Other then being a major game franchise, Tomb Raider hasn't always been a video game nor has Lara Croft always followed her original storyline. A Tomb Raider comic, originally released in 1999, told a different side of Lara's story, which somewhat follows only part of the plot surrounding her in the game. The comics portray her character as a more sexually attractive woman, revealing more flesh then she normally does and has a far more fierce and dominant attitude as well as role in the world.
"The series, which ran from 1999 to 2005 (in which the fiftieth and final issue was released), consisted of monthly issues published by Top Cow Productions who secured the rights to producing comics after a long struggle. Preceding this series, French publisher Glenat (publisher) got the green light from Eidos France to produce a comic series called Dark Eons based on the Tomb Raider games which was taken off the market shortly after. Besides the monthly series, a parallel 12-part series called "Journeys", which ran from 2001 to 2003, was also published.
The comics follow a different continuity compared to that of the games and the films. In the comics, the plane crash experienced by Lara kills both her parents as well as her fiancee, and takes place when she is an adult as opposed to being a young girl, as is the case with the game's continuity. Writers Dan Jurgens, John Nay Riber and James Bonny worked on the series, which also featured the art of Andy Park, Michael Turner, Billy Tan, and Adam Hughes, amongst others."
Besides being in comic books, she has also been featured in "Re/Visioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series", a ten part animated series based on the Tomb Raider series. Although it didn't air on television, it was made live on an online game service named GameTap on July 10th, 2007. Though it recieved criticism on the choice of animating style used to create the short animated series, Lara Croft is shown how she is in the game, her past is hidden away and it mainly focuses on her adventures and trying to achieve her goals of what she is aiming for.
Our lovely video game heroine has appeared also in original novels, fanart, cosplay, fan-made online parodies, as collectable figurines, clothing-basically all sorts of merchandise and sources of entertainment. Perhaps the biggest one of them all are the Lara Croft models, usually young women who reassemble Lara herself and are skilled in gymnastics who promote Tomb Raider, and the live-action Tomb Raider film, which took Hollywood by storm.
[Resources]:
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_Raider_%28comics%29
-http://www.tombraidercomics.com/gallery/gallery39.asp
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_raider_animated_series
Our lovely video game heroine has appeared also in original novels, fanart, cosplay, fan-made online parodies, as collectable figurines, clothing-basically all sorts of merchandise and sources of entertainment. Perhaps the biggest one of them all are the Lara Croft models, usually young women who reassemble Lara herself and are skilled in gymnastics who promote Tomb Raider, and the live-action Tomb Raider film, which took Hollywood by storm.
[Resources]:
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_Raider_%28comics%29
-http://www.tombraidercomics.com/gallery/gallery39.asp
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_raider_animated_series
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