Sam (Lara’s best friend from college) tells Lara “…you don’t see a cost, you don’t see the monetary value”, but Lara agrees to sell artefacts from Yamatai to fund the trip in The Beginning, which is the exact opposite of what Sam describes. My second problem is with that archaeological specialty.
It removes Lara’s agency in discovering Yamatai for the purpose of expanding her own archaeological knowledge.
#TOMB RAIDER LARA CROFT HORSE TV#
Rather than exploring her own research, she’s the back-up researcher on a failing TV show aiding the white male in finding his “breakthroughs” to keep his career afloat. Whitman be a TV archaeology personality that Lara volunteers to be a researcher for when the show’s funding falls through. The Beginning contradicts that, having Dr. Whitman agreed to bring a TV crew on an archaeological survey he planned and that Lara was one of his students, working on a project there.
My first problem is the disconnect between the prequel story told in The Beginning and the first game, similar to the Mad Max tie-in comics. Whitmans is the instigator for going to Yamatai rather than Lara 70 of the Library edition, from issue: #1 Season of the Witch, pencils: Nicolas Daniel Selma, inks: Juan Gedeon, colors: Michael Atiyeh, letters: Michael Heisler Panel three from page 14 of the Library Edition ( The Beginning) pencils by Nicolas Daniel Selma and Andrea Mutti, inks: Juan Gedeon and Pierluigi Baldassini colors: Michael Atiyeh letters: Michael Heisler and script which clearly outlines how Dr. Lara taking responsibility for wanting to find Yamatai even though The Beginnin suggests it was all Dr. But I’m going to focus on the rewriting of Lara from graduate student to impromptu TV researcher, her ethical inconsistencies, and the lack of archaeology-based plot points that limit the possibilities for depicting prehistory. As an archaeologist, there are many details that I could harp on. If you aren’t familiar with these collected stories there are four main sections: why Lara and company went to Yamatai (before the first game), the repercussions of that trip (after the first game), fighting Trinity (referencing the second game), and a trip to save Grim. If that’s your jam, cool- and please consider doing something for a local National or State park or other cultural heritage monument to support archaeology near you. The library edition compiles the 2013-2015 Dark Horse series, issues #1-18 and The Beginning prequel, into five-hundred pages of adventure and will set you back $50. Obviously, “ if you’re looking for archaeology in the world of Lara Croft you won’t find it, ” and if you are picking up this particular volume (aka the library edition) you know this and have accepted that as OK. 1 Gail Simone and Rhianna Pratchett (Writers), Nicholas Daniel Selma, Derlis Santacruz, Andrea Mutti (Artists), Juan Gedeon, Andy Owens, and Pierluigi Baldassini (Inkers), Michael Atiyeh (Colorist)