Tomb Raider Witchblade Special Vol.1, Issue 1
| Tomb Raider/Witchblade #1 | |
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| Issue No. | 1 |
| Story Title | Vendetta |
| Release Date | December 1997 |
| Writer | Michael Turner |
| Pencil | Michael Turner |
| Ink | Jos Weems |
| Colors | Jonathan D. Smith |
| Letters | Robin Spehar & Dennis Heisler |
| Pages | 32 |
| Price | $2.95 |
Tomb Raider/Witchblade Special Vol.1, # 1 (short Tomb Raider/Witchblade), also known by its title Vendetta.[1], is the first Tomb Raider Comic released by Top Cow in December 1997. It is a Crossover between the Witchblade and Tomb Raider universes. It was penned and pencilled by Michael Turner, one of the co-creators of the Witchblade series.
Contents
Story
When visiting New York, Lara Croft is arrested by Detective Sara Pezzini of the NYPD when she gets mixed up in a monster attack that leaves one Vincent Scarponi dead.
Lara reveals to Sara that all began when she was commissioned to retrieve a talisman with an black pearl, that is believed to be a wellspring of immortality, for Lucas Moralto from a labyrinth in the ruins of Hal Saflieni, Malta, three months earlier. When returning the artefact Moralto, a 90-year-old friend of the late Lord Henshingly Croft, it turns out, that he does not intend to simply prolong his life, but instead wants to carry out a vendetta against the Scarponi family.
Learning of his evil intentions, Lara tries to take the talisman from him, which splits in two in the process, releasing a winged demon that sets out to carry out Moralto's orders.
Characters
- A detective of the New York Police Department.
- The victim of a vicious monster attack and a member of a (disbanded) crime family.
- A man in his 90s, an old friend of Lord Croft, who commissioned Lara to find an artefact for him, who then turns out to be a member of a rivalling crime family to the Scarponis.
- elderly woman
- Scarponi's neighbour, who reports a domestic dispute, that turns out to be something else entirely.
- X-Files watching teenagers
- Scarponi's neighbours who have Lara chasing a monster through their living room.
- Lloyd Drexler aka Drex
- A character from the Witchblade universe.
- Joe Siry aka Siry
- Detective Pezzini's captain mentioned in the comic.
Locations
- Three months before her visit to New York Lara visited Malta to explore the ruins of Hal Seflieni, where she discovered a talisman with a black pearl in the centre she had been commissioned to retrieve for a man called Lucas Moralto.
- Bar Harbor, Maine
- After Lara and Sara have talked, they drive to Bar Harbor in Maine to confront Lucas Moralto.
Artefact
- Talisman with Black Pearl
- The black pearl of the Talisman is believed to be a wellspring of immortality. However when Lara splits the talisman in two, a winged demon is released.
Trivia
- The couple of teenagers in the apartment next to the victim of a vicious attack are watching an episode of "The X-Files", and Sara Pezzini calls herself the Mulder and Scully of the NYPD.
- Drex (Lloyd Drexler) and Siry are characters from the Witchblade universe.
- When Sara recalls Lara's background story she describes her as Multimillionaire Archaeologist and names her parents as Henshingly and Mary Croft.
- ↑ Inside Cover, Note the dot is part of the name given there.
