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 Here's another classic 90's comic I used to own as a kid, but now own it again thanks to Third Eye Comics. This is another one-shot as Batman deals with... trash? Let's see what happens. "Trash" opens with a kid named Mike Dell, writing a paper on trash and where it comes from. As he's engrossed in his ecology project, he accidentally creates trash of his own when he inadvertently knocks over a bottle of milk. Her mom cleans it up and jokes that he'll get an 'A' on practical demonstration. His father comes in and is ready to take him with him on his garbage truck run. He asks his son if he's up for it, and Mike says it'll be the high point of his project. They head off on their route. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne is waiting for his date outside of Armana's Restaurant. It seems she's eleven minutes late. I guess now he knows how that feels since he's usually late for dates on account of his alter ego. The garbage ...