a book or the best-not-mentioned movie. This one does not change that experience. If you are a true fan who wants to consume anything related, then perhaps check this out. Otherwise you can safely leave this on the store shelf. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.