Tomb Raider Witchblade Special Vol.1, Issue 1

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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.

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.

Lately it seems that I'm the one Siry sends to these bizarre crime scenes. I must be the Mulder and Scully of the NYDP.
Sara Pezzini, Page 11

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.

The victims in these pictures are actually descendants of a crime family that has been disbanded to 50 years. This family, the Scarponis, had a war with a rival family, of course, the Moraltos, that all but annihilated the both of them.
Lara Croft, Page 15

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.
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.
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.


  1. Inside Cover, Note the dot is part of the name given there.