By Mark Rodriguez Lara Croft has rocked the world in 1996 as a thrill-seeking world-traveling adventurer when Tomb Raider hit the SEGA Saturn and Sony Playstation. Garnering a huge fanbase due to the action-packed gameplay as well as Lara's looks and overall bad-assness, it's no surprise she'd eventually branch out into other forms of media or merchandising. In 1999 she got herself a comic book series from Top Cow and Image comics. Thanks to Hipcomics I was able to grab a copy, so let's check it out. 'The Medusa Mask' opens in Iran as the narrator explains how dangerous the place can be, especially towards thieves. Several Iranian soldiers are looking for 'the westerner' and start taking off the hijabs of any woman they see. One of them takes the hijab off a particular woman who turns out to be Lara Croft. One of the men sets her gun to her head and she tells him if he shoots, he'll mess up the 2200-year old necklace he's been told to recover. ...
By Mark Rodriguez While it currently has ended and been replaced by the current IDW run, the Archie Sonic run has been the longest running comic based on a video game. The Sonic comic lasted so long that you had the early game characters, the 90's cartoon characters, new characters during the lack of new Sonic games, and then all the new characters introduced during the Sonic Adventure games. The comic ran so long that the original Dr Robotnik from the Sonic Saturday Morning cartoon show was defeated for good. Eventually they faced an alternate reality version named Robo-Robotnik that would become Eggman based on the Sonic Adventure games and onward. This issue has Eggman meet the original Dr. Robotnik. Let's see what happens. Also it seems at this time Dr. Eggman was still mostly called Robotnik, so to tell them apart I'll still call him Eggman and the classic one Robotnik. "Robotnik X2 = Trouble!" opens with Eggman and Snively observing Knuckles, who current...